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Editorial: Sustainable Urban Development
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2011link_to_subscribed_fulltext
Zhang, F, Yeh, AGO
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Sustainable Urban Development Models
2021Purpose The identification of sustainable urban development models is the objective of this chapter. Design/Methodology/Approach The indicated literary sources have formed the theoretical basis of this research, and its methodological basis is the method of economic and mathematical modeling of economic systems.
Larisa N. Chizho +2 more
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Developing sustainable urban development models
Cities, 1997The paper focuses on four models of the relations between cities and their environmental hinterlands: these are self-reliance, redesigning the city, external dependency, and the equitable balance or Fair Shares city. Each model has value in pointing towards improved policies for the sustainable city, but none of them provides all the answers.
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Urban Information Systems and Sustainable Urban Development
1998Regional Science has recently formulated a number of new methodological approaches and some quite sophisticated models, many of which relate to the understanding of a systemic approach to urban realities and the search for tools for its development, beginning with the improvement of decision-making processes.
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Urban agriculture and sustainable urban development
2012Another important issue to be addressed is that, worldwide, we are seeing uni-directional food and therefore nutrient flows, from the country to the city, never to be returned to the land. This unsustainable system was pioneered in Rome 2000 years ago with the construction of the ‘cloaca maxima’ through which much of the city’s sewage was flushed into ...
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Sustainable Urban Community Development
2019Urban communities are of great importance as they have the largest landscape area with the highest population density when compared to rural and other communities. In the year 2000, the total urban population worldwide was 47%, which is approximately 2.8 billion people, and it is projected to increase to 60% by 2025.
Salah El-Haggar, Aliaa Samaha
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Developing sustainable urban transportation
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2014Purpose– Shedding light on urban transportation and, more specifically, the contemporary development of “smart” bikesharing systems (i.e. short-term bicycle rental services), the purpose of this paper is to focus on Montreal's bikesharing experiment. Known as BIXI (a contraction of the words BIcycle and taXI) since its inception in 2009, this system ...
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Development, Urbanization and Sustainability
Development, 2011Kamil Khan Mumtaz looks at how the perpetual increase in production and consumption implied by the economic growth model of development and modern urbanization is unsustainable. A sustainable economy would fully recycle all that it consumes, while sustainable cities would be structurally integrated with the regions from which they derive their basic ...
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Urban Environment - Sustainable Development
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007The Article discusses Ecological Sustainable Development and the factors that lead to the ecological degradation in the context of Urbanization. Population growth is the key factor for the environmental urban pollution. Rapid industrialization is taking place at the cost of the ecology causing noise pollution, air pollution etc. Urban transportation is
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Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021Nyuk Hien Wong +2 more
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