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The Courtyard House: Can a Sustainable Future Learn from a Context Relevant Past

Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2016
This paper looks at the courtyard house as a traditional urban dwellings of yesteryears with a view to explore its potential in informing the housing developments of the future.  In order to address the question, the paper starts with a historical ...
Hocine Bougdah
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Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Christia Meidiana, Abdelkader Anouzla, Faissal Aziz, Imran Ali, Joan Cecilia C. Casila, M. Imran Khan, Dongdong Zhang, Meihui Jiang, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Md Munir Hayet Khan, Kasun Kumara Dissanayake   +12 more
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Closed-Set vs. Open-Vocabulary Object Detectors for Urban Architectural Typology Classification: A Comparative Study on Athenian Heritage Buildings

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Architectural typology classification plays an important role in large-scale documentation and analysis of urban cultural heritage. Recent advances in computer vision enable automated approaches for detecting and categorizing buildings from street-level ...
Konstantinos Filippatos, Konstantina Siountri, Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos   +2 more
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Learning Networks Drive Environmental Innovation: Evidence From Fourth‐Stage Purification Diffusion

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, threaten water quality globally. In the European Union (EU), until the adoption of the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive in 2024, a regulatory gap had left the member states and the municipalities in them without binding removal standards ...
Simon Bulian, Jale Tosun, Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Theresa Baur   +3 more
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The Socialist City as a Distinct Urban Typology in Postwar Europe

, 2018
Socialist cities during their design, construction, and expansion have mostly been studied as an expression of the socialist system itself, directly linked to the political fate of the Communist Parties in power.
Zarecor, Kimberly E.
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Public Opinion About Community Participation in Natural Resources Governance: A Population Survey in Indonesia and Malaysia

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The international conservation and natural resources communities have increasingly embraced the principle of community participation. This rhetoric around participation has gained power and influence in setting countries' agendas for natural resources governance, largely without a sound understanding of public opinion on the issues.
Rachel S. Friedman, Emily Massingham, Kerrie A. Wilson, Angela J. Dean   +3 more
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Toward Comprehensive Climate Action: Assessing Mitigation Approaches Across Canadian Municipalities

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local governments are widely regarded as key leaders in the global response to climate change. Understanding if and how municipalities commit to climate mitigation is crucial for assessing their contribution to global emission‐reduction goals and identifying barriers to effective climate transitions.
Aryana Soliz, Adriane MacDonald, David Talbot, Eduardo Ordonez‐Ponce, Ying Zhou, Samantha Hall Linton, Amelia Clarke, Amr ElAlfy   +7 more
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Urban Bike Scapes in New York:Outline of a new urban typology

, 2017
In recent years New York has developed a whole new web of bicycle routes through some of the most urbane and dense city areas in the world. The article explores what this new, urban typology, which is the result of 'mobility-design' consists of.
Marling, Gitte, Marie Bruun Jespersen, Line; id_orcid, Jespersen, Line Marie Bruun   +2 more
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Graph Neural Network‐Based Prediction of Building Energy Consumption

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
A graph neural network that encodes a multi‐zone building as a graph accurately predicts hourly cooling and heating loads across three distinct climates, outperforming Random Forest and XGBoost baselines and serving as a fast surrogate to EnergyPlus simulations for scalable building energy management.
Ali Maboudi Reveshti, Jamal Dabbagh, Jhila Nasiri Reveshti, Karim Farajeyan Bonab, Farid Hosseini Mansoub   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban typology: city square in Serbia

, 2009
The manuscript titled "Urban Typology: City Square in Serbiaâ", by the author dr Vladan Djokić is one of the rare recent domestic works within the field of urban morphology and typology, which owing to the high standard of its scientific and professional
Djokić, Vladan
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