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Keeping Up with Technologies to Create the Cognitive City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

Keeping Up with Technologies to Create the Cognitive City

This volume represents a selection of papers presented at the Third International Academic Conference on Places and Technologies, held at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade, Serbia in April 2016. The conference brought together researchers, PhD students and practitioners, in order to create a platform for sharing knowledge in the fields of growth, new technologies, and the environment, as well as particular aspects of achieving the concept of cognitive city. The book will appeal primarily to members of the academic community in the fields of urban design, planning and architecture, engineering and technical sciences, and the humanities and social sciences. It will also be of interest to professional institutions and companies, governments, and NGOs, who will directly benefit from the knowledge presented here.

Wastelands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Wastelands

Wastelands is an exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecution in Kosovo, many Ashkali refugees fled to Belgrade, Serbia, where they were stigmatized as Gypsies, consigned to slums, sidelined from the economy, and subjected to violence. To survive, Ashkali collect the only resource available to them: garbage. Vividly recounting everyday life in an illegal Romani settlement, Eirik Saethre follows Ashkali as they scavenge through dumpsters, build shacks, siphon electricity, negotiate the recycling trade, and migrate between Belgrade, Kosovo, and the European Union. He argues that trash is not just a means of survival: it reinforces the status of Ashkali and Roma as polluted Others, creates indissoluble bonds to transnational capitalism, enfeebles bodies, and establishes a localized sovereignty.

Challenging Glass 4 & COST Action TU0905 Final Conference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 854

Challenging Glass 4 & COST Action TU0905 Final Conference

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-28
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This proceedings volume of the Challenging Glass 4 & COST Action TU0905 Final Conference, held 6-7 February 2014 at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, represents the Final Action Publication of the European research network COST Action TU0905 “Structural Glass – Novel design methods and next generation products”. It contains nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers – published by more than 180 authors from 22 different countries – that focus on the architectural and structural applications of glass in structures and facades. As such, it provides a profound state-of-the-art of structural glass design and engineering. A must-read for all architects, engineers, scientists, industry partners and other enthusiasts interested in this rapidly evolving and challenging domain.

Challenging Glass 3
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1022

Challenging Glass 3

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-06-21
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

There are two things everybody knows about glass: it is transparent, and it breaks! These are also the properties that constitute the challenge of glass as an architectural and structural material. This book presents papers from the third Challenging Glass Conference (CGC3), held at the Technical University (TU) Delft, the Netherlands, in June 2012. The conference brings together glass engineering, research and design specialists. Papers are grouped under seven topic headings: project and case studies; joints, fixings and adhesives; strength, stability and safety (a category which includes a quarter of all the papers presented at the conference); laminates and composite design; curved and bended glass; architectural design and lighting and finally, glass in facades. Glass remains one of the most exciting materials available to designers and architects today. This book will be of interest to all those involved in working with glass in an architectural and structural context.

Cost C16, Improving the Quality of Existing Urban Building Envelopes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Cost C16, Improving the Quality of Existing Urban Building Envelopes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

As a result of changes in the composition of the population, society changes continuously with respect to various factors including age-structure, family composition and the availability of energy. Changes lead to situations that are reflected in the commissioning of buildings, which is gradually shifted from new construction to the reuse and renovation of existing buildings. The adaptation of buildings often requires the modification of facades and the construction behind. The scope of this action within the COST Transport and Urban Development Domain is to improve techniques and methods for envelopes of buildings constructed during the last half of the 20th century in the COST countries. In other words it is directed on the building envelopes of the so-called non-traditional buildings. This publication is based on a support by COST, an intergovernmental European framework for international cooperation between nationally funded research activities. COST creates scientific networks and enables scientists to collaborate in a wide spectrum of activities in research and technology.

Handbook of Research on Urban-Rural Synergy Development Through Housing, Landscape, and Tourism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Handbook of Research on Urban-Rural Synergy Development Through Housing, Landscape, and Tourism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-11-29
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

As cities continue to grow with advancing technologies, the spatial and temporal gaps between rural and urban areas are shrinking, thereby requiring the sectors to interact with each other. While the prospect is to develop each area without hampering the newfound synergy between them, there are still many barriers and concerns that hinder this inevitable urban-rural relationship. The Handbook of Research on Urban-Rural Synergy Development Through Housing, Landscape, and Tourism is a pivotal reference source that focuses on the applications and challenges of creating cooperation between urban and rural areas along various fields. While highlighting topics including suburbanization, weekend-residence zones, and homeostasis, this publication is ideally designed for architects, sector managers, region developers, urban planners, urban developers, construction managers, urban studies professionals, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on lessening the urban-rural gap in both global and local contexts.

Keeping Up with Technologies to Improve Places
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Keeping Up with Technologies to Improve Places

Keeping Up with Technologies to Improve Places brings together a selection of papers presented at the First International Academic Conference on Places and Technologies, held at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in April 2014. The conference was organized by the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture and the Urban Laboratory, in order to bring together leading researchers, professors and PhD students, as well as practitioners, to create a platform for sharing knowledge and know-how in the fields of growth, new technologies, and the environment. The book will appeal primarily to members of the academic community in the fields of urban design, planning and architecture, engineering and technical sciences, and the humanities and social sciences, including professors, researchers and PhD students. It will also be of interest to professional institutions and companies, governments, and NGOs, who will directly benefit from the knowledge and know-how sharing presented here.

KENT TERİMLERİ ANSİKLOPEDİSİ
  • Language: tr
  • Pages: 738

KENT TERİMLERİ ANSİKLOPEDİSİ

Kent ve kentsel yaşama dair bugünümüz, öğrendiklerimiz ve deneyimlerimiz geçmiş kültürlerin bizlere bıraktığı birikimin üzerine inşa edilerek biçimlenmiştir. Uygarlaşmanın ve uygar olmanın temel ölçütleri arasında yerleşik hayata geçiş ve kent düzenini oluşturmak yer alır. Bugünün kentleri, yaklaşık 5000 yıllık bir geçmiş içinde, tarihin sayfalarında bıraktığımız toplulukların, toplumların ve kültürlerin ürünü olarak; insan aklının, bilgisinin ve teknolojisinin sonucudur. Bu döngü ile kentler, sürekli gelişen ve gelişmeye devam edecek bir dinamizm içerirler. Modern dünya, onun şekillendirdiği toplumlar bu toplumların ortaya koy...