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Analysis of Factors Influencing the Urban Carrying Capacity of the Shanghai Metropolis Based on a Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR) Model

open access: yesLand, 2021
With the rapid development of urban economy and the continuous expansion of urban scale, the limitations of urban carrying capacity begin to appear. For the sustainable development of the city, more and more scholars are paying attention to the research ...
Xiangyang Cao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is Time Travel Possible? Accidental Signs as Sociolinguistic “Wormholes”

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistics primarily focuses on deliberately staged public signs, while relatively less attention has been given to ephemeral and non‐deliberate signs in urban environments. This study investigates “ accidental signs,” which are hidden historical texts suddenly exposed by unpredictable events.
Ge SONG (宋歌)
wiley   +1 more source

Research on Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Pension Resources in Shanghai Community-Life Circle

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022
With population ageing being a notable demographic phenomenon, aging in place is an efficient model to accommodate the mounting aging needs. Based on the community scale, this study takes the 15-min community-life circle as the basic research unit to ...
Xiaoran Huang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Parking Systems: A Review of Optimization Techniques and Technological Advances

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, Volume 14, Issue 10, Page 4526-4545, October 2026.
This review highlights optimization techniques and recent technological advances in smart parking systems, emphasizing their role in enhancing efficiency, reducing congestion, and improving user experience. It provides insights into innovative approaches that shape the future of sustainable and intelligent urban mobility. ABSTRACT In heavily populated,
Amirhossein Khosravi Sarvenoee   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Survey of Current Drinking Water Supply for Shanghai

open access: yes, 2010
Water quality has deteriorated in recent years in Shanghai, China. More species of hazardous organic contaminant have been discovered. In developed area such as Shanghai, water pollution is more and more severe.
Jia Xiu Song, Bruce Anderson, Dong An
core   +1 more source

The Jacksonville Downtown Data Book [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
The Downtown Data Book is an effort by the DDA (Jacksonville Downtown Development Authority) to provide a downtown information resource outlining many areas of concern to business leaders, developers, public officials, and others interested in downtown ...
Jacksonville Downtown Development Authority
core   +1 more source

Comparison of the effects of different growth standards on infants in Urban Shanghai: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

open access: yesChinese Medical Journal, 2019
. Background:. The Shanghai growth standards are higher than World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards, which may influence the feeding practices of the caregivers and increase the risk of overweight in these infants.
Jun-Li Wang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The topological structure of urban roads and its relation with human activities at the street-based community level

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The topological structure of the underlying streets can help us better understand urban space and human activities therein. As human urban movements are inherently heterogenous in space and statistics, whether or not the network of streets holds a ...
Yan Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 877-896, July 2026.
Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The quarantine window: Atmospheres and anguish at the COVID‐19 borderlands

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.
Abstract In this paper we want to consider border atmospheres—what we understand as the material‐affective and emotional expressions of feeling in the dispersed borderlands of COVID quarantine spaces—through the quarantine hotel window. While the quarantine hotel is a seemingly more benign extension or expansion of the medico‐political border through ...
Mohan Li, Lisheng Weng, Peter Adey
wiley   +1 more source

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