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In their first comprehensive architectural monograph, the architects of Italian office DEMOGO explore the driving question of the importance of context for their architecture and invite designers and theorists to reflect with them on the relationship between contemporary spaces and complex contexts. Built and planned projects are presented in chronological order with specially produced drawings and models. The most remarkable buildings and contexts are captured through the eyes of renowned photographer Iwan Baan. The guest authors Petra Blaisse, Pippo Ciorra, Giovanni Corbellini, Sara Marini and Alberto Bertagna also shed light on central questions of DEMOGO’s work and supplement the monograph with a variety of perspectives and personal reflections.

Monographie --- Bâtiment public --- Installation sportive --- Bâtiment multifonctionnel --- Refuge de montagne --- 21e siècle --- DEMOGO. --- Gembloux. --- Interpretation of places. --- Iwan Baan. --- adaptive design method. --- alps. --- architecture and landscape. --- bivouac Fanton. --- complexity. --- context. --- dolomites. --- heritage. --- project communities. --- sense of place. --- sensitive design. --- spatial models. --- stratified city. --- theory of contexts. --- urban regeneration. --- visual relationships.

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There is pressing evidence of phenomena, linked to meteorology and climate, which are modifying their temporal occurrence and which have a very evident impact on the safety and health of populations residing in cities. The urban problem at the beginning of the second set of twenty years of the new century requires a complete rethinking of the way of aggregation of man who, today, represents a large part of the world population due to increasingly accelerated urbanization processes over time. The human being has become a citizen, and within the city limits, he tries to develop his life expectancy by seizing opportunities from this. This search for well-being, understood as a complete state of man, at once physiological and psychological and social, can be thwarted by an urban structure that is not functionally capable of providing answers. The climate problem exacerbates this problem by strongly stressing the contradictions of living. Science, technology, and politics are today able to give answers if applied wisely in a joint effort, in a unit of language. This book proposes several solutions that can be implemented today, ranging from a full understanding of phenomena to adaptation policies for solving problems. The most pressing invitation is addressed precisely to politics to make cities more resilient and safe.

ACCCRN --- Climate change adaptation --- institutionalising adaptation --- hybrid institutionalism --- mainstreaming resilience --- urban resilience and adaptation --- urban green system --- ecosystem services --- climate change benefits --- resilient city --- urban resilient development --- green urban planning --- pollution flow patterns --- wind circulation patterns --- emission inventory --- criteria pollutants --- Mexico City --- urban heat island --- urbanization --- urban surface energy balance --- fluidodynamic modeling --- Envi-Met --- human biometeorology --- thermal comfort --- interdisciplinarity --- climate change adaptation --- thermal sensitive design --- web-based platform --- early warning system --- vulnerability simulations --- flood risk maps --- rainfall estimates --- microwave links --- CML --- crowdsourcing --- sensible targets --- urban greening --- UrbClim model --- water bodies --- systems change --- innovation --- nature-based solutions --- cities --- urban climate --- open data --- data sources --- urban climate monitoring

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This volume examines the applicability of landscape urbanism theory in contemporary landscape architecture practice by bringing together ecology and architecture in the built environment. Using participatory planning of green infrastructure and application of nature-based solutions to address urban challenges, landscape urbanism seeks to reintroduce critical connections between natural and urban systems. In light of ongoing developments in landscape architecture, the goal is a paradigm shift towards a landscape that restores and rehabilitates urban ecosystems. Nine contributions examine a wide range of successful cases of designing livable and resilient cities in different geographical contexts, from the United States of America to Australia and Japan, and through several European cities in Italy, Portugal, Estonia, and Greece. While some chapters attempt to conceptualize the interconnections between cities and nature, others clearly have an empirical focus. Efforts such as the use of ornamental helophyte plants in bioretention ponds to reduce and treat stormwater runoff, the recovery of a poorly constructed urban waterway or participatory approaches for optimizing the location of green stormwater infrastructure and examining the environmental justice issue of equative availability and accessibility to public open spaces make these innovations explicit. Thus, this volume contributes to the sustainable cities goal of the United Nations.

public perception --- urban sustainability --- public open space --- landscape urbanism --- urban ecology --- re-naturing cities --- floating treatment wetland --- viable city --- deprived areas --- urban planning --- renaturing cities --- Greece --- postal questionnaire --- pedestrian zones --- street verges --- landscape first --- public green infrastructure (PGI) --- resource rationalization --- context-sensitive design --- green infrastructure --- environmental justice --- river restoration --- public amenity --- well-being --- sustainable cities --- Japan --- recreation --- plant ecology --- social equity --- runoff --- sustainable development --- Soviet-era housing blocks --- regenerative design --- biophilic urbanism --- livability --- post-postmodernism --- landscape history --- nature-based solutions --- vacant land --- nature-based solution --- built environment --- green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) --- urban nature (UN) --- urban design --- geographic information systems --- landscape theory --- urban geography --- residents’ views --- pollutant removal --- liveability --- visitor satisfaction survey --- biophilic design --- Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) --- urban nature --- spontaneous vegetation --- Asia --- green gentrification --- site suitability modeling --- landscape architecture --- Roma minority --- Philadelphia

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Attention in the AI safety community has increasingly started to include strategic considerations of coordination between relevant actors in the field of AI and AI safety, in addition to the steadily growing work on the technical considerations of building safe AI systems. This shift has several reasons: Multiplier effects, pragmatism, and urgency. Given the benefits of coordination between those working towards safe superintelligence, this book surveys promising research in this emerging field regarding AI safety. On a meta-level, the hope is that this book can serve as a map to inform those working in the field of AI coordination about other promising efforts. While this book focuses on AI safety coordination, coordination is important to most other known existential risks (e.g., biotechnology risks), and future, human-made existential risks. Thus, while most coordination strategies in this book are specific to superintelligence, we hope that some insights yield “collateral benefits” for the reduction of other existential risks, by creating an overall civilizational framework that increases robustness, resiliency, and antifragility.

strategic oversight --- multi-agent systems --- autonomous distributed system --- artificial superintelligence --- safe for design --- adaptive learning systems --- explainable AI --- ethics --- scenario mapping --- typologies of AI policy --- artificial intelligence --- design for values --- distributed goals management --- scenario analysis --- Goodhart’s Law --- specification gaming --- AI Thinking --- VSD --- AI --- human-in-the-loop --- value sensitive design --- future-ready --- forecasting AI behavior --- AI arms race --- AI alignment --- blockchain --- artilects --- policy making on AI --- distributed ledger --- AI risk --- Bayesian networks --- artificial intelligence safety --- conflict --- AI welfare science --- moral and ethical behavior --- scenario network mapping --- policymaking process --- human-centric reasoning --- antispeciesism --- AI forecasting --- transformative AI --- ASILOMAR --- judgmental distillation mapping --- terraforming --- pedagogical motif --- AI welfare policies --- superintelligence --- artificial general intelligence --- supermorality --- AI value alignment --- AGI --- predictive optimization --- AI safety --- technological singularity --- machine learning --- holistic forecasting framework --- simulations --- existential risk --- technology forecasting --- AI governance --- sentiocentrism --- AI containment