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    Advancing Urban Social-ecological Systems

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Urbanization and construction are primary drivers of land cover and land use change, climate change and environmental degradation. Sustainable development seeks to counteract the negative impact of cities and urbanization. Shifting away from the still prevailing human-nature dialectic, social-ecological systems view humans as part of nature, thereby linking biophysical and social factors into a ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Designing Environments

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Designing Environments book series addresses questions regarding necessary environmental transformation in the context of the fast-unfolding environmental crisis. This is done from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, examining the negative impact of human transformations of the environment and providing different inroads towards sustainable environmental transformation with net positive ... Read more

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  • Informed Urban Environments

    Data-Integrated Design for Human and Ecology-Centred Perspectives

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book collects ground-breaking works on the actual and potential impact of big data and data-integrated design for resilient urban environments, including human- and ecology-centred perspectives. Comprehending and designing for urban social, demographic and environmental change is a complex task. Big data, data structuring, data analysis (i.e. AI and ML) and data-integrated design can play a ... Read more

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  • The Changing Shape of Architecture

    Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice

    The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The Changing Shape of Practice – Integrating Research and Design in Architecture on architectural offices’ modes of research and lines of inquiry in ... Read more

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    Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment

    Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and projects that each contributes a particular element to what might constitute an integrated and richly nuanced approach to spatial organisation. Projects include:Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Brazilian Pavilion, ... Read more

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  • The Changing Shape of Practice

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    Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so?The Changing Shape of Practice provides a handbook of examples for practices that wish to integrate more research into their work and a reference book for students that seek to prepare themselves for the changing shape of practice in architecture.It addresses ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial for a future that is socially just, ecologically restorative, and economically viable, for Europe and the whole planet. In light of the search for fair solutions to the climate ... Read more

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  • Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
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  • Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning

    Proceedings of the 11th INPUT Conference - Volume 2

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is the second Volume of the INPUT2020 Conference Proceedings on ‘Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning’. The 11th International Conference INPUT was held at the University of Catania (Italy) on September 8-10th 2021 and allowed gathering international scholars in the fields of planning, civil engineering and architecture, ecology and social science, to strengthen the knowledge on ... Read more

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    In this new work, Arthur O. Eger and Huub Ehlhardt present a 'Theory of Product Evolution'. They challenge the popular notion that we owe the availability of products solely to genius inventors. Instead, they present arguments that show that a process of variation, selection, and accumulation of 'know-how' (to make) and 'know-what' (function to realize) provide an explanation for the emergence of ... Read more

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