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Using Data Science and Landscape Approach to Sustain Historic Cities


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English | September 14, 2024 | ISBN: 3031681606 | 123 pages | MOBI | 4.16 Mb
This book comprehensively explores sustaining historic cities using a landscape approach and data science. The author offers valuable insights for professionals and enthusiasts interested in preserving and developing urban heritage through a data driven approach. Drawing on the synergy between landscape architecture and data science, the book delves into the intricate interplay between historical, cultural, and environmental factors in urban settings. Readers will understand how to navigate historic cities’ complex challenges through case studies, research findings, and practical methodologies. The book equips readers with innovative strategies for preserving the authenticity of these cities while embracing sustainable development practices. By blending theory and real-world applications, this book is a comprehensive guide for creating thriving, resilient, and culturally rich urban environments.

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Navigating the New Economic Landscape A Cheater’s Manual for Thriving in High Inflation and High Interest Rates


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English | June 30, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D8HNW1D2 | 92 pages | EPUB | 0.34 Mb
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the current economic climate of rising inflation and soaring interest rates? Look no further! "Navigating the New Economic Landscape" is your ultimate guide to not just surviving, but thriving in these challenging times.

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Landscape Ecology A Task-Oriented Perspective


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031722507 | 334 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 37 MB
This is methods/tools textbook that covers the fundamental tasks in research and management at the landscape scale. It brings together tools from a range of disciplines and presents them in a natural workflow that a practitioner can appreciate. Alternative texts cover a narrower range of topics and/or present the information without reference to a natural workflow. The book begins with 2 fundamental applications that introduce the scope and challenges of working at the landscape scales (sampling design and species distribution modeling). These motivate several chapters that ‘digress’ to cover the primary tools that ecologists use to work with multivariate and spatial data. The book then returns to applications including site prioritization, interpreting (and forecasting) landscape change, and integrated assessment. The tasks themselves follow a logical workflow of collecting and analyzing data, applying the analyses to management decisions, and interpreting the outcomes of these decisions in an integrated framework.

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Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity Picturing Unruly Nature


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English | ISBN: 9463729437 | 2022 | 426 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic exploration at a time when environments and ecologies were reshaped and transformed. This volume historicizes the contingency of an ever-changing elemental world, reframing and reimagining landscape as a mediating space in the interplay between the natural and the artificial, the real and the imaginary, the internal and the external. The lens of the "unruly" reveals the latent landscapes that undergirded their conception, the elemental resources that resurfaced from the bowels of the earth, the staged topographies that unsettled the boundaries between nature and technology, and the fragile ecologies that undermined the status quo of human environs. Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature argues for an art history attentive to the vicissitudes of circumstance and attributes the regrounding of representation during a transitional age to the unquiet landscape.

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Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative


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English | EPUB | 2021 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 9811640661 | 276.1 MB
This book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021.

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A Landscape of Travel The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China


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English | ISBN: 0295993650 | 2014 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person’s leisure is another person’s labor.

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