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Free Download Lorenzo Battisti, "Wind Energy Exploitation in Urban Environment: TUrbWind 2017 Colloquium "
English | ISBN: 3319749439 | 2018 | 243 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This book presents numerical and experimental research in the field of wind energy exploitation in urban environments. It comprises a selection of the best papers from the international colloquium "Research and Innovation on Wind Energy Exploitation in Urban Environment" (TUrbWind), held in Riva del Garda, Italy in June 2017. The book includes contributions from different research fields in urban wind resources, wind energy conversion systems, and urban integration, mainly focusing on the following topics:

Free Download Urban Climate Change Adaptation: A Nature-Based Approach by Baojie He, Joni Jupesta, Giuseppe T. Cirella, Gloria Pignatta
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 293 Pages | ISBN : 3031650875 | 158.6 MB
"Urban Climate Change Adaptation" is a timely and informative book that delves into the complex challenges posed by climate change and explores the pathways to achieving environmental sustainability.

Free Download New Challenges for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Volume II: Proceedings of the XXVI International Conference on Living and Walking in Cities, 2023 by Maurizio Tira, Michela Tiboni, Michele Pezzagno, Giulio Maternini
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 444 Pages | ISBN : 3031624777 | 134.3 MB
This volume is the second of a two-volume set of the Proceedings of the XXVI International Conference on Living and Walking in Cities, held September 6-8 2023 at the University of Brescia, Italy. The LWC International Conference was first organized in 1994 at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Brescia (IT). This year the LWC Conference has arrived at its XXVI edition. The Conference traditionally deals with the topics of urban mobility and quality of life in urban areas, with a specific focus on vulnerable road users. The LWC Conference allows researchers, experts, administrators, and practitioners to gather and discuss policy issues, best practices, and research findings from different perspectives. The main theme of the 2023 conference was "new challenges for sustainable urban mobility", and the papers herein address the issue from a multidisciplinary perspective and cover a wide variety of related topics. These books are divided into four topical sections:

Free Download Effective Urban Densification: A Guide for Professionals and the Housing Industry
by Johns, Barry
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032540257 | 259 pages | True PDF EPUB | 170.25 MB

Free Download The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation
by Phil Child;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350423432 | 233 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.89 MB

Free Download Advances in Urban Stormwater and Agricultural Runoff Source Controls By J. Marsalek (auth.), Jiri Marsalek, Ed Watt, Evzen Zeman, Heiko Sieker (eds.)
2001 | 319 Pages | ISBN: 1402001541 | PDF | 11 MB
Notwithstanding past achievements, flood damage continues to rise throughout the world as the magnitudes of floods increase, partly as a result of poor land management and partly by climate change, growing populations and continuing development in flood-prone areas, and the aging and deterioration of flood defences. One of the major goals of water management is the protection of society from floods. That issue is addressed here in terms of such broad issues as flood analysis, flood impact, non-structural and structural flood management measures. Non-structural measures focus on flood plain management, flood insurance, flood forecasting and warning, and emergency measures during floods. Structural measures focus on catchment management, embankments and flood reservoirs. Post-flood measures are also discussed. Future planning of flood management should be based on a clear understanding of the effectiveness interventions and their impacts on river catchment ecosystems.

Free Download Martin H. Krieger, "Urban Tomographies "
English | ISBN: 0812243048 | 2011 | 152 pages | EPUB | 24 MB
Tomography is a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or perspectives. In medical tomography, such as a CAT scan, two-dimensional slices or images of a three-dimensional organ are used to envision the organ itself. Urban tomography applies the same approach to the study of city life. To appreciate different aspects of a community, from infrastructure to work to worship, urban planning expert Martin H. Krieger scans the myriad sights and sounds of contemporary Los Angeles. He examines these slices of life in Urban Tomographies.

Free Download Chandan Deuskar, "Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics "
English | ISBN: 1512823066 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians have incentives to ignore formal urban plans and sideline planners, and instead provide urban land and services through informal channels in order to cultivate political constituencies (a form of what political scientists refer to as "clientelism"). This results in inequitable and environmentally damaging patterns of urban growth in some of the largest and most rapidly urbanizing countries in the world. The technocratic planning solutions often advocated by governments and international development organizations are not enough. To overcome this problem, urban planners must understand and adapt to the complex politics of urban informality.

Free Download Peter Newman, "Planning World Cities: Globalization and Urban Politics"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0333693469, 0230247326 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 0.6 mb
This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as ‘world cities’ (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning has played in the way cities have responded to the forces of globalization, and argue for the importance of diverse – rather than one-size-fits-all – planning practices.

oss-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. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development and the rise of these regions as global economic hubs. At the same time, however, deltas are extremely vulnerable to multiple threats from both climate change and urbanisation. These include an increased flood risk combined with the resulting loss of ecological and social-cultural values. To ensure a more sustainable future for these areas, spatial strategies are needed to strengthen resilience, i.e. help the systems to cope with their vulnerabilities as well as enhance their capacity to overcome natural and artificial threats.

Free Download Adaptive Urban Transformation: Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China by Steffen Nijhuis, Yimin Sun, Eckart Lange
English | EPUB | 2023 | 315 Pages | ISBN : 303089827X | 162.1 MB