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Graph Based Learning for Building Prediction in Smart Cities

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
Anticipating pedestrians’ activity is a necessary task for providing a safe and energy efficient environment in an urban area. By locating strategically sensors throughout the city useful information could be obtained.
Asier Garmendia-Orbegozo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The diversity of North American shrinking cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Demographically and economically, there is an ongoing global shift that has resulted in the uneven development and distribution of monetary, human and knowledge capital.
Hartt, Maxwell
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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distance and Intensity of Microclimatic Influence Provided by Urban Forest Typologies

open access: yesFloresta e Ambiente, 2018
The main goal of this study was to determine the radius and intensity of the influence that different urban forest typologies exert on their surroundings. Thus, three distinct areas were selected for each type of urban forest: Remaining Forest, Old Green
Angeline Martini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Multidimensional Index for Decision Making in Decentralised Economies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
wiley   +1 more source

Tipologia espacial como uma instância dos layouts urbanos

open access: yesPaisagem e Ambiente, 2000
This paper aims to analyse urban layouts according to local properties of space, trying to describe these local space as types (Hiiiier, 1997j, taking into account the way movement and space control can occur in any of these types of spaces.
Décio Rigatti
doaj   +1 more source

UWG -TRNSYS Simulation Coupling for Urban Building Energy Modelling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper presents a new methodology to carry out building performance simulation at the district scale integrating the building thermal model TRNSYS with the climate model ‘Urban Weather Generator’ (UWG). The integrated methodology
Agnese Salvati, Massimo Palme
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Too Hot to Profit? Climatic Stress and Farm‐Level Performance in Italian Viticulture

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the economic impact of long‐run climatic conditions on Italian wine farms by applying a Ricardian framework to 1431 firms from the 2022 RICA‐FADN survey. We combine farm‐level revenues with viticulture‐specific agroclimatic indicators to assess how climate stress shapes profitability across 77 Italian NUTS3 provinces ...
Diego Grazia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greenery-Covered Tall Buildings: A Review

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
The greenery-covered tall building, an innovative building typology that substantially integrates vegetation into the design, promises to transform urban landscapes into more sustainable and livable spaces.
Kheir Al-Kodmany
doaj   +1 more source

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