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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2019 Approaches and concepts nurturing interdisciplinary knowledge on urban ecosystems have evolved over recent decades and adopted a series of metaphors, including Ecosystem services (ES), Green infrastructure (GI), and Nature-based solutions (NBS ...
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Lessons from Harvey: Crisis Informatics for Urban Resilience
, 2018 Residents, first responders and officials all turned to social media during Hurricane Harvey to impart information and make calls for assistance. This report demonstrates some of the work that could be done with this type of information. It suggests that
Martinez, Matthew +2 more
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Tropical urban design in Australia
, 2013 [Extract] At the expense of sounding clichéd, the tropics are 'different' to other places. Whether it is because of the heat, torrential rain or even cyclones, the tropical world presents a challenge and opportunity for urban designers. Many envy the '
Law, Lisa, Anderson, Allison
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Will Migration Worsen Urban Safety? Empirical Studies in Shanghai
, 2015 Poverty, crime rates increase and decrease in social security are often considered as “Urban Disease” during the process of urbanization and large amount of migrants’ influx into cities.
Tan, Jing, Ren, Yuan
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Urban forum pilot project [PDF]
, 1972 Report: 10 p., digital fileThe objective of this project will be to design, establish and implement a system of two-way information flow to enable policymakers in government to understand the perceptions and reactions of people on a range of policy ...
Institute of Urban Studies
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, 2006 most urban design literature is assertively premised on value being added to urban environments that receive design attention. However hard evidence in support of this is rarely provided.
Holden, Gordon
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Urban space production in transition : the cases of the new urban areas of Hanoi
, 2015 In recent decades, hundreds of master-planned new urban areas (NUAs) have developed on the urban fringes of expanding cities in Vietnam. They are promoted as a new urban planning concept in the post-reform policies.
Tran, Hoai Anh
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Consonance in urban form : morphogenetic analysis of architectural elements within urban forms
, 2009 "By understanding how places have evolved, we are better able to guide development and change in the urban fabric and avoid the incongruity created by so much of the modern environment" (MacCormac, R (1996), An anatomy of London, Built Environment, Dec ...
Sanders, Paul S.
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