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  • Design for Health

    Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023

    Edited by Arif Hasan, Christian Benimana, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The book provides new perspectives from leading researchers accentuating and examining the central role of the built environment in conceiving and implementing multifaceted solutions to the complex challenges of physical and mental health, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society. The volume ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • Urban Informality

    Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

    by Asef Bayat, Ray Bromley, Alan Gilbert, Arif Hasan, Janice E. Perlman, Ahmed M. Soliman, Peter M. Ward, Haim Yakobi, Oren Yiftachel ...
    Series series Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place
    The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Topics On The Nonlinear Dynamics And Acoustics Of Ordered Granular Media

    by Yuli Starosvetsky, K R Jayaprakash, Alexander F Vakakis, M Arif Hasan ...
    This research monograph provides a brief overview of the authors' research in the area of ordered granular media over the last decade. The exposition covers one-dimensional homogeneous and dimer chains in great detail incorporating novel analytical tools and experimental results supporting the analytical and numerical studies. The proposed analytical tools have since been successfully implemented ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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  • Creating Healthy Neighborhoods

    Evidence-Based Planning and Design Strategies

    by Ann Forsyth ...
    Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well, approaching health from every side – physical mental, and social. ... Read more

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  • Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World

    Metropandemic Revolution

    by Anthony Larsson, Andreas Hatzigeorgiou ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have caused intense debates over the future of cities.Through a series of investigative studies, Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World: Metropandemic ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Urban Transformation

    Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China

    Edited by Steffen Nijhuis, Yimin Sun, Eckart Lange ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development ... Read more

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  • Resilient Urban Futures

    Edited by Zoé A. Hamstead, David M. Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Water

    by Dr. Stefan Gössling, Prof. C. Michael Hall, Dr. Daniel Scott ...
    Series Book 2 - Tourism Essentials
    This book provides a systematic and comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and water. It is the first book to thoroughly examine the interrelationships of tourism and water use based on global, regional and business perspectives. Its assessment of tourism’s global impact along with its overviews of sectoral and management approaches will provide a benchmark by which the ... Read more

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  • Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives

    Approaches, Methods and Perspectives

    Edited by Nandhivarman Muthu, Walter Leal Filho, Mihaela Sima, Golda Edwin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Firmly rooted in the theory and practice of sustainable development, this book offers a comprehensive resource on sustainability, focusing on both industrialized and developing nations. Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives is an attempt to promote and disseminate the work being done in this field by universities around the world. The need to integrate the ... Read more

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  • Resilient and Responsible Smart Cities

    Volume 2

    Edited by Hassan Abdalla, Hugo Rodrigues, Vimal Gahlot, Mohammad Salah Uddin, Tomohiro Fukuda ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book aims to establish a community with attention to land use to achieve sustainable development and meet the needs of today’s society. Urban planning depends on engineering, architectural, social and political pillars. It pursues this by proposing solutions, regulating environmental pollution and non-sustainable use of available resources. It showcases and even triggers further debate about ... Read more

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  • Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries

    Edited by Chaham Alalouch, Cristina Piselli, Francesco Cappa ...
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    This book focuses on sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design, environmental issues, and natural resources. Today it has become essential to reduce carbon emissions, protect habitats, and preserve the delicate ecosystems of our planet. Accordingly, sustainable development has to be improved by decreasing the consumption of non-renewable resources, in order to help nature replenish ... Read more

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