City and town planning: architectural aspects

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption.

Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met.

The resulting cultural differences can often create problems and conflict.

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives from architecture, ethnography, and human-computer interaction (HCI).

The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time-climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality-which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world's population currently live.

Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music.

Edge-of-Things in Personalized Healthcare Support Systems discusses and explores state-of-the-art technology developments in storage and sharing of personal healthcare records in a secure manner that is globally distributed to incorporate best healthcare practices.

A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry.

For decades, concerns have been raised about the consequences of relentless suburban expansion in the United States.

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline.

This textbook teaches control theory for multi-agent systems.

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity.

The application of internet of things (IoT) technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled IoT solutions has gradually become accepted by business and production organizations as an effective tool for automating several activities effectively and efficiently and developing and distributing products to the global market.

This book focuses on a subtopic of explainable AI (XAI) called explainable agency (EA), which involves producing records of decisions made during an agent's reasoning, summarizing its behavior in human-accessible terms, and providing answers to questions about specific choices and the reasons for them.

This book provides a critical theoretical framework for understanding the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, with long-term effects on productivity, livability, and the sustainability of specific initiatives.

Where there is data there are questions of ownership, leaks, and worries about misuse.

This book reviews whether the existing framework in place can effectively address breaches in the context of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS).

This book provides a critical theoretical framework for understanding the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, with long-term effects on productivity, livability, and the sustainability of specific initiatives.

Advances in Digitalization and Machine Learning for Integrated Building-Transportation Energy Systems examines the combined impact of buildings and transportation systems on energy demand and use.

Understand the design, testing, and application of cleanroom robotics and get real-world examples and design tips with this practical guide.

Understand the design, testing, and application of cleanroom robotics and get real-world examples and design tips with this practical guide.

Assesses the current status, and future challenges and opportunities, of the ecological study, design and management of cities and towns.

Assesses the current status, and future challenges and opportunities, of the ecological study, design and management of cities and towns.

This book is for a first course in robotics, especially in unmanned aerial or underwater vehicles.

A unique, interdisciplinary study into the field of imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals.

A modern treatment of modeling, analysis and control, covering fundamental theory, practical implementation, and advanced strategies.

How to reconstruct scenes from images using geometry and algebra, with applications to computer vision.

This 2006 book combines modern and traditional solid mechanics topics in a coherent theoretical framework.

A Hands-On Course in Sensors Using the Arduino and Raspberry Pi is the first book to give a practical and wide-ranging account of how to interface sensors and actuators with micro-controllers, Raspberry Pi and other control systems.

The interaction of our bodies in space is intrinsically linked to the ways in which we design.

The interaction of our bodies in space is intrinsically linked to the ways in which we design.

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing.

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing.

This book describes visual perception and control methods for robotic systems that need to interact with the environment.

This book describes visual perception and control methods for robotic systems that need to interact with the environment.

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness?

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness?

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis.

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis.

If you own a car, use public transportation, go to work or school, use health care, shop or dine out, or are part of a metropolitan community, parking affects you, probably in more ways than you've thought about.

If you own a car, use public transportation, go to work or school, use health care, shop or dine out, or are part of a metropolitan community, parking affects you, probably in more ways than you've thought about.

This book illustrates basic principles, along with the development of the advanced algorithms, to realize smart robotic systems.

This book illustrates basic principles, along with the development of the advanced algorithms, to realize smart robotic systems.

The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of 'planetary urbanisation'.

The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of 'planetary urbanisation'.