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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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Luis Alfonso Escudero Gómez, Juan Antonio García González and José María Martínez Navarro
Traditionally, medium-sized cities have been compact urban centres, which have also emerged as satellite nuclei within metropolitan areas of larger cities. However, urban dispersion models have led to growth in population and the increasing urbanisation ...
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Thanh Phuong Ho, Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson and Tuan Quoc Nguyen
Urban design has been shown to play a vital role in promoting the health and wellbeing of urban citizens. However, studies of microscale urban design are underrepresented in comparison with macroscale urban design, especially from low- and middle-income ...
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Kerry A. Nice, Jason Thompson, Jasper S. Wijnands, Gideon D. P. A. Aschwanden and Mark Stevenson
Urban typologies allow areas to be categorised according to form and the social, demographic, and political uses of the areas. The use of these typologies and finding similarities and dissimilarities between cities enables better targeted interventions f...
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Reham Elwakil, Ingrid Schroder and Koen Steemers
Maker spaces can contribute significantly to the circular economy of cities; they demonstrate not only the economic potential of inner loop circularity, but also provide tangible evidence of spatial and social integration of production into the urban con...
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Elizabeth C. Delmelle
This analysis examines the spatial fragmentation of the urban landscape with respect to neighborhoods classified according to their racial, demographic, housing and socioeconomic characteristics. The analysis is performed on the 50 largest metropolitan a...
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This analysis examines the spatial fragmentation of the urban landscape with respect to neighborhoods classified according to their racial, demographic, housing and socioeconomic characteristics. The analysis is performed on the 50 largest metropolitan a...
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Natalie Allen
Along with many Pacific Rim cities in Australia and North America, Auckland, New Zealand has enacted an urban growth management strategy premised on two concepts: ?liveability? and a ?quality compact city?. The effective implementation of this strategy w...
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Hatem Ibrahim, Ashraf M. Salama, Florian Wiedmann, Reem Awwaad
Pág. 152 - 169
Abu Dhabi and Doha have evolved rapidly in the twentieth century due to the investment of oil and gas revenues. The fast economic growth resulted in an extensive period of urbanization. The various urban dynamics had a great impact with regards to new ho...
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Ana Nikezic, Jelena Ristic Trajkovic and Aleksandra Milovanovic
Over the past decade, urban housing typologies have evolved from being a feature of modern life to an essential postmodern issue, questioning future housing identities. One of the ways in which architecture can become engaged in this ever-changing proces...
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Álvaro-Francisco Morote, Jorge Olcina, Antonio-Manuel Rico and María Hernández
In recent decades, territorial transformations have occurred on the Spanish Mediterranean coast due to the real estate bubble (1997?2008). The objectives of this research are: (1) to analyse the domestic water consumption trend in the study area (?Beach ...
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Ana Paula Albuquerque Campos Costalonga Seraphim,Maria do Carmo de Lima Bezerra
A alteração do regime hidrológico é inerente ao processo de urbanização. Destaca-se nessa relação, como desafio imposto ao planejamento urbano, as áreas de recarga dos aquíferos devido sua sobreposição com as áreas urbanizadas e o papel estratégico desse...
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Belén Muñoz, Manuel G. Romana, Javier Ordóñez
Pág. 135 - 139
The multicriteria decision making methods are a tool that they reduce subjectivity in decision-making by creating a series of filters selection and they help the choice between complex alternatives. They provide designers structure the information ration...
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Agustin Hernandez Aja
En el análisis y gestión del tráfico de nuestras calles y ciudades se ha producido un reduccionismo metodológico, considerando tan sólo el tráfico de vehículos y el ancho de las calles como variables del diseño de los usos en la sección urbana. Aquí se p...
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Tao Wu, Mingjing Li and Ye Zhou
Metro accessibility has attracted interest in sustainable transport analyses. Hence, the accuracy of metro-accessibility measures have become increasingly vital. Various spatiotemporal factors, including by-metro accessibility, land-use accessibility and...
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Amedeo Flora, Donatello Cardone, Marco Vona and Giuseppe Perrone
Comprehensive methodologies based on a fully probabilistic approach (i.e., the performance-based earthquake engineering approach, PBEE), represent a refined and accurate tool for the seismic performance assessment of structures. However, those procedures...
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Esteban Zalamea León,Cristian Cuevas Barraza
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The use of photovoltaic (PV) technology in urban areas is an appropriate way to optimize the use of solar energy, since the energy conversion system is located in the same place as the demand. Thus, the losses caused by distribution networks and even tec...
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The processes of urban sprawl that have been present over the past two decades in the different strata of the urban hierarchy have also affected, as a whole, medium-sized cities. The urban sprawl has been particularly pronounced during the period of expa...
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Francisco Cebrián Abellán and Irene Sánchez Ondoño
The processes of urban sprawl that have been present over the past two decades in the different strata of the urban hierarchy have also affected, as a whole, medium-sized cities. The urban sprawl has been particularly pronounced during the period of expa...
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Pamela Smith and Cristián Henríquez
This paper presents research carried out in the city of Chillán, a medium size city located on the southern limit of the Chilean Mediterranean domain, at 36°36's south latitude. Chillán provides a good representative example of warm summers in central an...
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