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Urban form and livability: socioeconomic and built environment indicators
Buildings & Cities, 2021 Spatial relations among urban elements (buildings, streets, etc.) constantly affect the quality of urban spaces, creating more or less livable cities. The study of urban form has been a way of objectively quantifying such relations to understand their ...
Nicholas Martino +2 more
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Special Issue: landscape urbanism and green infrastructure [PDF]
, 2019 With the notion of landscape urbanism long neglected, interlinkages between ecology and architecture in the built environment are becoming visible. Yet, the diversity in understandings of the interconnections between cities and nature is the starting ...
Panagopoulos, Thomas
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Assessing Urban Livability through Residential Preference—An International Survey
Data, 2019 Livability is a popular term for describing the satisfaction of residents with living in a city. The assessment of livability can be of high relevance for urban planning; however, existing assessment methods have various limitations, especially in terms ...
Anna Kovacs-Györi, Pablo Cabrera-Barona
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The Typological Analysis of Livability Approach in Urban Worn-out Textures (Case Study: The Central Worn-out Texture in Zanjan) [PDF]
جغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2018 The analysis of livability in city context should be considered as a hypertext which links between organs of city and the spiritual nature of citizens. The interpretation and explanation of urban livability through its leveling and deep typology analysis
MOHAMAD TAGHI heydari
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Assessing Spatio-Temporal Changes in the Ecological Livability Index (Case Study: Tabriz Metropolis ) [PDF]
برنامه ریزی فضاییA timely and comprehensive assessment of the urban ecological environment and its evolving trends is essential for urban planning, human habitation, and sustainable urban development.
Sajjad Moshiri +5 more
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Impact Measuring in Sustainable Ventures: A Process Perspective
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Impact measurement is crucial for sustainable ventures to quantify their contribution to sustainable development. Although research has highly focused on impact measurement as a static activity, we conduct a qualitative study to explore how impact measuring as a process unfolds over time.
Jan Moellmann +2 more
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Heat risk assessment for the Brussels capital region under different urban planning and greenhouse gas emission scenarios [PDF]
, 2019 Urban residents are exposed to higher levels of heat stress in comparison to the rural population. As this phenomenon could be enhanced by both global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and urban expansion, urban planners and policymakers should integrate ...
Demuzere, Matthias +4 more
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International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability, 2015 Metro Johor is one of the fast emerging metropolitan urban centers where its current progress and spatial transformation have made it a key player in the economic growth of Malaysia.
Dario Gallares Pampanga +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wind energy plays an important role in achieving energy transition and sustainable development goals, yet disparities between socio‐political and community acceptance continue to hinder project implementation. Understanding this gap is essential for designing more socially responsive wind energy policies.
Kaiqi Liu +5 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga +1 more
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