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Qingyao Huang, Yihua Liu and Chengjing Chen
Understanding and quantifying urban expansion is critical to urban management and urban planning. The accurate delineation of built-up areas (BUAs) is the foundation for quantifying urban expansion. To quantify urban expansion simply and efficiently, we ...
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Wenhui Niu, Haoming Xia, Ruimeng Wang, Li Pan, Qingmin Meng, Yaochen Qin, Rumeng Li, Xiaoyang Zhao, Xiqing Bian and Wei Zhao
As the land use issue, caused by urban shrinkage in China, is becoming more and more prominent, research on urban shrinkage and expansion has become particularly challenging and urgent. Based on the points of interest (POI) data, this paper redefines the...
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Shuhan Zhang, Yongkun Li, Meihong Ma, Ting Song and Ruining Song
To solve the problems of increasing local flooding, water shortage, and water pollution caused by the traditional model of urban development, the Chinese government proposed a new model of urban development?the Sponge City. In Beijing, the capital of Chi...
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Davide Borelli, Francesco Devia, Margherita Marré Brunenghi, Corrado Schenone and Alessandro Spoladore
Increasing energy efficiency by the smart recovery of waste energy is the scope of the CELSIUS Project (Combined Efficient Large Scale Integrated Urban Systems). The CELSIUS consortium includes a world-leading partnership of outstanding research, innovat...
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Chris A. de Rijke, Gloria Macassa, Mats Sandberg and Bin Jiang
Human actions and interactions are shaped in part by our direct environment. The studies of Christopher Alexander show that objects and structures can inhibit natural properties and characteristics; this is measured in living structure. He also found tha...
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Ziyan Li, Shasha Xie and Zhe Wei
Currently, human society is in the era of the digital economy, driven by a new wave of digital technology revolution. Against this backdrop, China actively draws on global development concepts, accelerating the advancement of new infrastructure construct...
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Jason Gilliland, Matthew Maltby, Xiaohong Xu, Isaac Luginaah and Tayyab Shah
Urban cyclists are exposed to many traffic-related air pollutants including particulate matter (PM) that may increase vulnerability to health effects. This study investigates second-by-second personal exposure to PM2.5 (fine particulate matter that is 2....
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Jason Gilliland, Matthew Maltby, Xiaohong Xu, Isaac Luginaah and Tayyab Shah
Urban cyclists are exposed to many traffic-related air pollutants including particulate matter (PM) that may increase vulnerability to health effects. This study investigates second-by-second personal exposure to PM2.5 (fine particulate matter...
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Chansopheaktra Sovann, Kim N. Irvine, Sthiannopkao Suthipong, Sothea Kok, Eliyan Chea
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Janete Cristina Gonçalves Gaburo Carneiro,Matias Puga Sanches,Demerval Leônidas Rodrigues,Brigitte R S Pecequilo
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The effective doses received by the general population from the natural radioactivity in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, were assessed from 2007 to 2013, as, apart from the variation from place to place, the background gamma levels in air are not constant...
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Maha Shehadeh, Emily Kwok, Jason Owen and Majid Bahrami
The City of Surrey in British Columbia, Canada has recently launched a district energy network (DEN) to supply residential and commercial buildings in the Surrey Centre area with hot water for space and domestic hot water heating. The network runs on nat...
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Asma Rejeb Bouzgarrou, Yasmine Attia Ben Cherifa, Christophe Claramunt and Hichem Rejeb
An urban landscape can be considered as a background environment that influences humans? movements at various scales in the city. This research is oriented to the study of the interactions between urban forest patches and their degree of influence and at...
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Marcelo Gomes Miguez, Aline Pires Veról, Matheus Martins de Sousa and Osvaldo Moura Rezende
The development of cities has always had a very close relation with water. However, cities directly impact land use patterns and greatly change natural landscapes, aggravating floods. Considering this situation, this paper intends to discuss lowland occu...
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Xiang He, Zhenshan Lin and Kangning Xiong
Guizhou Plateau is a region in China that typically shows the contradictory human-earth system. A vulnerability assessment indicator system was constructed to explore the coupled human-natural system characteristic of the karst landform based on the grey...
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Evgeny Abakumov, Aleksei Zverev, Evgeny Andronov and Timur Nizamutdinov
Technogenic processes and agrodevelopment of the soil cover lead to significant transformations of soil chemical and biological properties. New methods of soil microbiology, including next-generation sequencing, allows us to investigate soil microbial co...
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Eveline María Damasceno do Nascimento, Iraildes Caldas Torres
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This analysis, focused on the ambient impacts in the city of Manaus: a search for understanding, will contribute to discussions concerning the importance of a management shared with emphasis in the co-responsibility of the public space and also in the qu...
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Asghar Abedini, Farshid Aram, Amin Khalili and Elham Mirzaei
Today?s cities are increasing their space zones while becoming more vulnerable to natural disasters and man-made threats. The initial evaluation of the resilience of city systems is of great importance and helps develop policies and measures that would i...
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Elton John Robaina da Silva, Camila Nascimento Alves, Priscila Celebrini de Oliveira Campos, Raquel Aparecida Abrahão Costa e Oliveira, Maria Esther Soares Marques, José Carlos Cesar Amorim and Igor Paz
This paper presents a comparison between rain gauge network and weather radar data in Angra dos Reis city, located in the State of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil. The city has a high incidence of natural disasters, especially associated with heavy rains in ...
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Francisco Maturana, Mauricio Morales, Fernando Peña-Cortés, Marco A. Peña and Carlos Vielma
Urbanization is spreading across the world and beyond metropolitan areas. Medium-sized cities have also undergone processes of accelerated urban expansion, especially in Latin America, thanks to scant regulation or a complete lack thereof. Thus, understa...
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Mona Nabilah
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Bandung City is one of metropolitan cities. Therefore, Bandung City can not escape from the problem of slums emerging. Slums is characterized especially by lack of raw water availability and pollution. Based oh those facts, this study aimed to calculate ...
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