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npj Urban Sustainability, 2023 Previous studies have established a significant link between urban form and sustainability. However, the diversity of micro-scale urban forms in cities in the global south has received limited attention, hindered by the lack of neighbourhood-level ...
Aviral Marwal, Elisabete A. Silva
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Social Inclusion, 2017 In this article we describe some innovative methods for observing the possible impacts of roads, junctions and pathways (movement infrastructures), on community life in terms of their affordances and hindrances for social connectivity.
Jamie O'Brien +2 more
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Using mobility data as proxy for measuring urban vitality
Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2018 In this paper, we propose a computational approach to Jane Jacobs' concept of diversity and vitality, analyzing new forms of spatial data to obtain quantitative measurements of urban qualities frequently employed to evaluate places.
Patrizia Sulis +3 more
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Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 2018 Growing consumer concerns with modern farming and food production systems indicate a significant market opportunity for meat production practices that consider ethical, moral and social value traits.
Regan Á., Henchion M, McIntyre B
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Integrating the UAS in Undergraduate Teaching and Research – Opportunities and Challenges at University of North Georgia [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014 The University of North Georgia (UNG) has begun to evaluate both fixed and rotary UAS platforms across the departments to evaluate their potential for furthering both student learning experiences and undergraduate research.
J. B. Sharma, D. Hulsey
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Scaling and allometry in the building geometries of Greater London [PDF]
, 2008 Many aggregate distributions of urban activities such as city sizes reveal scaling but hardly any work exists on the properties of spatial distributions within individual cities, notwithstanding considerable knowledge about their fractal structure.
D. Smith +11 more
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Modelling urban networks using Variational Autoencoders
Applied Network Science, 2019 A long-standing question for urban and regional planners pertains to the ability to describe urban patterns quantitatively. Cities’ transport infrastructure, particularly street networks, provides an invaluable source of information about the urban ...
Kira Kempinska, Roberto Murcio
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Spatial Interactions and resilience in arid ecosystems [PDF]
, 2004 We present a mathematical analysis of the consequences of spatial interactions between vegetation patches by means of water flow for the functioning of arid systems.
Van de Koppel, J. +5 more
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AN AGENT-BASED MODEL TO REPRESENT SPACE-TIME PROPAGATION OF FOREST-FIRE SMOKE [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 Agent-based modeling approaches have been used for various case studies related to the geospatial dynamics of complex systems. The proliferation of forest-fire smoke and the associated airborne particulate matter that behaves as complex systems make it ...
A. K. Smith, S. Dragicevic
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Anonymised human location data in England for urban mobility research
Scientific DataThe rapid expansion of sensor technologies and location-enabled mobile applications has greatly advanced the study of human mobility. Recently emerged sources like mobile app data offer outputs similar to traditional datasets—trip chains, flows, and ...
Chen Zhong +4 more
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