Regional and area planning

Despite all the talk of sustainability, there has not been enough action to halt or reverse the impacts of climate change.

¿Cómo debemos pensar, diseñar y producir hoy la ciudad para que sea un lugar sostenible?

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the use of vision attentive technology and artificial intelligence methodologies for functional mobility assessment in elderly populations.

Road transport is on a constant course to maintain and improve driving safety in what is a complex process involving multiple forms of risk.

This book focuses on state-of-the-art sensing and automation technologies for apple production, which provides innovative knowledge on imaging processing, AI algorithms, sensing techniques, non-destructive detection, and robotics.

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.

Despite all the talk of sustainability, there has not been enough action to halt or reverse the impacts of climate change.

Following China's successful decollectivization, diverse new organizational forms arose in response to different local situations.

We are living in times of deep and disruptive change.

Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience.

This guide outlines issues facing Pacific countries as they struggle to build resilient infrastructure and shows how proactive steps to mitigate risk including early engagement with insurers could drive the investment they need.

In addition to being a fundamental concept for planning the water infrastructure which supports extensive agricultural economies across Southeast Asia, knowledge of the Mekong River's hydrological catchments has calibrated the control of land, resources and people.

This book focuses on state-of-the-art sensing and automation technologies for apple production, which provides innovative knowledge on imaging processing, AI algorithms, sensing techniques, non-destructive detection, and robotics.

Nestled amidst rolling hills, Shillong, the Himalayan capital city of Meghalaya in India's northeast, faces a growing challenge of water scarcity.

Transform Lives with Cutting-Edge AIDive into a revolutionary exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the lives of people with disabilities.

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health.

The text covers the fundamentals of Python programming and the implementation of data structures using Python programming with the help of worked-out examples.

Revised and updated, the second edition includes several new chapters with projects and applications.

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.

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

This volume thoroughly explores the perceptions and ethical considerations surrounding urban artificial intelligence (AI).

Discover the World of Talking MachinesPrepare to step into a world where technology speaks and listens, bridging gaps and reshaping our daily interactions.

Discover the World of Talking MachinesPrepare to step into a world where technology speaks and listens, bridging gaps and reshaping our daily interactions.

This innovative, multi-contributed book, now available in paperback, argues convincingly that Russia will never be able to create a viable democracy as long as authoritarian regimes are able to flourish in the regions.

This book presents, for the first time, data analytics for smart infrastructures.

Cyber Physical Systems: Architectures, Protocols and Applications helps you understand the basic principles and key supporting standards of CPS.

This book contains the proceedings of the 4TH International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Technology (ICCMST 2024).

This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system.

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

The book deals with robotic welding systems and their applications.

Point clouds from LiDAR and photogrammetry are vital and vast sources of geospatial information besides remote sensing imagery.

The new edition of this well-established introductory cartography textbook is updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with new technologies, the passion for inclusive design, and for preparing students to build competence in fundamental skills.

A fascinating shift marks the journey of technological evolution.

The book deals with robotic welding systems and their applications.

Wang and Hirai draw on their extensive experience to introduce recent technological advances in soft robotics for food manipulation and discuss their practical applications in the food preparation industry.

Humanoid robots are highly sophisticated machines equipped with human-like sensory and motor capabilities.

This book shows how to plan trajectories (i.

Following China's successful decollectivization, diverse new organizational forms arose in response to different local situations.

The "e;livable city,"e; the "e;creative city,"e; and more recently the "e;pop-up city"e; have become pervasive monikers that identify a new type of urbanism that has sprung up globally, produced and managed by the business improvement district and known colloquially by its acronym, BID.