Urban Design
This book defines and analyzes three types of continuity in urban planning and design: urban conservation, cultural tourism, and persistencies of form. It cites international examples from the author’s work, illustrated with numerous original drawings.
For students, researchers, and developers, this book offers a snapshot of ongoing European research and development in cloud computing. It covers the latest hot topics, including services, management, automation, and adoption.
Information Visualisation
This volume reviews information visualisation, the art of transforming complex data into clear visuals. It explores techniques from medieval origins to modern 2D/3D rendering and evaluation methods, with examples from history, art, and science.
This interdisciplinary book explores human ecology, revealing the social and cultural processes linking us to our environment. Using global case studies on climate change, it shows how degradation affects vulnerable communities and offers sustainable alternatives.
Agencies of the Frame
This book explores parallel tectonic strategies in cinema and architecture, analyzing how films and buildings compose place, space, time, and narrative. Analyses of works by Hitchcock, Lynch, Corbusier, and Zumthor reveal characteristics transferable across disciplines.
This collection of papers from leading researchers represents the state of the art in sensor technology, processing, and automation for detecting and classifying underwater objects. It will interest researchers in underwater detection, remote sensing, and medical imaging.
Surface and Deep Histories
This volume positions surface in architecture within the scholarship of critical theory and design-based approaches, and invites academics and designers, and art and architectural historians based in Australia to consider the uses, figurations, scales, and typologies of surfaces.
This book addresses various aspects of tourism development, from sustainability to alternative products. Featuring practical case studies from a wide range of countries, it is useful for academics and practitioners seeking to update their current knowledge.
This book proposes a new methodology for underwater archaeology using low-budget digital tech. Discover novel collection methods for volunteer divers to create stunning 2D/3D models and a Virtual Reality museum, promoting archaeology in an age where visualization matters.
For exhibition designers, managing visitor circulation is often guesswork, and modifying designs is costly. This book discusses a simulation application to guide the process, presenting the challenges of integrating a complex mathematical process into an artistic one.
Unbounded
Technology and diverse cultures are challenging the traditional boundaries between interior and exterior, private and public. This book explores the shifting understanding of the interior through global case studies of real and virtual places.
Information Technology Ethics
This book focuses on the ethical implications of human interactions with technology. By debating issues such as a law for robots and digital healthcare, this volume provides provocative insights to challenge readers to think critically and draw their own conclusions.
Outer Space Development, International Relations and Space Law
The development of outer space is happening now, but few are aware. The vast wealth it generates threatens to create unprecedented inequality. This is a call to action to ensure the final frontier benefits all of humanity, not just a select few.
From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics
Explore the 20th century’s foundational crisis in mathematics. From early paradoxes to the rise of logicism, intuitionism, and formalism, this guide examines the quest for certainty and the lasting impact of Gödel’s revolutionary theorems.
Architecture
The author’s writings are based on his 1968 Yale University lecture series, “Architecture: The Making of Metaphors”.
Theorising the Project
This book explores a thematic approach to architectural design. It argues design is not the expression of meaning, but the framing of strategic conditions for emergent sense. For students and practitioners, it offers a framework to widen their creative scope.
Broadening Horizons
‘Broadening Horizons’ presents multidisciplinary approaches to landscape research in the Mediterranean and the Near East. Highlighting diverse methods, it provides a significant contribution for specialists and beginning researchers alike.
The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian
A critical re-reading of early modern architectural history. Through post-war theory, this book unpacks the canon of Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion, extending the critical historiography of Frampton and Tafuri.
Revisiting the Past through Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia
This volume investigates how our memories of conflict are shaped by rhetoric. From the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, the authors examine how rhetoric acts as a catalyst not only for what we remember, but also for what we are made to forget.
Singing for Themselves
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.