Tackling the questions raised by twenty-first century urbanization, this handbook engages with contemporary debates and contributions to policy as well as looking at recent empirical and methodological shifts in the area

The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. The links between information theoretical entropy and thermodynamic entropy and energy are explained in detail.

This series of booklets is particularly valuable for lecturers and students of communication and cognitive sciences and border areas, as well as brain researchers, philosophers, media technicians, linguists and...

The work of 40 innovative and influential thinkers are profiled in this text to provide students with an engaging introduction to and intellectual survey of those who are and have been instrumental in the way we interact with cities

If you look back, you slow down and they catch up.

If you look down, you'll trip over a lot of trash thrown your way.

But if you look up, you will always see the endless sky. That tight feeling you get when you start something new. The burning muscles during training, the lump in your stomach during an im-portant meeting, the feeling of hunger during a diet: these may seem like sig-nals to stop.

The majority - with almost negligible exceptions - save themselves from life. They tiptoe through...