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Towards Evidence-Based Sustainable Communities: Report on Survey of Urban Sustainability Centers in U.S. Universities [PDF]

, 2011
Provides an overview of characteristics of urban sustainability research centers, including organizational structure, personnel capacity, finances, current objectives, and recent research topics.
Genevieve Giuliano, Hilda Blanco
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Urban forest structure: A key to urban forest planning

California Agriculture, 1979
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J McBride, D Jacobs
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Structuring urban data

The Visual Computer, 2013
Geometric city modeling is an open problem without standard solutions. Within this problem, there appear several sub-problems that must be faced, like the accurate modeling of streets, buildings and other architectonic structures. One important source of geographical information is (measured) cadastral urban data.
Pueyo Vallet, Oriol, Patow, Gustavo
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Scaling and universality in the micro-structure of urban space [PDF]

, 2003
We present a broad, phenomenological picture of the distribution of the length of open space linear segments, $l$, derived from maps of 36 cities in 14 different countries.
Alan Penn, Batty, Batty, Batty, Benguigui, Benguigui, Eugene Stanley, Frankhauser, Gabaix, Gomes, Gopikrishnan, Gopikrishnan, Hillier, Jiang, Longley, Makse, Makse, Malacarne, Manrubia, Marsili, Plerou, Redner, Rui Carvalho, Schweitzer, Shen, Sornette   +25 more
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An urban general equilibrium model with multiple household structures and travel mode choice [PDF]

Households in real cities are heterogeneous regarding their size and composition. An aspect usually neglected in urban models used to study economic and policy issues that arise in today's cities.
Hirte, Georg, Tscharaktschiew, Stefan
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Unraveling Ecosystem Function Responses to Grazing Intensity through UAV-Based Hyperspectral Analysis

Journal of Remote Sensing
Hyperspectral remote sensing conducted with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is revolutionizing ecological research by enabling fine-scale monitoring of ecosystem functions.
Yi-Wei Zhang, Yanpei Guo, Hong-Tu Zhang, Shenxing Wang, Cunzhu Liang, Tiejun Wang, Zhiyao Tang   +6 more
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The latitudinal pattern of fine root intraspecific trait variation among species in plant communities

Nature Communications
Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) drives plant species performance in natural communities and can have substantial influences on multiple ecological processes.
Mengguang Han, Ying Chen, Dayong Gan, Miao Yu, Rui Li, Yunfeng Han, Jiacun Gu, Shuaifeng Li, Jianrong Su, M. Luke McCormack, Biao Zhu   +10 more
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Effects of whole‐soil warming on ecosystem carbon fluxes in an alpine grassland

Grassland Research
Background Global warming impacts ecosystem carbon exchange, thus altering the carbon sink capacity of terrestrial ecosystems. However, the response of ecosystem carbon fluxes to whole‐soil‐profile warming remains unclear.
Ying Chen, Mengguang Han, Qi Shen, Wenkuan Qin, Zhenhua Zhang, Jin‐Sheng He, Biao Zhu   +6 more
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Demographic trends of the single-industry towns of Belarus in the 21st century

RUDN Journal of Economics, 2018
The comparative spatio-temporal analysis of the demographic development of the singleindustry towns of the Republic of Belarus in 2000-2016 is presented in the article.
E A Antipova, A N Titov
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Urban Space: The Phenomena of Unfinished in the Cities of Montenegro [PDF]

, 2016
Throughout the history of civilisation and architecture, the phenomenon of unfinished has been constantly present. Many historical and sociopolitical developments have caused some buildings and urban areas never to be completed.
Stamatovic Vuckovic, Slavica
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