35 articles in this issue
Alessandro Venerandi, Giovanni Fusco, Andrea Tettamanzi and David Emsellem
Understanding what aspects of the urban environment are associated with better socioeconomic/liveability outcomes is a long standing research topic. Several quantitative studies have investigated such relationships. However, most of such works analysed si... see more
Gualbert Houéménou, Philippe Gauthier, Jonas Etougbétché, Sylvestre Badou, Henri-Joël Dossou, David Agossou, Mathieu Picardeau and Gauthier Dobigny
Leptospirosis is caused by spirochete bacteria of the genus Leptospira that affect one million and kill 60,000 persons annually in the world, who get infected through environmental mammal-excreted (notably rodent) pathogens. Using qPCR and DNA sequencing ... see more
Francesco Cavallaro, Francesco Perono Cacciafoco and Zhi Xuan Tan
This paper is aimed at investigating the applicability of the notion of Sequent Occupance to the Singapore context. Sequent Occupance as a phenomenon in Human Geography was first theorized by Derwent Whittlesey in 1929 in order to describe the current cul... see more
Maria Coronato and Maria Prezioso
Polycentric development, territorial cohesion, and territorial diversity are some of the main principles supported at the European level for reducing regional disparities and for making territories more resilient and diversified, which strengthens the com... see more
Bin Jiang
Discovered by Christopher Alexander, living structure is a physical phenomenon, through which the quality of the built environment or artifacts can be judged objectively. It has two distinguishing properties just like a tree: “Far more small things than l... see more
Eleni G. Linaki
Manish Ramaiah and Ram Avtar
Urbanization offers several opportunities for the growth of economic, social, and technology sectors, offering benefits to society in terms of better living and healthcare facilities, as well as employment opportunities. However, some major downsides of u... see more
Jennifer Kitson, Monica Leiva, Zachary Christman and Pamela Dalton
Odor annoyance negatively impacts residents of communities adjacent to persistent nuisance industries. These residents, often with a high percentage of minority or otherwise marginalized residents, experience subjective and objective impacts on health and... see more
Eunbyul Park, Akio Shimomura, Kiyotatsu Yamamoto and Kazuhiko W. Nakamura
Records indicate the existence of noted natural places, where several people from various classes used to enjoy the natural environment in a part of present-day city of Seoul during the Korean Dynasties period. This study aimed to clarify the traditional ... see more
Lucia Lupi
This paper presents the conceptualisation of the City Data Plan, a data governance policy instrument intended to connect the production and use of urban data in a comprehensive and evolutive long-term strategy aligned with city development goals. The conc... see more
Carina Schneider and Clémentine Cottineau
The most recent English attempts at decentralisation take the shape of the city region devolution policy agenda. Decentralisation claims to empower localities and address regional growth imbalances, while creating a variety of new temporary and selective ... see more
Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès, Marc Vilella, Marc Pons and Robert Garcia Almazan
In the new paradigm of the smart cities world, public opinion is one of the most important issues in the new conception of urban space and its corresponding regulations. The data collection in terms of environmental noise cannot only be related to the val... see more
Gustavo Alberto Cadenas Delascio, Luis E. Hernández-Ponce and Gerardo L. Febres
In a highly and rapidly urbanized world, the effect of the action of urban development is determinant for the physical, social, and economic conditions of its citizens, among which is inequality. It is even more crucial for developing regions such as Lati... see more
Ahmed Ahmouda, Hartwig H. Hochmair and Sreten Cvetojevic
Understanding human mobility patterns becomes essential in crisis management and response. This study analyzes the effect of two hurricanes in the United States on human mobility patterns, more specifically on trip distance (displacement), radius of gyrat... see more
Jennifer Atchison
Darwin’s mangrove ecosystems, some of the most extensive and biodiverse in the world, are part of the urban fabric in the tropical north of Australia but they are also clearly at risk from the current scale and pace of development. Climate motivated marke... see more
Shorouk Omar Elshiwihy and Hassam Nasarullah Chaudhry
Shading techniques constitute one of the most passive, beneficial strategies for reducing energy consumption in urban dwellings. Shading affects many factors, for example, the solar gains and radiations falling on the façade, which are considered the most... see more
Ioanna Skoufali and Alessandra Battisti
The present study is based on the assumption that the urban heat island (UHI) mitigation appears compelling and urgent in dense cities. To the above thematic area, recent redevelopmental interventions of open space for the microclimatic improvement and th... see more
Dan Trepal and Don Lafreniere
We combine the Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI) concept developed within spatial history with elements of archaeological predictive modeling to demonstrate a novel GIS-based landscape model for identifying the persistence of historically-gene... see more
Sheila Convery and Brendan Williams
Despite rapid changes in vehicle technology and the expansion of IT-based mobility solutions, travel habits must be changed to address the environmental and health implications of increasing car dependency. A significant amount of research focuses on comm... see more
Stella Sofia Kyvelou and Anestis Gourgiotis
The research paper investigates the diverse understandings of “landscape”, along with demonstrating the modes of contribution of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) of the Council of Europe (CE) in influencing national spatial planning systems. The pa... see more
Grigoris Argeros
This study investigates black ethnic immigrant group differences in residential outcomes between developing and mature suburbs. It evaluates the extent to which foreign-born black ethnic groups’ socioeconomic status (SES) and acculturation characteristics... see more
Yi-De Liu
Cultural legacy is a relatively neglected theme in event and sustainability studies, compared to economic or physical legacies with solid evidence. This article focuses on the experience of Liverpool as the 2008 European Capital of Culture. An evaluation ... see more
Willem R. J. Vermeulen, Debraj Roy and Rick Quax
Human migration involves the relocation of individuals, households or moving groups between geographical locations. Aggregate spatial patterns of movement reflect complex interactions among motivations (such as distance, identity, economic opportunities, ... see more
Shunsuke Sekiguchi
The purposes of this study were to; (i) estimate the efficiency of local government expenditure by province and city in Vietnam, (ii) test if there was a change in the efficiency of local government expenditure with the rapid development of Vietnam, and (... see more
Stefano Loppi, Adelmo Corsini and Luca Paoli
Air quality monitoring in many urban areas is based on sophisticated and costly equipment to check for the respect of environmental quality standards, but capillary monitoring is often not feasible due to economic constraints. In such cases, the use of li... see more
Daniel Yonto, L. Michele Issel and Jean-Claude Thill
Spatial data analytics can detect patterns of clustering of events in small geographies across an urban region. This study presents and demonstrates a robust research design to study the longitudinal stability of spatial clustering with small case numbers... see more
Nashid K. Khadem, Md Muhib Kabir, Snehanshu Banerjee and Mansoureh Jeihani
In contemporary times, bike sharing programs are gaining importance as an influential transportation mode in both urban and rural areas. They are also used as a vital transportation mode on university campuses which serve as a healthy and environmentally-... see more
Kimihiro Sakagami, Fumiaki Satoh and Akira Omoto
In this paper, we revisit the acoustics education program using mobile devices to better understand urban environments. We begin with a summary of our past projects to demonstrate a model case of the concept. In these projects, the output was mainly suppo... see more
Ka Yan Lai, Iain Scott and Ziwen Sun
As the number of historical urban cemeteries where interment is no longer available continues to grow, the everyday use and restorative benefit of these spaces (beyond commemoration and remembrance) is worthy of further exploration. This study primarily i... see more
Rosmina A. Bustami, Chris Brien, James Ward, Simon Beecham and Robyn Rawlings
Living walls (LW) have been widely proposed as a form of green infrastructure to improve aesthetics, energy consumption, and microclimate in urban environments by adding densely-planted vegetation to the outside walls of buildings. Scientific studies usin... see more
Carlos Carrion and David Levinson
The underlying structure of road networks (e.g., circuity, relative discontinuity) contributes to the travel time perception of travelers. This study considers additional factors (e.g., arrival flexibility, access to traffic information) and tests nonline... see more
Emma Terama, Juha Peltomaa, Maija Mattinen-Yuryev and Ari Nissinen
Urban sustainability has been used to cover multiple aspects of urban development. Terms related to sustainability have been generously used to advance ubiquitous and hard-to-measure targets not least in response to global and national sustainable develop... see more
Robert Krzysztofik, Iwona Kantor-Pietraga and Franciszek Klosowski
The socio-economic transformation of (post)mining towns takes different forms and follows varied pathways. This obvious fact acquires a different significance in a region that is a polycentric urban conurbation whose growth was based on coal mining and in... see more
Franco Jauregui-Fung, Jeffrey Kenworthy, Samar Almaaroufi, Natalia Pulido-Castro, Sara Pereira and Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Lima, as the capital of Peru, has become its first megacity with more than 10 million people in an area that extends over 80 km in a North-South direction. As a city of this size, it faces complex mobility issues with a strong reliance on informal transpo... see more
Evgeniya Bobkova, Lars Marcus, Meta Berghauser Pont, Ioanna Stavroulaki and David Bolin
Plot systems (also referred to as “property”, “parcel”, or “lot”) are generally recognised as the organisational framework of urban form that contributes to the economic performance of cities. However, studies that link the spatial form of plots to econom... see more