This book contains a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2019 at the University of Wuhan, China.
Urban Regeneration - A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance.
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.
After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make.
This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities.
The book comprises biographical notes, of about 1000 words each, with a portrait photo, of 90 influential figures of the famous prewar Viennese school of neuropsychiatry, appearing together for the first time in a single volume.
This book's point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.
This book discusses the impact of information and communication technologies, particularly social media, on the structure and landscape of contemporary cities.
This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction.
Ce numéro spécial de Géographie et Cultures intitulé "Spatialités et pratiques funéraires" interroge la thématique de la mort dans sa dimension spatiale.
This book incorporates a wealth of research focused on the more and more urgent challenges that urban planning and architectural design all over the world must cope with: from climate change to environmental decay, from an increasing urban population to an increasing poverty.
This book is an exploration of the integration-differentiation dynamics that result in a drive, or impulse, toward human sociality, arguing that our need to connect with other people is as fundamental as our need for food and shelter.
Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes.
Economic constraints and lack of knowledge often prevent companies - especially small and medium enterprises - from harmonizing their facilities with the landscape.
This book is the result of extensive archival research conducted on the Collection "e;Silvano Arieti Papers"e; held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.
This book brings together reports of original empirical studies which explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban mobility and transportation and the associated policy responses.
This book presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study on the effects of urban agriculture (UA) on the social, economic and environmental aspects of the quality of life in Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria.
This book focuses on the implementation of AI for growing business, and the book includes research articles and expository papers on the applications of AI on decision-making, health care, smart universities, public sector and digital government, FinTech, and RegTech.
This book presents works that book offer a novel interpretation of how today's urban problems can be tackled through the efficient use of resources and the modeling of solutions to best utilize the available features of cities.
This book focuses on enhancing urban regeneration performance and strategies that pave the way toward sustainable urban development models and solutions.
This book provides a thorough guide to building resilient cities, through the use of smart solutions enabled by information and communication technologies.
Der Band präsentiert Perspektiven von Wissenschaftler*innen verschiedener Fachgebiete auf die Themen Sexualität und Macht in pädagogischen Handlungsfeldern.
This textbook on urban ecosystems answers important questions about the ecological structure, functions and socio-ecological development of cities worldwide.
In einer Zeitreise, die in die Frühzeit der menschlichen Vorfahren führt, begibt sich Elisabeth Oberzaucher auf eine spannende Spurensuche nach den evolutionären Rahmenbedingungen, die unsere physische und soziale Umwelt geprägt haben.
Das Sachbuch, jetzt in der dritten erneut überarbeiteten Auflage beinahe schon ein Klassiker der interdisziplinär begriffenen Verkehrs- und Stadtforschung, ist aktueller denn je.
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) durchdringt zunehmend unser gesamtes Leben, angefangen bei den hochwillkommenen kleinen Erleichterungen des Alltags bis hin zu gravierenden gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen in Arbeitswelt, Forschung und Entwicklung sowie der Privatsphäre jedes Einzelnen.
Familienzentren sind Kindertageseinrichtungen, die in Kooperation mit unterschiedlichen Partnern ein breites und niederschwelliges Angebot für die Beratung, Unterstützung und Bildung von Familien im Sozialraum bereithalten.
This essential provides planning-relevant information on architectural psychology concepts and empirical results on the effects of built environments on people, and provides guidance on how to optimize the relationship between people and the built environment.
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen den Sinn und Zweck der Praxis von Landschaftsarchitekten, die bei der Gestaltung einer bewohnbaren Welt eine bedeutsame Rolle spielen.
