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Unbalanced forest displacement across the coastal urban groups of eastern China in recent decades.

Science of the Total Environment, 2019
The Jing-Jin-Ji urban group (JJJug), the Yangtze River Delta urban group (YRDug) and the Pearl River Delta urban group (PRDug) are major urban groups of eastern China that play crucial roles in the economy and ecology. With rapid urbanization, demand for
Yingying Ji, Jiaxin Jin, Qingsong Zhu, Shijie Zhou, Ying Wang, Pengxiang Wang, Yuanyuan Xiao, Fengsheng Guo, Xudong Lin, Jianhui Xu   +9 more
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Identification of representative buildings and building groups in urban datasets using a novel pre-processing, classification, clustering and predictive modelling approach

Building and Environment, 2018
The formulation of energy policies for urban building stock frequently requires the evaluation of the energy use of large numbers of buildings. When urban energy modelling is utilised as part of this process, the identification of building groups and ...
Giovanni Tardioli, R. Kerrigan, M. Oates, James O’Donnell, D. Finn   +4 more
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“Perception bias”: Deciphering a mismatch between urban crime and perception of safety

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021
Crime and perception of safety are two intertwined concepts affecting the quality of life and the economic development of a society. However, few studies have quantitatively examined the difference between the two due to the lack of granular data ...
Fan Zhang, Zhuangyuan Fan, Yuhao Kang, Yujie Hu, C. Ratti   +4 more
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A meta-model of group for urban mobility modeling

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Active Media Technology, 2005. (AMT 2005)., 2005
Mobility is a concept which is studied in many research areas as astronomy, sociology, physics, and so on. Urban mobility study aims at looking and designing human displacements in an urban environment. In the literature, two main kinds of mobility are emergent: macroscopic displacements and microscopic movements.
Nicolas Marilleau, Christophe Lang, Pascal Chatonnay, Laurent Philippe 0001   +3 more
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Urban Interest Groups

2010
AbstractThis article explores the changing nature of urban interest group politics and contrasts trends and developments at the urban level with what is known about lobbies in Washington. It also examines the barriers to entry for interest group politics and finds strikingly low barriers at the local level.
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Spatial distributions and use patterns of user groups in urban forest parks: An examination utilizing GPS tracker

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2018
Understanding the spatial distributions of visitors is critical for urban forest park planning and management. Utilizing GPS trackers and a survey, this study focuses on two large urban forest parks in Shanghai to identify the main user groups and ...
Yujia Zhai, Perver K. Baran, Chengzhao Wu   +2 more
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Urban Brands and Tsg Capital Group, Llc

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
This case is designed to illustrate the methods private-equity investors use in assessing the value of market opportunities--in this instance, a plus-size clothing retailer targeted to African-American and Hispanic women. The case addresses several issues, including niche marketing, urban development, and the challenge of evaluating market potential ...
Gregory B. Fairchild, Joe Toomer
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Occlusion among a group of Tanzanian urban schoolchildren

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1988
Abstract Occlusion and its variations were studied in a group of primary schoolchildren (n= 642, age 11–18 yr) in Dar es Salaam. Most children (96%) had Angle's Class I occlusion. Distal and mesial bite were rare in the sample, representing 3% and 1%, respectively.
H, Kerosuo, T, Laine, E, Kerosuo, D, Ngassapa, E, Honkala   +4 more
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Ethnic Groups in Urban Education

International Social Work, 1974
The concept of urban education is seen as education conducted under certain conditions and in a particular environment—for example, in inner city areas where immigrant groups have settled. Greek children in State schools in the inner city of Sydney serve as an example. It is suggested that for the local Australian pupils, and for those for whom English
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Urban History Group Meeting

Urban History, 1974
This was the tenth anniversary meeting of the Urban History Group though only the sixth occasion on which there had been a formal programme of papers. So many came – over 160 – that we felt for the first time the loss of the old intimate, bantering style of discussion, and slipped instead into more formal speeches pitched for the most part on a rather ...
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