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Elements of urban form [PDF]

, 2009
Combating the undesirable effects of mobility in cities caused by the use of the private car has become a key issue in the development of sustainable urban policy.
Bagaeen, S. G., Jenks, Mike, Frey, H.W., Brown, C., Porta, S., Porta, Sergio, Ferguson, N., Brown, C.T.A., Jones, C., Bramley, G., Jones, Colin, Ferguson, N.S., Dempsey, N., Brown, Caroline, Frey, H., Raman, S., Dempsey, Nicola, Bramley, Glen, Raman, Shibu, Jones, Colin Anthony, Jenks, M., Woods, Lee, Bagaeen, Samer   +22 more
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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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Associating COVID-19 prevalence and built environment design: An explainable machine learning approach

Journal of Urban Management
Stay-at-home orders were globally adopted as one of the most important nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the recent global pandemic. In a high-rise high-density context of Hong Kong, inter-building airborne transmissions were reported ...
Qingyao Qiao, Chongyang Ren, Shuning Chen, Reka Tundokova, Ka Yan Lai, Chinmoy Sarkar, Yulun Zhou, Chris Webster, Eric Schuldenfrei   +8 more
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We must discuss research environments

Royal Society Open Science
A major challenge facing the biomedical community is creating and sustaining high-quality research environments. A literature search identified five common themes underlying biomedical research environments comprising collaboration, data access, user-led
John Gallacher, Chris Webster
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the Risk of COVID-19 Contagion at Urban Scale

Land, 2022
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several methods have been developed to assess the risk of COVID-19 transmission using spatial units of analysis based on administrative limits (e.g., neighborhoods, census sections, and districts).
Juan Francisco Sortino Barrionuevo, Hugo Castro Noblejas, María Jesús Perles Roselló   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Urban Biophilia: The Case of Greenskins for Urban Density [PDF]

Sustainability, 2014
Green infrastructure ameliorates the urban heat island effect, contributes positively to liveability and enables sustainability in higher density urban environments. Greenskins (living architectures) are a more specific form of green infrastructure, including green walls and green roofs, for dense urban areas. These offer a new approach for sustainable
Grant Revell, Martin Anda
openaire   +2 more sources

Simulating urban encroachment upon Natura2000 sites using the MOLAND model : supporting appropriate assessment [PDF]

, 2009
The urban fabric of the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years. This has lead to a decrease in environmental quality throughout the region and disturbance of protected areas.
Brennan, Michael, Shahumyan, Harutyun, Convery, Sheila   +2 more
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Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Urban Area Using SAR

Remote Sensing
Cyclical analyses of dynamic changes in urban areas are critical and necessary for policymakers and societies. Remote sensing data processing methods are currently in place to determine the distribution of built-up and sealed areas on global and ...
Joanna Pluto-Kossakowska, Sandhi Wangiyana   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rural to Urban Population Density Scaling of Crime and Property Transactions in English and Welsh Parliamentary Constituencies [PDF]

, 2016
Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most rural to heavily urban ...
Dan Lewis (1887862), Haroldo V Ribeiro, Lewis, D, Quentin S. Hanley (637406), Quentin S Hanley, Haroldo V. Ribeiro (277883), Hanley, QS, Ribeiro, HV, Dan Lewis   +8 more
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The Urban Sun Belt: An Overview

, 2020
This paper focuses on the 22 metropolitan statistical areas in the Sun Belt with a population of 1 million people or more. Together, they accounted for almost half of all population growth in the entire United States between 2010 and 2016.
Hazle, Shelly G., Choudary, Wendie, Fulton, William, Sherman, Stephen Averill   +3 more
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