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Zhibin Ren, Xingyuan He, Haifeng Zheng and Hongxu Wei
Urban forest (UF) basal area is an important parameter of UF structures, which can influence the functions of the UF ecosystem. However, the spatio-temporal pattern of the basal area in a given UF in regions under rapid urbanization and greening is still...
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Zar Chi Win, Nobuya Mizoue, Tetsuji Ota, Tsuyoshi Kajisa and Shigejiro Yoshida
There is concern over the environmental impact of charcoal use for cooking in urban areas; however, studies have mainly been limited to Africa and South Asia. This investigation aimed to evaluate woodfuel consumption rates and patterns in an urban area i...
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Riyadh Mundher, Shamsul Abu Bakar, Suhardi Maulan, Hangyu Gao, Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof, Azlizam Aziz and Ammar Al-Sharaa
Permanent forest reserves (PFR) in urban areas are an integral aspect of the urban forest concept and the basis of a city?s green infrastructure. The preservation of natural forests in urban areas has become a widely researched topic due to the environme...
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Serena Falasca, Annalisa Di Bernardino, Virgilio Ciancio, Gabriele Curci and Ferdinando Salata
The thermo-hygrometric sensation of pedestrians in outdoor environments can be quantified by means of bioclimatic indices. In this work, the Mediterranean Outdoor Thermal Comfort Index (MOCI) is applied in the city of Rome (Italy) for the purpose of inve...
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Yaping Chen and Jun Zhang
Urban built-up areas are not only the spatial carriers of urban activities but also the direct embodiment of urban expansion. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to accurately extract urban built-up areas to judge the process of urbanization...
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Guijun Lai, Yuzhen Shang, Binbao He, Guanwei Zhao and Muzhuang Yang
Characterizing the taxi travel network is of fundamental importance to our understanding of urban mobility, and could provide intellectual support for urban planning, traffic congestion, and even the spread of diseases. However, the research on the inter...
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Qi Dong, Shuxue Qu, Jiahui Qin, Disheng Yi, Yusi Liu and Jing Zhang
During the period of rapid urbanization, the urban fringe area is the area where urban expansion occurs first, and land use change is the most active. Studying its evolution laws and characteristics is of great significance to urban planning and urban ex...
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Wenhui Niu, Haoming Xia, Ruimeng Wang, Li Pan, Qingmin Meng, Yaochen Qin, Rumeng Li, Xiaoyang Zhao, Xiqing Bian and Wei Zhao
As the land use issue, caused by urban shrinkage in China, is becoming more and more prominent, research on urban shrinkage and expansion has become particularly challenging and urgent. Based on the points of interest (POI) data, this paper redefines the...
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Dolores Brandis García
Since the late 20th century major, European cities have exhibited large projects driven by neoliberal urban planning policies whose aim is to enhance their position on the global market. By locating these projects in central city areas, they also heighte...
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Xiaoqian Cheng, Weibing Du, Chengming Li, Leiku Yang and Linjuan Xu
Human activities generate diverse and sophisticated functional areas and may impact the existing planning of functional areas. Understanding the relationship between human activities and functional areas is key to identifying the real-time urban function...
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Muhammad Salem, Naoki Tsurusaki and Prasanna Divigalpitiya
The peri-urban area (PUA) of the Greater Cairo Region (GCR) in Egypt has witnessed a rapid urban expansion during the last few years. This urban expansion has led to the loss of wide, areas of agriculture lands and the annexation of many peripheral villa...
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Hanchao Zhang, Xiaogang Ning, Zhenfeng Shao and Hao Wang
The urbanization level in China has increased rapidly since beginning of the 21st century, and the monitoring and analysis of urban expansion has become a popular topic in geoscience applications. However, problems, such as inconsistent concepts and extr...
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Shahab Kariminia
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Computer simulations were performed by ENVI-met model along with physical measurements in two urban squares under hot summer conditions in Isfahan, central Iran. Each scenario concentrated on adding or extending galleries in each square. The result...
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Friso De Zeeuw, Agnes Franzen, Kristel Aalbers, Anke Van Hal and Birgit Dulski
The Netherlands has a tradition in public spatial planning and design. In the past 20 years, we have seen an increasing role for the market in this field, and more recently, growing attention for sustainability. Sustainability has become an economic fact...
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Linfeng Wang, Shengbo Chen, Lei Chen, Zibo Wang, Bin Liu and Yucheng Xu
Accurately mapping urban built-up areas is critical for monitoring urbanization and development. Previous studies have shown that Night light (NTL) data is effective in characterizing the extent of human activity. But its inherently low spatial resolutio...
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Leonardo Seabra Furtado, Raimundo Vitor Santos Pereira and Everaldo Barreiros de Souza
This work contributes to the studies on landscape mapping induced by human pressure directly related to the urbanization process, whose approach is based on the concept of hemeroby adapted to the metropolitan area of Belém in the eastern Amazon. The mapp...
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Dariusz Zmyslowski and Jan M. Kelner
The development of new telecommunication services requires the implementation of advanced technologies and the next generations of networks. Currently, the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is a widely used standard. On the other hand, more and more mobile netwo...
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Siyuan Chen, Zao Zhang, Cheng Wang, Lifeng Tan, Huanjie Liu, Hong Yuan, Rui Zhang and Rui Hu
Photovoltaic (PV) power generation is emerging as a key aspect of the global shift towards a more sustainable energy mix. Nevertheless, existing assessment models predominantly concentrate on predicting the overall capacity of PV power generation, often ...
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Felipe Duque, Greg O?Donnell, Yanli Liu, Mingming Song and Enda O?Connell
Polders are low-lying areas located in deltas, surrounded by embankments to prevent flooding (river or tidal floods). They rely on pumping systems to remove water from the inner rivers (artificial rivers inside the polder area) to the outer rivers, espec...
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Hongwei Liu and Bo Han
Xiong?an New Area is a national event and a project planned for a millennium of China. Its high-quality construction is of great significance to easing the noncapital functions of Beijing and the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regio...
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