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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • The World’s Urban Forests

    History, Composition, Design, Function and Management

    by Joe R. McBride ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world. It will ask questions about the history, composition, structure, and management of trees in urban areas. Data for this book was collected in 33 cities across broad geographical areas known as biomes. Constraints and opportunities imposed on urban forest composition, design, and management by the ecological ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Green Roof Ecosystems

    Edited by Richard K. Sutton ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date coverage of green (vegetated) roof research, design, and management from an ecosystem perspective. It reviews, explains, and poses questions about monitoring, substrate, living components and the abiotic, biotic and cultural aspects connecting green roofs to the fields of community, landscape and urban ecology. The work contains examples of green roof venues that ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design

    Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities

    Edited by S.T.A. Pickett, M.L. Cadenasso, Brian McGrath ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Charter of the New Urbanism, 2nd Edition

    by Congress for the New Urbanism, Emily Talen ...
    THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW URBANISM--FULLY REVISEDThe Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development, sustainable communities, and healthier living conditions. Thoroughly updated to cover the latest environmental, economic, and social implications of urban design, Charter of the New Urbanism, Second Edition ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Coastal Towns in Transition

    Local Perceptions of Landscape Change

    by Raymond James Green ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Many coastal areas around the world are experiencing dramatic landscape changes as a result of increased tourism development and the "sea change phenomenon" – the migration of affluent urbanites to small coastal towns seeking beautiful, natural surroundings. In response to these changes local residents in these places often complain that the distinctive character of their towns and/or individual ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Learning Landscape Ecology

    A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques

    Edited by Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies in its ability to address challenges over large areas, over spatial and temporal scales at which ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Swarm Planning

    The Development of a Planning Methodology to Deal with Climate Adaptation

    by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book shows that the problem of climate adaptation, which is described in social planning terms as ‘wicked,’ is at odds with the contemporary practice of spatial planning. The author proposes a new adjusted framework which is more adaptable to unpredictable, wicked, dynamic and non-linear processes. The inspiration for this new method is the behaviour of swarms: bees, ants, birds and fish are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Urban Planning as a Trading Zone

    Edited by Alessandro Balducci, Raine Mäntysalo ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    'Trading zone' is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms have been able to coordinate their interaction locally. In this book, Italian and Finnish planning researchers extend the use of the concept to different contexts of urban planning and management, where there is a need for new ideas and tools ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Mediterranean Urbanism

    Historic Urban / Building Rules and Processes

    by Besim S. Hakim ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together historic urban / building rules and codes for the geographic areas including Greece, Italy and Spain. The author achieved his ambitious goal of finding pertinent rules and codes that were followed in previous societies for the processes that formed the built environment of their towns and cities, including building activities at the neighborhood level and the decision ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Territorial Future of the City

    Edited by Giovanni Maciocco ...
    Series Book 3 - Urban and Landscape Perspectives
    The volume brings together contributions by both leading scholars and young academics with a particular experience in the urban potential of the territory in situations not necessarily linked to the dense metropolis, its compact form or to city sprawl. What brings these scholars together is their common reflection on this central theme, though from varied disciplinary and experimental backgrounds. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Planning and Designing Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes

    Edited by Cerasella Crăciun, Maria Bostenaru Dan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book deals with planning issues in landscape architecture, which start at the evaluation of the existing fabric of society, its history and memory, approached and conserved through photography, film and scenographic installations, a way in which the archetypes can be investigated, be it industrial derelict sites or already green spaces and cultural landscapes. It provides approaches to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • City Project and Public Space

    Edited by Silvia Serreli ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book aims at nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social landscapes. The main issue is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of visualising both the city and the territory from a particular viewpoint, which singles out the territorial dimension as the city’s space ... Read more

    $143.09 USD