This book shows that the problem of climate adaptation, which is described in social planning terms as 'wicked,' is at odds with the contemporary practice of spatial planning.
This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach.
There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology.
The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains.
The historical and empirical project presented here is grounded in a desire to theorize 'religion-state' relations in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious, secular city-state of Singapore.
The catalyst for this book is the fact that noted sociologist Charles Tilly, upon his death in 2008, left one completed chapter of an unfinished manuscript entitled "e;Cities, States, and Trust Networks,"e; examining the relationships between cities and nation-states over the sweep of history, and in particular the role of trust networks in mediating this relationship.
This book is an ideal complement to studies showing the potentially devastating ecological effects of climate change, studies trying to calculate the costs of climate change, and studies trying to identify the most pressing needs in preparing for the new climate.
While community quality-of-life indicators are gaining much needed attention in both scholarly work and practice, their application in the areas of parks, recreation and tourism management are not as well known.
A Coming of Age: Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in the Early Twenty First Century Forty years ago when spatial analysis first emerged as a distinct theme within geography's quantitative revolution, the focus was largely on consistent methods for measuring spatial correlation.
Much of the scholarly and professional literature on development focuses either on the 'macro' level of national policies and politics or on the 'micro' level of devel- ment projects and household or community socio-economic dynamics.
This book builds on the success of "e;Working to Learn"e; (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) by focusing on the future of work and how young people, especially low-income young people and young people of color, are pursuing college and career goals through work-based learning experiences, yet encountering an increasingly racially and socioeconomically stratified labor market and educational system.
Aunque los casi cuarenta años que duró el franquismo constituyen una etapa dominada por el autoritarismo político, en el contexto de la arquitectura y el urbanismo desarrollados en el seno del mundo valenciano hay que valorar la labor de muchos arquitectos que supieron entroncar con la modernidad constructiva urbanística y convertirse en excelentes profesionales, a pesar de los condicionantes y las directrices impuestos por un gobierno dirigista.
Este libro es a la vez un manual para los que ejercen su profesión en el campo del transporte y de la movilidad urbana, y una obra de reflexión para quienes se interrogan acerca de los problemas actuales de las ciudades.
Realizar proyectos complejos de programación y electrónica, como las interrupciones, _ltros y el prototipado del hardware de Arduino UNO, puede generar problemáticas difíciles de resolver.
Realizar proyectos complejos de programación y electrónica, como las interrupciones, _ltros y el prototipado del hardware de Arduino UNO, puede generar problemáticas difíciles de resolver.
El desarrollo de la economia mundial ha llegado a un punto en el que se hace necesario un replanteamiento profundo, no solo de las formas productivas de las empresas o de la misma concepcion de las lineas de negocio, sino tambien de los modelos de gestion de las ciudades.
Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment.
This book provides a foundation of the overall cycle from design and modelling to implementation and control of unmanned systems, exhibiting autonomy and instantiating self-organization amidst disturbances, also functioning in uncertain and dynamic environments.
Walter Rossow, neben seiner planerischen Tätigkeit Hochschullehrer in Berlin und Stuttgart, hat 1991 dem Baukunstarchiv der Akademie der Künste, Berlin, seinen umfangreichen beruflichen Nachlass übergeben.
This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference for agricultural mobile robots, covering all aspects of the design process, from sensing and perceiving to planning and acting for practical farming applications.
The declared goal of this book, an extended and revised translation of the German edition (2021), is to show how a unified model of the psyche and body can be developed via insights from psychoanalysis, neurology and computer technology.
This book looks at the current trends in Athens, the capital city of Greece, and focuses on the processes of globalization it has been undergoing during the last two decades.
Das Lehr- und Grundlagenbuch „Städtebauliches Entwerfen“ gibt angehenden Architekten, Stadt- und Landschaftsplanern Hilfestellung bei der Bearbeitung von städtebaulichen Projekten und Entwürfen.
Das Lehr- und Grundlagenbuch „Städtebauliches Entwerfen“ gibt angehenden Architekten, Stadt- und Landschaftsplanern Hilfestellung bei der Bearbeitung von städtebaulichen Projekten und Entwürfen.
This book-Mind, Body, and Digital Brains-focuses on both theoretical and empirical issues and joins contributions from different disciplines, concepts, and sensibilities, bringing together scholars from fields that at first glance may appear different-Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience; Robotics, Computer Science, Deep Learning, and Information Processing Systems; Education, Philosophy, Law, and Psychology.
An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence provides the formal underpinning of what it means for an agent to act intelligently in an unknown environment.
