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Multifunctional Interactive Furniture for Smart Cities

open access: yesProceedings, 2018
The adaptation of cities to a future in which connectivity is at the service of the citizens will be a reality by creating interaction spaces and augmented urban areas.
Oihane Gómez-Carmona   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Twins for Cities: A State of the Art Review

open access: yes, 2020
During the last decades, a variety of digital tools have been developed to support both the planning and management of cities, as well as the inclusion of civic society.
Ketzler, Bernd   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Nonlinear spatial impacts of the digital economy on urban ecological welfare performance: evidence from China

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution
IntroductionWith the rapid development of digital technology and its deep integration with environmental and ecological fields, the digital economy has become an effective way to guide the transition of cities to an eco-friendly model. However, empirical
Sen Wang, Jinye Li
doaj   +1 more source

Eco-cities: a global survey 2009

open access: yes, 2010
In the last couple of decades, efforts to render cities environmentally and socially sustainable have culminated in a new phenomenon – the so-called eco-city.
S. Joss, Joss, S.
core   +1 more source

Prospects to create “smart cities” in Russia: Classification of problems and their solutions

open access: yesВестник Пермского университета: Серия Экономика, 2018
Due to high urbanization rate the issues of smart and sustainable city planning become very important currently. The planning and development of the concept “smart city” is based on these issues.
Anna Olegovna Veselova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial

open access: yesTechne, 2021
Every crisis at the same time reveals, forewarns and implies changes with cyclical trends that can be analyzed from different disciplinary perspectives, building scenarios to anticipate the future, despite uncertainties and risks.
Elena Mussinelli
doaj   +1 more source

Eco-cities and Sustainable Urbanism

open access: yes, 2015
The ‘eco-city,’ and related concepts and practices of ‘sustainable urbanism,’ have since the early 2000s gained growing international popularity and entered mainstream policy as a consequence of the forceful combination of global climate change concerns ...
Joss, S.
core   +1 more source

Sustainable Materials Design With Multi‐Modal Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Critical mineral scarcity, high embodied carbon, and persistent pollution from materials processing intensify the need for sustainable materials design. This review frames the problem as multi‐objective optimization under heterogeneous, high‐dimensional evidence and highlights multi‐modal AI as an enabling pathway.
Tianyi Xu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biomimicry for coastal eco-cities: towards a carbon neutral Dover, UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In 2004, the 30-year update to the 1972 report ‘The Limits to Growth’ has reiterated the Malthusian proposition that current industrial practices could lead to a sudden and uncontrollable decline in population and industrial capacity.
Goossens, Adriaan   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Bionic Solar‐Powered Heavy Metal Trap for Eco‐Friendly Sludge Drying and Simultaneous Electricity Generation

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Herein, we propose a solar‐powered heavy metal trap (SPHT) for sludge disposal. The indoor experiments demonstrated that the sludge water content decreased from 90 % to 31 %, coupled with a decrease in heavy metal content to 6 % at most. Furthermore, the designed SPHT generated an initial potential of 0.10 V, and monitoring this hydrovoltaic potential ...
Yanlin Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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