These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now.” While most conversations on sprawl tend to focus on its restriction, this book presents an overview of current thinking on ways to fix, repair, and retrofit exi...

This volume features selected contributions from participants of the 17th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CARI 2024), held at the University of Béjaïa, Algeria, from November 23-26, 2024. The topics covered include mathematical modelling, stochastic methods, and related fields.