Urban and municipal planning and policy

New Zealand's Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently.

After years of being regarded as a regulatory tool, spatial planning is now a key agent in delivering better places for the future.

After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recovery process and in rebuilding the lives of those affected by the 2006 war in Lebanon .

The 2-volume set LNCS 11613 and 11614 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics, AVR 2019, held in Santa Maria al Bagno, Italy, in June 2019.

The 2-volume set LNCS 11613 and 11614 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics, AVR 2019, held in Santa Maria al Bagno, Italy, in June 2019.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the IconSWM 2018 conference, which explore various aspects of urban mining.

Algorithms are now widely employed to make decisions that have increasingly far-reaching impacts on individuals and society as a whole ("e;algorithmic governance"e;), which could potentially lead to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy, property rights, and more.

Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century.

This book provides new information to understand the relationship between urban development and environmental change to the reader.

This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT 2022-Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in Zaragoza, Spain, on November 23-25, 2022.

This book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture.

This book aims to provide a framework for the concept of land take, the practice by which natural lands are lost to artificial land development practices, and present its ecological implications in urban environments.

This book is the first work dedicated to the Bees Algorithm.

This book introduces a novel model-based dexterous manipulation framework, which, thanks to its precision and versatility, significantly advances the capabilities of robotic hands compared to the previous state of the art.

This book is an attempt to address this wide topic with a multi-disciplinary approach.

This book informs and educates readers about sustainable development management, approaches and applications in manufacturing processes and presents the trends to the next economic and social paradigm: the Industry 5.

In this book, researchers at the forefront of the field explain the minimum necessary background knowledge and introduce important topics in molecular robotics in an easy-to-understand manner.

This book highlights the mathematical depth and sophistication of techniques used in different areas of robotics.

This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoningIn this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most consequential regulatory program in the United States.

Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control presents detailed robotics concepts at a theoretical-practical level, concentrating on their practical use.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2022, which was held  Troy, NY, USA in December 2022.

This book highlights the recent research works on sustainable construction, people behavior and built environment which were presented virtually during the 2021 AUA and ICSGS Academic Conference, Global Strategies for a Resilient and Sustainable Post Pandemic World Towards a Better Future for All which was conducted on 26-27 October 2021.

This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation.

The book (proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICDLAIR) 2022) introduces key topics from artificial intelligence algorithms and programming organisations and explains how they contribute to health care, manufacturing, law, finance, retail, real estate, accountancy, digital marketing, and various other fields.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Second Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2021), organized by Soft Computing Research Society and CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India, during September 4 - 5, 2021.

This "e;fascinating, engaging"e; history of St.

This book discusses the two fundamental elements that underline the science and design of artificial intelligence (AI) systems: the learning and acquisition of knowledge from observational data, and the reasoning of that knowledge together with whatever information is available about the application at hand.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geographic information systems and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 2-4, 2021.

This volume introduces engineers and healthcare professionals to the latest in neurosurgical robotic technology.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of marine control system design related to underwater robotics applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th RoboCup International Symposium which was held online during July 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Este libro propone una mirada a los centros urbanos de la Norpatagonia, con especial atención en la estructura y sus desigualdades.

Esta obra recorre y analiza la urbanización de Bariloche –con sus particularidades como destino turístico–, entre las políticas urbanas desplegadas por el Estado y los procesos de producción del hábitat de diferentes actores sociales.

This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area.

This book includes the proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in IoT and Computing Technologies (ICEICT-2022) held at Goel Institute of Technology & Management, Lucknow, India.

The Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) comprises five priority economic corridors that are key geographic areas for subregional economic cooperation under the IMT-GT.

This wide-ranging report assesses physical connectivity and cross-border trade across five economic corridors in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT).

Much city marketing and branding activity is future-oriented; aimed at achieving a forward-looking vision for places.

Estàs a punt d'embarcar-te en una fantàstica travessia per la història dels robots.

This book is a state of the art resource that robotics researchers and engineers can use to make their robots and autonomous vehicles smarter.

Estás a punto de embarcarte en una fantástica travesía por la historia de los robots.

This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area.

This book includes the proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in IoT and Computing Technologies (ICEICT-2022) held at Goel Institute of Technology & Management, Lucknow, India.

This book is a state of the art resource that robotics researchers and engineers can use to make their robots and autonomous vehicles smarter.

This book provides the basic theory, method framework and application results of urban metabolism.

This book provides knowledge into Cognitive Digital Twins for smart lifecycle management of built environment and infrastructure focusing on challenges and opportunities.

The text focuses on the theory, design, and implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT), in a modern communication system.

This book reports on advances in manufacturing, with a special emphasis on smart manufacturing and  information management systems.

This book analyses international Green Infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies.

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design.