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GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS) for city- and street- scale urban simulations: Development and first applications. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Data, 2022
We introduce University of Texas - GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS), a dataset providing building heights and urban canopy parameters (UCPs) for more than 1200 city or locales worldwide.
Kamath HG   +10 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Urban Remote Sensing with Spatial Big Data: A Review and Renewed Perspective of Urban Studies in Recent Decades

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
During the past decades, multiple remote sensing data sources, including nighttime light images, high spatial resolution multispectral satellite images, unmanned drone images, and hyperspectral images, among many others, have provided fresh opportunities
Danlin Yu, C. Fang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?

open access: yesUrban studies, 2023
This paper critically examines why urban studies should be interested in the emergence of controlled environment agriculture. Over the last decade, there has been significant commercial and urban policy interest in controlled environment agriculture ...
Simon Marvin   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies

open access: yesDialogues in Human Geography, 2023
Despite global academic interest, the field of urban China continues to be dominated by exceptionalist theorising. Given that the unique properties of Chinese urbanisation present rich cases for an engaged pluralism in urban studies, we argue for ...
S. S. Teo, C. Chung, Zheng Wang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world

open access: yesDialogues in Urban Research, 2023
This paper poses the question of what the proliferation of urban research centres across the world means for urban studies as a field of research, what this tells us about the (uneven) geographies of urban knowledge production and circulation, and who ...
Bas van Heur
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A more global urban studies, besides empirical variation

open access: yesUrban studies, 2022
An expanded set of sites, a more differentiated set of references and linguistic diversification have been discussed as needed changes in urban studies. The critiques of the limitations of urban studies, in terms of both the scholarship and the scholars,
Julie Ren
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Classification prediction model of indoor PM2.5 concentration using CatBoost algorithm

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2023
It is increasingly important to create a healthier indoor environment for office buildings. Accurate and reliable prediction of PM2.5 concentration can effectively alleviate the delay problem of indoor air quality control system. The rapid development of
Zhenwei Guo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Employer-paid transit subsidies and travel behaviour: Experimental evidence from Vancouver hotels

open access: yesJournal of Urban Mobility, 2021
We report findings from an experimental study of the impacts of employer-paid transit subsidies on workers at downtown hotels in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Peter Hall   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory urban governance: Multilevel study

open access: yesPLOS ONE, 2020
Constraints and stakeholder theories are used as a theoretical framework to explore civic engagement and participatory practices in cities. Based on data gathered in Gdansk, Poland, hierarchical level modelling examines the socio-psychological mechanism that underlies an individual stakeholder's intention to participate in the operation of a facility ...
Piotr Zientara   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Permanent and seasonal human presence in the coastal settlements of Lecce

open access: yesTeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022
This paper presents the first results of analyses carried out using mobile phone data on human presence (residents, commuters, visitors) in the coastal territory of Lecce (Italy).
Francesco Curci   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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