City And Wind

Author : Mareike Krautheim
Publisher : Dom Pub
ISBN 13 : 9783869223100
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City and Wind written by Mareike Krautheim and published by Dom Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial production is inevitably linked to climate issues. In the course of the last 15 years the debate on sustainable architecture and ecological urbanism has risen like a phoenix from the ashes. Architects and urban planners, as well as administrative bodies and developers, face a new responsibility in terms of the complexity of their conventional design and planning methods. Increasing awareness of climate issues in the design process has the potential once more to make architecture in the future more site-specific, giving it back its contextual relevancy. City and Wind - Climate as an Architectural Instrument is a call to see architecture not just as a means of protecting us against the climate, but also as a way of bringing us back to it.

Author : Chao Yuan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811054517
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Wind Environment written by Chao Yuan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality. The ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate a paradigm shift from the conventional experience-based ways to a more scientific, evidence-based process of decision making in both urban planning and architectural design stage. This book introduces novel yet practical modelling and mapping methods, and provides scientific understandings of the urban typologies and wind environment from the urban to building scale through real examples and case studies. The tools provided in this book aid a systematic implementation of environmental information from urban planning to building design by making wind information more accessible to both urban planners and architects, and significantly increasing the impact of urban climate information on the practical urban planning and design. This book is a useful reference book to architectural postgraduates, design practitioners and planners, urban climate researchers, as well as policy makers for developing future livable and sustainable cities.

Author : Sinisa Stankovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136573232
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Wind Energy written by Sinisa Stankovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy security, rising energy prices (oil, gas, electricity), 'peak oil', environmental pollution, nuclear energy, climate change and sustainable living are hot topics across the globe. Meanwhile, abundant and perpetual wind resources offer opportunities, via recent technological developments, to provide part of the solution to address these key issues. The rapid growth of large-scale wind farm installations has now led to the generation of clean electricity for tens of millions of homes around the world. However, despite the potential to reduce the losses and costs associated with transmission and to use local wind acceleration techniques to improve energy yields, the potential for urban wind energy has yet to be realised. Although there is increasing public interest, the uptake of urban wind energy in suitable areas has been slow. This is in part due to a lack of understanding of key issues such as: available wind resources; technology integration; planning processes (include assessment of environmental impacts and public safety due to close proximity to people and property); energy consumption in buildings versus energy production from turbines; economics (including grants, subsidies, maintenance); and the effect of complex urban windscapes on performance. Urban Wind Energy attempts to illuminate these areas, addressing common concerns highlighting pitfalls, offering real world examples and providing a framework to assess viability in energy, environmental and economic terms. It is a comprehensive guide to urban wind energy for architects, engineers, planners, developers, investors, policy-makers, manufacturers and students as well as community organisations and home-owners interested in generating their own clean electricity.

Author : Ron Franscell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593199278
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ShadowMan written by Ron Franscell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare."—Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. The largest manhunt in Montana’s history ensued, led by the FBI. As days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months, Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virgina, led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea: What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them? Patrick Mullany, a trained psychologist, and Howard Teten, a veteran criminologist, had created the Behavioral Science Unit to explore this new "voodoo" they called “criminal profiling.” At Dunbar’s request, Mullany and Teten built the FBI’s first profile of an unknown subject: the UnSub who had snatched Susie Jaeger and, a few months later, a nineteen-year-old waitress. When a suspect was finally arrested, the profile fit him to a T...

Author : Summer Wigmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992257804
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wind City written by Summer Wigmore and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wellington. The wind city. New Zealand's home of art and culture, but darker forces, forgotten forces, are starting to reappear. Aotearoa's displaced iwi atua, the patupaiarehe, taniwha, and ponaturi of legend, have decided to make Wellington their home, and while some have come looking for love, others have arrived in search of blood. A war is coming, and few can stand in their way. Saint (lovably fearless, temporarily destitute, currently unable to find a shirt) may be our only hope. Tony, suddenly unemployed and potentially a taniwha herself, has little choice but to accept the role her bloodline dictates. And Hinewai, who fell with the rain? If she can't find her one true love, there's a good chance that none will live to see the morning"--Publisher information.

Author : Susannah Welch
Publisher : Silky Sky Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 173657700X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance with the Wind written by Susannah Welch and published by Silky Sky Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A singer with forbidden magic. An undercover renegade. How can she keep her magic a secret if it goes wild every time they dance? On Ylena’s first day inside the Shining City, a mysterious woman tricks her into auditioning for a magical ritual celebrating the Goddess. Every year, the young singers and dancers compete for the honor of performing in the enchanted ceremony, but with the ruthless High Priests in charge, a single wrong note is blasphemy. If learning her role wasn’t hard enough, unexpected emotions make rehearsals even more complicated. There’s Wilder, Ylena’s flirty costar who knows more about the city’s dark secrets than he’s willing to tell, and Caed, her dance instructor, a priest who isn’t what he seems. When Ylena manifests magic that makes her a threat, can she escape the spotlight at center stage before the High Priests discover her secret? Prepare to be swept into a world of beautiful magic, shocking twists, and breathless fairy tale romance. Inside you will find a sweet, slow-burn romance with a swoon-worthy couple, and a happily-ever-after at the end of the trilogy. Dance with the Wind is Book 1 in the City of Virtue and Vice series. If you enjoy strong heroines, fantasy worlds, elemental magic, and sweet romance, then try the City of Virtue and Vice series today! KEYWORDS: ya fantasy romance, sweet fantasy romance, ya fantasy, fairy tale romance, young adult fantasy, young adult fantasy romance, romantic fantasy, strong heroine fantasy, strong female lead, clean fantasy romance, sweet fantasy romance, free, free fantasy romance, free young adult fantasy, slow burn, magic romance, enchanted magic, epic, love story, coming of age fantasy, swoony fantasy romance PERFECT FOR FANS OF: Elise Kova, Sylvia Mercedes, Alisha Klapheke, Tara Grayce, Casey L. Bond, Emma Hamm, Miranda Honfleur, Shari Tapscott, Frost Kay, Deborah Grace White, Shannon Mayer, K.F. Breene, Juno Hart, Laura Greenwood, Lindsay Buroker, Naomi Novik

Author : Wendell Pierce
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698165705
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wind in the Reeds written by Wendell Pierce and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Christopher Award Winner From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontchartrain Park, the home of Wendell Pierce's family and the first African American middle-class subdivision in New Orleans. The hurricane breached many of the city's levees, and the resulting flooding submerged Pontchartrain Park under as much as 20 feet of water. Katrina left New Orleans later that day, but for the next three days the water kept relentlessly gushing into the city, plunging eighty percent of New Orleans under water. Nearly 1,500 people were killed. Half the houses in the city had four feet of water in them—or more. There was no electricity or clean water in the city; looting and the breakdown of civil order soon followed. Tens of thousands of New Orleanians were stranded in the city, with no way out; many more evacuees were displaced, with no way back in. Pierce and his family were some of the lucky ones: They survived and were able to ride out the storm at a relative's house 70 miles away. When they were finally allowed to return, they found their family home in tatters, their neighborhood decimated. Heartbroken but resilient, Pierce vowed to help rebuild, and not just his family's home, but all of Pontchartrain Park. In this powerful and redemptive narrative, Pierce brings together the stories of his family, his city, and his history, why they are all worth saving and the critical importance art played in reuniting and revitalizing this unique American city.

Author : Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101147067
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of the Wind written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

Author : Pierdomenico Baccalario
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375858970
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Wind written by Pierdomenico Baccalario and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their continuing quest to save the world from evil forces, Mistral, Elettra, Harvey, and Sheng meet again in Paris, where they must search for the mysterious veil of Isis reportedly hidden in the heart of the city.

Author : American Society of Civil Engineers. Task Committee on Urban Aerodynamics
Publisher : Amer Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN 13 : 9780784411797
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Aerodynamics written by American Society of Civil Engineers. Task Committee on Urban Aerodynamics and published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report introduces the basic tools and technology used by engineers to determine the effects of wind on city streets and structures.