Making Cities (More) Inclusive
Urban Design and Planning for Autism
This book explores the relationship between people with autism spectrum disorders and the urban environment. It also puts forward a set of requirements for planning autism-friendly cities. Indeed, it is based on the assumption that research and proje...
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Custom Made
Sense and Method in the Design of Architecture, City and Landscape
When something is custom-made, it is designed according to the needs of the customer. This is even if, in the design disciplines, the customer is a manifold concept and not necessarily a material one. The society, the place, the lifestyle, the city,...
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Protected Areas and Local Communities
A Challenge for Inland Development
The book collects the outcomes of research on protected areas, driven by the desire of exploring the role these play in an era of global change. The publication explores their management methods, with reference to global strategies for risk reduction...
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Dross City: Urban Metabolism
Resilence and Drosscapes Recycling Project
Dross is waste: solid impurities that form on the surface of the smelting pot. While most is thrown away, some is reusable or recyclable. Hence 'DrossScape', a term conceived by land economist Alan Berger. Working off Berger's theories, this book exp...
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Fringe Shifts
Transforming Planning for New Suburban Habitats
The fringe is the contemporary city 'in-between space', in which urban and periurban features interweave. In European cities, this transitional belt often matches with the Post World War II expansion. Nowadays, the urban fringe, generally in decline,...
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City Beyond Architecture
Sheng-Yuan Huang and the Work of Field Office
The world of today is changing. The center of development has moved to Asia, where more than half of the world's urban population is already living. In the future, Asian settlements will outnumber those of other continents. And, most interestingly, t...
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Data from Nature
Nature, Digitisation and Design
A fascinating exploration of exquisite images captured from natural materials, and of their applications in fashion, environmental design, and apps that anticipate a new era of digitally-driven individual creativity. "Data From Nature" begins with th...
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Contemporary Caravanserais
New Models for Public Spaces and City Squares
The book is a collection of thoughts, passages, research and projects that regard the emerging question of public space. The square and its evolution, from a place of urban and human relationships to a place of different collective activities in the...
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Albenga GlassCity
From the GlassCity to the GreenCity
The Albenga GlassCity study is part of a broader doctoral research focusing on the urban, energetic, tourist-economic and socio-cultural development strategies of MedCoast AgroCities—Mediterranean Coast-Agricultural Cities. Specifically the book focu...
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Smart Landscape
Architecture of the "Micro Smart Grid" as a Resilience Strategy for Landscape
Renewable energies have an important role in today's changing landscapes. This research analyses the current transition to sustainable energy from the architectural landscape point of view.
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