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Roundtable discussion: progress of urban informatics in urban planning
With the rapid development of computer technology, urban informatics, as a new discipline in the field of urban planning, has gradually attracted...
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Using urban pasts to speak to urban presents in the Anthropocene
With more people now living in urban areas than outside of them, urbanism is becoming an increasingly important socioeconomic and ecological arena...
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Street network or functional attractors? Capturing pedestrian movement patterns and urban form with the integration of space syntax and MCDA
The space syntax approach has been widely applied in urban studies and practices to investigate urban form and predict pedestrian movement patterns....
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Polycentricity measurement of China’s urban agglomerations considering internal and external connections
This paper uses Baidu migration data to obtain the intercity trips between cities in China. Taking intercity travel as a functional connection...
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The role of vertical segregation in urban social processes
It is common knowledge that urban neighborhoods have diverse and unequal social profiles, and this makes a difference for the life prospects of their...
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Assessing global urban CO2 removal
Here, with the aim of supporting the path to achieving net-zero emissions in cities, we assess the existing literature on carbon dioxide removal...
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Urban mobility and the experienced isolation of students
Cities provide access to stores, public amenities and other people, but that access may provide less benefit for the lower-income and younger...
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Urban Design
In this basic textbook, prospective architects, urban and landscape planners receive assistance in working on urban development projects and designs....
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Spatial pattern, and evolution of China’s urban agglomerations
China's urban agglomeration is not only crucial to tackle with the more and more contradiction between population, resources and environment, but...
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Construction and application of urban mobility diagnosis model
The scientific diagnosis of urban mobility is beneficial to urban planning to solve urban problems appropriately, especially traffic problems. The...
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Worldwide scaling of waste generation in urban systems
The production of waste as a consequence of human activities is one of the most fundamental challenges facing our society and global ecological...
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Assessing the Urban Form of Hill Settlements, New Shimla, India Using 3D GIS Tools
This paper aims to find out several problems on an ongoing Hill Town Development concerning the geographical landscape of the region and analyzes...
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Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture
Urban agriculture (UA) is a widely proposed strategy to make cities and urban food systems more sustainable. Until now, we have lacked a...
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Assessing the socio-cultural impact of urban revitalisation using Relative Positive Impact Index (RPII)
Urban heritage is a vital resource that connects communities to their local identity. Unplanned developments and rapid urbanisation often harm the...
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(Re)adaptation of urban space in post-disaster recovery
Buildings and monuments are commonly prioritized in post-disaster reconstruction, but the role of urban spaces is often overlooked. The paper,...
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Finding Space for Urban Productivity
In the search for space where food can be grown, every little area is used for exploring the possibilities. In the early stages of urban agriculture...
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Makeshift as spatio-temporal mechanism tactics of urban interior in Kampung Bustaman Semarang, Indonesia
This paper explores various spatio-temporal mechanisms, especially in the formation of interior conditions of urban spaces. Through exploring...
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Assessing the performance of urban heritage conservation projects – influencing factors, aspects and priority weights
Heritage conservation in urban areas involves complex systems often faced with the dilemmas of maintaining the built form’s historical character,...
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Designing Productive Urban Landscapes
This chapter discusses the design and calculation for the possibilities of productive urban landscapes: open urban spaces planted and managed in such...