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Jiaxin Zhang, Tomohiro Fukuda and Nobuyoshi Yabuki
Precise measuring of urban façade color is necessary for urban color planning. The existing manual methods of measuring building façade color are limited by time and labor costs and hardly carried out on a city scale. These methods also make it challengi...
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Cristina Henriques, Alexandre Domingues and Margarida Pereira
The concept of urban area is complex and has been discussed for many years by several authors and organisations through different perspectives and methodological approaches. For administrative and comparison purposes statistical institutions, both at the...
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Zhixin Li, Song Ji, Dazhao Fan, Zhen Yan, Fengyi Wang and Ren Wang
Accurate building geometry information is crucial for urban planning in constrained spaces, fueling the growing demand for large-scale, high-precision 3D city modeling. Traditional methods like oblique photogrammetry and LiDAR prove time consuming and ex...
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Yanyan Huang, Ruixin Tu, Wutikeer Tuerxun, Xudong Jia, Xu Zhang and Xiaokang Chen
In the context of an increasingly extreme climate, Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation of communities through ventilation has recently attracted more attention. To explore the impact mechanisms of different morphological renovation schemes on its wind and...
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Ou Pu, Boqiu Yuan, Zhengnong Li, Terigen Bao, Zheng Chen, Liwei Yang, Hua Qin and Zhen Li
An innovative approach for measuring wind fields in urban building clusters using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is presented. This method captures the distribution of wind fields within clusters. The results indicate that building architecture has a si...
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Sampa Chisumbe, Clinton Aigbavboa, Erastus Mwanaumo and Wellington Thwala
Development of urban housing requires participation of various stakeholders, from the state, private sector, and community to the civil society organizations. Cognizant of that fact, this research sought to establish the measurement model for stakeholder...
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Xue Yang, Yanjia Cao, Anqi Wu, Mingqiang Guo, Zhen Dong and Luliang Tang
The question of whether each building of housing estate has equal access to nearby social service resources (e.g., public transportation service, catering, entertainment, etc.) is a major concern of citizens. This paper takes Wuhan as a case to explore t...
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Sheng?en Liu, Hui Yi, Xiangning Chen, Decheng Wang and Wei Jin
Large-scale three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction from multi-view images is used to generate 3D mesh surfaces, which are usually built for urban areas and are widely applied in many research hotspots, such as smart cities. Their simplification is a signi...
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Kimihiro Sakagami, Fumiaki Satoh and Akira Omoto
Geo-referenced sound data are often used in the field of acoustics education to learn about the urban acoustic environment. Simple soundwalks and sound collections are also employed, in which acquiring additional information such as visual data, recorded...
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Ivan Lee, James A. Voogt and Terry J. Gillespie
With the expected increase in warmer conditions caused by climate change, heat-related illnesses are becoming a more pressing issue. One way that humans can protect themselves from this is to seek shade. The design of urban spaces can provide individuals...
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Anne Mäkiranta, Birgitta Martinkauppi, Erkki Hiltunen and Mauri Lieskoski
Thermal energy collected from the sediment layer under a water body has been suggested for use as a renewable heat source for a low energy network. A prototype system for using this sediment energy was installed in Suvilahti, Vaasa, in 2008 and is still ...
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Alberto Muscio
Overheating of buildings and urban areas is a more and more severe issue in view of global warming combined with increasing urbanization. The thermal behavior of urban surfaces in the hot seasons is the result of a complex balance of construction and env...
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Zhiyuan Yuan, Xinqi Zheng, Lulu Zhang and Guoliang Zhao
In the current era, competition among countries and regions is in fact among cities. Thus, how to measure urban competitiveness precisely is a basic and important question. The two main approaches to this are comprehensive evaluation based on a set of in...
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V. Varsha, Gaurav H. Pandey, K. Ramachandra Rao, B.K. Bindhu
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Estimation of speed is an important task for various traffic engineering analyses like crash analysis, establishing speed zones, evaluation of traffic signal locations and so on. Past research on the sample size estimation was focused on finding the numb...
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Katarzyna Cheba, Sebastian Saniuk
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One of the most important areas of sustainable development is the transport sector. There are a lot of different examples of sustainable transport in many papers. The most commonly used definitions of sustainable transport include environmentally sustain...
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Katarzyna Cheba, Sebastian Saniuk
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In literature, discussions on creating and modelling the transport behaviour of urban residents relate to both large and small cities. Despite this, there is a need for a holistic approach and interdisciplinary research in this field, especially dedicate...
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Damien P. Giurco, Stuart B. White and Rodney A. Stewart
Smart metering technology for residential buildings is being trialed and rolled out by water utilities to assist with improved urban water management in a future affected by climate change. The technology can provide near real-time monitoring of where wa...
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Elizabeth Karol and Julie Brunner
Various assessment tools are available to assist designers, developers and regulatory bodies to reduce the negative impacts of contemporary multi-housing subdivision projects in industrialized countries. These tools vary considerably in what and how they...
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Xiaoyi Zu, Zhixian Li, Chen Gao and Yi Wang
Urban-scale green spaces have been a central topic as of late, but community-scale green spaces are overlooked in urban studies. This paper takes community green spaces in the main urban area of Beijing as the case to quantitatively interpret the spatial...
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Lukasz Musiaka and Marta Nalej
The principal aim of this paper is to present the capabilities of newly developed GIS tools for measurement analysis of urban spatial layouts, using the square grid method. The study of urban morphology and metrology is a multistage process, which involv...
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