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Author |
: Benedikt Boucsein |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 946208355X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789462083554 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Noise Landscape by : Benedikt Boucsein
"The expansive areas around large airports, affected by noise, infrastructure, and transient forms of architecture, have until now not been researched as a phenomenon. But these noise landscapes are emerging worldwide, often surpassing the neighbouring city in size, and sometimes rivalling it in economic importance. On the basis of eight European case studies (Amsterdam, Zurich, London-Heathrow, Frankfurt, Munich, Madrid and the two Paris airports) this book provides the first account of how these landscapes emerged as the result of technical determinations, what is taking place in them, and how they can be interpreted."--Back cover.
Author |
: Benedikt Boucsein |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9462083703 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789462083707 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Noise Landscape by : Benedikt Boucsein
The expansive areas around large airports, affected by noise, infrastructure, and transient forms of architecture, have until now not been researched as a phenomenon. But these noise landscapes are emerging worldwide, often surpassing the neighbouring city in size, and sometimes rivalling it in economic importance. On the basis of eight European case studies (Amsterdam, Zurich, London-Heathrow, Frankfurt, Munich, Madrid and the two Paris airports) this book provides the first account of how these landscapes emerged as the result of technical determinations, what is taking place in them, and how they can be interpreted. The book is the outcome of several years of research by the chair of Kees Christiaanse at the ETH Zurich. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
Author |
: Urban Systems Research & Engineering |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 102 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822028993749 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Audible Landscape by : Urban Systems Research & Engineering
Author |
: Marty Wingate |
Publisher |
: Timber Press |
Total Pages |
: 157 |
Release |
: 2011-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781604691238 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1604691239 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Landscaping for Privacy by : Marty Wingate
The area around your home is your haven, your sanctuary, your refuge from the noise and irritation of traffic, eyesores, and nosy neighbors. Or at least it could be if there was some sort of barrier between your front yard and the sidewalk, or if you didn't have to stare at the back of the neighbors' garage when you want to relax on your patio. Landscaping for Privacy brims with creative ideas for minimizing or even eliminating the nuisances that intrude on your personal outdoor space. Scores of real-world examples show you how to keep the outside world at bay by strategically placing buffers (such as berms or groups of small trees), barriers (such as fences), and screens (arbors or hedges, for example) around your property. And the helpful plant lists tell you precisely which varieties to choose in order to enhance your sense of seclusion. If you've ever felt frustrated by the lack of privacy whenever you step outside your home, this inspiring book will steer you toward an achievable solution.
Author |
: Kim Sorvig |
Publisher |
: Island Press |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2018-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610918107 |
ISBN-13 |
: 161091810X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition by : Kim Sorvig
Basic principles : "Sustainability" in context -- Principle 1 : Keep healthy sites healthy -- Principle 2 : Heal injured soils and sites -- Principle 3 : Favor living, flexible materials -- Principle 4 : Respect the waters of life -- Principle 5 : Pave less -- Principle 6 : Consider origin and fate of materials -- Principle 7 : Know the costs of energy over time -- Principle 8 : Celebrate light, respect darkness -- Principle 9 : Quietly defend silence -- Principle 10 : Maintain to sustain -- Principle 11 : Demonstrate performance, learn from failure -- Sustaining principles, evolving efforts.
Author |
: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Environmental Planning Division |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951P00994853X |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Noise Guidebook by : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Environmental Planning Division
Author |
: Todd W. Bostwick |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2002-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816521840 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816521845 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Landscape of the Spirits by : Todd W. Bostwick
High above the noise and traffic of metropolitan Phoenix, Native American rock art offers mute testimony that another civilization once thrived in the Arizona desert. In the city's South Mountains, prehispanic peoples pecked thousands of images into the mountains' boulders and outcroppings—images that today's hikers can encounter with every bend in the trail. Todd Bostwick, an archaeologist who has studied the Hohokam for more than twenty years, and Peter Krocek, a professional photographer with a passion for archaeology, have combed the South Mountains to locate nearly all of the ancient petroglyphs found in the canyons and ridges. Their years of learning the landscape and investigating the ancient designs have resulted in a book that explores this wealth of prehistoric rock art within its natural and cultural contexts, revealing what these carvings might mean, how they got there, and when they were made. Landscape of the Spirits is the first book to cover these ancient images and is one of the most comprehensive treatments of a rock art location ever published. It conveys the range of different rock art elements and compositions found in the South Mountains—animals, humans, and geometric shapes, as well as celestial and calendrical markings at key sites—through accurate descriptions, drawings, and photographs. Interpretations of the petroglyphs are based on Native American ethnographic accounts and consider the most recent theories concerning shamanism and archaeoastronomy. Written in a simple and accessible style, Landscape of the Spirits is an indispensable volume for anyone exploring the South Mountains, and for rock art enthusiasts everywhere who wish to broaden their understanding of the prehistoric world. It is both an authoritative overview of these ancient wonders and an unprecedented benchmark in southwestern rock art research at a single geographic location.
Author |
: James Patterson |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2021-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473580176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 147358017X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Noise by : James Patterson
'A really entertaining thriller [that] like Michael Crichton . . . keeps ratcheting up the suspense' BOOKLIST ____________________________ Two sisters have always stood together. Now, they're the only ones left. In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie. The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the noise only gets worse . . . ________________________________ 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades' LEE CHILD 'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better' JEFFERY DEAVER 'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting' MARK LAWSON, GUARDIAN 'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN
Author |
: Nancy Lawson |
Publisher |
: Chronicle Books |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2017-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616896171 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1616896175 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Humane Gardener by : Nancy Lawson
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Author |
: Chen-Pang Yeang |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2023-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198887768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198887760 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transforming Noise by : Chen-Pang Yeang
Today, the concept of noise is employed to characterize random fluctuations in general. Before the twentieth century, however, noise only meant disturbing sounds. In the 1900s-50s, noise underwent a conceptual transformation from unwanted sounds that needed to be domesticated into a synonym for errors and deviations to be now used as all kinds of signals and information. Transforming Noise examines the historical origin of modern attempts to understand, control, and use noise. Its history sheds light on the interactions between physics, mathematics, mechanical technology, electrical engineering, and information and data sciences in the twentieth century. This book explores the process of engineers and physicists turning noise into an informational concept, starting from the rise of sound reproduction technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, and radio in the 1900s-20s until the theory of Brownian motions for random fluctuations and its application in thermionic tubes of telecommunication systems. These processes produced different theoretical treatments of noise in the 1920s-30s, such as statistical physicists' studies of Brownian fluctuations' temporal evolution, radio engineers' spectral analysis of atmospheric disturbances, and mathematicians' measure-theoretic formulation. Finally, it discusses the period during and after World War II and how researchers have worked on military projects of radar, gunfire control, and secret communications and converted the interwar theoretical studies of noise into tools for statistical detection, estimation, prediction, and information transmission. To physicists, mathematicians, electrical engineers, and computer scientists, this book offers a historical perspective on themes highly relevant in today's science and technology, ranging from Wi-Fi and big data to quantum information and self-organization. This book also appeals to environmental and art historians to modern music scholars as the history of noise constitutes a unique angle to study sound and society. Finally, to researchers in media studies and digital cultures, Transforming Noise demonstrates the deep technoscientific historicity of certain notions - information, channel, noise, equivocation - they have invoked to understand modern media and communication.