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  • The Urban Climate

    by Helmut E. Landsberg ...
    Series Book 28 - International Geophysics
    The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer. Attempts to quantify conditions have met with some success. There is certainly a clear understanding of the physical relations that create the climatic differences of urbanized areas. Although some of the earlier classical studies are cited ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

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    Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    by Anthony M. Townsend ...
    An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Planning Australia

    An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning

    by Susan Thompson, Paul Maginn ...
    Planning Australia provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today. Incorporating contemporary theory and practice, it contextualises planning in terms of its theoretical, ideological and professional foundations. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, underpinned by the principles of ... Read more

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  • The Creative Destruction of New York City

    Engineering the City for the Elite

    by Alessandro Busà ...
    Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-class New Yorkers, making city government work better for everyone-not just those who thrived during Bloomberg's tenure as mayor. But well into de Blasio's administration, many critics think that little has changed in the lives of struggling New Yorkers, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Alternative Types of Roundabouts

    An Informational Guide

    by Tomaž Tollazzi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a history of roundabouts, an introduction to their design, calculations of their capacity and traffic-safety features. It describes the key features of standard roundabouts and their limitations. Alternative types of roundabouts are a fairly recent development and have only been implemented in a few countries to date. The book illustrates a broad variety of these recent ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Beka-Ocizla Cave System

    Karstological Railway Planning in Slovenia

    Edited by Martin Knez, Metka Petrič, Tadej Slabe, Stanka Šebela ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A proposed railway on the 5th European Railway Corridor (Venice-Kiev) between the northern Adriatic ports of Koper (Slovenia) and Trieste (Italy) and the interior of Slovenia required extensive karstological studies and planning. This book contains the knowledge gained from these studies as well as further information on the regional karst surface and underground, the karst hydrogeology and the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    by Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas

    The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study

    by David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Cities built on unconsolidated sediments consisting of clays, silt, peat, and sand, are particularly susceptible to subsidence. Such regions are common in delta areas, where rivers empty into the oceans, along flood plains adjacent to rivers, and in coastal marsh lands. Building cities in such areas aggravates the problem for several reasons:Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the ... Read more

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  • Urban Climates

    by J. A. Voogt, T. R. Oke, G. Mills, A. Christen ...
    Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It explains the physical principles governing the creation of distinct urban climates, such as airflow around ... Read more

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  • Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas

    Edited by Maria Athanassiadou, Alexander Baklanov, Sue Grimmond, Alexander Mahura ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models.Based on the selected presentations given at the COST728 workshop, the contributions are arranged ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Global Change and Regional Impacts

    Water Availability and Vulnerability of Ecosystems and Society in the Semiarid Northeast of Brazil

    Edited by Jose C. de Araujo, Maarten Krol, Thomas Gaiser, Horst Frischkorn ...
    Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life. Taking the semiarid northeastern area of Brazil as an example, a wide ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Infrastructure Planning in Europe

    A European Perspective

    Edited by Robert Hack, Rafig Azzam, Robert Charlier ...
    Series Book 104 - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
    Geologists and civil engineers related to infrastructure planning, design and building describe professional practices and engineering geological methods in different European infrastructure projects. ... Read more

    $359.09 USD