John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2025. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-139-4216-83. The construction industry is in a state of flux. Some would say that is an understatement. Some would say we are building too much. Some would say we need to recycle and transform what we have. Most would agree that something has to change. If the industry were a country, it would be the third worst in the world...
Wiley, 2025. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9781394216383. Apply a transformative new technology to construction projects with this timely guide. The blockchain is one of the most transformative technologies to emerge in the twenty-first century. But Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will also have a profound impact on construction in equal measure. Both will influence how...
Wiley, 2024. — 231 p. — ISBN: 978-3-433-61162-3. The book deals with the application and design of composite steel and concrete structures for buildings according to Eurocode 4. Chapter 1 gives a general overview of the characteristics, design construction, and applications of composite beams, floors, and columns. Also, the advantages and disadvantages of the different...
2nd ed. — Wiley, 2025. — 896 p. Civil Engineer’s Handbook of Professional Practice, Second Edition assists students and practicing and professional engineers in addressing the many challenges they face. This guide expands on the practical skills defined by the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE’s) Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (CEBOK) and provides illuminating...
Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2020. 439p. ISBN: 978 94 6166 324 5. Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice, and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by...
New York, Routledge, 2020. 423p. ISBN: 978-0-429-28481-6. Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge Handbook of Street Culture integrates and reviews current scholarship regarding the history, types, and contexts of the concept...
New York, Routledge, 2020. 226p. ISBN: 978-1-351-00740-5. Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explore how digital technologies are gradually changing how the public space is designed by architects, managed by policymakers, and experienced by individuals. Smart city technologies are superseding the traditional human experience that has characterized the making of public space...
New York, Routledge, 2015. 141p. ISBN: 978-1-315-77912-6. The task of modeling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualization provide new insights. Models of non-linear systems in general have three...
New York, Springer, 1994. 405p. ISBN: 978-94-010-4435-6. In The Asian City the Asian urbanization processes, nature, and characteristics of the 1990s have been analyzed by countries, by comparing different countries and in an international context. The authors are urban specialists from four continents. This volume has been divided into six parts: Part I Urbanisation in an...
Warsaw, Springer, 2017. 318p. ISBN: 978-3-319-49899-7. This book presents multi-sector practical cases based on the author’s research. It also includes the best practices, which could serve as a benchmark for the creation of smart cities. The global urbanization index, i.e., the ratio of city dwellers to the total population, has been steadily increasing in recent years. It is...
New Brunswick, New Jersey and London. Rutgers University Press, 2014. 239p. ISBN: 978-0-8135-6939-0. Sociologists have long been curious about how city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? In Urban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination of urban nightlife, drawing on...
New York, Routledge, 2022. 249p. ISBN: 978-0-367-77008- 2. This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to fifteen independent states and numerous de facto states; but this process of reordering is not finished, and social, economic,...
New York, Routledge, 2020. 267p. ISBN: 978-1-138-55216-6. Non-representational Theory explores a range of ideas that have recently engaged geographers and have led to the development of an alternative approach to the conception, practice, and production of geographic knowledge. Non-representational Theory refers to a key body of work that has emerged in geography over the past...
Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 309p. ISBN: 978-981-19-0690-9. This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies. It examines how speculative philosophies and concepts are changing geographical research methods and techniques, whilst also developing how speculative thinking transforms the way...
New York, Routledge, 2019. 275p. ISBN: 9781138677463. Postcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced-level students and researchers, the book is a lively, stimulating, and relevant introduction to 'postcolonial geography' that elaborates on the critical interventions in social,...
Massachusetts, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. 449p. ISBN: 978 1 83910 976 8. Drawing on research from diverse thinkers in urban planning and the built environment, this Handbook articulates cutting-edge contemporary understandings of power and its impact on planning. It identifies the current state of knowledge about planning and power, as well as emerging trajectories within...
New York, Routledge, 2019. 162p. ISBN: 978-1-138-34615-4. Object-Oriented Cartography provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed theoretical reading of contemporary cartography, this book acknowledges the shifted interest from cartographic representation to mapping practice and proposes an alternative...
Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2023, 305p. ISBN: 978 1 5261 6573 2. This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment and through particular 'urban' social relations. The book builds on the insight that violence itself is a spatiotemporal practice...
Cham, Switzerland, Springer, 2020. 268p. ISBN: 978-3-030-61765-3. This book presents cross-national insights into spatial fragmentation in post-socialist cities in Europe. Trying to rethink the heritage of the last 30 years of transformation and grasp current processes taking urban units of various categories as examples, the book exemplifies typical or unique causes of...
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 382p. ISBN: 978-1-5179-1255-0. One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the planet, and cities are replete with nonhuman life. Yet current accounts of the urban remain resolutely anthropocentric. Lively...
New York, Routledge, 2021. 228p. ISBN: 978-1-138-10176-0. This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city, second the smart city and third the autonomous city intended as a...
Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2023. 224p. ISBN: 9780691249759. The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regulators and win in the realm of local politics. The city already serves as the nation's capital. Now,...
Cardiff, Springer, 2022. 254p. ISBN: 978-3-031-07946-7. This book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatization, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed. Drawing on a detailed and extensive analysis of a case study that illustrates well such urban design trends, it shows that informal...
Nashville, Fidelis Publishing, 2024. 240p. ISBN: 9781956454512. For fifty years “ Detroit” has been shorthand for all that s wrong with urban America: crime, corruption, decay, racial tension, struggling businesses, failing schools, a declining tax base, and more. Between 2000 and 2017, its population fell 28 percent, a steeper drop than any other major American city. A third...
Media 10 in association with Channel 4 and Boundless. — 132 p. — ISSN: 1742-0695. Grand Designs Magazine is the official monthly publication to accompany the hit television show hosted by presenter Kevin McCloud and broadcast on Channel 4 and More 4. Grand Designs magazine inspires self-builders and renovators to build the home they long to live in. It is a design-led source of...
AC Service Tech LLC, 2023. — 326 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-7338172-6-4. The demand for inverter mini split system installations is growing rapidly due to the versatility, functionality, and electrical efficiency of these units. As a result, inverter mini split system installations and servicing are becoming more common for individuals in the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air...
Media 10 in association with Channel 4 and Boundless. — 132 p. — ISSN: 1742-0695. Grand Designs Magazine is the official monthly publication to accompany the hit television show hosted by presenter Kevin McCloud and broadcast on Channel 4 and More 4. Grand Designs magazine inspires self-builders and renovators to build the home they long to live in. It is a design-led source of...