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The fuzzy boundary: the spatial definition of urban areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Cities seem to have some kind of area structure, usually distinguished in terms of land use types, socio-economic variables, physical appearance or historical and culturalcharacteristics.
Hillier, B, Yang, T
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A stigmergy-based analysis of city hotspots to discover trends and anomalies in urban transportation usage

open access: yes, 2018
A key aspect of a sustainable urban transportation system is the effectiveness of transportation policies. To be effective, a policy has to consider a broad range of elements, such as pollution emission, traffic flow, and human mobility.
Alfeo, Antonio L.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Complexity of Functional Urban Spaces Evolution in Different Aspects: Based on Urban Land Use Conversion

open access: yesComplexity, 2020
The evolution of urban spatial structure and urban land use is a topical issue in urban studies. The analysis of the complexity of functional urban spaces evolution is valuable for a deeper understanding of the changes in urban spatial structure.
Guolei Zhou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Market potential as an indicator for the size of a new relocated football arena: The case KAA Gent a Belgian professional football team [PDF]

open access: yes
The place of Gent in the urban system is that of a regional city with high centrality. This means that consumer-oriented services with a high threshold, such as a professional football team, reach their threshold in the city.
Trudo Dejonghe
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Citizens and Institutions as Information Prosumers. The Case Study of Italian Municipalities on Twitter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The aim of this paper is to address changes in public communication following the advent of Internet social networking tools and the emerging web 2.0 technologies which are providing new ways of sharing information and knowledge.
Calvino, C, Capineri, C, Romano, A
core   +3 more sources

Problems and contradictions in the constitution of a southern european metropolitan area: Catania [PDF]

open access: yes
The Metropolitan Area of Catania has been created with a Regional law of 1986 (together with that of Palermo and Messina). With its 27 municipalities and for its characteristics it resembles, more than any other area in Sicily, a Metropolitan Area (MA ...
Luca Ruggiero
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Analysis of urban functional areas based on graph clustering neural networks

open access: yesJournal of Urban Management
Urban functional areas, as an important fundamental component of urban planning, hold significant importance for optimizing urban layouts, resource allocation, and the rational organization of socio-economic activities.
Huimin Bai   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Response of arthropod species richness and functional groups to urban habitat structure and management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Urban areas are a particular landscape matrix characterized by a fine-grained spatial arrangement of very diverse habitats (urban mosaic). We investigated arthropods to analyse biodiversity-habitat associations along five environmental gradients (age ...
Arlettaz, R.   +4 more
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Walls talk: Microbial biogeography of homes spanning urbanization. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Westernization has propelled changes in urbanization and architecture, altering our exposure to the outdoor environment from that experienced during most of human evolution.
Blaser, Martin J   +12 more
core   +2 more sources

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