Together: Towards Collaborative Living

Collective living is on the rise in the Netherlands. Amid an unprecedented housing crisis, more and more people are turning to collective self-organization to provide community-oriented, sustainable and affordable housing. But why are these initiatives struggling to get off the ground? And what can we learn from other European countries?<br/><br...

Urban projects in areas near river fronts in transformation neighborhoods: An exercise for the region of CEAGESP, São Paulo

This book brings together reflections on the theme Urban Project, understanding it as spatialization of socio-territorial demands, involving society, culture, economy and environment, with the objective of achieving equity of opportunities and social justice in the transformed territory. It brings together a set of texts although they do not...

CleanEra: A Collection of Research Projects for Sustainable Aviation

The CleanEra project was initiated with the goal of developing revolutionary ideas for civil aviation. These ideas were to offer solutions which would limit and reduce some of the negative aspects of aviation, namely: emissions and the use of resources. This book presents you with the highlights of this journey in search of new technologies for...

Strategic Planning & Urban Projects: Responses to Globalization from 15 cities

This book draws upon the ongoing research activities of agiobal network of urban researchers - the IBIS network. The IBIS network is a European Community funded network of four European universities and South American universities. The network involves postgraduate student exchanges and the development of research programmes in urban planning,...

Advances in computer-aided engineering: CAD/CAM-research at Delft University of Technology. Report of the VF-project CAD/CAM 1989-1994

This book contains a collection of articles describing on-going CAD/CAM-research at several engineering faculties at Delft University of Technology. Two main themes covered in this book are 'Conceptual design of complex products' and 'Product modelling and product data exchange'.

Case Studies on Management and Technology in the Design Process

A visual representation system for the scheduling and management of projects

A VISUAL SCHEDULING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (VSMS) This work proposes a new system for the visual representation of projects that displays the quantities of work, resources and cost. This new system, called Visual Scheduling and Management System, has a built-in hierarchical system to provide different levels of schedules, and visually...