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Urban conservation areas and sustainable development: exploring the relationship [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
With increasing emphasis being placed on concentrating development in urban areas and improving the quality of life in British cities and towns, the importance of accommodating necessary development without compromising the valued heritage and ...
Doak, Joe, Lynch, Jane
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Dynamics of urban sprawl [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This paper introduces a framework for understanding the dynamics of urban growth,particularly the continuing problem of urban sprawl. The models we present are based on transitions from vacant land to established development.
Batty, M, Sun, Z, Xie, Y
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‘I don’t care about the city’: the role of connections in job-related mobility decisions of skilled professionals

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science, 2017
Many cities in industrialized countries engage in competition for talent. While scholars have produced rich accounts of why some cities are better equipped than others in attracting skilled workers, the individual decision-making and agency of this group
Cornelia Tippel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the Law of Joint Deformation for Grouted Mortise-Tenon Joint

open access: yesAdvances in Civil Engineering, 2022
This paper analyzes the law of joint deformation of grouted mortise-tenon joint with 1 : 1 prototype test in key working direction types under 38 working conditions of different joint types, tenon lengths, grouting ranges, grouting materials, and loading
Xiuren Yang, Fang Lin, Meiqun Huang
doaj   +1 more source

Study of a new possibility to predict the behavior of high - performance anticorrosive protections applied on steel after their exposure in natural aggressive environments, respectively in laboratory accelerated conditions [PDF]

open access: yesConstructii: Journal of Civil Engineering Research, 2014
As a result of the global warming, notable changes in the climatic regime of Romania were observed in the last 40-50 years by increasing of the maximum temperatures and decreasing of the minimum temperatures characteristic for each season.
Irina POPA, Alexandrina Maria MUREŞANU
doaj  

Modelling the driving forces of Sydney's urban development (1971-96) in a cellular environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
[Abstract]: This paper demonstrates a flexible implementation of rules to control the simulation of urban development of Sydney from 1971 to 1996 using a cellular automata model.
Liu, Yan, Phinn, Stuart
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2015 UDIA state of the land report [PDF]

open access: yes
Providing enough new serviced land in our cities and towns is the key to successfully accommodating our growing population, and is a major challenge for policy makers at all levels of government.
Urban Development Institute of Australia
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Urban Deforestation and Urban Development [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper has developed a model of a single forest owner operating with perfect foresight in a dynamic open-city environment that allows for switching between alternative competing land uses (forest and urban use) at some point in the future.
Maria A. Cunha-e-Sa   +2 more
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Connecting nature and technology: using artificial intelligence to plan greener cities [PDF]

open access: yesPresent Environment and Sustainable Development
The field of spatial planning uses digital technologies as support for planning and decision-making activities. Recently, artificial intelligence technologies started to be used also in green infrastructure planning to allow better decisions and to find ...
Oana-Cătălina POPESCU   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

URBAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [PDF]

open access: yes
Community/Rural/Urban Development,
Scharlach, Wes
core   +1 more source

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