Web of the City

Web of the City
Author: Harlan Ellison
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1781164215

"Get it straight right now: these aren't kids playing games of war. They mean business. They are junior-grade killers and public enemies one through five thousand..." In Rusty Santoro's neighborhood, the kids carry knives, chains, bricks. Broken glass. And when they fight, they fight dirty, leaving the streets littered with the bodies of the injured and the dead. Rusty wants out - but you can't just walk away from a New York street gang. And his decision may leave his family to pay a terrible price. First published more than half a century ago and inspired by the author's real-life experience going undercover inside a street gang, Web of the City was Harlan Ellison's first novel and marked the long-form debut of one of the most electrifying, unforgettable, and controversial voices of 20th century letters. Appearing here for the first time together with three thematically related short stories Ellison wrote for the pulp magazines of the 1950s, Web of the City offers both a snapshot of a lost era and a portrait of violence and grief as timely as today's most brutal headlines.

The Internet of Things for Smart Urban Ecosystems

The Internet of Things for Smart Urban Ecosystems
Author: Franco Cicirelli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2018-08-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319965506

The main objective of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary overview of methodological approaches, architectures, platforms, and algorithms for the realization of an Internet of Things (IoT)-based Smart Urban Ecosystem (SUE). Moreover, the book details a set of real-world applications and case studies related to specific smart infrastructures and smart cities, including structural health monitoring, smart urban drainage networks, smart grids, power efficiency, healthcare, city security, and emergency management. A Smart Urban Ecosystem (SUE) is a people-centric system of systems that involves smart city environments, applications, and infrastructures. SUEs require the close integration of cyber and physical components for monitoring, understanding and controlling the urban environment. In this context, the Internet of Things (IoT) offers a valuable enabling technology, as it bridges the gap between physical things and software components, and empowers cooperation between distributed, pervasive, and heterogeneous entities.

The Future Internet

The Future Internet
Author: Alex Galis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-04-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642380824

Co-editors of the volume are: Federico Álvarez, Alessandro Bassi, Michele Bezzi, Laurent Ciavaglia, Frances Cleary, Petros Daras, Hermann De Meer, Panagiotis Demestichas, John Domingue, Theo G. Kanter, Stamatis Karnouskos, Srdjan Krčo, Laurent Lefevre, Jasper Lentjes, Man-Sze Li, Paul Malone, Antonio Manzalini, Volkmar Lotz, Henning Müller, Karsten Oberle, Noel E. O'Connor, Nick Papanikolaou, Dana Petcu, Rahim Rahmani, Danny Raz, Gaël Richards, Elio Salvadori, Susana Sargento, Hans Schaffers, Joan Serrat, Burkhard Stiller, Antonio F. Skarmeta, Kurt Tutschku, Theodore Zahariadis The Internet is the most vital scientific, technical, economic and societal set of infrastructures in existence and in operation today serving 2.5 billion users. Continuing its developments would secure much of the upcoming innovation and prosperity and it would underpin the sustainable growth in economic values and volumes needed in the future. Future Internet infrastructures research is therefore a must. The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) is a successful conference that brings together participants of over 150 research projects from several distinct yet interrelated areas in the European Union Framework Programme 7 (FP7). The research projects are grouped as follows: the network of the future as infrastructure connecting and orchestrating the future Internet of people, computers, devices, content, clouds and things; cloud computing, Internet of Services and advanced software engineering; the public-private partnership projects on Future Internet; Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE). The 26 full papers included in this volume were selected from 45 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: software driven networks, virtualization, programmability and autonomic management; computing and networking clouds; internet of things; and enabling technologies and economic incentives.

The Library Web

The Library Web
Author: Julie Still
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1997
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Gives practical advice to librarians considering designing a Web page, covering content and planning, deciding who will do the programming, organizational requirements, marketing, and maintaining the page. Sections on academic library sites, special and public library Web sites, and instructional materials, unique resources, and commercial design provide details of specific projects and experiences at libraries of all sizes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Unsettling Cities

Unsettling Cities
Author: John Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2005-08-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134636334

This text examines the global nature of cities - cities whose openness has shaped their dynamism and character. It explores cities as sites of movement, migration and settlement where different peoples, cultures and environments combine. Unsettling Cities explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life. The contributors reveal the association between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global networks.

Diploma in Web Marketing - City of London College of Economics - 3 months - 100% online / self-paced

Diploma in Web Marketing - City of London College of Economics - 3 months - 100% online / self-paced
Author: City of London College of Economics
Publisher: City of London College of Economics
Total Pages: 414
Release:
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Overview With the knowledge of this diploma course, you will be able to get the best results on the web that can be expected. Content - Taking Your Marketing to the Web - Planning for Web Marketing - Taking the First Steps to Your Online Presence - Producing a Successful Business Web Site - Creating a Marketing-Effective Storefront - Pulling Repeat Visitors with Onsite Marketing Techniques - Marketing with Online Buzz - The Art of E-Mail Marketing - Staying Ahead of the Online Marketing Wave - Mastering the Secrets of Search Engines - Marketing with Pay Per Click Ads - Marketing with Paid Online Advertising - Capturing Customers with New Technology - Improving Results with Web Analytics - Staying Out of Legal Trouble - The Keys to Maintaining Your Web Presence - Ten Free Ways to Market Your Web Site - Ten Most Common Mistakes of Web Marketing - Ten Tips for Tired Sites Duration 3 months Assessment The assessment will take place on the basis of one assignment at the end of the course. Tell us when you feel ready to take the exam and we’ll send you the assignment questions. Study material ​​​​​​The study material will be provided in separate files by email / download link.

Ski

Ski
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Urban Ecosystem Services

Urban Ecosystem Services
Author: Alessio Russo
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3036505822

The school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world’s population lives in cities, urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing. Rapid urban growth has forced sustainable urban developers to rethink important steps by updating and, to some degree, recreating the human–ecosystem service linkage. Assessing, as well as estimating the losses of ecosystem services can denote the essential effects of urbanization and increasingly indicate where cities fall short. This book contains 13 thoroughly refereed contributions published within the Special Issue “Urban Ecosystem Services”. The book addresses topics such as nature-based solutions, green space planning, green infrastructure, rain gardens, climate change, and more. The contributions highlight new findings for landscape architects, urban planners, and policymakers. Important future cities research is considered by looking at the system connectivity between the social and ecological sphere—via varying forms of urban planning, management, and governance. The book is supported by methods and models that utilize an urban sustainability and ecosystem service-centric focus by adding knowledge-base and real-world solutions into the urbanization phenomenon.

Creating Smart-er Cities

Creating Smart-er Cities
Author: Mark Deakin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317981170

Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic leaders, corporate strategists and growth management alliances, with the potential to liberate cities from the stagnation which they have previously been locked into by offering communities: the freedom to develop polices, with the leadership and strategies capable of reaching beyond the idea of "creative slack"; a process of reinvention, whereby cities become "smarter," in using intellectual capital to not only meet the efficiency requirements of wealth creation, but to become centres of creative slack; the political leadership capable of not only being economically innovative, or culturally creative, but enterprising in opening-up, reflexively absorbing and discursively shaping the democratic governance of such developments; the democratic governance to sustain such developments. Drawing together the critical insights from papers from a collection of leading international experts on the transition to smart cities, this book proposes to do what has recently been asked of those responsible for creating Smarter Cities. That is: provide the definitional components, critical insights and institutional means by which to get beyond the all too often self-congratulatory tone cities across the world strike when claiming to be smart and by focussing on the critical role master-plans and design codes play in supporting the sustainable development of communities. This book was published as a special issue of Urban Technology.