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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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Koen De Ridder, Bino Maiheu, Dirk Lauwaet, Ioannis A. Daglis, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Kostas Kourtidis, Paolo Manunta and Marc Paganini
Heat waves are projected to become more frequent, longer-lasting, and intense. At the same time, urban areas are confronted with the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon, which adds to the thermal stress experienced during hot spells. Focusing on the Paris...
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Koen De Ridder, Bino Maiheu, Dirk Lauwaet, Ioannis A. Daglis, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Kostas Kourtidis, Paolo Manunta and Marc Paganini
Heat waves are projected to become more frequent, longer-lasting, and intense. At the same time, urban areas are confronted with the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon, which adds to the thermal stress experienced during hot spells. Focusing on the Paris...
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Jan Duffhues, Luca Bertolini
Intensification of cities has been a planning aim in many countries over the last decades. A major reason for this is the expectation that urban intensification leads to better accessibility by sustainable transportation modes and therefore contributes t...
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Lee Woods, Neil Ferguson
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Spatial planning and policy continues to be used as a tool to bring about changes in travel behavior. Policy suggests that by creating particular urban forms, demand for travel by car can be reduced. This paper uses data collected in 2006 from 280 househ...
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Kristofor Ludvigson,John P. Reganold,Kevin Murphy
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As a developing alternative crop in both urban and rural environments in the Pacific Northwest, quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is predominantly sown using direct-seeding technology on small- to large-scale farms. However, the utilizati...
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Jiawei Lin, Dongying Li and Robert D. Brown
Global climate change and urban heat island intensification are making many cities dangerously hot during heat waves. There is a need for a clear process for applying microclimate information in urban design to create cooler cities. A recent paper points...
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Francisco MENDONÇA
A intensificação da urbanização na modernidade gerou inúmeros problemas relacionados à qualidade eàs condições de vida na cidade do presente. Muitas têm sido as teorias, concepções e metodologiaspropostas para a compreensão da problemática ambiental urba...
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Álvaro Daniel Rodríguez Escudero
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ResumenLas ciudades pequeñas y medias son un activo fundamental de los territorios y, aunque con un papel renovado hoy, siguen siendo, como históricamente, claves para el desarrollo equilibrado de nuestras regiones y sus sociedades. Aunque en torno a dic...
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Marco Zobec, Oliver Betz and Philipp Andreas Unterweger
The extensification (opposite of intensification) of urban public green spaces offers great potential for conservation. One major issue for the long-term success of such a measure is, however, its acceptance by the urban population. This contribution pre...
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Yanbo Yang, Hailiang Lv, Yujie Fu, Xingyuan He and Wenjie Wang
A better understanding on the associations between road density (RD), urban forest structural-taxonomic attributes, and landscape metrics is vital for forest ecological service evaluations and suitable management in sprawling urban areas with increasing ...
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James F. Canning and Ashlynn S. Stillwell
Agricultural intensification has had the undesirable effect of degrading water quality throughout the United States. Nitrate pollution presents a difficult problem for rural and urban communities, and it contributes to the immense Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia ...
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Syed Zainol Abidin, Ronny D. Nasihien, Hery Budiyanto
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Urban Farming utilizing land intensification, in order to meet the needs of fresh vegetables and fruits everyday for the community residential / housing in urban areas. Air Inflated Greenhouse as urban farming facilities, can be built and transferred to ...
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Ranjeet Thakali, Ajay Kalra and Sajjad Ahmad
The intensification of the hydrological cycle due to climate change entails more frequent and intense rainfall. As a result, urban water systems will be disproportionately affected by the climate change, especially in such urban areas as Las Vegas, which...
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Marina Georgati, Henning Sten Hansen and Carsten Keßler
Population growth in urban centres and the intensification of segregation phenomena associated with international mobility require improved urban planning and decision-making. More effective planning in turn requires better analysis and geospatial modell...
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Aakriti Grover and Ram Babu Singh
The formation and occurrence of urban heat island (UHI) is a result of rapid urbanization and associated concretization. Due to intensification of heat combined with high pollution levels, urban areas expose humans to unexpected health risks. In this con...
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Zahn Münch, Perpetua I. Okoye, Lesley Gibson, Sukhmani Mantel and Anthony Palmer
Land cover change analysis was performed for three catchments in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, for two time steps (2000 and 2014), to characterize landscape conversion trajectories for sustained landscape health. Land cover maps were derived: (1)...
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Zahn Münch, Perpetua I. Okoye, Lesley Gibson, Sukhmani Mantel and Anthony Palmer
Land cover change analysis was performed for three catchments in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, for two time steps (2000 and 2014), to characterize landscape conversion trajectories for sustained landscape health. Land cover maps were derived: (1)...
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Jan Scheurer, Carey Curtis, Sam McLeod
City planning in Australian cities has seen a gradual shift in approach, away from planning to facilitate mobility by car in the post-war period toward planning for land-use/public transport integration. By assessing the supply of public transport for ci...
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Du?an Romportl, Petr Kuna
Central European landscape has undergone dramatic changes during the last decades. Big changes in the political and economic systems resulted in a large-scale transformation in land use, especially in the agricultural and silvicultural sectors. At the sa...
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