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Yanchun Yi, Sisi Ma, Weijun Guan and Ke Li
Although several studies have explained the effect of urbanization on China?s carbon emissions, most have focused on population urbanization, while ignoring the urban spatial form. This study investigates the impact of urban spatial form, measured by res...
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Mayara Henriques Coimbra, Gislaine Elizete Beloto
Pág. e42407
The new urban order in the territorialization of cities, in general, is based on the principles of an ever more fragmented and dispersed growth across the territory. However, the growth of the urban area of Maringá diverges from this new order, retaining...
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Mayara Henriques Coimbra, Gislaine Elizete Beloto (Author)
Pág. e42407
The new urban order in the territorialization of cities, in general, is based on the principles of an ever more fragmented and dispersed growth across the territory. However, the growth of the urban area of Maringá diverges from this new order, retaining...
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E. Bakogiannis, C. Kyriakidis, M. Siti, V. Eleftheriou
Pág. 345 - 353
Modern Greek cities experience socio-economic changes that result to their urban form and to their urban transport systems. More specifically, throughout the last five years, Greeks have been trying to find the most economic way of urban transport while,...
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Yicong Li, Tong Zhang, Xiaofei Lv, Yingxi Lu and Wangshu Wang
It is important to capture passengers? public transit behavior and their mobility to create profiles, which are critical for analyzing human activities, understanding the social and economic structure of cities, improving public transportation, assisting...
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Nadine Lobner, Paulo Castro Seixas, Ricardo Cunha Dias and Diogo Guedes Vidal
Urban compactivity models are increasing around the globe, and sustainability has become the new buzzword. In recent decades, the focus of ecological responsibility has been shifted to the world?s cities, as they are the source of excessive consumption, ...
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Riguga Su, Chaobin Yang, Zhibo Xu, Tingwen Luo, Lilong Yang, Lifeng Liu and Chao Wang
Urban landscape has important effects on urban climate, and the local climate zone (LCZ) framework has been widely applied in related studies. However, few studies have compared the relative contributions of LCZ on the urban thermal environment across di...
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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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Neshat Rahmani and Ayyoob Sharifi
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification system is used in this study to analyze the impacts of urban morphology on a surface urban heat island (SUHI). Our study involved a comparative analysis of SUHI effects in two Japanese cities, Sapporo and Hiros...
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Piotr Litynski
The issues of urban sprawl are current in both global research as well as the sphere of activities by public authorities in developed and developing countries. Urban sprawl is a phenomenon that goes beyond the administrative boundaries of cities, which f...
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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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Nanqi Ye, Michihiro Kita, Shigeki Matsubara, Seth Asare Okyere and Motoki Shimoda
This paper analysed socio-spatial changes in old urban neighbourhoods (Danwei compounds) in Chinese cities as a result of two major national level reforms: the Reform and Opening Up and the Urban Housing reform in 1978 and 1997, respectively. Existing re...
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Alessandra Cireddu
New vertical housing developments in Guadalajara (Mexico) are reaching the city center as a response for redensification after many years of expansion of the urban area characterized by a suburban, low density and fragmented pattern. This horizontal grow...
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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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Francisco Glaria, Israel Arnedo and Ana Sánchez-Ostiz
Since the origin of the Modern Movement, there has been a basic commitment to improving housing conditions and the well-being of occupants, especially given the prediction that 2/3 of humanity will reside in cities by 2050. Moreover, a compact model of t...
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Francisco Glaria, Israel Arnedo and Ana Sánchez-Ostiz
Since the origin of the Modern Movement, there has been a basic commitment to improving housing conditions and the well-being of occupants, especially given the prediction that 2/3 of humanity will reside in cities by 2050. Moreover, a compact model of t...
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Helen Brown, Katrina Proust, Barry Newell, Jeffery Spickett, Tony Capon and Lisa Bartholomew
A move towards more compact and climate-resilient cities is being encouraged around the world. As part of these plans, there is a need to manage the potential conflict between increasing urban densities and the extent of tree canopy in cities. Reductions...
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Pantoleon Skayannis, Marios Goudas, Petros Rodakinias
Pág. 81 - 88
Since 2008 more than half of world?s population lives in cities some of which grow bigger every day. The number of people requiring all transport modes is also increasing rampantly, with all possible consequences such as pollution, lost useful working or...
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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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Pengjun Zhao
Pág. 29 - 42
Land use patterns are believed to affect transportation, while low-capacity land-use management is often seen as one of the primary institutional barriers to sustainable transport. Examining the case of Beijing, this paper aims to contribute more evidenc...
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