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How urban form impacts flooding [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Urbanization and climate change are contributing to severe flooding globally, damaging infrastructure, disrupting economies, and undermining human well-being.
Sarah K. Balaian +2 more
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Urban Planning, 2023 In this editorial of the thematic issue on car dependency and urban form, we provide a concise bibliometric overview that examines the prevalence of the concept of car dependency in relation to the built environment.
Kobe Boussauw, Enrica Papa, Koos Fransen
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Urban form and productivity: What shapes are Latin-American cities? [PDF]
Environ Plan B Urban Anal City Sci, 2022 This paper examines the linkages between urban form and city productivity using seven alternative metrics for urban form and applying them to a comprehensive sample of Latin-American cities. While most of the literature has concentrated on the effects of
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Learning from urban form to predict building heights. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Understanding cities as complex systems, sustainable urban planning depends on reliable high-resolution data, for example of the building stock to upscale region-wide retrofit policies.
Milojevic-Dupont N +8 more
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Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2020 Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they are major drivers of environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, they are especially vulnerable to these changes owing to the concentration of population and their ...
Demuzere M +5 more
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021 Amenities at bus stops are thought to affect transit ridership, yet this relationship is rarely quantified. We assembled data on ridership and stop amenities, including Real-Time Information System (RTIS), shelters, lighting, litter receptacles, benches,
Xiao Shi +5 more
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Methodological foundation of a numerical taxonomy of urban form [PDF]
Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, 2021 Cities are complex products of human culture, characterised by a startling diversity of visible traits. Their form is constantly evolving, reflecting changing human needs and local contingencies, manifested in space by many urban patterns.
Martin Fleischmann +3 more
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Land surface and air temperature dynamics: The role of urban form and seasonality.
Science of the Total Environment, 2023 Due to the scarcity of air temperature (Ta) observations, urban heat studies often rely on satellite-derived Land Surface Temperature (LST) to characterise the near-surface thermal environment.
Marzie Naserikia +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives Physical activity is a cornerstone of chronic disease prevention and treatment, yet most US adults do not perform levels recommended for health. The neighborhood–built environment (BE) may support or hinder physical activity levels. This study
Glen E Duncan +4 more
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Urban Science, 2023 The concept of resilience was only recently introduced into urban studies to address the complexity and future uncertainty in cities. In particular, the interest in better understanding how it can be integrated into studying urban form—as the raw ...
A. Eldesoky, Walid S. Abdeldayem
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