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Sustainable Urban Development and Livability

MET Management Review, 2022
Sustainable cities are central to achieving all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). By 2050 cities will contain approximately 70% of the world's population and produce 85 per cent of global economic output. Policy and investment decisions made today will have a deep and long-lasting impact, based on the concentration of people and economic ...
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An evaluation approach for livable urban environments

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013
This study proposes a method for evaluating livable urban environments using the analytic hierarchy process, a survey of public opinions (n=1,075), and gray relational analysis with a pollutant standards index to estimate the weights of weather, air pollution, and environment aspects and each respective factor.
Chia-Ling, Chiang, Jeng-Jong, Liang
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Urban Heat and Livability

2019
The rapidly changing climate is a crisis that, at its core, challenges many of the systems that support human habitation in cities, where the majority of people now live. The local effects of our destabilizing climate are most profound through extreme events, and heat waves are the most notorious for killing more people than all other natural disasters
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