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Heavy metal pollution in urban river sediment of different urban functional areas and its influence on microbial community structure.

Science of the Total Environment, 2021
In this study, the Songgang River (SR) was selected as a typical contaminated urban river in a highly urbanized city (Shenzhen) that is extensively polluted by heavy metals (HMs).
Feng Wang   +9 more
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Case study report Amsterdam Functional Urban Area

2023
The current document is the result of the research activities carried out in Work Package 3 (WP3) of the UPLIFT project1 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It aims to understand which micro, meso and macro level factors influence vulnerable young people's decisions in education, employment and housing, and how these young people create their own strategies
Gentili, M. (author)   +1 more
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Functional Urban Areas in Colombia

OECD Regional Development Working Papers, 2016
This paper applies the OECD-EU methodology to identify the functional urban areas (FUAs) in Colombia. Using the municipal boundaries, population grid data and inter-municipalities commuting flows from the 2005 population census, the paper identifies 53 FUAs accounting for 27 million people, or 63% of the national population. The resulting FUAs are then
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Pollution characteristics, sources and health risk of metals in urban dust from different functional areas in Nanjing, China.

Environmental Research, 2021
Urban dust is an important medium of potential toxic metal (PTM) pollution that affects human health and the urban ecosystems. A total of 374 fugitive dust samples were collected in Nanjing, a fast-developing city in southern China, including six sub ...
Junfeng Wang   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Functional Urban Areas—Theoretical Background

2019
This chapter explores the theoretical insight behind the concept of functional regions as areas that integrate cities into their immediate hinterland. The literature on urban development from a demographic context will also be explored, including a wide ranging literature overview on population processes, namely the second demographic transition and ...
Sławomir Kurek   +2 more
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Simulation of urban functional zone air temperature based on urban weather generator (UWG): a case study of Beijing, China

International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2023
Rapid urbanization has led to many urban thermal environment problems. Most studies focus on analysing the urban thermal environment from the perspective of land-use type, and often at a large scale. Thus, research of urban spatial thermal environment at
H. Huo   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating Functions in Urban-Rural Areas

1997
There is a general consensus among the scientific community and the general public that rural areas on the periphery of towns play a strategic role in regional planning.
Giovanna De Fano, Giovanni Grittani
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