Future Cities

From the essentials of smart home design to advanced topics like AI-driven healthcare, sustainable energy solutions, and immersive entertainment systems, this book offers actionable insights and inspiring case studies to empower you to embrace the future of living. Whether you're a tech-savvy homeowner, an architect, or an enthusiast dreaming of a smarter world, this book provides the knowledge and tools to bring your vision to life. Explore detailed case studies, forward-thinking predictions, and step-by-step guidance to make the smart home of tomorrow a reality today.

Everyone alive has a story to tell. Not everyone wants to tell their story. Father Nathan Jackson is one such man. He's a tough as nails priest, beloved by his parishioners and friends. But nobody dares ask about his past. 500 years in the future, life in Capital City on the frozen planet of Beta Prime is hard. It takes an even harder man to live there. Find out what brought Father Nathan to Capital City. Get a copy of Incident on Damascus II! Incident on Damascus II is the 5th episode in the Capital City Character's series. Other episodes include: Episode I: Friends in Low Places Episode ...

Is the US Constitution dead? Charles Moscowitz conducts a close line-by-line analysis of the US Constitution in a demonstration of where our government has remained true to the law and where our government has strayed. This book shows exactly where the Constitution has been replaced and what the consequences have been. Moscowitz illustrates why the Constitution remains as vital today as when it was first ratified in 1789 and why we the people must re-assert our God given constitutional rights as the only means of preserving our ability to continue to govern ourselves and control our ...

Eldenworld; a world of ruins built on top of ruins back to the dawn of time. Eldenworld; a realm of dragons, shapeshifters and terrors out of nightmares. Eldenworld; a doomed world with one slim chance for survival resting on the shoulders of a former Marine. Against impossible odds Gareth Köhler has reached the famed Eye of Zuebrihn, and has learned certain truths; including the fact that he and his companions will all die unless he blows up Eldenworld’s single distant moon, in order to save the world and everyone on it. To get there he will have to travel Eldenworld again, in search of...

Human reproduction is by permit only due to global overpopulation many years after the aging process was successfully halted. Prennia Lumis lives roughly a century after this golden era of life extension. Trouble has never found her before, but after a unexpected promotion and new job assignment, her life is forever altered and she finds herself on the wrong side of the law due to no fault of her own. To what lengths will she go to make things right?

A teenage arsonist threatens a partially submerged mid-22nd century San Francisco. As a Public Investigator "tryout" seeks evidence across the utopian city full of canals and veloways, political and social conflicts erupt. Here's a vision of post-economic life with the pleasures, pain, and confusion always characteristic of the human condition, set in a San Francisco strangely familiar and yet dreamily different. When there is no such thing as private property, what is crime, and how does a utopian society protect itself from bad behavior? Should scientists be as free as artists to create? ...

In the futuristic city of Greyville, where smog fills the air and nature seems to have disappeared, three friends—Maddie, Joey, and Charlie—set out to make a difference. After discovering a tiny plant growing through a crack in the concrete, they form the Green City Kids, a movement to bring back trees, flowers, and gardens to their gray, lifeless world. With determination and teamwork, they inspire their entire city to go green, proving that even the smallest actions can lead to big, beautiful changes. Green City Kids is a heartwarming story about hope, nature, and the power of community.

Mike Smith and his robot wife Patience have overcome a great many obstacles in their life together. No obstacle is quite as great as a world war. As the United States, China, Europe and India mobilize against the shadowy Anarchists, who have carved vast swaths across Africa, the Middle East, and Russia, Mike and Patience deal with the fallout at home, and the public’s changing perceptions of robots. Meanwhile, Mike’s son Lucas finds himself in the heart of the conflict as he takes command of robot soldiers leading America’s war effort. A Great Deal of Patience is the first book of a ...

Robotics engineer Dakota Hawk has problems. His life is falling apart. And even he doesn't know why he bought a used, and seemingly non-functional, Daffodil Nonne. When your life turns to crap, which should you worry about more-- your past or your future? How easy is it really to remake yourself and start over And will having your own robot girlfriend help or make things even more difficult?

April 13, 2006. A Jerusalem Post headline reads: "Jericho man murdered over home sale." The 42 year-old father of eight was kidnapped, shot seven times, thrown into his car, and set on fire, because he had sold his Jerusalem apartment to Jews. Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and make it off limits to Christian and Jewish believers. In this revealing book, Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, reminds us that the war on terror is also a war on faith.

Since cities emerged 10,000 years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear - cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment. The authors explain some of the forces behind urban change and offer new visions.

Step beyond the ordinary and soar into the extraordinary with "Skyline Sentinels" – your definitive guide to the marvels that pierce the heavens and shape the fabric of our cities. This unmatched exploration, divided into an enticing 14 chapters, takes you on a grand tour through the soaring spires of human ingenuity and architectural mastery that dot our global landscapes. Journey from the dawn of structural ambition in "The Dawn of Skyscrapers," where the cradle of high-rise architecture cradles your curiosity. Uncover the cultural shifts propelled by towering landmarks and the daring ...

“[The] writing style and voice are gritty, engaging, and entertaining. [Bill Garwin] is a master at dialogue and action scenes. They grabbed me so intensely that I had to put the book down at times in order to catch my breath. It had me laughing out loud at times. This is a thrilling, roller-coaster read. It has mystery, suspense, and characters that grip you." Judge, 9th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published E-Book Awards The Feds commandeer Northern California for the Great Experiment. Legalized drugs, renewable power, self-driving vehicles, satellite borders and so much more are put ...

Han pasado diez años desde la tragedia que azotó la ciudad de Metro City, y ahora los héroes se han convertido en proscritos por decreto presidencial de un gobernante corrupto y ambicioso… Es el momento propicio para que un nuevo grupo de héroes tome las calles y devuelva a los justicieros enmascarados el lugar que les corresponde en una sociedad que tanto los necesita.

A tremendous upheaval is coming this century: with every degree of temperature increase, roughly a billion people will be pushed outside the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we can and should do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. Mass migration will remake the world in the 21st century, either by accident, or design—and as Royal Society Science Prize-winning science journalist Gaia Vince shows us, far better the latter.

Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on New York City’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated 800 languages now spoken in New York.

Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive. He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland’s life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates - the highly rated Insurgency Alert Desk that surveils and harasses his neighborhood in the name of anti-terrorism.

From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now, for the first time, more than half of humanity lives in cities, a share that continues to rise. In the developing world, cities are growing at a rate never seen before. In this book, Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin show why making our societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start with our cities.

"Smart Ecosystems: Integrating Nature and Technology in Future Cities", the latest installment in the acclaimed Building Digital Twin Metaverse Cities series, delivers a visionary blueprint for urban environments of the future—where cutting-edge technology harmonizes with the beauty of nature. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Samuel Li explores how cities can transition from resource-intensive hubs to regenerative spaces that nurture biodiversity, promote sustainability, and enhance human well-being.

Meet Mark Dunham, a guy struggling to keep his life afloat who reluctantly finds himself selling cars. The next up is his, but he's clueless and hasn't sold a single car. Having tried nearly everything, including standing roadside in a gorilla costume, he comes across an old movie projector in the basement of the dealership, which opens a portal through time. This unlikely discovery thrusts Mark into an epic adventure where he uncovers a new way of selling cars, taught to him by the late founder of the dealership himself.