This book builds upon a wide variety of academic and professional resources to offer an in-depth analysis of the nature, causes, and consequences of major business and technology trends of our time.
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives.
A 2016 Green Book Festival "e;Future Forecasts"e; WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.
Quantum robotics is an emerging engineering and scientific research discipline that explores the application of quantum mechanics, quantum computing, quantum algorithms, and related fields to robotics.
This book discusses the integration of power electronics, renewable energy, and the Internet of Things (IoT) from the perspective of smart cities in a single volume.
This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide.
The purpose of this book is to help practitioners assess recreation demand in their routine administration and planning processes and to help decision makers make better and more defensible decisions.
In einer Welt, die zunehmend von Urbanisierung und Dichte geprägt ist, stehen Städteplaner und Architekten vor der Herausforderung, Lebensräume zu schaffen, die nicht nur funktional, sondern auch lebenswert sind.
Ecological and technological (eco-tech) planning provides a possible response to the essential issues of sustainability and rehabilitation in rapidly growing urban spaces.
Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs: Advanced Missions and Future Use provides an approach to the formulation of the fundamental task typical to any mission and provides guidelines of how this task can be solved by different generic robotic problems.
The history and future of the unique partnership between the City of Columbia and the University of South CarolinaState universities are more than just places of higher learning, more indeed than just campuses or buildings, and more than just students scurrying from class to class.
A fun and fact-filled AZ treasury for anyone with a head on their shouldersNeuropedia journeys into the mysteries and marvels of the three pounds of tissue between your earsthe brain.
Modern land administration applies geospatial thinking to better understand and plan the proper use, conservation, and equitable use of land and property.
The world faces challenges that supersede and ignore national and regional boundaries and cannot be solved by a single individual, nation, science, or profession.
Smart Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data covers a wide range of topics related to AI and big data, including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, data analytics, and data mining.
In a world filled with stories of environmental devastation and social dysfunction, EcoVillage at Ithaca is a refreshing and hopeful look at a modern-day village that is taking an integrated approach to addressing these problems.
Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices.
Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite.
Se espera que los drones comerciales y sus servicios se conviertan en una industria multibillonaria en la próxima década, de acuerdo con un nuevo informe de la firma de inteligencia de mercados Tractica.
This book covers many issues of the design and applications of service robots from classification to new areas like collaborative service robots and advances in artificial intelligence.
Industrial heritage can be considered a significant asset of modern civilization, predominately epitomizing the living patrimony of industrialization processes.
Underwater Vehicles: Design and Applications first explores the application of the adaptive Kalman filter algorithm to the estimation of high speed autonomous underwater vehicle dynamics.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles presents concepts important to any individual endeavoring to use unmanned aerial vehicles in work or research for the first time.