Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> General

Dieses Lehrbuch zu Stadtokosystemen beantwortet wichtige Fragen, die sich zum okologischen Aufbau, zu den Funktionen und zur sozial-okologischen Entwicklung von Stadten weltweit stellen. Ausgehend davon, wie sich Stadte heute in einer immer starker urban werdenden Welt entwickeln, werden okologische Herausforderungen fur Stadte des 21. Jahrhunderts wie Ressourceneffizienz, Klimawandel, Moderation der Lebensqualitat und Resilienz erlautert. Das Buch verbindet Theorien der Stadtentwicklung und Okologie mit praktischen Anwendungen und Fallbeispielen und spurt auf diese Weise...

DieserBand befasst sich mit dem Tragverhalten von Verbundglas unter zeitabhangiger Belastung, insbesondere unter Explosionsbeanspruchung. Dabei betrachtet der Autor sowohl den Werkstoff Glas als auch verschiedene Zwischenschichtmaterialien sowie das Zusammenwirken beider Komponenten.

Das Buch liefert neue Werte fur die Kurzzeitfestigkeit von Glas, die anhand von experimentellen und theoretischen Untersuchungen ermittelt wurden. An den Zwischenschichten wurden Dynamisch-Mechanisch-Thermische Analysen sowie uniaxiale Zugversuche mit unterschiedlichen Belastungsraten durchgefuhrt, um...

This work follows the rapid survey of the ecclesiastical geology of the stonework of known Anglo-Saxon churches throughout England undertaken by the author a decade ago. From that brief study it proved possible to both understand and distinguish clearly obvious patterns in the use of the stonework. Furthermore, the use and value of specific rock types were determined and diagnostic features which could be used to identify buildings of the period were described. Subsequent, more widespread published studies in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, expanded the English studies by revealing closely...

The Alhambra

by

Washington Irving

Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving.

Shortly after completing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828, Washington Irving travelled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain. At first sight, he described it as "a most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen." Irving was preparing a book called A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, a history of the years 1478-1492, and was...

Research and communication processes in the arts and humanities are undergoing profound change. On the one hand, the digitalization of the source material promises global availability "from your desk," on the other hand, new approaches and applications are developed in information technology which - under the key word digital humanities (German: eHumanities) - improve the scientific exploration and evaluation of the material available in the humanities. The contributions in this volume discuss approaches, problems and issues in the development of this research environment from a...

Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature. Sometimes enigmatic in meaning, often stylistically crude and aesthetically aggressive, yet always visually arresting, they fill our field of vision with texts and images that no one can escape. As they take place on surfaces and travel through various channels, they provide viewers an entry point to the subtext of the cities we live in, while questioning how we read, write and represent them. This book is structured around these...

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz's interest in the metropolis - like Walter Benjamin, he wrote on Paris and Berlin - and his voracious collecting of caricature and popular prints. Rosenkranz, living and teaching, like Kant, in remote Konigsberg, reflects on phenomena of...