Intelligent Environments

Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution, Second Edition is a compendium of intelligence-enhanced sustainability systems as they are manifest and present in computing, communications and the evolution of spatial environments from buildings to cities and regions. This includes systems that improve our understanding of Earth and its climate stabilizing capabilities as well as consideration of space exploration vehicles and planetary colony support. This new edition provides an updated, exploratory forum for the complex phenomenon of new information and communication technology as it permeates and transforms our physical world, and our relation to it: the architectural definition of our surrounding, geographical space, urban form and immediate habitats. Intelligent Environments reports findings, views and ideas to describe the architecture of a postmodern paradigm: how swiftly mutating the proliferating technology applications have begun to interact with the construction and reading of physical space and our environment. Its cross-disciplinary approach makes it a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in sustainable development, urban planning, and environmental science. Utilizes a cross-disciplinary approach to exploring intelligence-enhanced sustainability systems A fully updated and reorganized edition that is alphabetically and topically structured, hyperlinked and cross-referenced with extended entries that are consistently structured for ease of discovery and access Focuses on spatial support technologies and information systems for enabling human survival and protecting planetary biospheric webs and diversity Includes links to animations, maps, diagrams, and videos to enhance understanding