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Measuring Change in Urban Land Consumption: A Global Analysis
LandAn issue of concern in landscape and urban planning, articulated in the United Nation’s (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is the increase in urban land consumption over time.
Shlomo Angel +2 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Human water demand constrains China's feasible afforestation potential more strongly than is commonly recognized, and future climate change further intensifies this limitation. Integrating land‐use optimization with water‐saving measures substantially expands feasible afforestation area and associated carbon sinks, revealing a practical pathway to ...
Binbin Huang +5 more
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ESTOA: Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de CuencaThe performance of residential densification and the potential to generate conditions for urbanity in public space are investigated. The objective is to identify the interrelationships between density ranges, residential types, and spatial conditions ...
Pablo Dario Avalos, M. Cecilia Marengo
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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]
, 2013 The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu +7 more
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[Ein schön Cantzleysch Tittelbuch inn reden und schreybenn nach Rettorischer ardt ...]
[by Urban Wyss]Vom Schreibmeister und Holzschneider Urban Wyss im Blockdruck hergestelltes ...
Wyss, Urban
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A Few Square Meters: Blurring Boundaries and Designing for Urban Density in Hong Kong
, 2022 A few square meters. This is the amount of space most Hong Kong residents can call their own in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. This thesis will aim to re-imagine these ‘few square meters’, in the home, and in the city, by way of ...
Outerbridge, Samantha
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The Potential of Self‐Maintainable Living Materials
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Self‐maintainable living materials are presented as the next generation of bioadaptive systems, integrating continuous sensing, decision‐making, response, self‐repair, and adaptation in a closed‐loop framework. This review highlights the design principles and emerging technologies that enable autonomous, long‐term functionality for future regenerative ...
Mohammadsadegh Nadimifar +4 more
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Towards urban un-sustainability in Europe? An indicator-based analysis [PDF]
In this article we analyse the relationship between urban land use development and population density in fifteen European urban areas. In the last 20 years the extent of built-up areas in Europe has increased by 20%, exceeding clearly the 6% rate of ...
Jose I. Barredo +3 more
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Multi‐Functional Smart Skin for High‐Efficiency Energy‐Saving Buildings
Advanced Science, EarlyView.A scalable multifunctional smart skin (MSS) with broadband modulation, zero‐energy input controllable operation mode, and thermal insulation is designed by assembling thermal managing unit of high solar reflectance and low thermal conductivity and actuation unit of multi‐responsive shape‐memory effect.
Zongxu Na +5 more
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