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Big data, smart cities and city planning. [PDF]
Dialogues Hum Geogr, 2013 I define big data with respect to its size but pay particular attention to the fact that the data I am referring to is urban data, that is, data for cities that are invariably tagged to space and time. I argue that this sort of data are largely being streamed from sensors, and this represents a sea change in the kinds of data that we have about what ...
Batty M.
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Gated communities in Lviv: Between social demand and spatial limitation [PDF]
Spatium, 2022 The article considers the phenomenon of the positive perception of gated communities in Lviv, with an emphasis on historical aspects of urban planning.
Idak Yuliya, Frankiv Roman
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Bring Nature Back to the City; Keep Invasive Species Out [PDF]
Journal of Urban Research, 2022 Cities are the drivers of economic growth but pollute the environment and deplete natural resources. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) offer many answers to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Ahmed O. El-kholei, Mohammad S. Abido
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The Modernization of a Historic City as the Construction of a Soviet Utopia: Case of Vilnius
Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2021 The article looks at urban planning and construction processes in Vilnius during the Soviet era from a point of view that has not been widely explored in the existing historiography.
Rugilė Rožėnė
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Design with nature and eco-city design
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2020 Designing with Nature is an approach linking design and ecology, which focuses on living with nature, caring for nature, and aiming for a sustainable society.
Yegang Wu +12 more
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Localizing SDGs: the case of city planning in Malmö
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 Cities have an important role to play in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to mobilize sustainability at the urban level. Yet, municipalities encounter challenges in localizing the SDGs into their governance structures, and ...
Roland Zinkernagel +2 more
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Pandemics, cities and Public Health [PDF]
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2020 Public Health and urban planning, which were once strongly connected, now go separately and are practically united only in sanitation policies. New and old health threats brought by urbanization and highlighted by the current pandemic emphasized the ...
Nelson Gouveia, Claudio Kanai
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A Test of the Markov Prediction Model: The Case of Isparta
Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2022 Projections and predictions of urban growth provide information that can lead to a certain level of preparedness for making cities resilient and sustainable.
Andrew Ayangeaor Ugese +2 more
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The historical evolution of the urban centres of the historical provinces of Moldova and Bucovina [PDF]
MATEC Web of ConferencesThroughout history, under various political, economic and military conditions, these cities had the role of capital of the historical provinces of Moldova and Bucovina (Province of the Habsburg Empire Moldavia and Bukowina), Siret between 1340 and 1388 ...
Inna Ostrovsca +3 more
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Japan Architectural Review, 2023 Tokai Village is a home to the first commercial nuclear power plant in Japan, and Nuclear Power Plants are directly adjacent to residential districts there. This study investigates the context of this situation by looking back around 1960 when the plants
Yasuyo Inui
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