Ecopolis: Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate
The book is an impressive, albeit lengthy, dissection and re-evaluation of current ecological models for city planning, one which will certainly cater more to the academics than the practitioners of sustainability. Given the extensive research and case studies this book is an important resource for all who are interested in looking at the bigger picture of sustainable issues in the city and architecture.
Design of Urban Space: An Inquiry into a Socio-Spatial Process
This book on urban design bridges the gap between purely architectural formulations and the practitioners′ guides. Designed in the architectural idiom with specially produced line drawings to appeal to those who are interested in the built environment.
The ideal aid to all students, Bloom's Major Poets is a definitive guide for independent study and a single source for footnoting essays and research papers. Each volume includes: Editor's notes and an introduction; Author's biography; Thematic and structural analysis; Extracts and major critical essays; Extensive bibliography; Index of themes and ideas
Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the constraints of language and the limits of our own minds; and how we use imagination to give meaning to past experiences and to shape future ones. These are the questions James Boyd White addresses in The Edge of Meaning, exploring each through its application to great works of Western culture—Huckleberry Finn, the Odyssey, and the paintings of Vermeer among them.
IN this book we have sought to give an account of a department of mathematics which is now generally regarded as fundamental. A list of the men to whom the successive advances of the subject are due, includes, with few exceptions, the names of the greatest French and German mathematicians of the century, from Cauchy and Gauss onward. And in line with these advances lie the chief fields of mathematical activity at the present day.
