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Adib Ahmad Kurnia, Ernan Rustiadi, Akhmad Fauzi, Andrea Emma Pravitasari and Jan ?enka
The Jakarta metropolitan region (the Jakarta megacity), located in the fourth most populous country in the world (Indonesia), is the largest urban agglomeration in the Global South?continues to grow, especially in its outer suburbs (Bekasi Regency). The ...
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João Reis, Pedro Alexandre Marques and Pedro Carmona Marques
(1) Background: Smart cities have been gaining attention in the community, both among researchers and professionals. Although this field of study is gaining some maturity, no academic manuscript yet offers a unique holistic view of the phenomenon. In fac...
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Rafea Al-Suhili, Cheila Cullen and Reza Khanbilvardi
Urban flooding is a frequent problem affecting cities all over the world. The problem is more significant now that the climate is changing and urbanization trends are increasing. Various, physical hydrological models such as the Environmental Protection ...
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Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Uz Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan and Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a megacity and ch...
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Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Uz Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan and Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a mega...
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Ursula Loret de Mola, Brenton Ladd, Sandra Duarte, Nils Borchard, Ruy Anaya La Rosa and Brian Zutta
Latin American (LA) megacities are facing enormous challenges to provide welfare to millions of people who live in them. High rates of urbanization and limited administrative capacity of LA cities to plan and control urban growth have led to a critical d...
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Dorina Pojani and Dominic Stead
Megacities have frequently received a disproportionate amount of attention over other sizes of cities in recent discourse on urban sustainability. In this article, the authors argue that a focus on smaller and medium-sized cities is crucial to achieving ...
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Slobodan P. Simonovic, Angela Peck
Pág. Page:378 - 401Abstrac
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David Banister
This paper takes a historical perspective on how cities have become less sustainable in terms of transport, but it will argue that many positive changes have taken place even before the current concerns over CO2 and oil. There seem to be many more opport...
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Leila da Costa FERREIRA
O artigo enfoca o processo de globalização e as metrópoles, considerando que em futuro próximo asmegacidades estarão concentradas em países emergentes. De outra forma, à aceleração da desigualdadesocial soma-se a crise do Estado, que inviabilizou o seu p...
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Heloisa Candia Hollnagel,Luiz Jurandir Simões de Araújo,Ricardo Luiz Pereira Bueno
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Hannes Taubenböck, Ines Standfuß, Martin Klotz and Michael Wurm
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Cheuk Yin Wai and Nitin Muttil
Urbanization is a challenge faced by most countries worldwide and leads to several problems. Due to rapid communication capabilities, conforming the megacities into Ubiquitous cities (U-cities) seems to be a potential solution to mitigate the problems ca...
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Mikhail Varentsov, Hendrik Wouters, Vladimir Platonov and Pavel Konstantinov
Urbanization leads to distinct meteorological features of urban environments, and one the best-known is the urban heat island (UHI) effect. For megacities, these features become mesoscale phenomena (scale = 10 km) that are amplified by the tropospheric f...
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Jie Zhu, Ziqi Lang, Shu Wang, Mengyao Zhu, Jiaming Na and Jiazhu Zheng
Night-time light data (NTL) have been extensively utilized to map urban fringe areas, but to date, there has not been a comprehensive evaluation of the existing spatial clustering methods for delineating the urban fringe using different types of night-ti...
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Shihai Dong, Yandong Wang, Mingxuan Dou, Yanyan Gu, Peiqi Zhang and Jianya Gong
Transit-oriented development (TOD) is among the most feasible strategies for relieving urban issues caused by the unbalanced development of transportation and land use. This study proposes a multiobjective TOD land use design framework for the optimizati...
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Farnaz Kamranzad, Hossein Memarian and Mehdi Zare
The megacity of Tehran, the capital of Iran, is subjected to a high earthquake risk. Located at the central part of the Alpine?Himalayan seismic belt, Tehran is surrounded by several active faults that show some M7+ historical earthquake records. The hig...
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Qin Jiang, Xiaogang He, Jun Wang, Jiahong Wen, Haizhen Mu and Ming Xu
The impacts of anthropogenic land use and land cover (LULC) changes on the spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation in megacities have been highlighted in studies on urban climate change. In this study, we conducted a quantitative analysis of urban g...
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Satoru Chatani, Kazuyo Yamaji, Tatsuya Sakurai, Syuichi Itahashi, Hikari Shimadera, Kyo Kitayama and Hiroshi Hayami
The inter-comparison of regional air quality models is an effective way to understand uncertainty in ambient pollutant concentrations simulated using various model configurations, as well as to find ways to improve model performance. Based on the outcome...
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Vasily Kupriyanovsky,Vyacheslav Alenkov,Al?xander Pershin,Dmitry Namiot,Al?xander Klimov,Yuri Volokitin,Sergey Sinyagov
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The article deals with issues related to the development of single-industry towns. The term Smart City and the corresponding development refer not only to large megacities. In the previous industrial era in many countries, including Russia, there were si...
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