“…Whether your field is geology, national security, urban…”

“…Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 3e is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts presented in this book explain the link between design and human behavior. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Diversity of Federal Support -- National Science Foundation Support -- PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS -- Appendix B Working Group Members -- SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES -- PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY -- INFORMATION AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES -- LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING -- DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE -- HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR -- AFFECT AND MOTIVATION -- SOCIAL INTERACTION -- GENDER STUDIES -- INFORMATION AND DECISION MAKING -- MARKET EFFICIENCY -- JOBS AND INEQUALITY -- MARKETS AND ORGANIZATIONS -- COLLECTIVE CHOICE INSTITUTIONS -- EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS -- URBAN TRANSFORMATION AND MIGRATION -- CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE -- FAMILY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- FORMAL AND LEGAL PROCESSES -- CRIME AND VIOLENCE -- RELIGION AND POLITICAL CHANGE -- CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY -- INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL LIFE -- INTERNATIONAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY STUDIES -- MACROECONOMIC POLICY -- SOCIAL STUDIES OF MODERN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCING INSTITUTIONS -- LARGE-SCALE DATA NEEDS -- STATISTICAL ANALYSIS -- MEASUREMENT AND SCALING -- ORIGINS OF HUMAN DISTINCTIVENESS -- Index…”

“…These include limited resources, reliance on urban models and ass…”

“…International in scope, the series draws upon the work of urban ethnographers, interpretive, constructionist, ethnomethodological, critical race, postcolonial, feminist, queer, and cultural studies traditions. …”

“…The workshop buildings are described in detail and situated in their urban setting. The different crafts activities are studied closely: metalworking with copper and iron alloys, ceramics, crafts of bone. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Institutional Changes and the Triple Whammy -- Changes at the Constitutional Level -- Changes at the Collective Level -- Changes at the Operational Level -- Enter the Triple Whammy: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Rapid Population Growth -- 7. The Stage Is Set for the Remainder of This Book -- Three. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….; 2.1 Introduction: a wider perspective on sustainability and the built environment; 2.2 Ecosystem services analysis and whole building or urban design 2.3 Ecosystem services analysis and materials selection2.4 Benefits and difficulties of applying the ecosystem services concept to built environment design and materials selection; 2.5 Potential impacts on ecosystem services of common building materials; 2.5.1 Materials that are grown; 2.5.2 Materials that are extracted or mined; 2.5.3 Materials that are made or processed; 2.6 Conclusion: Materials selection and ecosystem services. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…New Challenges for Civic Universities -- Academic Journals' Performance: Opportunities for Research Visibility -- Urban Natural Areas, from Nature Conservation to Well-being Assets -- Civic Universities and Their Impact on Green Infrastructure Governance in Cities: A Principles-Based Framework for Human Well-Being -- Internationalisation of Higher Education -Overview of Recent Developments -- Innovative Technopreneurship and Sustainable Business Models -- COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Business Prospects: A Conceptual Study -- The National Policy Environment for Starting a Business: An Assessment in Vietnam -- Needs for Remodeling the Entrepreneurship Education for the Post-COVID-19 Era -- The Evolution of Innovative Entrepreneurship Indicators in Europe. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.3 THE INVERSE SQUARE-ROOT LAW3.4 THE ENCUMBRANCE OF AN URBAN GRID; 3.5 EQUILIBRIUM STATES; 3.6 HOW BUSY ARE THE FIRE COMPANIES?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jahrhundert . 74 -- Perspektive 4: Edinburgh - City of (the) Enlightenment . 85 -- Leben in der Stadt 89 -- Kulturelles Leben und schottische Aufklärung in Edinburgh . 95 -- Perspektive 5: Musik und Musikkultur in Schottland und Edinburgh - über die »complex situation in the music of Scotland« . 104 -- Von der Nicht-Existenz des Theaters 106 -- Schottland und ›das Singen‹ . 108 -- Instrumentales Musizieren . 115 -- Die Edinburgh Musical Society - Eine Musikgeschichte vergessener Musiker in einer ›verlorenen Residenz‹ 139 -- Eine musikalische Gesellschaft als Ausdruck aufgeklärten Zeitgeistes 139 -- »[F]or the performance of concerts of Musick« - Zum musikalischen Alltag der Edinburgh Musical Society 149 -- Urbaner Wandel und die Folgen für das Musikleben Edinburghs 155 -- Der Wandel Edinburghs und die Bedeutung der Edinburgh Musical Society . 165 -- Erzählung 2: Musikgeschichte in Mikrogeschichten - Hannover und seine vergessenen Musiker . 169 -- Geschichte 1: Eine Person und ein Ort - Heinrich Raacke und sein Konzertsaal 177 -- Exkurs: Konstruierte Musikgeschichte in Hannover 179 -- Hofmusiker und Hofkapelle - Musik, Hof und Stadt . 186 -- Musikliebhaber und musikalische Aktivitäten 213 -- Geschichte 2: Musikalischer Alltag - Musikgeschichte und Fiktion . 234 -- Vorüberlegungen . 234 -- Ein Tag im Leben Heinrich Raackes . 239 -- Geschichte 3: Musikgeschichte durch den Filter eines regionalen Intelligenzblattes . 255 -- Exkurs: Öffentlichkeit 258 -- Hintergrund: Anzeigen, von allerhand Sachen, deren -- Bekanntmachung dem gemeinen Wesen nöthig und nützlich 260 -- Ergänzende Vorüberlegungen 278 -- Konzerte und Konzertleben in Hannover - mehr als nur -- Geschichten aus einem Intelligenzblatt 280 -- Beispiel 1 - Konzerte oder ›nur‹ alltägliche Musikdarbietungen? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acronyms &amp -- Symbols -- Foreword by Tom Glover -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Aboutthe Authors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 What Drives the Need and the Various Types of Data Centres -- Data Demand versus Compute Efficiency -- Workload Placement -- The Core Components of a Data Centre -- Types of Data Centres -- Entreprise Data Centre -- Colocation -- Public Cloud -- Urban or Edge -- Chapter 3 Site Selection -- Climate -- Access Roads and Airports -- Air Quality -- Likelihood of Natural Disasters -- Ground Conditions -- Communications Infrastructure -- Latency -- Proximity to Subsea Cable Landing Sites -- Density of Fibre Telecommunication Networks Near the Data Centre -- Geopolitical Risks, Laws, and Regulations -- Availability and Cost of Electrical Power -- Natural Resources -- Airport Flight Paths -- Electromagnetic Interference -- Taxes, Regulations, and Incentives -- Incentives -- Know the Stakeholders -- Expect the Unexpected -- Traditional Due Diligence -- Retrofitting Commercial Buildings for Data Centres -- Clusters -- Qualitative Analysis -- Quantitative Analysis -- Chapter 4 IT Operations and the Evolution of the Data Centre -- Beginning of IT Infrastructure -- Bringing Enterprise IT to Maturity -- IT Applications as Standalone Products - The Digital Economy -- Second Iteration of the Internet -- Key Ingredients for Digital Products -- Difference Between Enterprise IT Infrastructure and Hosting Infrastructure -- Commoditisation of IT Infrastructure -- Virtualisation: Servers and Data Centres as Generators for Digital Resources -- Software-as-a-Service: Digital Natives Entering the Enterprise -- Great Outsourcing of Enterprise IT and the Growth of the Colocation Model -- When Digital Products Scale - or the Invention of Hyperscale…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rowe and Abigail Harrison-Moore -- The architectural plates from the "Encyclopedie" / Denis Diderot -- The plates of the Encyclopedia / Roland Barthes -- From The Archaeology of Knowledge / Michel Foucault -- PART I: KNOWLEDGE, TASTE, AND SUBLIMITY, c. 1750-1830: Introduction / Abigail Harrison-Moore -- Palladian permeation: the villa / John Summerson -- The country house: form, function, and meaning / Dana Arnold -- Plans and elevations for the Villa of Lord Mansfield at Kentwood / Robert and James Adam -- From The Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture / Sir John Soane -- From A Description of the Villa / Horace Walpole -- Thomas Jefferson / James Ackerman -- From A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful / Edmund Burke -- On architecture and buildings / Sir Uvedale Price -- From An Analytical Inquiry into the Principle of Taste / Richard Payne Knight -- Iconography and landscape / Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove -- The plans and elevations of John Nash / John Summerson -- Architecture, Essay on Art / Etienne-Louis Boullee -- The sphere: reading a gender metaphor in the architecture of modern cults of identity / Susanne von Falkenhausen -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel / David Watkin and Tilman Millinghoff -- Reading architectural herstories: the discourses of gender / Dana Arnold -- PART II: URBANISM, REFORM, AND REVIVAL, c. 1830-1910: Introduction / Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy C. …”
Sumario

“…For the first time, the ‘simultaneity’ of ‘non-simultaneous’ phenomena is scrutinized for Central Europe and for the cultural exchange with neighbouring territories of the Holy Roman Empire, of England, Bohemia and Northern Italy.Due to its specific urban profile and the geographical position, late-medieval Vienna offers an excellent starting point for the study of musical repertories in Central Europe and their appropriation as cultural practice in the first half of the fifteenth century. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…, o cómo el tiempo dramático modela el tiempo histórico / Françoise Gilbert -- Tiempo dramático e intriga secundaria en la comedia histórica de Lope de Vega / Alexandre Roquain -- Alternancia temporal y tensión dramática en La firmeza en la ausencia de Leonor de la Cueva / Isabelle Rouane Soupault -- Casandra y el instante : femineidad, tiempo y tragedia en El castigo sin venganza / Milagros Torres -- "La empresa más lucida y más hermosa" de Portugal : clave histórica para la datación de El muerto disimulado de Ángela de Acevedo / Alba Urban Baños -- La materia histórica en un dramaturgo desconocido : la toma de Sevilla por el santo rey Fernando de Cristóbal de Morales / Juan Manuel Carmona Tierno -- "...os iréis para Bolonia marchando" : cambios de espacio dramático en El saco de Roma de Juan de la Cueva / Martina Colombo -- El tratamiento de la historia contemporánea en El sitio de Bredá, comedia de Calderón / Lola González Martínez -- Acercamiento al problema de la representación del príncipe y la razón de estado : mayor monstruo del mundo / Aurora González Roldán -- Historia trágica y pasión individual en La cisma de Inglaterra, una visión crítica de la privanza / Susana Hernández Araico -- Historia(s) de amor y amistad : cómo han de ser los amigos y El amor y el amistad de Tirso de Molina / Isabel Ibáñez -- Rememorar el pasado como "lectio": Los Esforcias de Milán, una comedia histórica de intrigas palaciegas en la corte de Felipe IV / Elena Martínez Carro -- Historia y teatro ; Don Pelayo y Covadonga en 1613, en 1808 y en 1855 / C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Municipal finance and property taxation in China -- Introduction -- China's inter-governmental fiscal framework -- Levels of government -- Government revenues and the general tax burden -- The tax-sharing system -- The inter-governmental fiscal framework at the subnational level -- Land-based finance for urban development -- Definition of municipalities -- Local taxes on real estate properties -- Land concession revenues -- Municipal borrowing through local government finance vehicles -- Emerging challenges in municipal finance -- The key question -- The new round of fiscal policy reform: Balancing indirect and direct taxes -- New sources of municipal revenues and finance -- Property taxation on private residential properties -- Land value capture -- Public-private partnerships -- The municipal bond market -- Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 8. …”

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“…The book outlines the theoretical concepts, experimental studies, and various smart city applications that create value for inhabitants of urban areas. Several issues that have arisen with the advent of smart cities and novel solutions to resolve these issues are presented. …”