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Polycentric agglomeration and haze pollution: evidence from China
Polycentric agglomeration has gradually become a salient feature of rapid growth in urbanization in China. Using province-level balanced panel data...
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From green fingers and green ring to green mitten: Helsinki’s polycentric urbanization and its impact on green structure
Urbanization changes the landscape and fragments spatial structures including greenspaces across much of the world and Europe. The resultant impacts...
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Polycentric urban growth and identification of urban hot spots in Faridabad, the million-plus metropolitan city of Haryana, India: a zonal assessment using spatial metrics and GIS
AbstractPolycentric urban structure is the recent trend of new-age sustainable cities in India. Limited research is reported focused on quantitative...
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Rational planning strategies of urban structure, metro, and car use for reducing transport carbon dioxide emissions in develo** cities
Understanding transport carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emission impact factors’ effects is important for the rational planning strategy making in reducing the...
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Understanding the Linear City. (Mis)interpretation, Categorization, and Realization
The Linear City topic is one that periodically appears in the world of architecture and urban planning through a variety of visionary plans, yet...
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Examining the impact of polycentric urban form on air pollution: evidence from China
Numerous studies on megacities have reported less air pollution in polycentric form urban than monocentric form urban. However, findings from these...
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Exploring patterns and consequences of land consumption in a coastal city-region
BackgroundThe rapid expansion of built-up areas and land consumption with unsustainable spatial patterns in coastal urban areas has become a global...
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Rethinking polycentricity: on the North–South imbalances in transnational climate change governance
The transnational climate change governance (TCCG) landscape, led by sub- and non-state actors including businesses, municipalities, and NGOs, holds...
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Vision of a Sustainable, Smart, and Resilient City
This chapter outlines the vision for a sustainable, resilient, and livable city in the wake of mega risks. It explores ways and means for making...
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Zooming-in for climate action—hyperlocal greenhouse gas data for mitigation action?
While the international community has made progress in adopting goals and agreements in the field of climate change mitigation, efforts to reduce...
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How urban sprawl affects local and nearby ecosystem services in China
Rapid urban expansion has profoundly affected the structure and function of ecosystem services. However, reliable empirical evidence of the...
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The evolution of social-ecological system interactions and their impact on the urban thermal environment
While heat mitigation is crucial to achieving sustainable urban development, an inadequate understanding of the evolution of the urban thermal...
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Urban Regeneration of Industrial Heritage, Tirana Case
The gradual delocalization of production activities, in the last decades of the last century, led to the progressive disposal of a considerable...
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Exploring the regional differences of ecosystem health and its spatial relationships with urban forms in China
A deeper understanding of the regional differences and driving factors behind ecosystem health (EH) is of vital for ecosystem management and...
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The intertemporal governance challenges of Brazil’s Amazon: managing soybean expansion, deforestation rates, and urban floods
The Brazilian Amazon faces three dominant governance challenges that have become increasingly interconnected over time and now affect each other:...
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An Approach from Ecovillages and Ecocities to Tirana, Albania
Ecological and livable citiesCities need an objective method to be judged. This paper is in search of a method to determine the level of livability,...
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What Are the Relationships Between the Spatial Urban Structure and the Ecological Characteristics of the City?
The spatial form and the ecological features of the citycity are closely related. Not only biodiversitybiodiversity, urbanurban soil soilssoil,...
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Does a scaling exist in urban ecological infrastructure? A case for sustainability trade-off in China
So far, urban scaling theory has proven that urban area, infrastructure, and economic output have a scaling relation with population. But if we...
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Environmental Consciousness and Sustainable Development Goal with Special Reference to Public Transportation in India: A Review
Sustainable development has been a key issue from the very beginning of Earth Summit of 1992, held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Environmental...
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The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures
This perspective emerged from ongoing dialogue among ecologists initiated by a virtual workshop in 2021. A transdisciplinary group of researchers and...
