The city environment in the central part of the capital of Japan, Tokyo has been investigated by using high-resolution satellite images. The accumulation of environmental information necessary to create a good quality, city environment has been advanced. Up to now, the environmental information has been examined for the amount of distribution and the distribution shape of small-scale vegetation...

Several millions of kilometres of pipes and cables are buried beneath our streets in the UK. As they are not visible and easily accessible, the monitoring of their integrity as well as the quality of their contents is a challenge. Any information of these properties aids the utility owners in their planning and management of their maintenance regime. Traditionally, expensive and very localised ...

In this paper, we aim to propose a guidance and development of Environment protection and enhancement in Wuxi smart city. We start by presenting the importance of smart city and current state of the art of environmental protection technology in Wuxi and continue by proposing a line of smart government development for environmental enhancement that could positively impact the everyday life of it...

What drives the behaviors of banks and their customers in time of profound changes? The modern economic crisis has significantly affected consumers’ willingness to invest and made them more price sensitive, more rational in their decision making, and thus more challenging for banks to serve. Considering these relevant changes, banks have pursued projects to improve their internal processes and ...

Smart Cities is a domain of great interest in the modern society. The aim of a smart urban environment is to increase citizens’ comfort and quality of life with minimum resources and power consumption and without affecting the natural environment. Street lighting is one of the main interests in such a smart environment. This thesis focuses on implementing a lighting control system that makes st...

A smart space environment is characterized by the presence of “intelligence” in everyday objects (such as fridges, cars, lightening systems etc). In many cases these objects are capable of communicating in order to jointly delivery a service to the user. As the presence of intelligent in smart devices increase, the smart environment can become increasing chaotic and difficult to manage. The ove...

Urban design is a subject that is concerned with the shape, the surface and its physical arrangement of all kinds of urban elements. Although urban design is a practice process needs much detailed and multi-dimensional description, however the urban designer can only analyse urban space with script and imagination in the past, and only the urban design guideline and some drawing picture were ca...

Smart cities are high on the political agenda around the globe. However, planning smart cities and deploying applications dealing with the complex problems of the urban environment is a very challenging task that is difficult to be undertaken solely by the cities. We argue that the uptake of smart city strategies is facilitated, first, through the development of smart city application repositor...

David Gibson Adam Spry Matthew Pope Birmingham City University Birmingham City University Warwick Music Group Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment Millennium Point, Curzon Street Birmingham B4 7XG, UK Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment Millennium Point, Curzon Street Birmingham B4 7XG, UK Suite 4, Stablethorpe Thorpe Constantine Tamworth B79 0LH U...

Promotion of cycling can improve the sustainability level of a city or an urban area. This study presents a methodology that audits the bikeability level of the urban road environment across three selected routes in the city of Volos, Greece. This methodology is a useful toolkit in order to evaluate and improve the bikeability level of the urban road environment and also evaluate existing bikew...