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Advances in Ecological Futures and Urban Analytics: Materials, Biophilia, and AI in Built Environments

Advances in Ecological Futures and Urban Analytics: Materials, Biophilia, and AI in Built Environments

Cheshmehzangi, Ali
Gallo, Paola
Kristo, Saimir

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation

Environmental StudiesGeneral ArchitectureLandscape Architecture

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 17, 2027

ISBN10: 3032414369
ISBN13: 9783032414366
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 17 2027
Pages: 403
Language: English

This definitive volume charts a critical paradigm shift in contemporary design and planning: the discipline's center of gravity is moving away from the isolated architectural object and toward the complex systems that produce, regulate, and ultimately outlive it. Structured not as a static thematic survey, but as a sequential intellectual journey, the book traces the displacement of traditional architectural authorship. It begins at the familiar scale of building performance, reopening the raw material ecology of stiffness control, industrial tailings, and nanotechnology, before moving outside the envelope to confront ecosystem services, ecofeminism, and decentralized infrastructure. The volume then dives into the digital frontier, interrogating the ethical deployment of machine learning, digital twins, and AI-driven urban generation. It culminates on the ground of civic reality, where adaptive reuse, refugee integration, and infrastructural justice prove that the most consequential design choices are made through governance and policy, not form.

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