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Democratización del conocimiento más allá y más acá del contexto de la Patagonia Sur y la pandemia
El presente libro plasma los diversos aportes realizados, en contexto de pandemia, por profesionales con trayectoria en I+D abocados al estudios sobre la democratización del conocimiento (DC) pertenecientes a diversas universidades, miembros de la Red de Imágenes y Saberes del Sur (RISS). Teniendo esta última el propósito de describir y analizar las condiciones en las que se produjeron los saberes e imágenes en la región patagónica sur durante los últimos años con la finalidad de responder a las demandas sociales, económicas y culturales. La presente obra está separadas en tres secciones, que no deberían pensarse como compartimentos estancos. La primera sección, "Reflexiones sob...
Urban Informatics
This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the pot...
The New Science of Cities
A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks. In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks—the relations between objects that compose the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces theories and methods that reveal the deep...
Cities and Complexity
Michael Batty offers a comprehensive view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can embrace a myriad of processes and elements that combine into organic wholes.
Introduction to Urban Science
A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. In Introduction to Urban Science, Luis Bettencourt takes a novel, integrative approach to understanding cities as complex adaptive systems, claiming that they require us to frame the field of urban science in a way that goes beyond existing theory in such traditional disciplines as sociology, geography, and economics. He explores the processes facilitated by and, in many cases, unleashed for the first time by urban life through the lenses of social heterogeneity, ...
Asbestos
1 INTRODUCTION. 2 PATHOGENICITY OF ASBESTOS. 3 EVIDENCE OF HUMAN NONOCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES TO ASBESTOS. 4 ESTIMATION OF RISK IN NONOCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES TO ASBESTOS. 5 SOURCES OF ASBESTOS FIBERS IN AMBIENT AIR. 6 PRINCIPLES OF CONTROL. 7 RESEARCH NEEDS.
Urban Analytics
The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically. Urban Analytics offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics. Written in an accessible style and packed with illustrations and interviews from key urban analysts, this is a groundbreaking new textbook for students of urban planning, urban design, geography, and the information sciences.
Song from the Forest
As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some funding from musician Brian Eno, he followed the mysterious sounds all the way to the Central African rain forest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and gatherers. Nothing could have prepared him for life among the Pygmies, a people legendary for their short stature and musical wealth. Sarno never left. Considered outwardly lazy by some, scrounging, and near alcoholic, the Pygmies Sarno met had seemingly lost all desire to hunt or make music. Only after he had lived with them for some time (on a diet of tadpoles) was he allowed to join them in the rain forest...
