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  • On New York's Ground

    Dense, Diverse and Sustainable

    by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores a simple but powerful idea. The way we organize the ground of our cities impacts everyday life. In other words, the street systems, plot patterns and building arrangements we lay down on the ground influence, first, the main three-dimensional aspects of building fabrics and then, socioeconomic diversity and environmental sustainability. This scientific evidence is relevant not ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Urban Morphology

    An Introduction to the Study of the Physical Form of Cities

    by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It starts presenting the main elements of urban form – streets, urban blocks, plots and buildings – structuring our cities and the fundamental actors and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It then applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Family and Succession Law in Portugal

    by Guilherme de Oliveira, Paula Tavora Vitor ...
    Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this concise exposition and analysis of the essential elements of law with regard to family relations, marital property, and succession to estates in Portugal covers the legal rules and customs pertaining to the intertwined civic status of persons, the family, and property. After an informative general introduction, the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Developments in Nonstandard Mathematics

    by Nigel J Cutland, Vitor Neves, A F Oliveira, Jose Sousa-Pinto ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
    This book contains expository papers and articles reporting on recent research by leading world experts in nonstandard mathematics, arising from the International Colloquium on Nonstandard Mathematics held at the University of Aveiro, Portugal in July 1994. Nonstandard mathematics originated with Abraham Robinson, and the body of ideas that have developed from this theory of nonstandard analysis ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Urban Morphology

    An Introduction to the Study of the Physical Form of Cities

    by Vítor Manuel Araújo de Oliveira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    'This is a textbook about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It provides an overview of the main elements of urban form—streets, street blocks, plots and buildings—structuring our cities and the fundamental agents and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • ISUF, Urban Morphology and Human Settlements

    Advances and Prospects

    Edited by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). After addressing the three-decade history of ISUF, the book analyses the present and future of this scientific society, of urban morphology, and of human settlements. This timely and fundamental reflection gathers contributions from present and past ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Morphological Research in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture

    Edited by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is about the relation between scientific research and professional practice on the built environment. The physical form of cities is structured in different elements of urban form. Each of these elements, and the way they are combined into distinct patterns, is shaped by various agents and processes of change. Planning, urban design and architecture are practice-oriented activities that ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • J.W.R. Whitehand and the Historico-geographical Approach to Urban Morphology

    Edited by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over recent decades, the historico-geographical approach to urban morphology has been prominent in the debate on the physical form of our cities and on the agents and processes shaping that form over time. With origins in the work of the geographer M.R.G. Conzen, this approach has been systematically developed by researchers in different parts of the world since the 1960s. This book argues that J ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Teaching Urban Morphology

    Edited by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together contributions from some of the foremost international experts in the field of urban morphology and addresses major questions such as: What exactly is urban morphology? Why teach it? What contents should be taught in an urban morphology course? And how can it be taught most effectively?Over the past few decades there has been a growing awareness of the importance of urban ... Read more

    $179.09 USD