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Construction in Cities

Author : Patricia J. Lancaster
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420037013
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Construction in Cities written by Patricia J. Lancaster and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-12-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's construction environment is more complex than any previous era. The possible impediments to a project's successful completion include not only "bricks and mortar" issues like material availability or curtain wall testing, but a broad array of concerns involving the economic, political, social, environmental, archeological, community, and historic preservation aspects of the project. Costly delays are common; regulatory processes can be prohibitive; stakeholders have more say. All of the people involved in an urban construction project must be knowledgeable about, and conversant with these conditions. Bringing together over 500 years of combined professional experience, Construction in Cities: Social, Environmental, Political, and Economic Concerns provides you with a compendium of knowledge with which to solve problems and propel your projects. Beginning with an overview of the regulations governing construction in cities, the book continues with concrete, practical advice for below-ground work such as tunnels, roadways and foundations. It follows with an examination of five actual projects to explore ways to complete elaborate urban buildings. Finally, the book takes you deep into the murky waters of issues that often halt construction projects. Since the unexpected always happens in construction, you need a book on your shelf to reach for when it does - a source that delineates clean and concise recipes for successfully dealing with such diverse conditions as unexpected archeological finds, dying trees, and toxic air. If you play a role in ensuring the delivery of capital projects in an urban environment, Construction in Cities serves as a handy reference of actions and methods for overriding these barriers.

Design and Construction of Smart Cities

Author : Ibrahim El Dimeery
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030642178
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Design and Construction of Smart Cities written by Ibrahim El Dimeery and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how to maintain environmental sustainability as one of its main principles, and it addresses how smart cities serve to diminish wastes and maintain natural resources by having clean green energy that is operated by new smart technology designs. Living in a smart city is not something of the future anymore, it is here, and it is being implemented all over the world. A smart city uses different types of electronic Internet of things (IoT) sensors to collect data and then use these data to manage assets and resources efficiently. The smart city concept integrates information and communication technology (ICT), and various physical devices connected to the IoT network to optimize the efficiency of city operations and services and achieve sustainable solutions to allow us to grow with proper management of our resources. Smart sustainable structures and infrastructures face the need of urban areas due to the growth of populations while in the same time save our environment. To achieve this, we need to revisit the conventional methods in design and construction and the conventional materials which are used now to optimize the design and provide smart solutions. In the past few years, the consumption of resources has been massive, and the waste produced from that consumption has been inconceivable. This is causing environmental degradation, which produces many environmental challenges, such as global climate change, excessive fossil fuel dependency and the growing demand for energy. As well as, discussing the challenges facing the civil engineering design and construction of smart cities components and presenting concepts and insight from experts and researchers from different civil engineering disciplines., this book explains how to construct buildings and special structures and how to manage and monitor energy.

Smart Cities and Construction Technologies

Author : Sara Shirowzhan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1838801995
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Smart Cities and Construction Technologies written by Sara Shirowzhan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes nine chapters presenting the outcome of research projects relevant to building, cities, and construction. A description of a smart city and the journey from conventional to smart cities is discussed at the beginning of the book. Innovative case studies of underground cities and floating city bridges are presented in this book. BIM and GIS applications on different projects, and the concept of intelligent contract and virtual reality are discussed. Two concepts relevant to conventional buildings including private open spaces and place attachments are also included, and these topics can be upgraded in the future by smart technologies.

Construction in Cities

Author : Patricia J. Lancaster
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849374869
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (748 download)

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The Prospects for Building Construction in American Cities

Author : Leonard Porter Ayres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Prospects for Building Construction in American Cities written by Leonard Porter Ayres and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Automating Cities

Author : Brydon T. Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811586705
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Automating Cities written by Brydon T. Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the latest advancements in the use of automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future of the built environment and its occupants. It considers how the use of automated decision-making frameworks, artificial intelligence and other technologies of automation are presently impacting the practice of architects, engineers, project managers and contractors, and articulates the near future changes to workflows, legal frameworks and the wider AEC industry. This book surveys and compiles the use of city apps, robots that operate buildings and fabricate structural elements, 3D printing, drones, sensors, algorithms, and advanced prefabricated modules. The book also contributes to the growing literature on smart cities, and explores the impacts on data privacy and data sovereignty that arise through the use of sensors, digital twins and intelligent transport systems. It provides a useful reference for further research and development in the area of automation in design and construction to architects, engineers, project managers, superintendents and construction lawyers, contractors, policy makers, and students.

Public Spaces and Urbanity: Construction and Design Manual

Author : Karsten Pålsson
Publisher : Dom Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9783869226132
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Public Spaces and Urbanity: Construction and Design Manual written by Karsten Pålsson and published by Dom Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking examples from major European cities, 'Public Spaces and Urbanity' is a practical guide demonstrating what urban development with a human face might look like. This involves renewing and enhancing humane cities using architecture on a human scale while taking their history into account. Thus the book follows the tradition established by Jan Gehl that regards urban space as a framework for people to live in and socialise. The European tradition of the dense classical city marks the point of departure for this book. Special emphasis is placed on physical and spatial parameters, on development patterns and building types, on the guiding principles governing access, and on interconnections with public roads and pathways --all of which form the foundations of urban life as well as cities that provide safety and security. The book is divided into ten thematic chapters, each providing a definition and general outline of core challenges together with proposals for meeting them. An historical outline of urban development and the practically organised thematic structure underlying concepts discussed allow the examples given to greatly broaden the field of understanding around this topic.

Building Construction

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Construction written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some issues include the annual summary.

Concrete Cities

Author : Rob Imrie
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 152922053X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Concrete Cities written by Rob Imrie and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he illustrates how construction is motivated by economic and political ideologies rather than actual need, and calls for a more sensitive, humane and nature-focused culture of construction. This compelling book calls for radical changes to city living and environments by building less, but better.

Building Construction in Principal Cities of the United States

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Construction in Principal Cities of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Construction of Equality

Author : Jennifer Mack
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452955018
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Equality written by Jennifer Mack and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An industrial city on the outskirts of Stockholm, Södertälje is the global capital of the Syriac Orthodox Christian diaspora, an ethnic and religious minority group fleeing persecution and discrimination in the Middle East. Since the 1960s, this Syriac community has transformed the standardized welfare state spaces of the city’s neighborhoods into its own “Mesopotälje,” defined by houses with Mediterranean and other international influences, a major soccer stadium, and massive churches and social clubs. Such projects have challenged principles of Swedish utopian architecture and planning that explicitly emphasized the erasure of difference. In The Construction of Equality, Jennifer Mack shows how Syriac-instigated architectural projects and spatial practices have altered the city’s built environment “from below,” offering a fresh perspective on segregation in the European modernist suburbs. Combining architectural, urban, and ethnographic tools through archival research, site work, participant observation (among residents, designers, and planners), and interviews, Mack provides a unique take on urban development, social change, and the immigrant experience in Europe over a fifty-year period. Her book shows how the transformation of space at the urban scale—the creation and evolution of commercial and social districts, for example—operates through the slow accumulation of architectural projects. As Mack demonstrates, these developments are not merely the result of the grassroots social practices usually attributed to immigrants but instead are officially approved through dialogues between residents and design professionals: accredited architects, urban planners, and civic bureaucrats. Mack attends to the tensions between the “enclavization” practices of a historically persecuted minority group, the integration policies of the Swedish welfare state and its planners, and European nativism.

Strategic Research on Construction and Promotion of China's Intelligent Cities

Author : Yunhe Pan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811063109
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Research on Construction and Promotion of China's Intelligent Cities written by Yunhe Pan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a general overview of the book series and summarizes the research results in its 13 subtopics. It systematically elaborates on how the construction and promotion of intelligent cities with Chinese characteristics could be implemented in the course of intelligent urbanization in China. Furthermore, it presents a variety of literature on urban management innovation and development, making it a valuable reference source on both the theoretic and empirical development of the new urbanization in China for intelligent-city decision-makers, c-level directors and officials in urban economy, social and environment departments and institutions all over the world.

The Affordable City

Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831336
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Affordable City written by Shane Phillips and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

The Prospects for Building Construction in American Cities (Classic Reprint)

Author : Leonard P. Ayres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332225255
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Prospects for Building Construction in American Cities (Classic Reprint) written by Leonard P. Ayres and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Prospects for Building Construction in American Cities Since the outbreak of the war in 1914 a great shortage of building construction has been accumulating in this country. When war was declared, in the summer of 1914, business was depressed and less than the normal amount of new building was being done. In 1915 business recovery was under way and the amount of building construction increased in that and the following year, but not in sufficient volume to meet current needs. The country was entering upon a period of great war-time prosperity for commerce and industry, and available funds went into industrial production rather than into general building. Then came our own entry into the war, and in even greater measure the money and energy of the nation were diverted to the production of war supplies and munitions and necessary military construction, instead of going into the normal building of homes, stores, office buildings, factories, schools, and other peace-time structures. As the war progressed the building deficit increased, for the Government stepped in and prevented all save the most essential building operations. After the armistice the shortage still continued to accumulate, for building wages and the costs of material mounted to such heights in 1919 and 1920 as to discourage the undertaking of new construction projects. As a result of these restraining influences this country has not constructed in the past few years as many new buildings as it would have in ordinary times. The present publication is the report of a study carried through with the object of finding how great the existing building shortage probably is and where it is most acute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Building Construction in Principal Cities of the United States, 1921-1948

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Building Construction in Principal Cities of the United States, 1921-1948 written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Architectural, Construction, Environmental and Digital Technologies for Future Cities

Author : Natalia Potienko
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303094770X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Architectural, Construction, Environmental and Digital Technologies for Future Cities by : Natalia Potienko

Download or read book Architectural, Construction, Environmental and Digital Technologies for Future Cities written by Natalia Potienko and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation. The concept of future cities is associated with several important trends. The first trend is the sustainable development of the urban environment and the implementation of eco-friendly technologies and materials in civil construction, industrial and power plants. The harmonious coexistence of the citizens with all forms of nature in the urban habitat becomes a great value. The second trend is the individualization of the aesthetical and architectural image of the future cities. The city's unique flavor based on the blending of the historical legacy and architectural traditions is now as important as the utility of the environment. The third trend is the digitalization of the urban environment with the use of state-of-the-art sensors, information and communication technologies, and data science. The efficiency of operations and services achieved by the extensive use of complex IoT networks becomes a value as well. The last trend is the adaptation of the urban and social environment for individual demands of a community and a person. Individual comfort and safety are now more important than ever before. By addressing these trends, the volume discusses local and international plans, practices, and technologies aimed at the development and implementation of future cities.

Concrete Cities

Author : Rob Imrie
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529220513
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Concrete Cities written by Rob Imrie and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social and ecological consequences. Rob Imrie calls us to build less and to build better as a pre-requisite for enhancing welfare and well-being.