City and town planning: architectural aspects

According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world.

In spite of society's wish to protect and insulate children from death, the experience of loss is unavoidable and there is surprisingly little guidance on how to help children cope with grief and bereavement.

For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city.

Built by industrialists whose early businesses contributed to the escalation of the Industrial Revolution, company towns flourished in countries that embraced capitalism and open-market trading.

In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble.

During the past decade, high-performance computer graphics have found application in an exciting and expanding range of new domains.

As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.

A concise, accessible introduction to robots, what they can do, what they can't, and what their increasing encroachment into our lives might mean for us.

Step into a World Transformed by Artificial IntelligenceImagine a world where artificial intelligence seamlessly integrates into every facet of our lives, from the way we work and learn to how we interact with the world around us.

Robots and Screw Theory describes the mathematical foundations, especially geometric, underlying the motions and force-transfers in robots.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

Robotics is a key technology in the modern world.

In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets.

Humans have long been fascinated by ants.

Humans have long been fascinated by ants.

A volume on the history of the English urban environment that will appeal to both general readers and academic specialists.

A structure is an assembly that serves an engineering function.

Distributed Computing by Mobile Entities is concerned with the study of the computational and complexity issues arising in systems of decentralized computational entities operating in a spatial universe Encompassing and modeling a large variety of application environments and systems, from robotic swarms to networks of mobile sensors, from software mobile agents in communication networks to crawlers and viruses on the web, the theoretical research in this area intersects distributed computing with the fields of computational geometry (especially for continuous spaces), control theory, graph theory and combinatorics (especially for discrete spaces).

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

This book highlights the transformative impact of these technologies in shaping the future of automation and intelligent systems.

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others.

Studies on integer optimization in emergency management have attracted engineers and scientists from various disciplines such as management, mathematics, computer science, and other fields.

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field.

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others.

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator.

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator.

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology provides a means of communication that allows individuals with severely impaired movement to communicate with assistive devices using the electroencephalogram (EEG) or other brain signals.

The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets.

The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets.

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York.

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York.

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world.

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of many and has been dramatized by robots and androids in such famous movies as 2001 Space Odyssey's HAL or Star Trek's Data.

According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world.

Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940.

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building.

'History writing at its compulsive best' A.

'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible?

This textbook teaches control theory for multi-agent systems.

Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that we can never share directly with anyone else.

Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems - from climate change to overpopulation - lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living This is going to be the century of the city.

What goes on in our heads when we have a thought?

Aerial Robotic Workers: Design, Modeling, Control, Vision and Their Applications provides an in-depth look at both theory and practical applications surrounding the Aerial Robotic Worker (ARW).