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Project report. A subtropical urban community, investigating medium to high density residential typologies by Design Charrette [PDF]

, 2009
The Centre for Subtropical Design at QUT, in partnership with the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council, conducts research focused on 'best practice' outcomes for higher density urban living environments in the subtropics through the study of ...
Kennedy, Rosemary
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Accessing Resources in Arrival Neighbourhoods: How Foci-Aided Encounters Offer Resources to Newcomers

Urban Planning, 2020
Numerous studies have stressed the importance of social networks for the transfer of resources. This article focuses on recently arrived immigrants with few locally embedded network contacts, analysing how they draw on arrival-specific resources in their
Nils Hans, Heike Hanhörster
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Impacts of large scale development: does space make a difference? [PDF]

, 2005
Large scale development, a process to rapidly transform urban built environment since the industrial modernism, has been often criticized for creating fragmented environments that impair urban vitality.
Yang, Tao
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Smart City Development with Urban Transfer Learning

, 2018
Nowadays, the smart city development levels of different cities are still unbalanced. For a large number of cities which just started development, the governments will face a critical cold-start problem: 'how to develop a new smart city service with ...
Guo, Bin, Wang, Leye, Yang, Qiang
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Mapping access to medical service provision at micro-scale: Dynamics in supply and demand in Germany

Raumforschung und Raumordnung
This paper demonstrates an approach to the problem of micro-scale analysis of medical service provision in Germany. Research focuses include estimating population dynamics, mapping access to medical facilities and identifying spatial patterns in medical
Denis Reiter, Robert Hecht, Mathias Jehling   +2 more
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"Edible" urban forests as part of inclusive, sustainable cities [PDF]

, 2018
Feeding an increasingly urban population and ensuring the economic and social well-being of urban dwellers will be the primary challenge for cities in coming decades.
Cari\uf1anos, Paloma, Castro, Jos\ue9, Fini, Alessio, Ostoi\u107, Silvija Krajter, Sitzia, Tommaso   +4 more
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Disrupting comfort: From low-carbon to low-impact cities

Raumforschung und Raumordnung
In this commentary, we argue for the low-impact city as an alternative to the dominant urban imaginary of the low-carbon city. We adopt an ecological economics lens to expose the limitations of the urban resource efficiency paradigm when tackling ...
Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Neelakshi Joshi, Lasare Samartzidis   +2 more
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Research Strategies on New Prefabricated Technology for Underground Metro Stations

Urban Rail Transit, 2019
Based on the first successful application of new prefabricated technology in underground metro stations on line 2 of the Changchun Metro in China, a comprehensive analysis and discussion on research strategies for new prefabricated technology for large ...
Xiuren Yang, Meiqun Huang, Fang Lin
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Local authorities planning for urban sustainability - towards implementing energy conservation policies in development plan [PDF]

, 2005
This study aims to examine lessons learned from local authorities in United Kingdom on how policies on energy conservation can be incorporated in their development plan.
Ho, Chin Siong
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Sites for sustainability transitions: the interplay of urban experiments and socio-spatial configurations in transforming habits

Urban Transformations
Urban experiments intervene in selected sites to initiate transition processes. But how do the socio-spatial characteristics of these sites affect urban experiments and vice versa?
Anna Baatz, Franziska Ehnert, Kristin Reiß   +2 more
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