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High-Tech Urban Agriculture in Amsterdam : An Actor Network Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The agriculture and horticulture sector in the Netherlands is one of the most productive in the world. Although the sector is one of the most advanced and intense agricultural production systems worldwide, it faces challenges, such as climate change and ...
Carsjens, Gerrit J.   +3 more
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Urban Planning and the Smart City: Projects, Practices and Politics

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2020
Today’s smart city agendas are the latest iteration of urban sociotechnical innovation. Their aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the economic and environmental performance of cities while hopefully providing a ...
A. Karvonen, M. Cook, H. Haarstad
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What makes urban governance co-productive? Contradictions in the current debate on co-production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Following a number of prominent concepts in urban planning, like participatory planning or self-help housing, co-production has started to gain momentum in the global South context. While it is has been long discussed as a means of service provision, the
Galuszka, Jakub
core   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Related Urban Planning and Development Concepts: How Are They Perceived and Utilized in Australia?

open access: yesJournal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful technology with an increasing popularity and applications in areas ranging from marketing to banking and finance, from agriculture to healthcare and security, from space exploration to robotics and transport ...
Tan Yigitcanlar   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An urban planning sustainability framework: Systems approach to blue green urban design

open access: yesSustainable cities and society, 2020
The climate emergency and population growth are challenging water security and sustainable urban design in cities worldwide. Sustainable urban development is crucial to minimise pressures on the natural environment and on existing urban infrastructure ...
P. Puchol-Salort   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multimodal Locomotion: Next Generation Aerial–Terrestrial Mobile Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView., 2023
Aerial–terrestrial robots can achieve efficient energy consumption and robust environmental interaction by adding morphological features, adapting forms for locomotion transitions, and integrating multiple platforms. This next generation of mobile robots advances real‐world robotic deployment for operations with complex tasks and tackle environments ...
Jane Pauline Ramirez, Salua Hamaza
wiley   +1 more source

Defining And Managing The Historic Urban Landscape: Reflections On The English Experience And Some Stories From Liverpool [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The period since the 1960s has been characterised by growing societal concern with urban heritage protection and the development of legislative, fiscal and urban planning instruments that seek to ensure the protection and enhancement of historic ...
Ludwig, Carol, Sykes, Olivier
core   +2 more sources

Spatial Knowledge and Urban Planning

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2022
Urban planning is simultaneously shaped by and creates new (spatial) knowledge. The changes in planning culture that have taken place in the last decades—especially the so-called communicative turn in planning in the 1990s—have brought about an increased attention to a growing range of stakeholders of urban development, their interests, logics, and ...
Anna Juliane Heinrich   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

AI Agent as Urban Planner: Steering Stakeholder Dynamics in Urban Planning via Consensus-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
In urban planning, land use readjustment plays a pivotal role in aligning land use configurations with the current demands for sustainable urban development. However, present-day urban planning practices face two main issues. Firstly, land use decisions are predominantly dependent on human experts.
arxiv  

City limits in the age of smartphones and urban scaling [PDF]

open access: yesComputers, Environment and Urban Systems (2020), 79: 101423, 2020
Urban planning still lacks appropriate standards to define city boundaries across urban systems. This issue has historically been left to administrative criteria, which can vary significantly across countries and political systems, hindering a comparative analysis across urban systems. However, the wide use of Information and Communication Technologies
arxiv   +1 more source

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