Urban Climate – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr

Guttila Yugantha Jayasinghe, Keerththana Kumareswaran

Green Infrastructure and Urban Climate Resilience

This book aims to cover most subject areas of green infrastructure such as components, multi-functionality, and integration to build environment, contribution to urban sustainability, sustainable and smar…

Darshini Mahadevia, Gian C. Delgado-Ramos, Janice Barnes

Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

This Element focuses on understanding COVID-19's impact on city systems related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and vice versa, in terms of warnings, lessons learned, and calls to action. Thi…

Darshini Mahadevia, Gian C. Delgado-Ramos, Janice Barnes

Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

This Element focuses on understanding COVID-19's impact on city systems related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and vice versa, in terms of warnings, lessons learned, and calls to action. Thi…

Urban Forests, Climate Change and Environmental Pollution

This book contributes significantly to the international literature by bringing forth a novel and comprehensive exploration of urban resilience in the face of climate change and environmental pollution. I…

Urban Metabolism and Climate Change

This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the u…

Urban Resilience, Livability, and Climate Adaptation

This book explores urban environments and their impact on resilience, livability, climate adaptation, health, and societal well-being. It provides interdisciplinary insights for fostering resilient, livab…

Hans Zimmer

Planet Earth III

Local Climate Zone Application in Sustainable Urban Development

The study of local climate zones (LCZ) links urban morphology, land use and land cover types, human activity, and thermal properties, and provides a standard framework for studying urban climatic issues. …

Anna Hurlimann, Ursula Eicker, Christian Braneon, David Corbett

Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adapta…

Anna Hurlimann, Ursula Eicker, Christian Braneon, David Corbett

Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adapta…

Urban and Transit Planning (Vol 1): Strategies, Innovations and Climate Management

This book explores aspects of creating cities and structures with a focus on sustainability. It provides an analysis of contemporary methodologies, technologies, and principles essential for designing urb…

Mohsen Aboulnaga, Ahmed Abouaiana, Mona Mostafa, Antonella Trombadore

Livable Cities

Livable Cities: Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening elucidates on livability in urban areas, providing readers with definitions and indicators of what makes …

Urban Mobility

This book examines shifts in urban mobility with a focus on technological disruption, pandemic-induced travel change, and the climate crisis in twenty-first century Canadian cities.

Urban Mobility

This book examines shifts in urban mobility with a focus on technological disruption, pandemic-induced travel change, and the climate crisis in twenty-first century Canadian cities.

Blue-Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Settlements

Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is now recognized as beneficial in terms of maintaining water flows and thermal comfort in urban areas. A framework of ecosystem services for urban settlements may be instr…

Stephanie Wakefield

Miami in the Anthropocene

"Miami in the Anthropocene explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Grounding he…

Mike Davis

Dead Cities

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of his…

Sam Bloch

Shade

An extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all…

Nadina Galle

The Nature of Our Cities

"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Jonathan Doerr, THE NATURE OF OUR CITIES is a stirring exploration of how scientists from around the world are harnessing local ecology and innovative technology…