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The DARPA Urban Challenge By:"Martin Buehler","Karl Iagnemma","Sanjiv Singh" Published on 2009-11-26 by Springer E-book Library:"Technology & Engineering" By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the human world. The new generation of robots is expected to safely and dependably co-habitat with humans in homes, workplaces, and communities, providing support in services, entertainment, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and assistance. Beyond its impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge robotics has produced is revealing a much wider range of applications reaching across diverse research areas and scientific disciplines, such as: biomechanics, haptics, neurosc...

Urban Quality of Life By:"Lan Yuan Lim","Belinda K. P. Yuen","Christine Low","National University of Singapore. School of Building and Real Estate" Published on 1999 by NUS Press E-book Library:"Social Science" \ This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword city definition. Thank you Smart City Guides

The Urban House By:"Ron Broadhurst" Published on 2014 by Rizzoli International Publications E-book Library:"Architecture" An authoritative volume on the most innovative new residential design in cities around the globe. This carefully curated book presents twenty-five new and recent spaces for city living in the twenty-first century. Author Ron Broadhurst has selected projects that represent asset of ideas that can be described as belonging particularly to our time and which will shape how we think of living in the city in the future. Where the great experimenters of the last century were stripping away ornamentation and creating free-flowing spaces for the first time, today's innovators are pioneering research for the potential of new materials for both formal invention and environmental sustainability and creating bold and sophisticated essays in the adaptive reuse of spaces originally designed for other purposes. What emerges is a portrait of the most forward...

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design By:"Charles Montgomery" Published on 2013-11-12 by Macmillan E-book Library:"Political Science" A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier people Charles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl? The award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, and during an exhilarating journey through some of the world's most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a \ This Book was ranked 13...

Global Urban Analysis By:"Peter J Taylor","Pengfei Ni","Ben Derudder","Michael Hoyler","Jin Huang","Frank Witlox" Published on 2012-06-25 by Routledge E-book Library:"Architecture" Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for both how the leading cities, sometimes called global cities, are coming to dominate the world economy, and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Thus can the likes of London, New York and Hong Kong be tracked as well as Manchester, Cleveland and Guangzhou, and even Plymouth, Chattanooga and Xi'an. Cities are asses...

City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications By:"Bulu, Melih" Published on 2011-10-31 by IGI Global E-book Library:"Political Science" Cities are becoming the wealth producing centers of national economies. Increasing the operational efficiency of the city will bring a competitive edge to the whole system. Yet, many city subsystems cannot work together, creating significant problems and inefficiencies. City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications uses information science perspectives to improve working subsystems in transportation, sewage, electricity, water, communication, education, health, governance, and infrastructure since their efficient and synchronized operation is vital for a competitive city. This pioneering approach will interest researchers, professionals, and policymakers in urban economy, regional planning, and information science disciplines who wish to improve the competitiv...

Cases on Interdisciplinary Research Trends in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Studies on Urban Classrooms By:"Lansiquot, Reneta D." Published on 2012-10-31 by IGI Global E-book Library:"Education" Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on Interdisciplinary Research Trends in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Studies on Urban Classrooms presents research and information on implementing and sustaining interdisciplinary studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for students and classrooms in an urban setting. This collection of research acts as a guide for researchers and professionals interested in improving learning outcome...

ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks By:"Firmino, Rodrigo J." Published on 2010-10-31 by IGI Global E-book Library:"Business & Economics" \ This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword city network. Thank you Smart City Guides

Smart Cities as a Solution for Reducing Urban Waste and Pollution By:"Hua, Goh Bee" Published on 2016-06-20 by IGI Global E-book Library:"Technology & Engineering" The exponential growth of urban settings has led to an increase in pollutants and waste management issues around the world. As the environment continues to falter under the weight of these pressing issues, it has become increasingly imperative to develop new technologies and methodologies that have the potential to improve the overall sustainability and cleanliness of these cities. Smart Cities as a Solution for Reducing Urban Waste and Pollution examines emergent research on smart innovations within built urban environments. Featuring best practices and theoretical frameworks, as well as potential issues in the implementation of smart and green technology in urban settings, this publication is a vital reference source for graduate students, researchers, academics, engineers, architects, facility mana...

South African Cities Network Urban Development Incentives 2008 By:"Silimela Development Services (South Africa)","South African Cities Network" Published on 2008 by E-book Library:"City planning" This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword city network. Thank you Smart City Guides

Urban Regeneration in the UK By:"Andrew Tallon" Published on 2013-06-07 by Routledge E-book Library:"Political Science" Striking transformations are taking place in the urban landscape. The regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst governments and populations since the global economic downturn. This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, analyzing key policies, approaches, issues and debates. It places the historical and contemporary regeneration agenda in context. The second edition has been extensively revised and updated to incorporate advances in literature, policy and case study examples, as well as giving greater discussion to the New Labour period of urban policy, and the urban agenda and regeneration policies of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government elected in 2010. The book is divided into five sections, with Section I establ...