For a long time, researchers have sought artificial intelligence (AI) that matches or exceeds
human intelligence. AI agents, which are artificial entities capable of sensing the …

Cities are key for sustainability and the radical systemic changes required to enable
equitable human development within planetary boundaries. Their particular role in this …

This extensively revised and updated fourth edition not only examines the new geographical
patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have …

PREVIOUS chapters have emphasized how the declining city was marginalized by fleeing
capital and people. The central point of those chapters was that these two types of flight …

The spaces where countryside meets town are often amongst society's most valued and
pressured places which together form the rural–urban fringe (RUF). A 'messy'yet …

How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression. Big data can be used for
good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Planning organizations are increasingly using
online technologies for public engagement, but there is dispute about their value in …

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a
number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for …

'Rightsizing'is a planning paradigm currently being applied to shrinking cities in North
America and Europe. The central idea is to avoid the trap of growth-oriented planning by …

This paper starts from the premise that regional planning as it is known is now defunct and
something that we need to get used to. Identifying those disruptive elements that have …