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Franz W Gatzweiler, Saroj Jayasinghe, José G Siri and Jason Corburn
The intensity and range of health challenges that people in cities are facing has increased in recent years. This is due in part to a failure to adequately adapt and respond to emergent and expanding global systemic risks, but also to a still-limited und...
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Joel Dearden, Yi Gong, Mark Jones and Alan Wilson
Urban areas are now the dominant human habitat, with more influence than ever on economies, environment and our health. Dynamic urban models are increasingly applied to explore possible future scenarios of urban development to achieve sustainability. How...
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Farideddin Peiravian, Sybil Derrible
Transportation networks serve as windows into the complex world of urban systems. By properly characterizing a road network, one can better understand its encompassing urban system. This study offers a geometrical approach toward capturing inherent prope...
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Sophie Devolder and Thomas Block
Today, cities worldwide are engaged in urban projects and activities in a concerted drive towards sustainable development. However, the concept of ?sustainable urban projects? is inherently normative, subjective and ambiguous. Furthermore, the popularity...
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Clio Andris, Luis MA Bettencourt
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Understanding human socioeconomic development has proven to be one of the most difficult and persistent problems in science and policy. Traditional policy has often attempted to promote human development through infrastructure and the delivery of service...
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Ali Aghazadeh Ardebili, Antonio Ficarella, Antonella Longo, Adem Khalil and Sabri Khalil
Autonomous aircraft are the key enablers of future urban services, such as postal and transportation systems. Digital twins (DTs) are promising cutting-edge technologies that can transform the future transport ecosystem into an autonomous and resilient s...
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David J. Brunckhorst and E. Jamie Trammell
Urban systems include complex interactions and interdependencies with adjoining landscapes and regions. The pressures of change are complex, constant, and increasing. Declining biodiversity, ecosystem function, social institutions, and climate change und...
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Roger Attwater and Chris Derry
Pressures on urban, peri-urban and rural water and agricultural systems are increasingly complex with multiple interacting stresses and impacts. As a way of addressing these issues there has been increasing consideration as to how to build and manage res...
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Alison Blay-Palmer, Guido Santini, Marielle Dubbeling, Henk Renting, Makiko Taguchi and Thierry Giordano
This paper offers a critical assessment of the value and utility of the evolving City Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach to improve our insights into flows of resources?food, waste, people, and knowledge?from rural to peri-urban to urban and back again,...
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Annetta Burger, William G. Kennedy and Andrew Crooks
Increasingly urbanized populations and climate change have shifted the focus of decision makers from economic growth to the sustainability and resilience of urban infrastructure and communities, especially when communities face multiple hazards and need ...
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Muhammad Tayyab Naqash, Toqeer Ali Syed, Saad Said Alqahtani, Muhammad Shoaib Siddiqui, Ali Alzahrani and Muhammad Nauman
Sustainable urban water management is essential to handle water scarcity, leakage, and inefficient distribution. This paper covers water management in urban areas, including an introduction, an overview of water management practices, the characteristics ...
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Thomas W. Sanchez
The urban planning process is complex, involving social, economic, environmental, and political systems. Knowledge of how these systems interact is the domain of professional planners. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) present planners with a ripe...
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Xuefeng Guan, Jingbo Li, Changlan Yang and Weiran Xing
Driving analysis of urban expansion (DAUE) is usually implemented to identify the driving factors and their corresponding driving effects/mechanisms for the expansion processes of urban land, aiming to provide scientific guidance for urban planning and m...
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Telvio H. S. Francisco, Osvaldo V. C. Menezes, André L. A. Guedes, Gladys Maquera, Dácio C. V. Neto, Orlando C. Longo, Christine K. Chinelli and Carlos A. P. Soares
Urban drainage systems play an important role in the complex ecosystem of cities and are often subject to challenges that hinder their functioning. Although identifying these challenges is essential for developing policies and actions to improve drainage...
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Baohua Wei and Lei Zhu
Bike sharing offers a usable form of feeder transportation for connecting to public transportation and effectively meets unmet travel demands, alleviating the pressure on public transportation systems by diverting urban commuters. To advance the comprehe...
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Sangmin Shin, Danyal Aziz, Mohamed E. A. El-sayed, Mohamed Hazman, Lal Almas, Mike McFarland, Ali Shams El Din and Steven J. Burian
Agricultural land expansion is a solution to address global food security challenges in the context of climate change. However, the sustainability of expansion in arid countries is difficult because of scarce surface water resources, groundwater salinity...
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Shade T. Shutters
Increased use of sensors and social data collection methods have provided cites with unprecedented amounts of data. Yet, data alone is no guarantee that cities will make smarter decisions and many of what we call smart cities would be more accurately des...
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Shade T. Shutters
Increased use of sensors and social data collection methods have provided cites with unprecedented amounts of data. Yet, data alone is no guarantee that cities will make smarter decisions and many of what we call smart cities would be more accurately des...
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Huan-Feng Duan
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This paper investigates the impacts of non-uniformities of pipe diameter (i.e., an inhomogeneous cross-sectional area along pipelines) on transient wave behavior and propagation in water supply pipelines. The multi-scale wave perturbation method is first...
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Huan-Feng Duan
This paper investigates the impacts of non-uniformities of pipe diameter (i.e., an inhomogeneous cross-sectional area along pipelines) on transient wave behavior and propagation in water supply pipelines. The multi-scale wave perturbation method is first...
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