GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS) for city- and street- scale urban simulations: Development and first applications. [PDF]
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
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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
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The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?
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
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Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies
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
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What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world
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
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A more global urban studies, besides empirical variation
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
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Classification prediction model of indoor PM2.5 concentration using CatBoost algorithm
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
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Employer-paid transit subsidies and travel behaviour: Experimental evidence from Vancouver hotels
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
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Participatory urban governance: Multilevel study
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
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Permanent and seasonal human presence in the coastal settlements of Lecce
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
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