Slow Cities: Sustainable Places in a Fast World

Slow visual search in a fast-changing world

Attention focusing mechanisms and domain-informed selection of representations can make real-time vision tasks work with limited computational power. This paper describes ongoing work in distributed real-time vision which aims to use cheap and plentiful workstations and PCs rather than special-purpose hardware. I discuss a system called Ar-gus which is inspired by the visual routines theory of ...

Sustainable Trees for Sustainable Cities

The idea of sustainable cities is linked to an older concept of sustainable plant communities. The theoretical basis for both is a closed system where everything is continuously recycled. Natural resources are renewed rather than depleted. In undisturbed natural areas a kind of sustainability is achieved through the natural cycles of the biosphere. However, this kind of sustainability for trees...

Forests and Sustainable Cities

GPHY 421.01: Sustainable Cities

GPHY 421 Sustainable Cities Prof. Ulrich Kamp 1. You will ta k e each exam a s sch e d u le d . M ake-up ex am s a re n o t allow ed—ex cep t a s lis ted in th e M ake-up exam policy below. 2. M ateria l for th e exam will be from th e req u ired tex tb o o k a n d o th e r re a d in g s a n d all o th e r d is tr ib u te d m a te r ia l. A tten d an ce for each le c tu re is re co m m en d ed ...

A roster of world cities

Although there is a general consensus on which are the leading world cities, there is no agreedupon roster covering world cities below the highest level. This paper reports the construction of an inventory of world cities based upon their level of advanced producer services. Global service centres are identified and graded for accountancy, advertising, banking/finance and law. Aggregating these...