Yaoundé est en proie à la prolifération de l'habitat précaire sous l'effet de la croissance démographique et de la crise économique : constructions en poto-poto, planches de bois, briques de terre crue et parfois parpaings de ciment investissent les versants de collines escarpées et les fonds de vallées marécageuses, les zones à risques d'inondation, de glissement de terrain, d'effondrement des habitations, etc.
Aujourd'hui, la mémoire du patrimoine historique fait partie du quotidien de toutes nos communautés urbaines, recomposer les images littéraires et artistiques que la ville a engendrées signifie donc analyser les bases de notre civilisation.
Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build.
La loi Administration territoriale de la République a apporté un éclairage neuf sur l'administration territoriale conçue comme un complexe de relations entre l'administration déconcentrée et l'administration décentralisée.
Through the use of images, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this book enables readers to appreciate how the construction, design, and function of famous structures inform our understanding of societies of the past.
As the definitive resource on position sensing technology, Understanding Position Sensors encompasses all aspects necessary for a full understanding of the field, with topics of background, operational theory, design, and application.
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.
Landscape Construction Volume 1 deals with elements of landscape construction which are required to provide enclosure, privacy, demarcation of land, shelter and security.
David Lowenthal was well known for his historical and geographical contribution to conservation and environmental thinking, his understanding and appreciation of landscape, and his critical public and scholarly contribution to heritage debates as a founder of heritage studies.
La publicación de estas doce obras en CASAS Internacional, dedicado a la región del Alentejo, es la cuarta vez que una edición de esta revis-ta ha sido dedicada a arquitectos portugueses o a obras en Portugal.
This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.
Multi-robot coordinated fencing, where a team of robots forms a protective formation around a target, has garnered significant attention and proven useful in practical applications such as area convoying.
This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.
Voilà un livre qui s’adresse aux populations de Tambacounda qui veulent rompre avec une politique vieillie depuis des décennies, comme le racontent les témoins de l’histoire, d’un « Prince » régnant royalement sur le terroir communal entouré d’une brigade de miliciens et de laudateurs.
El trabajo del colectivo florentino Superstudio, en particular sus provocadoras perspectivas y collages, han formado parte de la imaginación colectiva, arquitectónica y artística, de los últimos 60 años.
Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices, material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of collective memory is everywhere, installed in the name of not only nations, or even empires, but also an international past.
The book presents the proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2022), which took place in Krynica-Zdroj, Poland, 05-07 October 2022.
The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within various settings, including Europe and the United States.
This book presents the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD), held in Klagenfurt, Austria, June 8-10, 2022.
This book argues that accelerating action toward sustainability for and by cities and their inhabitants can make a huge difference to humanity's endeavor to recover from current crises and build a sustainable future.
Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to "e;safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space"e; as outlined in United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal No.
This present book provides valuable insights on the technical, societal and legal challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligent systems in a plethora of different applications, from embodied robotic systems to ML algorithms.
This book introduces several appearance-based place recognition pipelines based on different mapping techniques for addressing loop-closure detection in mobile platforms with limited computational resources.
This book covers a variety of topics in the field of mechatronics engineering, with a special focus on innovative control systems and automation concepts for a wide range of applications.