Urban and municipal planning and policy

This edited collection presents successful business succession planning in smaller rural communities where profit margins are low, markets are shrinking, and there are few potential buyers.

Mobile manipulators combine the advantages of mobile platforms and robotic arms, extending their operational range and functionality to large spaces and remote, demanding, and/or dangerous environments.

Local leaders don't need to become professional facilitators or hire expensive consultants to run a great meeting.

This book presents research on the state-of-the-art methods and applications.

Bogotá es una criatura de constantes alteraciones.

The drone industry is one of the most exciting and dynamic sectors in the modern world, growing and developing at an exponential pace.

Dieses Buch ist ein Appell an alle, die am Niederrhein leben und die Folgen des Untertage-Bergbaus und des Braunkohleabbaus tragen müssen.

This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building.

This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building.

This book will highlight cutting-edge research with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches, novel techniques, and solutions to provide digital image security for applications in diverse areas.

Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form.

Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form.

Comprising sixteen independent chapters, this book covers recent advancements and emerging pathways within human-friendly robotics on physical and cognitive levels.

Comprising sixteen independent chapters, this book covers recent advancements and emerging pathways within human-friendly robotics on physical and cognitive levels.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Fourth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2023), organized by  CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, under the technical sponsorship of the Soft Computing Research Society, India, during September 4-5, 2023.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Fourth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2023), organized by  CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, under the technical sponsorship of the Soft Computing Research Society, India, during September 4-5, 2023.

This book aims to provide evidence of the impact of climate change and urbanization on cities' urban environments thus on human health and wellbeing; and principles and methods for the improvement of the resilience of a city to extreme weather and long-term climatic changes through case studies.

Advocating for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities, Urban Resilience stems from the two years' experience living and teaching ecological planning in Turkey.

Advocating for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities, Urban Resilience stems from the two years' experience living and teaching ecological planning in Turkey.

Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the city itself.

Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment.

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South.

Cognitive computing simulates human thought processes with self-learning algorithms that utilize data mining, pattern recognition, and natural language processing.

Improve the Safety, Flexibility, and Reliability of Autonomous Navigation in Complex EnvironmentsAutonomous Vehicle Navigation: From Behavioral to Hybrid Multi-Controller Architectures explores the use of multi-controller architectures in fully autonomous robot navigation-even in highly dynamic and cluttered environments.

This book delves into the very core of our digital existence, unearthing the essence of a digital persona.

This book delves into the very core of our digital existence, unearthing the essence of a digital persona.

This book will highlight cutting-edge research with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches, novel techniques, and solutions to provide digital image security for applications in diverse areas.

This book presents selected peer reviewed articles from the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics (ICIMR 2023) held on 22-23 August at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China.

This book presents selected peer reviewed articles from the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics (ICIMR 2023) held on 22-23 August at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China.

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders-and depends on-multiple urban temporalities.

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders-and depends on-multiple urban temporalities.

This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.

This second edition of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management, and Resilience continues to be an essential resource for understanding and protecting critical infrastructure across the U.

Cities in developing countries are faced with housing challenges that differ from country to country.

Cities in developing countries are faced with housing challenges that differ from country to country.

A lo largo del siglo XX, las ciudades latinoamericanas experimentaron un vertiginoso proceso de urbanización, acompañado por una débil institucionalidad pública.

Esta obra es una guía esencial para todos aquellos interesados en el emocionante mundo de la robótica.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of cyber security in Industry 5.

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games.

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games.

Introduction to the 100 Somethings Language Learning SeriesWelcome to an innovative approach to language learning!

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.

When plans to overhaul Southwest Philadelphia in the 1950s scheduled both the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshes to be razed, two grassroots movements took up the cause-battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice.

Urban Construction and Management Engineering IV focuses on the research of construction technology and the engineering management in urban construction.

This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.

This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.

"Einfach ist schwieriger als kompliziert.