Tag: Urban

Free Download Hamdi Aloulou, Bessam Abdulrazak, Antoine de Marassé-Enouf, "Participative Urban Health and Healthy Aging in the Age of AI: 19th International Conference, ICOST 2022, Paris, France, June 27-30, 2022, Proceedings"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031095928 | PDF | pages: 317 | 24.0 mb
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2022, held in Paris, France, in June 2022.

Free Download An Urban Field Guide to Plants, Trees, and Herbs in Your Path
by Maggie Herskovits
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1648413293 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 15.57 MB

Free Download Jens Stissing Jensen, Matthew Cashmore, Philipp Späth, "The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Knowledge, Power and Governance"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367664879, 1138479659 | EPUB | pages: 182 | 1.0 mb
Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges. Socio-technical systems are at the heart of these challenges as they configure central aspects of urban life: from mobility and energy infrastructures to leisure activities and patterns of mobility. This observation has led to substantial interest in how societies might initiate and actively steer radical transitions in these systems in the pursuit of sustainable urban futures.

Free Download Ben Wilson, "Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City"
English | ISBN: 0385548117 | 2023 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 11 MB
In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city’s savior

Free Download Valorization of Resources from Urban Mined Materials (233 Pages)
by Dharmendra K Gupta, Pankaj Pathak & Dheeraj Mittal
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9811297746 | 234 pages | True PDF | 22.01 MB

Free Download Joshua K. Leon, "World Cities in History: Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire"
English | ISBN: 1009444999 | 2024 | 346 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Joshua K. Leon explores 6,000 years of urban networks and the politics that drove them, from Uruk in the fourth millennium BCE to Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century ‘golden age.’ He provides a fresh, interdisciplinary reading of significant periods in history, showing how global networks have shaped everyday life. Alongside grand architecture, art and literature, these extraordinary places also innovated ways to exert control over far-flung hinterlands, the labor of their citizens, and rigid class, race and gender divides. Asking what it meant for ordinary people to live in Athens, Rome, Chang’an, or Baghdad – those who built and fed these cities, not just their rulers – he offers one of the few fully rendered applications of world cities theory to historical cases. The result is not only vividly detailed and accessible, but an intriguing and theoretically original contribution to urban history.

Free Download Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967-1985
by Kim Förster
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3837665186 | 585 Pages | True PDF | 17.3 MB

Free Download Pierpaolo De Giosa, "World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds "
English | ISBN: 9463725024 | 2021 | 306 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Already celebrated as a busy entrepôt and the most glorious of the Malay kingdoms of the past, Melaka has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List (together with George Town) since 2008 on the strength of its multi-ethnic and multi-religious urban fabric. Yet, contrary to the expectations of heritage experts and aficionados, the global mission of safeguarding cultural heritages has become a tumultuous issue on the ground.

Free Download Jean-Michel Spieser, "Urban and Religious Spaces in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium "
English | ISBN: 0860788512 | 2001 | 318 pages | EPUB, PDF | 24 MB + 34 MB
Professor Spieser deals here with a number of the transformations that took place in the world of Late Antiquity – and early Christianity – focusing upon notions of space. The first set of articles, opening with a newly-written introductory essay, addresses the development of urban landscapes from the Roman period up to the iconoclast era in Byzantium. In particular, he looks at the consequences of christianisation, and argues that the changing fortunes of the town cannot be attributed to a few causes, such as war or natural disaster, but resulted from a complex interplay between the economy and ideology, religion and politics. A second group, concerned with the relationship of ‘late antique’ man with his surroundings, and therefore his perception of space, sets out to explain how the decoration of churches – on apses, for example, or on doors – reflects new senses of how religious spaces should be organised. Six of these studies have been translated into English for this volume, and it ends with an important section of additional notes and comment.

Free Download Christien Klaufus, "Urban Residence: Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador "
English | ISBN: 0857453718 | 2012 | 330 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Riobamba and Cuenca, two intermediate cities in Ecuador, have become part of global networks through transnational migration, incoming remittances, tourism, and global economic connections. Their landscape is changing in several significant ways, a reflection of the social and urban transformations occurring in contemporary Ecuadorian society. Exploring the discourses and actions of two contrasting population groups, rarely studied in tandem, within these cities―popular-settlement residents and professionals in the planning and construction sector―this study analyzes how each is involved in house designs and neighborhood consolidation. Ideas, ambitions, and power relations come into play at every stage of the production and use of urban space, and as a result individual decisions about both house designs and the urban layout influence the development of the urban fabric. Knowledge about intermediate cities is crucial in order to understand current trends in the predominantly urban societies of Latin America, and this study is an example of needed interdisciplinary scholarship that contributes to the fields of urban studies, urban anthropology, sociology, and architecture.