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João Monteiro, Marvin Para, Nuno Sousa, Eduardo Natividade-Jesus, Carlo Ostorero and João Coutinho-Rodrigues
Compactification of cities, i.e., the opposite of urban sprawl, has been increasingly presented in the literature as a possible solution to reduce the carbon footprint and promote the sustainability of current urban environments. Compact environments hav...
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Mustafa Aziz Amen, Ahmad Afara and Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia
Walkability is considered a vital component of the urban configuration; urban spaces should promote pedestrian walking, which is healthier and increases social sustainability by connecting people in urban spaces. This article aims to find the link betwee...
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Zhijin Yu, Lan Xu, Shuangshuang Chen and Ce Jin
With the rapid development of urbanization, fire risk factors have increased greatly, indicating a higher requirement for urban firefighting security. Fire rescue capabilities can be effectively improved by the scientific layout of fire stations, and the...
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Ming Zhang, Jielin Wu, Yang Liu, Ji Zhang and Guanyao Li
Traditional urban design is time-consuming and laborious. We propose a computer-generated architecture (CGA)-based workflow in this work, with the goal of allowing designers to take advantage of a high level of automation. This workflow is based on proce...
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Shaohua Luo, Yang Liu, Mingyi Du, Siyan Gao, Pengfei Wang and Xiaoyu Liu
The identification of urban functional areas is essential for urban planning and sustainable development. Spatial grids are the basic units for the implementation of urban plans and management by cities or development zones. The emergence of internet ?bi...
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Xiaoming Lyu, Qi Han, Bauke de Vries
Pág. 3333 - 3342
This paper introduces an urban simulation system generating urban layouts with population, road network and land use layers. The desired urban spatial structure is obtained by generating a population map based on population density models. The road netwo...
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Tam Nguyen Van and Frank De Troyer
Natural ventilation and the use of fans are recognized as sustainable design strategies to reduce energy use while reaching thermal comfort. A big challenge for designers is to predict ventilation rates of buildings in dense urban areas. One significant ...
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Xudong Liu, Yongzhong Tian, Xueqian Zhang and Zuyi Wan
Overall scientific planning of urbanization layout is an important component of the new period of land spatial planning policies. Defining the main functions of different spaces and dividing urban functional areas are of great significance for optimizing...
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Jin Bao, Lihua Xu, Yijun Shi, Qiwei Ma and Zhangwei Lu
The urban thermal environment has become a challenging issue. Streets, as an essential public space in cities, can be laid out in such a way to effectively alleviate a problematic urban thermal environment. In this study, we calculated the layout charact...
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Mo Fan, Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali, Aldrin Abdullah and Mohammad Javad Maghsoodi Tilaki
Contemporary urban development places a critical emphasis on pedestrian environments, especially in historic cities like George Town, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Malaysia. Although survey questionnaires effectively captured public perception...
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Hongxing Deng, Wen Wen and Wenhui Zhang
The structural characteristics of an urban road network directly affect the urban road network?s overall function and service level. Because the hierarchical division and layout form of an urban road network has self-similarity and scale invariance, the ...
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Yuqing Zhong, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Yanfei Yang and Minghui Xue
Mountainous cities face various land use challenges, including complex topography, low land use efficiency, and the insufficient control of land use in small-scale areas at the urban fringe. Considering population changes, environmental conservation, and...
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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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Yongwon Seo, Junshik Hwang and Seong Jin Noh
Drainage networks are essential compartments in an urban infrastructure system for the efficient collection and prompt drainage of flood water. In addition to the advances in numerical techniques on urban flood simulation, the topological characteristics...
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Yueyun Hu, Congchuan Hu, Guangdong Liu, Xiaofang Shan, Qinli Deng, Zhigang Ren and Qianyu Tang
This paper studies the influence of different piloti rates (0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%) on outdoor wind comfort for three building groups, i.e., determinant type, point type, and enclosure type. LES (Large Eddy Simulation) is used to simulate the wind ...
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Lingbo Liu, Hanchen Yu, Jie Zhao, Hao Wu, Zhenghong Peng and Ru Wang
The layout of public service facilities and their accessibility are important factors affecting spatial justice. Previous studies have verified the positive influence of public facilities accessibility on house prices; however, the spatial scale of the i...
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Jingyong Wang, Yuwei Su, Zihao Chen, Lixuan Tang, Guoen Wang and Jiangping Wang
Urban medical facilities are an irreplaceable foundation for ensuring higher levels of public health and medical equity. Hospital accessibility has an extremely important impact on the allocation efficiency and fairness of medical facilities. Although cr...
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Ran Zhang, Lei Cao, Yiqing Liu, Ru Guo, Junjie Luo and Ping Shu
Old residential communities are integral parts of urban areas, with their environmental quality affecting residents? well-being. Spontaneous informal spaces (SIS) often emerge within these communities. These are predominantly crafted by the elderly using...
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José Balsa Barreiro
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El siglo XX ha sido un período en el que demográficamente se han producido dos grandes fenómenos a escala global: la explosión demográfica y un incremento exponencial de los índices de población urbana. En el caso particular de Galicia (noroeste de Españ...
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Jiaqi Zhao, Baiyi Zong and Ling Wu
Based on a study of the spatial distribution of coffee shops in the main urban area of Beijing, the main influencing factors were selected based on the multi-source space data. Subsequently, three regression models were compared, and the best site select...
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