Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time. Urban transportation has had a major negative impact on our environment—most of our air pollution comes from transport. This paper explores ways to move toward a more sustainable transport system by focusing on creating a more efficient and livable city and improving the environmental efficiency of...

Availability of high resolution satellite data and advancement in Geographic Information System (GIS) together with GPS technology has provided powerful modern tools for large scale mapping, geospatial data analysis and integration enabling development of effective decision support system. Here we present a case study of ground water resource mapping in Guwahati city, Assam using these tools. I...

In this article, we study the k-clustering query problem on road networks, an important problem in Geographic Information Systems. Using Euclidean embeddings and reduction to fast nearest neighbor search, we devise approximation algorithms for these problems. Since these problems are difficult to solve exactly – and even hard to approximate for most variants – we compare our constant factor app...

The use of statistical data and of the neural networks, capable of elaborate a series of data and territorial info, have allowed the making of a model useful in the subdivision of urban places into homogeneous zone under the profile of a social, real estate, environmental and urbanist background of a city. The development of homogeneous zone has fiscal and urbanist advantages. The tools in the ...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...

Smart city is emerging as a response to mitigate the problems of fast urbanization and unpredictability of standards, policies, and citizens’ needs in urban areas. For a city to be smart, integration of city systems is essential in order to provide flexibility and access to real-time information for creation and delivery of efficient services. Business Process Change (BPC) is essential for syst...