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La Porta, Caterina AM |
Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation |
I08919 |
2020 |
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Portugali, Juval |
Self-Organization and the City |
I11369 |
2000 |
eBook |
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Blanchard, Philippe |
Mathematical Analysis of Urban Spatial Networks |
I06252 |
2009 |
eBook |
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Schreuder, Duco |
Outdoor Lighting: Physics, Vision and Perception |
I05901 |
2008 |
eBook |
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Bryant, Donald T |
Manpower Planning and Organization Design |
I00873 |
1978 |
eBook |
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| Title | Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation |
| Author(s) | La Porta, Caterina AM;Zapperi, Stefano;Pilotti, Luciano |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2020. |
| Description | X, 194 p. 50 illus., 40 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture. The concept of exaptation, introduced in evolutionary biology by Gould and Vrba in 1982, describes the possibility that already existing traits can be exploited for new purposes throughout the evolutionary process. Edited by three active scholars in the fields of biology, physics and economics, the book presents an interdisciplinary collection of expert viewpoints illustrating the importance of exaptation for interpreting current reality in various fields of investigation. Using the lenses of exaptation, the contributing authors show how to view the overall macroscopic landscape as comprising many disciplines, all working in unity within a single complex system. This book is the first to discuss exaptation in both hard and soft disciplines and highlights the role of this concept in understanding the birth of innovation by identifying key elements and ideas. It also offers a comprehensive guide to the emerging interdisciplinary field of exaptation, provides didactic explanations of the basic concepts, and avoids excessive jargon and heavy formalism. Its target audience includes graduate students in physics, biology, mathematics, economics, psychology and architecture; it will also appeal to established researchers in the humanities who wish to explore or enter this new science-driven interdisciplinary field |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030457846 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological systems
2. Cancer Research
3. CITY PLANNING
4. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. Evolutionary Biology
9. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
10. Systems biology
11. Urban planning
12. Urbanism
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| Title | Self-Organization and the City |
| Author(s) | Portugali, Juval |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000. |
| Description | XVII, 352 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Cities first came into existence more than five thousand years ago. How to deal with these partly fascinating, partly frightening creatures of mankind, both practically and intellectually, concerns all of us and, in particular, presents areal challenge to city planners. Each historical epoch has had its own par?? ticular attitudes associated with the "Zeitgeist". Accordingly, the planning and steering of cities were based on quite different criteria. But in spite of these differences, the concept of planning and steering was, and still is, the cornerstone of our dealing with cities. Nevertheless, the planner's dilemma is becoming more and more visible: cities and megacities seem to be un?? plannable. In this book, Juval Portugali intro duces a new idea: Cities are self?? organizing systems. To substantiate his revolutionary concept, he uses several interlinked methods. On the one hand, and to my own delight, he employs in his arguments theoretical tools developed in the interdisciplinary field of synergetics. On the other hand, jointly with his co-workers, he has performed detailed model calculations on cellular nets. It has been a great pleasure and a wonderful experience for me to discuss these concepts with Juval Portugali over a number of years. I was repeatedly and deeply impressed by the way he established profound and often surprising links to other fields of science |
| ISBN,Price | 9783662040997 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GEOGRAPHY
6. Geography, general
7. Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
8. POPULATION
9. Population Economics
10. Regional planning
11. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
12. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
13. Urban planning
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| Title | Mathematical Analysis of Urban Spatial Networks |
| Author(s) | Blanchard, Philippe;Volchenkov, Dimitri |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. |
| Description | XIV, 184 p. 123 illus., 16 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Cities can be considered to be among the largest and most complex artificial networks created by human beings. Due to the numerous and diverse human-driven activities, urban network topology and dynamics can differ quite substantially from that of natural networks and so call for an alternative method of analysis. The intent of the present monograph is to lay down the theoretical foundations for studying the topology of compact urban patterns, using methods from spectral graph theory and statistical physics. These methods are demonstrated as tools to investigate the structure of a number of real cities with widely differing properties: medieval German cities, the webs of city canals in Amsterdam and Venice, and a modern urban structure such as found in Manhattan. Last but not least, the book concludes by providing a brief overview of possible applications that will eventually lead to a useful body of knowledge for architects, urban planners and civil engineers |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540878292 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Mathematics
2. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
3. ARCHITECTURE
4. Cities, Countries, Regions
5. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
6. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
10. Human geography
11. Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
12. Regional planning
13. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
14. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
15. Urban planning
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| Title | Outdoor Lighting: Physics, Vision and Perception |
| Author(s) | Schreuder, Duco |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2008. |
| Description | XVIII, 448 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book covers theoretical aspects that are at the basis of lighting installations. It focuses on insight, backgrounds and coherence. There are many fundamental aspects that are essential for understanding why different ways to install and use lighting give different results. A purely pragmatic approach to solving practical lighting problems will lead to pitfalls. But as this book shows, on the basis of fundamental considerations on optics, light sources and vision, causes and effects that tend to be overlooked by lighting engineers and designers can be identified. The selection of subjects in this book is based on more than 50 years of experience in studying the fundamental and practical applications of lighting and vision. The author has given classes on these topics, in master courses at post-graduate and post-doctoral levels. Audience: graduate students, researchers, designers, engineers and consultants engaged in lighting, public lighting, lighting equipment and installations |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402086021 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. CITY PLANNING
2. CIVIL ENGINEERING
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ENGINEERING
6. Engineering, general
7. LASERS
8. Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices
9. PHOTONICS
10. Urban planning
11. Urbanism
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| Title | Manpower Planning and Organization Design |
| Author(s) | Bryant, Donald T;Niehaus, Richard J |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 1978. |
| Description | XIV, 789 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume is the proceedings of the conference entitled "Manpower Planning and Organization Design" which was held in Stresa, Italy, 20-24 June 1977. The Conference was sponsored by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and organized jointly through the Special Programs Panels on Human Factors and on Systems Science. Two Conference Directors were appointed with overall responsibilities for the programme and for policy, and they were assisted in their tasks by a small advisory panel consisting of Professor A. Charnes (University of Texas), Professor W.W. Cooper (Carnegie Mellon University, now at Harvard University) and Dr. F.A. Heller (TavistQck Institute of Human Relations). Professor R. Florio of Bergamo kindly agreed to become Administrative Director and, as such, was responsible for all the local arrangements. The Conference Directors were further assisted by "national points of contact" appointed from each of the member countries of NATO. These national representatives played a substantial part in the search for participants and in the collection and trans?? mission of the various conference communications. Although full details of the national points of contact are included in the Appendices, special tribute must be paid to the UK point of contact, Brian Smith of the Civil Service Department. He very capably shouldered the additional burdens of maintaining conti?? nuity and resolving problems during the absence in Canada of Don Bryant in the particularly demanding two months preceding the Conference |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461346227 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
4. Regional planning
5. Urban planning
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