The Outdoor Lighting Pattern Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Outdoor Lighting Pattern Book write by Russell P. Leslie. This book was released on 1996. The Outdoor Lighting Pattern Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring ready-to-use lighting patterns from the international authority, this time and cost-saving, fully illustrated resource provides professionals with all the practical information and expert guidance needed to design quality, energy-efficient outdoor lighting for all types of residential and commercial spaces.
Lighting by Design
Lighting by Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lighting by Design write by Sally Storey. This book was released on 2005. Lighting by Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Synopsis coming soon.......
Patterns of Light
Patterns of Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patterns of Light write by Steven Beeson. This book was released on 2007-10-23. Patterns of Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Any student or engineer working in optics or the field of laser technology will find this a fascinating read. The book begins by addressing the properties of light as seen in the everyday world: events such as refraction in a pool, lenses in the form of glasses, the colors of objects, and atmospheric events. Latter chapters explain these events at the atomic and subatomic level and address the use of electron and optical microscopy in observing the worlds unseen by the unaided eye. Exercises and activities will be found in an appendix, but the primary volume can stand alone if the reader so desires.
Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting
Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting write by Catherine Rich. This book was released on 2013-04-16. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront lighting-the vast range of influences on all types of animals and plants is only beginning to be recognized. From nest choice and breeding success of birds to behavioral and physiological changes in salamanders, many organisms are seriously affected by human alterations in natural patterns of light and dark. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting is the first book to consider the environmental effects of the intentional illumination of the night. It brings together leading scientists from around the world to review the state of knowledge on the subject and to describe specific effects that have been observed across a full range of taxonomic groups, including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, and plants. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting provides a scientific basis to begin addressing the challenge of conserving the nighttime environment. It cogently demonstrates the vital importance of this until-now neglected topic and is an essential new work for conservation planners, researchers, and anyone concerned with human impacts on the natural world.
A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Pattern Language write by Christopher Alexander. This book was released on 2018-09-20. A Pattern Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
