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Michelle Leichter, Isadora Hackenhaar and Ana Passuello
Urban activities, such as transportation, are responsible for a large portion of energy-related CO2 emissions. As the need for sustainable urban development increases, decision-makers embrace Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a reliable tool capable of gene...
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Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis and Jannis S. Papadopulos
Public health and city planning are highly interconnected; however, the nexus between the urban state of buildings and sidewalks and corresponding public and urban health issues is lacking in Greece. In a case study in Athens, Greece, we evaluated unsafe...
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Stella Manika, Konstantinos Karalidis and Aspa Gospodini
Today, the location of a business is more important than ever, as it contributes to its consolidation in the market and, in parallel, to the economic development of a city. Over the years, the theories about the optimal location of a business have underg...
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François Mancebo
This article envisions urban agriculture as a solution to address global warming by decreasing the urban heat island effect while also addressing many other urban sustainability issues, such as multi-functionality, creating new commons, amenities and eco...
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Gislene PEREIRA
Este trabalho pretende discutir a relação entre o processo de construção do espaço urbano, a segregaçãosocioespacial e a degradação ambiental. A urbanização crescente da população no Brasil tem feito comque os problemas decorrentes desse processo (carênc...
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Telvio H. S. Francisco, Osvaldo V. C. Menezes, André L. A. Guedes, Gladys Maquera, Dácio C. V. Neto, Orlando C. Longo, Christine K. Chinelli and Carlos A. P. Soares
Urban drainage systems play an important role in the complex ecosystem of cities and are often subject to challenges that hinder their functioning. Although identifying these challenges is essential for developing policies and actions to improve drainage...
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Malik Doole, Joost Ellerbroek and Jacco M. Hoekstra
Package delivery via autonomous drones is often presumed to hold commercial and societal value when applied to urban environments. However, to realise the benefits, the challenge of safely managing high traffic densities of drones in heavily constrained ...
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Dolores Brandis García
Since the late 20th century major, European cities have exhibited large projects driven by neoliberal urban planning policies whose aim is to enhance their position on the global market. By locating these projects in central city areas, they also heighte...
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Angel Uzqueda, Pilar Garcia-Almirall, Còssima Cornadó and Sara Vima-Grau
This article reviews rehabilitation programs in Barcelona, focusing on aspects such as the intervention model, actual public investment, and results. Programs of this type are not exclusive to Barcelona; however, similar examples can be found in other Eu...
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Air pollution remains a problem in German cities. In particular, the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) annual limit-value set by the European Union of 40 µg/m3 was not met at ~40% of roadside monitoring stations across German cities in 2...
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Michael Wegener, Klaus Spiekermann
Urban and regional models have been developed for different policy fields at different levels of spatial and temporal resolution. But it has become apparent that policies interact across space and time and need to be modelled together. The first urban an...
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Claudia de Stasio, Davide Fiorello, Francesca Fermi, Angelo Martino, ... Sujith Kollamthodi
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European cities face increasing challenges to their citizens? mobility. Urban transport systems are integral elements of the European transport system and are therefore of concern for the Common Transport Policy. Thus, the 2011 Transport White Paper call...
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Eleni Feleki, Christos Vlachokostas, Charisios Achillas, Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Alexandar V. Michailidou
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Eleni Feleki, Christos Vlachokostas, Charisios Achillas, Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Alexandar V. Michailidou
Mind mapping tools are used to stimulate thinking about sustainability and define its significance for urban planning. Such tools are based on keywords that are identified and structured through dialogue-based procedures. The approach can be used also fo...
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Jesús M. González Pérez
In the early 1980s, suburbanization and periurbanization processes became widespread in major cities within Spain. An interesting stage of returning to city centers commenced that materialized in the start of rehabilitation policies within historic cente...
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Rubén Sepúlveda Ocampo, Jorge Larenas Salas, Vanessa Prado Barroso, Bárbara Prat Waldron, Jun Álvarez González
Different countries of the Region are developing a series of projects to celebrate the Bicentenary. In a context of competition for visibility, these plans are intended to promote country image by taking into account the concepts of globalization and neo...
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Yara VICENTINI
A deficiência das políticas sociais tradicionais e dos investimentos públicos consolidou uma crescentepobreza da população na América Latina, trazendo ao debate o âmbito universalista ou seletivo daspolíticas urbanas sociais. Se, de um lado, as formas de...
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Gislene PEREIRA
A ausência de controle quanto ao uso da propriedade urbana para benefício individual torna o mercadoimobiliário o grande agente estruturador da cidade e, nesse contexto, a população com menores recursosé excluída dos benefícios da urbanização, passando a...
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