The Urban Sustainability Book Series is a valuable resource for sustainability and urban-related education and research. It offers an inter-disciplinary platform covering all four areas of practice, policy, education, research, and their nexus. The publications in this series are related to critical areas of sustainability, urban studies, planning, and urban geography.
Buku akses terbuka ini menampilkan eksplorasi mendalam tentang perilaku creep rumit yang ditunjukkan oleh material metalik, dengan fokus khusus pada penjelasan sifat mekanis mendasar yang mengatur responsnya pada suhu tinggi, khususnya dalam konteks paduan polikristalin. Pendekatan tradisional untuk mengkarakterisasi sifat mekanis secara historis bergantung pada model empiris yang penuh dengan …
This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority. Based on both historical material such as archaeological evidence, 20th century newspapers, and postcard motives as well as current sources such …
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for em…
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, all…
Buku akses terbuka ini merupakan prosiding wasit Konferensi Superkomputer Asia ke-5, SCFA 2019, yang diadakan di Singapura pada Maret 2019. 6 makalah lengkap yang disajikan dalam buku ini ditinjau dan dipilih dengan cermat dari 33 pengajuan. Mereka mencakup berbagai topik termasuk penanganan kesalahan memori, aljabar linier, pemrosesan gambar, komputasi heterogen, prediksi penggunaan sumber day…
"A new framework for experimental and innovative "city-making" for urban resources and services to be developed and governed in a collaborative, socially, and economically inclusive ways"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A review of the scientific evidence on the effects of cannabinoids on brain and behavioral functioning, with an emphasis on potential therapeutic use."The cannabis plant has been used for recreational and medicinal purposes for more than 4,000 years, but the scientific investigation into its effects has only recently yielded useful results. In this book, Linda Parker offers a review of the scie…
A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris -- the ""Grand Paris"" initiative -- and the building of today's networked global city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.