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Calculating population density for MOLAND in the Dublin urban area [PDF]

, 2008
The EPA-funded Urban Environment Project seeks to apply MOLAND, a cellular automata based model, to predict a range of urban impacts in the Greater Dublin Region from 2006 onwards.
Foley, Ronan, Critchley, Martin, Convery, Sheila   +2 more
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A quasi-experimental analysis on the causal effects of COVID-19 on urban park visits: The role of park features and the surrounding built environment

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2023
Although many studies have explored the correlations between mobility intervention policies and park use during COVID-19, only a few have used causal inference approaches to assessing the policy’s treatment effects and how such effects vary across park ...
Wen-Jia Zhang, Jing-Kang Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

More urbanization, more polarization: evidence from two decades of urban expansion in China

npj Urban Sustainability
This article examines whether the patterns of urbanization in China over the past twenty years have resulted in a more balanced or increasingly polarized city size distribution.
Yi'na Hu, Dylan S Connor, Michelle Stuhlmacher, Jian Peng, B. Turner   +4 more
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Urban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective

npj Urban Sustainability
A growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk management (FRM). However, whether NbS for FRM (NbS-FRM) achieves both social and ecological co-benefits remains largely unknown.
Kejing Zhou, Fanhua Kong, Hai-Wei Yin, G. Destouni, Michael E. Meadows, Erik Andersson, Liding Chen, Bin Chen, Zhenya Li, Jie Su   +9 more
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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use and perceptions of urban green space: An international exploratory study

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2020
Highlights • We investigated the change in visitation of urban green spaces (UGS) during COVID-19 pandemic.• Social isolation reduced extent, type and distance of visited UGS on the basis of legal restrictions.• Reasons for visiting UGS changed from non ...
F. Ugolini, L. Massetti, Pedro Calaza-Martínez, P. Cariñanos, Cynnamon Dobbs, S. K. Ostoić, A. Marin, D. Pearlmutter, H. Saaroni, I. Šaulienė, Maja Simoneti, Andrej Verlič, D. Vuletić, G. Sanesi   +13 more
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Urban agriculture — A necessary pathway towards urban resilience and global sustainability?

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need to question the desired degree of food self-sufficiency through urban agriculture.
J. Langemeyer, Cristina Madrid‐López, Angelica Mendoza Beltran, Gara Villalba Mendez   +3 more
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Urban water infrastructure: A critical review on climate change impacts and adaptation strategies

Urban Climate
Urban water infrastructure (UWI) plays a critical role in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) by providing safe drinking water, sanitation, and wastewater management, and contributing to sustainable cities.
A. Ferdowsi, F. Piadeh, K. Behzadian, Sayed-Farhad Mousavi, Mohammad Ehteram   +4 more
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Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it

Urban Geography, 2022
Social infrastructure is an emerging research frontier in urban geography and urban studies. This editorial introduction provides a concise introduction to the term. It briefly sets out the intellectual provenance of the concept of social infrastructure,
A. Latham, Jack Layton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research

Urban Geography
New digital technologies and systems are being extensively applied in urban contexts. These technologies and systems include algorithms, robotics, drones, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and autonomous systems that can collectively be labelled as Artificial ...
Federico Caprotti, Federico Cugurullo, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Simon Marvin, Pauline Mc̲Guirk, Alan-Miguel Valdez   +6 more
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Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements

Journal of urban health, 2020
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent ...
Jason Corburn, D. Vlahov, B. Mberu, L. Riley, W. Caiaffa, S. Rashid, A. Ko, Sheela Patel, S. Jukur, E. Martínez-Herrera, S. Jayasinghe, S. Agarwal, Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi, Jane Weru, S. Ouma, K. Edmundo, T. Oni, H. Ayad   +17 more
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