Urban and municipal planning and policy

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 presents the emerging technologies of Industry 4.

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.

Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland.

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This book presents a selection of peer-reviewed papers from the 16th European Robotics Forum (ERF) of euRobotics, the European Robotics Association, held in Stuttgart, Germany, from March 25–27, 2025.

Ce livre revient sur les mutations exceptionnelles affrontees par la ville de Saint-Etienne depuis cinquante ans, les principales decisions politiques locales et nationales qui l'ont transformee, les defis qu'elle devra encore relever.

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.

In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.

This book collects the scientific contributions presented at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2024 that is the reference event for the EuRobotics association.

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.

This book provides research on the state-of-the-art methods for data management in the fourth industrial revolution, with particular focus on cloud.

As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants.

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).

The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.

This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT2023, the Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, during November 22nd-24th, 2023.

This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT2023, the Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, during November 22nd-24th, 2023.

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.

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

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.

In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36.

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.

Este libro responde a la necesidad de entender el crecimiento vertical de la ciudad a partir del surgimiento de torres y rascacielos, cuya altura determina exigencias economicas, tecnologicas y funcionales, con grandes efectos tanto en la armadura general, en la que sobresalen grandes brotes de densificacion constructiva, como en la pregnancia y significacion social de este gigantismo en el paisaje.

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots.

Embark on a Journey to the Intersection of Art and TechnologyAttention: Are you fascinated by the limitless possibilities of artificial intelligence and how it can revolutionize the world of art?

This new book delves into how modern technologies-i.

Create high-tech walking, talking, and thinking robots"e;McComb hasn t missed a beat.

This book features the papers presented at IWAR 2023.

The motor vehicle technology covered in this book has become in the more than 125 years of its history in many aspects an extremely complex and, in many areas of engineering science .

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability.

This book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design approaches to improve mental, physical, social, behavioral, and ecological health in urban environments.

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.

Suburban sprawl has been the prevailing featureand double-edged swordof metropolitan America's growth and development since 1945.

This book combines Construction 6.

The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory.

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.

Climate change is the topic of the century.