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Ventilation of a Mid-Size City under Stable Boundary Layer Conditions: A Simulation Using the LES Model PALM

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2021
City centers have to cope with an increasing amount of air pollution. The supply of fresh air is crucial yet difficult to ensure, especially under stable conditions of the atmospheric boundary layer.
Jonathan Lukas Biehl   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Failure matters: Reassembling eco-urbanism in a globalizing China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper is an attempt to reassess the role of failure in policy mobilities. Empirically, this paper examines the various aftermaths of, and the continuing trans-local connections originating from, the prominent but un-materialized Sino-British ...
Chang, I-Chun Catherine
core   +2 more sources

Planned Cities

open access: yes, 2020
The practice of planning cities has come about to create better outcomes for people. Planning comprises two facets – the reasons to plan and the methods of planning – and is known for its interventionist approaches to addressing complex problems. This includes utilising policies, plans and controls over the use of land.
Keane, Adrienne, Jones, Paul
openaire   +3 more sources

Joint-rollout of FTTH and smart city fiber networks as a way to reduce rollout cost [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Making cities smarter is the future. By bringing more technology into existing city infrastructure, smart city applications can arise. Whether these applications track devices e.g. public lightning, environmental measurements e.g.
Colle, Didier   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Transformasi Makna dan Fungsi Ruang di RPTRA Kalijodo dalam Pergulatan Citra Kota Jakarta

open access: yesRUAS, 2019
Kalijodo has a long history in terms of gambling, prostitution, human trafficking and other illicit activities. Although it is a green belt area, the location had always being filled with semipermanent buildings.
Eka Permanasari, Thomas Lientino
doaj   +1 more source

Ruderal Resilience: Applying a Ruderal Lens to Advance Multispecies Urbanism and Social-Ecological Systems Theory

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2022
As global urbanization accelerates, cities have become increasingly complex and hybridized, and host to novel urban landscape forms such as informal greenspaces or novel ecosystems that support ruderal and spontaneous vegetation.
Christopher Kennedy
doaj   +1 more source

Renewable Energy as an Underutilised Resource in Cities: Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ and Lessons for Post-Brexit Cities in the United Kingdom

open access: yesResources, 2018
Renewable energy remains an underutilised resource within urban environments. This study examines the ongoing German Energiewende (energy transition) as an example of renewable energy being treated as a necessary resource for urban development.
Mohammed Adil Sait   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Infrastructure and the Planning of Future Cities [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Culture is an important aspect of human civilization. Preserving and giving value to the cultural heritage of a region can pave the way for local as well as regional development. This includes tangible, intangible and the natural heritage of cities.
Sindhu S, Reshmi M K
doaj   +1 more source

Human-Oriented Scene-Based City Building: Construction Pathway for Beijing’s Garden Scene from the Perspective of the Theory of Scenes

open access: yesFengjing Yuanlin
ObjectiveThis research aims to explore the systematic application pathway of the theory of scenes in the construction of Beijing Garden City. Addressing current deficiencies in Beijing’s green space development, such as insufficient integration of ...
Lingjun MENG   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

How urban food gardening fits into city planning

open access: yesTeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022
The international planning agenda is opening its attention to the integration of food systems in urban planning and, consequently, to Urban Agriculture (UA).
Anna Forte   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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