RANKING THE LIVEABILITY OF THE WORLD'S MAJOR CITIES; The Global Liveable Citi…

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-4417-30-3

Collation

xvii, 132 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

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301363 Ran r

Resilience and Sustainability in Urban Africa

Resilience has become a very topical issue transcending many spheres and sectors of sustainable urban development. This book presents a resilience framework for sustainable cities and towns in Africa. The rise in informal settlements is due to the urban planning practices in most African cities that rarely reflect the realities of urban life and environment for urban development. Aspects of pla…

The City and the Super-Organism

This book traces how naturalism—the idea of a common theory uniting natural social systems—has contributed to major shifts in urban planning. Beginning in the 17th century, when the human body began to emerge as an inspiration for urban planning, the book examines the work of medical analyses of city life. Responding to the 19th century industrial revolution and 20th century modernism, the …

Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Pol…

This book focuses on the socio-economic and sustainability challenges facing megacities in dealing with the dramatic population increases of informal areas and settlements (or slums), especially when coupled with the impacts and risks of climate change. The authors examine informal urban areas globally and in developing countries utilizing strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as a tool to s…

A Theory and History of Rural–urban Governance in China

This book divides the history of China's rural-urban relations into three stages: antagonism, integration and re-antagonism, and demonstrates that the two coupled variables i.e., policy-culture and coast-trade are the most crucial to urbanization and rural-urban governance in China from ancient times till now. From the perspective of a combination of history and geography, this book puts forwar…

Urban Inequalities

This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein. The contributors eschew conceptual confusion between equality — of opportunity, of access, of the right to compete for whatever goal one chooses to pursue — and levelling. The discussions develop in the belief that old and emerging forms of inequality in urban settings need to be under…

Electronic Cities

This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. It focuses on the historical development of these scenes, with an emphasis on the post-2000 context, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching effects. Expert contributors highlight the influence of geographical contexts, as well as cultural a…

COVID-19 and Cities

This book brings together the work of more than 25 scholars from different parts of the world who analyze the challenges posed by the new coronavirus and how it can transform the lives of the cities. Through 19 chapters organized into three sections - experiences, responses and uncertainties - the authors offer a novel perspective about the resilience of the metropolis to face the most importan…

Appraisal and Valuation

This book features a selection of the best papers presented at two recent conferences organized by the SIEV (Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation). Taking into account the current need for evaluative skills in order to make effective and sustainable investments, it highlights the multidisciplinary role of valuation, which opens the door for interactions with other sectors, scientific and …

Current Challenges in Architecture and Urbanism in Albania

This book aims to provide a cross-sectorial assessment in a multidisciplinary and trans-cultural context onto the innovations in urban and architectural approaches in designing next human environments within the Albanian context. The continuous concentration of the world population in the urban areas and their consequent densification require even more quantity of quality spaces and places, int…

Automating Cities

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-15-8670-5

Collation

vii, 342p.:Ill.

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-

Call Number

307.760 285 Aut

"Smart Technologies" for Society, State and Economy

This proceedings book presents a comprehensive view of “smart” technologies and perspectives of their application in various areas of economic activity. The authors of the book combined the results of the cutting-edge research on the topic of “smart” technologies in the digital economy and Industry 4.0 and developed a unified scientific concept. The current experience has been considere…

Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Smart City Development

This book discusses advances in smart and sustainable development of smart environments. The authors discuss the challenges faced in developing sustainable smart applications and provide potential solutions. The solutions are aimed at improving reliability and security with the goal of affordability, safety, and durability. Topics include health care applications, sustainable smart transportati…

Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics for Sustainable Future Smart Cities

This book presents the latest advances in computational intelligence and data analytics for sustainable future smart cities. It focuses on computational intelligence and data analytics to bring together the smart city and sustainable city endeavors. It also discusses new models, practical solutions and technological advances related to the development and the transformation of cities through ma…

Flexible Resources for Smart Cities

This book paves the road for researchers from various areas of engineering working in the realm of smart cities to discuss the intersections in these areas when it comes to infrastructure and its flexibility. The authors lay out models, algorithms and frameworks related to the ‘smartness’ in the future smart cities. In particular, manufacturing firms, electric generation, transmission and d…

Emerging Technologies for Smart Cities

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Global Trends in Engineering and Technology (EGTET 2020), held in Guwahati, India. The chapters in this book focus on the latest cleaner, greener, and efficient technologies being developed for the implementation of smart cities across the world. The broader topical sections include Smart Buildings, Infrastru…

Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Volume 4

This proceedings book is the fourth edition of a series of works which features emergent research trends and recent innovations related to smart city presented at the 5th International Conference on Smart City Applications SCA20 held in Safranbolu, Turkey. This book is composed of peer-reviewed chapters written by leading international scholars in the field of smart cities from around the world…

How Smart Is Your City?

This book focuses on the potential benefits that the so-called smart technologies have been bringing to the urban reality and to the management and governance of the city, simultaneously highlighting the necessity for its responsible and ethically guided deployment, respecting essential humanistic values. The urban ecosystem has been, in the last decades, the locus to where the most advanced…

Smart Global Megacities

This book, the second volume, highlights 7 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants. The cities/chapters presented in this book are based on recent advance such as the wide use of ICT, IOT, e-Governance, e-Democracy, smart economy and flattening and acceleration of the world that is taking place in recent times as reported by 3 times Pul…

Intelligent Logistics Systems for Smart Cities and Communities

This book sets the modern infrastructure of smart devices and services into the perspective of the future smart cities and communities. In the course of this, it discusses the major technological solutions and steps toward integrated logistics solutions to be used in these environments with their benefits in terms of efficiency, interoperability, and sustainability. By doing so, it paves the lo…

Security and Privacy Applications for Smart City Development

This book explores the fundamentals of smart cities along with issues, controversies, problems and applications concerning security and privacy in smart city development. Future smart cities must incorporate innovations like smart rainwater harvesting, smart street lighting, digital identity management, solar energy, intelligent transport systems and emerging communication applications. The tar…

HUMAN ASPECTS OF URBAN FORM: Towards a Man-Environment Approach to Urban Form…

Edition

1st

ISBN/ISSN

0-08-017974-6

Collation

vii, 438 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

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-

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309.2 Rap h

Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Modeling

Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood – let alone ‘managed’ – by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone. But while there has recently been significant progress in broadening and refining the methodologies for the quantitative modeling of compl…

URBAN FORMS THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE URBAN BLOCK

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ISBN/ISSN

0-7506-5607-7

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ix, 217 p.; 23 cm.

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-

Call Number

711.4 Pan u

PRODUCTIVE AND LIVEABLE CITIES: GUIDELINES FOR PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE TRAFFIC…

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ISBN/ISSN

90-5899-199-8

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xiii, 432 p.; 24 cm.

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-

Call Number

301.363 Len p

Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge f…

The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense as a result of the ongoing climate changes), earthquakes, tsunamis or man-induced events such as …

GOOD CITY FORM

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ISBN/ISSN

0-262-62046-4

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iv, 524 p. ; 23 cm

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-

Call Number

307.7 6 Lyn g 1992

tree ecology and preservation

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-444-41606-4

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viii, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Series Title

Developments in Agricultural and Managed-Forest Ecology 2

Call Number

635.977 Ber t

TREES IN URBAN DESIGN, SECOND EDITION

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

0-442-00889-9

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vii, 189 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

715.2 Arn t

URBAN TREES: A GUIDE FOR SLECTION, MAINTENANCE, NAD MASTER PLANNING

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-049835-0

Collation

ix, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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-

Call Number

635.9 Phi u