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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

Why Autonomous Vehicles Are Not Ready Yet: A Multi‐Disciplinary Review of Problems, Attempted Solutions, and Future Directions

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong, Massimiliano Cappuccio, Fady Alnajjar, Luqman Ali, Hamad Al Jassmi, Essam Debie, Milad Ghasrikhouzani, Alessandro Lanteri, Tate McGregor, Oleksandra Molloy, Alice Plebe, Michael Regan, Eduardo Sandoval, Dongmo Zhang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reseña de "Boletin desdeldiez" de Centro de Estudios de la Revolución Mexicana "Lazaro Cárdenas"

Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas, 1990
Starting out from the hypothesis of urban selectivity, a typology of popular urban movements in time and space phases is proposed. The typology is constructed in five stages and divided into two phases.
Jesús Galindo
doaj  

Origen y desarrollo de la supermanzana y del multifamiliar en Ciudad de México [PDF]

Ciudades, 2009
The text analyses the origin and development of housing-block units, known in Mexico as “multifamiliares” and implemented within a formula of urban design that separates the pedestrian of the car, the so called superblock, and who were protagonists of ...
Guillermo Sánchez Rueda
doaj  

Urban dynamics in the Flemish countryside: a comparative study on morphological patterns and local economy dynamics [PDF]

, 2011
The article examines two aspects of urbanisation in the rural areas of Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. On the one hand, the evolution of the built environment is studied in terms of built-up density and the corresponding morphological sprawl ...
Allaert, Georges, Pisman, Ann, Tempels, Barbara, Verbeek, Thomas   +3 more
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Extended Strahler Ordering to Distinguish Mapped River Channels From Overland Flow Pathways and Consistently Compare Digital Networks

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital networks are virtual representations of freshwater systems that provide important inputs to, and mapping of, river classifications, simulation models, and quantitative data analyses for policy, planning, and management. Strahler order has often been used to characterize network configuration and as a proxy indicator of river channel ...
Doug Booker, Matt Wilkins, Clare Wilkinson, Rachel Smith   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making water affordable to all: A typology and evaluation of options for urban water pricing [PDF]

An important criterion for the design of urban water prices is the affordability of water supply for poor customers. This paper presents a typology of water pricing options which policy-makers have at their disposal in order to address affordability.
Lehmann, Paul
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Understanding the Socio-Economic Distribution and Consequences of Patterns of Multiple Deprivation: An Application of Self-Organising Maps. ESRI WP302. June 2009 [PDF]

, 2009
In this paper we apply self organising maps (SOM) to a detailed set of material deprivation indicators from the Irish component of European Union Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The first stage of our analysis involves the
Lucchini, Mario, Maitre, Bertrand, Pisati, Maurizio, Whelan, Christopher T.   +3 more
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Urban Housing Typologies Through Modern History

YBL Journal of Built Environment
Abstract Urban housing typologies refer to different ways of designing and constructing various types of housing that exist in urban areas. They can be classified by function, form, shape, construction type, and materials. Several residential building models, typologies, and different solutions have emerged with the aim of solving the ...
Haik Tomajian, János Gyergyák
openaire   +1 more source

Transdisciplinarity From Principles to Practice: Insights From EU Horizon Research Projects on Sustainability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transdisciplinary research (TD) is widely invoked to tackle complex sustainable‐development challenges by integrating scientific and societal knowledge and fostering collaboration among researchers, decision‐makers, practitioners and affected publics.
Carles Vañó‐Agulló, Ana Prades, Josep Espluga, Markku Lehtonen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source