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Enhancing liveability through urban intensification: The idea and role of neighbourhood

Cogent Social Sciences, 2018
This paper considers the contention that higher density neighbourhoods can lead to enhanced liveability, and examines the idea and role of neighbourhood to achieve this aim and policy goal. It reports on the findings from fifty-seven in-depth qualitative
Natalie Allen, Errol Haarhoff, Lee Beattie   +2 more
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SWOT Analysis and Developing Strategies for the Realisation of Urban Livability in Tehran

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021
The present study aims to analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of managing the Tehran Metropolitan to help comprehend the status quo as well as the challenges to the realisation of liveability indicators.
Reza Shabanzadeh Namini, Mirella Loda, Abolfazl Meshkini   +2 more
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Land Use Transformation and Climate Resilience in Smart Cities: Role of ICT in Modern Urban Planning

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern urban planning is experiencing a transition from traditional planning to the integration of information technology, which defines the concept of a “smart city”. The study analyses the evolution of urban planning practices with an emphasis on the role of engineering and architecture in the process of urbanization, the transition to the ...
Dariusz Cichoń
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Water, Sanitation and Health: The World Bank's Financing of Sustainable Development Goal 6

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The World Bank has an explicit commitment to financing projects aimed at ensuring access to drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6), given their implications for countries' development. The objective of this study is to analyse its performance over the past decades, in order to understand the evolution of the allocated amount and the ...
Cristina Martínez‐Gómez, Leticia Gallego‐Valero, Encarnación Moral‐Pajares   +2 more
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Understanding liveability: related concepts and definitions

, 2019
The rapid unplanned urbanization of metropolitan areas has manifested number of challenges in terms of infrastructure, energy consumption, health care, waste management and resilience. Thus, forming “liveable” city for its citizens is an aspiration of
Kulatunga, U, Tennakoon, TMMP, U. Kulatunga, T.M.M.P. Tennakoon   +3 more
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Towards Liveability in Historic Centres: Challenges and Enablers of Transformation in Two Latvian Towns

Urban Planning, 2023
This article describes two Latvian towns, Cēsis and Bauska, which have medieval origins and noticeable layers of subsequent historic periods. Both of their town centres have historic heritage protection status and a complex mixture of values, needs, and ...
Margarita Vološina, Evija Taurene, Pēteris Šķiņķis   +2 more
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Data privacy model using blockchain reinforcement federated learning approach for scalable internet of medical things

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has typical advancements in the healthcare sector with rapid potential proof for decentralised communication systems that have been applied for collecting and monitoring COVID‐19 patient data. Machine Learning algorithms typically use the risk score of each patient based on risk factors, which could help ...
Chandramohan Dhasaratha, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Shayla Islam, Shailesh Khapre, Salwani Abdullah, Taher M. Ghazal, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani, Nasser Alalwan, Nguyen Vo, Md Akhtaruzzaman   +9 more
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Multidimensional disparities in urban liveability across Chinese non-core cities: a typological exploration based on carbon emissions differences

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Decarbonisation has increasingly become a major policy direction globally, deeply intertwined with urban socio-economic development. However, the connection between such a process and urban liveability remains underexplored.
Yizhao Du
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Ecological paradigm of cities in post-Brundtland era: challenges of conserving historic urban landscapes as living cities

Časopis Socìalʹno-Ekonomìčnoï Geografìï. Часопис соціально-економічної географії, 2018
Sustainability has been a pressing, complex, and challenging agenda for urbanists. Its focus turns on wider issues of envi-ronment and societies thus broadening the concept defined in the Brundtland report.
Harsha Munasinghe
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Mineral Oil‐Induced Ageing Characteristics of Aluminium Nitride‐Doped Silicone Rubber Nanocomposites

High Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Room temperature vulcanised (RTV) silicone rubber, commonly used as an external insulating coating on ceramic bushings of oil‐immersed transformers, undergoes significant degradation when exposed to mineral oil under harsh environmental conditions.
Dhanunjaya Naidu Vangapandu, Palash Mishra, Pawel Rozga, R. Sarathi, Mithun Mondal, M. Tariq Nazir, Chillu Naresh   +6 more
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