In a world defined by ever-deepening crises-climate, social, economic, and political-urban spaces emerge as both battlegrounds of injustice and the arenas of possibility.
This book discusses the increase in global competitiveness which challenges the manufacturing market to integrate design and product in order to improve quality and process.
This book takes an interdisciplinary, institutional, and historically informed approach to the economics of transport, providing a more nuanced and complete understanding of human transport choices, individually and collectively, and the related choice of location, including the formation of cities.
Cognitive computing simulates human thought processes with self-learning algorithms that utilize data mining, pattern recognition, and natural language processing.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential role of trees and forests in cities and examines the creative approaches cities around the world are taking to protect trees and expand their urban forests.
This book focuses on state-of-the-art sensing and automation technologies for field crops and in-house product production and provides a lot of innovative knowledge on image processing, AI algorithms and applications in agriculture, and robotics.
In Equality and the City, Enrique Penalosa Londono draws on his experience as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, as well as his many years of international work as a lecturer and consultant, to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities, especially sustainable transportation and equal access to public space.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential role of trees and forests in cities and examines the creative approaches cities around the world are taking to protect trees and expand their urban forests.
European Union policies are intertwined with all sectors of public administration and governance in the member states, including spatial, urban and regional planning.
This book questions the current definition of what makes a product sustainable and argues that a holistic approach to sustainable product design is required, one that considers all aspects of a product's life cycle from design to production, to use and then final disposal.
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices-spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences--to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement.
This book uses a quantitative science-based approach to explain where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by the fashion industry are generated and it explores what strategies can be deployed to achieve Net Zero by 2050.
This book discusses major issues in the field of agriculture: crop diseases, lack of storage management, pesticide control, weed management, lack of irrigation and water management and their effective resolution via automation, including IoT, wireless communications, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning.
This book discusses major issues in the field of agriculture: crop diseases, lack of storage management, pesticide control, weed management, lack of irrigation and water management and their effective resolution via automation, including IoT, wireless communications, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning.
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices-spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences--to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement.
Der industrielle Einsatzbereich mechatronischer Systeme umfasst ein weites Spektrum vom Automotive-Bereich über den Maschinen- und Anlagenbau bis hin zur Consumertechnik und stellt somit eine Schlüsseltechnologie der Zukunft dar.
Rehabilitation Robots for Neurorehabilitation in High, Low, and Middle Income Countries: Current Practice, Barriers, and Future Directions describes the state-of-art research of stroke rehabilitation using robot systems in selected High Income Countries (HICs) and Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), along with potential solutions that enable these technologies to be available to clinicians worldwide, regardless of country and economic status.
This volume provides state-of-the-art knowledge on xenobiotics in urban ecosystems, addressing a wide range of related issues, such as xenobiotic types and chemical composition, environmental fate, remedial approaches, regulatory policies and socioeconomic impacts.
Advances in Computational Vision and Robotics contains research papers from diverse field of engineering, computer science, social and bio-medical science.
Unmanned systems are one of the fastest-growing and widely developing technologies in the world, offering many possibilities for a variety of research fields.
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts.
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts.
Das vorliegende Buch untersucht mit der oberösterreichischen Mittelstadt Wels eine Stadt "off the map", die nicht im Zentrum der gesellschaftlichen und auch wissenschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit steht.
Advances in Computational Vision and Robotics contains research papers from diverse field of engineering, computer science, social and bio-medical science.
Unmanned systems are one of the fastest-growing and widely developing technologies in the world, offering many possibilities for a variety of research fields.
Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines the intersection of philosophy and practice in architecture, exploring life, viability, and interdisciplinary collaboration and offering practical design insights for all beings.