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Dynamic Evolution and Regional Differences in the Efficiency of Compact Urban Development in Chinese Cities—Based on the Perspective of Compact Land Use

open access: yesLand, 2023
Modern cities require urban compact development to be sustainable. The evaluation of urban compact development may help create more accurate and realistic policies.
Wenqin Ren   +3 more
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Theoretical Explanation of Polycentric Compact City Structure to Create a Sustainable Urban form [PDF]

open access: yesجغرافیا و آمایش شهری منطقه‌ای, 2021
The spatial structure of cities has changed a lot after technological changes and population growth and they have shifted from a monocentric compact city structure to an extended and scattered structure that poses many challenges and they have made human
Mahmood Arvin, Ahmad Poor Ahmad
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Historical contexts for the emergence of various types of city plans in the major regional centers of Russia

open access: yesАрхитектон, 2023
This paper examines the plans of the major Russian cities with a population over one million and their evolution over time. Special emphasis is placed on the Soviet period of urbanization, which had a significant impact on the direction of their ...
Savelyeva Ekaterina O.
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Compacting the city centre: densification in two Newcastles

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2021
The compact city and the associated process of densification have attained almost hegemonic status as a sustainable urban form. Seeking to counteract the negative impacts of sprawl, urban densification has usually focused on areas beyond the city centre.
Bob Giddings, Robert Rogerson
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The Welfare Landscape and Densification—Residents’ Relations to Local Outdoor Environments Affected by Infill Development

open access: yesLand, 2023
Densification through infill developments is a common planning strategy where both advantages and problems have been brought forward. However, the knowledge on how such developments affect residents and their relations to local outdoor environments is ...
Märit Jansson, Julia Schneider
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Data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future: An evidence synthesis approach to a comprehensive state-of-the-art literature review

open access: yesSustainable Futures, 2021
Sustainable cities are currently undergoing unprecedented transformative changes in light of the recent paradigm shift in science and technology brought on by big data science and analytics.
Simon Elias Bibri
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A novel model for data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future: the institutional transformations required for balancing and advancing the three goals of sustainability

open access: yesEnergy Informatics, 2021
In recent years, it has become increasingly feasible to achieve important improvements of sustainability by integrating sustainable urbanism with smart urbanism thanks to the proven role and synergic potential of data-driven technologies.
Simon Elias Bibri
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What is the meaning of urban liveability for a city in a low-to-middle-income country? Contextualising liveability for Bangkok, Thailand

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2019
Background Creating ‘liveable’ cities has become a priority for various sectors, including those tasked with improving population health and reducing inequities.
Amanda Alderton   +6 more
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Sustainability of compact cities: the SOS_UrbanLab activity

open access: yesTema, 2015
Urban development is facing new challenges to allow the evolution of the environment, in accordance to sustainability principles. In this context, decision makers have to answer to three main issues: how to intervene on the existing compact ...
Gioia Clementella   +7 more
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Built Morphology and the Impact of Planning Policies: Case of Small Towns in Karnataka, India

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2021
The morphology of a city undergoes transformation over time due to a variety of factors. One such factor is the master plan. The master plan is a powerful legal tool, the implementation of which has a lasting impact on the morphology of a town both built
Aparna Shastri
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