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Urban Safety Perception In The Age Of Big Data - Modeling Residentsâ€™ Perceived Safety With Street View Imagery, Deep Learning, And Spatial Simulation

by Fengrui Jing

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 Leveraging massive Baidu Street View datasets, convolutional neural networks, and spatial regression techniques, this book uncovers how visual featuresâ€"such as greenery, lighting, cleanliness, and built structureâ€"affect safety perception at fine spatial scales.
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Urbanism At Borders - Navigating New Frontiers In A Globalized World

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 Disrupting traditional notions of urban and city planning, this volume examines the intricate interplay of conflicts, the emergence of new borders for refugees and migrants, colonial legacies and postcolonial policies, and grassroots struggles for better social policies.
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Urban Dynamics In The Post-Pandemic Period - Tourist Spaces And Urban Centres

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 These changes will affect models of city, urbanism and society. This publication is directed to a wide spectrum of people interested in urban processes, tourism and social change in the context of the Post-Pandemic Covid-19.
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Fundamentals Of Innovative Sustainable Homes Design And Construction

by Avi Friedman

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 The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects.The depletion of non-renewable natural resources and climate change are a few of the environmental challenges.
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The Â€˜New Normalâ€™ In Planning, Governance And Participation - Transforming Urban Governance In A Post-Pandemic World

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 This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future.
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Public Art And Urban Memorials In Berlin

by Biljana Arandelovic

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 The reader is led through seven chapters: Creative City Berlin, Introduction to Public Art, Public Art in Berlin, the Celebration of Berlinâ€™s 750th Anniversary in 1987, Temporary public art, Socialist Realism in Art, and Urban Memorials.
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Geometries Of Anamorphic Illusions - Landscape, Architecture, Contemporary Art And Design

by Alessandra Pagliano

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 This book intends to focus exclusively on anamorphic experiments in contemporary art and design, leaving an in-depth historical examination of its Baroque season to other studies.
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Urban Surface Thermal Environments - A Metropolitan Area Perspective

by Bo Yuan, David Lopez-Carr, Fengning Hu e Liang Zhou

~~171,59€~~ 154,43€ 10% OFF

 Urban Surface Thermal Environments: A Metropolitan Area Perspective presents a comprehensive exploration of urban heat dynamics through the perspectives of climate change, urbanization, green infrastructure, and two- and three-dimensional urban morphology.
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Ecotech Urbanism - Pioneering Sustainable Technologies For Developing Cities

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 In a world experiencing unprecedented urbanization and drastic climate change, there is immense demand for creative solutions to the environmental, social, and economic obstacles faced by burgeoning cities in the developing world. This book delves into the potential of innovative urban initiatives to address the challenges of urbanization in countries with limited resources, thereby contributing to sustainable and inclusive urban development. It explores how cutting-edge technologies can provide efficient functionality for urban residents through information and communications shared among stakeholders. The primary aim is to enhance the efficiency of urban operations, foster economic development, and improve the well-being of residents by leveraging intelligent technologies and analyzing data. Government and policy are recognized as fundamental drivers of urban development, and the book sheds light on initiatives supporting cities that are not only technologically advanced but also sustainable, inclusive, and equitable.Contributions provide insight into technological aspects of urbanism, including the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, data analytics, and essential infrastructure for sustainable city development. They also emphasize the importance of community engagement and inclusivity, stressing that urban initiatives should be designed for the benefit of all citizens, leaving no one behind.EcoTech Urbanism makes a compelling case for the imperative of sustainability in the future of urban areas, underscoring the critical role of technology in achieving this goal. The book offers a holistic perspective on the integration of eco-friendly technologies, fostering a balance between urban development and environmental conservation, ultimately paving the way for a future where cities thrive sustainably and inclusively.
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Urban Infrastructure In Zimbabwe - Departures, Divergences And Convergences

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 The book provides insights into urban infrastructure debates and discourses in Zimbabwe. The book focuses on case studies relating to urban transport, public housing, water and sanitation and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) among other substantive issues relating to urban infrastructure and services.
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The Us Housing Crisis - Home And Trust In The Real Estate Economy

by Judith Keller

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 This book aims to draw careful distinctions between the various forms of housing insecurity and personal circumstances research participants experience. While the urgency of the housing crisis in the US has produced a lot of scholarly work on housing, it often fails to recount the real life struggles that the housing crisis is causing.
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Covid-19 (Forced) Innovations - Pandemic Impacts On Architecture And Urbanism

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 The book also is useful for readers who are interested in recent trends in architecture and interior design: it provides a deep analysis of recent changes in architecture, which aim to make the environment disease-free and the space habitable during the long periods of lockdown.
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Cities As Anticipatory Systems

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 Therefore, cities can be viewed as anticipatory systems that may signal future transformations that arise in response to the challenges posed by these ongoing socio-ecological transitions. This book combines futures studies and anticipation theories with urban studies and theories of urban transition.
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The Us Housing Crisis - Home And Trust In The Real Estate Economy

by Judith Keller

~~175,73€~~ 158,16€ 10% OFF

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 This book aims to draw careful distinctions between the various forms of housing insecurity and personal circumstances research participants experience. While the urgency of the housing crisis in the US has produced a lot of scholarly work on housing, it often fails to recount the real life struggles that the housing crisis is causing.
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Covid-19 (Forced) Innovations - Pandemic Impacts On Architecture And Urbanism

~~162,21€~~ 145,99€ 10% OFF

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 The book also is useful for readers who are interested in recent trends in architecture and interior design: it provides a deep analysis of recent changes in architecture, which aim to make the environment disease-free and the space habitable during the long periods of lockdown.
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Morphological Regionalization - Strengthening The Conzenian Method

by Muzaffer Ali Arat

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 This book is about how to make the method of morphological regionalization, proposed in the early 1960s, more useful and practicable for planning, urban design and architecture. The second part of the book offers an overview of urban morphology, urban morphological approaches, the concept of morphological region and its past applications worldwide.
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Intelligence For Future Cities - Planning Through Big Data And Urban Analytics

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 This book contains a selection of the best papers presented at the Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) conference, held in June 2023 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. This book also contains chapters with cutting-edge research on urban modeling, walkability and bikeability analysis, and planning support systems (PSS).
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Urban And Metropolitan Rivers - Geomorphology, Planning And Perception

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 However, due to growing social pressure, especially in dense cities, rivers are viewed as new leisure areas given that they also provide highly valuable ecosystem services.
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Environmental Governance Of The Sao Paulo Macrometropolis - Perspectives On Climate Variability

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book presents a set of chapters produced by six research groups that developed the SÃ£o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the SÃ£o Paulo macrometropolis (SPMM) in the face of Climate Variability (2017â€"2022).
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Reconstructing Theatre Architecture - The Developing Process Of The Modern Space For The Show

by Susanna Clemente

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 The study is aimed at reconstructing the historical process at the base of any significant theatre architecture. The research was conducted at the academies, state and municipal historical archives of numerous towns, in particular Rome, Milan, Mantua, Ferrara, Venice, London and Prague.
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Adaptive Urban Transformation - Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design And Territorial Governance In The Pearl River Delta, China

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 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.
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Urban Inequalities - A Multidimensional And International Perspective

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 This book proposes an interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective of urban inequalities based on a range of theoretical, methodological, and professional approaches.
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Urban Change In The Iberian Peninsula - A 2000-2030 Perspective

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 The book addresses the situation of the urban world in Spain and Portugal in the first quarter of the 21st century. Contributions from leading geographers and urban planners from the most important universities of the Iberian Peninsula comprise this overview of metropolitan areas of Spain and Portugal.
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Urban Design In Seismic-Prone Regions

by Ameneh Bakhtiar e Hossein Bahrainy

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 This book presents practical guidelines and recommendations for the design in seismic-prone regions.
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