Urban and municipal planning and policy

This book studies how autonomous aerial robots physically interact with the surrounding environment.

These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2018, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2018.

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities for recovery, and promote the resilience of individuals in urban communities.

This book builds upon a wide variety of academic and professional resources to offer an in-depth analysis of the nature, causes, and consequences of major business and technology trends of our time.

This tool kit presents an integrated approach to inclusive urban development and was prepared for ADB staff and their partners to engage in inclusive urban development programming and implementation as an integral component of ADB's lending programs.

Urban populations are projected to increase from 54% to 66% of the global population by 2050, with close to 90% of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa.

This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed "e;urban villages"e; as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities.

The term "e;Green City"e; has many different meanings to different people.

If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it.

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design.

When the rivers run dry--water solutions for a thirsty planet.

Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades.

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces narratives around home ownership from the 1920s to today.

This book explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on material science and construction practices in the Industry 4.

Precision agriculture is a next-generation farming management concept that optimizes resource use, productivity, quality, profitability, and sustainability by observing and responding to crop variability.

This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities.

This two-volume set LNCS 12212 and 12213 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July, 2020.

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities.

Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy.

This book includes the results from the 5th International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICDLAIR), held in National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, on December 07-09, 2023, which brought together visionaries, researchers, and industry leaders at the forefront of technological innovation.

Describes and analyses the environmental problems of Third World cities, showing how they affect human health and the local ecology.

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Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis.

The 1960s and 1970s saw a marked change in the approach to built heritage conservation.

Smart manufacturing environments are revolutionizing the industrial sector by integrating advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics, to achieve higher levels of efficiency, productivity, and safety.

Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour.

This book reviews whether the existing framework in place can effectively address breaches in the context of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS).

Applied Urban Design combines 'why' we design and 'who' we design for, with 'how' we design, by providing the reader with a comprehensive and accessible bespoke framework for both understanding and practicing urban design in a contextually responsive manner from appraisal to design delivery.

A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate changeClimate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability.

This new book delves into how modern technologies-i.

This book features the papers presented at IWAR 2023.

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability.

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

This book focuses on the emerging health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the situation in developing countries.

Despite being a large capital city in Africa in terms of size and its regional role, Nairobi is an unrecognised entity.

Lack of transparency and accountability in the planning practice allow for misuse and abuse of the planning system to serve the interests of the more powerful and influential groups, including those entrusted with the powers of planning.

Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to Big Ideas and their Development, Second Edition guides readers through the history and development of artificial intelligence (AI), from its early mathematical beginnings through to the exciting possibilities of its potential future applications.

¿Por qué a la escuela le interesa la robótica?

The book explores how build a mechanical inferences by making use of arithmetic operations on a string of numbers representing statements.

This book is devoted to mechatronic, chemical, bacteriological, biological, and hybrid systems, utilizing cooperative, networked, swarm, self-organizing, evolutionary and bio-inspired design principles and targeting underwater, ground, air, and space applications.

This book explains, using the example of endovascular intervention, the development of in vitro simulators for biomedical applications based on the scientific context in the robotics area and the explanation of the medical procedure to be simulated.

Present-day computers lack well-defined functions to accept various kinds of sensual information such as vision, hearing, and smelling (binding problem).

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

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

This book discusses computer vision, a noncontact as well as a nondestructive technique involving the development of theoretical and algorithmic tools for automatic visual understanding and recognition which finds huge applications in agricultural productions.