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Richard L. Wolfel, Amy Richmond and Peter Grazaitis
Coming to terms with the complexity of dense urban areas represents one of the major challenges people, organizations and governments will face in the next few decades. Defining, explaining and modeling socio-cultural factors associated with the developm...
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Zhen Ye, Yusheng Xu, Rong Huang, Xiaohua Tong, Xin Li, Xiangfeng Liu, Kuifeng Luan, Ludwig Hoegner and Uwe Stilla
The semantic labeling of the urban area is an essential but challenging task for a wide variety of applications such as mapping, navigation, and monitoring. The rapid advance in Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems provides this task with a possib...
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Zohreh Masoumi, John van L.Genderen and Jamshid Maleki
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O. Yu. Prokopov,M. V. Prokopova
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The urgency of methodical provision of planning of foundations for buildings erected next to existing ones is ?onsidered. It is based on studying the causes of extension of deformations of structures in conditions of dense city building system. Some reco...
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Georgios Theodosiou and Sampson Panajiotidis
Urban streams are ecosystems of great ecological and hydrological importance for human environments. However, they face pressure on biodiversity, hydromorphology, and water quality. In this study, an urban riparian system of a Mediterranean city (Thessal...
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Artur Gonçalves, Gabriella Ornellas, António Castro Ribeiro, Filipe Maia, Alfredo Rocha and Manuel Feliciano
The thermal environment is an important aspect of the urban environment because it affects the quality of life of urban residents and the energy use in buildings. Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Cold Island (UCI) are complementary effects that are the ...
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Saman Ghaffarian and Sobhan Emtehani
Rapid urbanization and increasing population in cities with a large portion of them settled in deprived neighborhoods, mostly defined as slum areas, have escalated inequality and vulnerability to natural disasters. As a result, monitoring such areas is e...
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Winfred Ingabire, Hadi Larijani, Ryan M. Gibson and Ayyaz-UI-Haq Qureshi
Accurate localization for wireless sensor end devices is critical, particularly for Internet of Things (IoT) location-based applications such as remote healthcare, where there is a need for quick response to emergency or maintenance services. Global Posi...
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Jiro Kogi, Mariko Miyamoto, Jay Bolthouse and Makoto Yokohari
Similar to other Asian nations, suburban areas in Japan are characterized by dense intermixtures of residential areas and farmlands. These hybrid rural/urban areas are evaluated negatively in modern planning frameworks. However, mixed rural/urban landsca...
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Sina Razzaghi Asl
Globally, floods are becoming more severe, lasting longer, and occurring more frequently because of changes in climate, rapid urbanization, and changing human demographics. Although traditional structural flood mitigation infrastructures (e.g., drainage ...
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Nastaran Peimani and Hesam Kamalipour
The imperative to address the challenge of transforming car-dependent cities and promoting sustainable mobilities requires that we engage with the relationships between urban morphology and forms of urbanity in public spaces surrounding transit nodes. Wh...
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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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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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Lup Wai Chew, Negin Nazarian and Leslie Norford
Dense urban areas restrict air movement, causing airflow in urban street canyons to be much lower than the flow above buildings. Boosting near-ground wind speed can enhance thermal comfort in warm climates by increasing skin convective heat transfer. We ...
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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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Simona Ciuta, Tiberiu Apostol and Valentin Rusu
In the new legislation framework enacted by new member countries of the European Union (EU), the characterization of municipal solid waste (MSW) represents an important instrument for local governments and sanitation operators in setting and achieving t...
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Jean Caldieron, Rick Miller
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Residential satisfaction is a very important factor in determining the quality of life, housing improvement proposals, and adequate housing policies. This paper reports on the findings of a study in four informal neighborhoods or ?ger districts? of Ulaan...
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Maikel Issermann, Fi-John Chang and Haifeng Jia
The mitigation of societal damage from urban floods requires fast hydraulic models for emergency and planning purposes. The simplified mathematical model Cellular Automata is combined with Motion Cost fields, which score the difficulty to traverse an are...
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Luis de Pereda,Françoise Schneider,Mauricio Perico,Arturo Cristia
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Parking resources and services are essential regulating traffic flow in the general mobility system. A policy oriented to creation of parking spaces adapted to the dynamics of growth and change in the city is a huge opportunity to add a well-conceived an...
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