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Climate Information for Improved Planning and Management of Mega Cities (Needs Perspective)
(Elsevier BV, 2010)The majority of the population of the planet (6.6 billion) now live in urban areas, which have distinct impacts upon climate at scales from the local to the global. This urban effect is due to the physical form of the city ... -
Commentary: Alternative Cultures in Planning Research--From Extending Scientific Frontiers to Exploring Enduring Questions
(Sage Publications, 2012)As the planning academy has grown and evolved, it has developed different ways of doing planning research. People may (a) work at the scientific frontier, (b) investigate issues of practical relevance, (c) reflect on the ... -
Comparing energy and comfort metrics for building benchmarking
(Elsevier BV, 2019-12)Benchmarking energy use is increasingly mandated and tied to consequences such as fines for underperforming buildings. Yet, standard benchmarking methods and metrics may not adequately align with policymakers’ or building ... -
Compromised or Savvy? Achievable Norms in Urban Design
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The concept of urban intensity and China's townization policy: Cases from Zhejiang Province
(Elsevier BV, 2016)Urban intensity, in this paper, is measured by four related concepts: compactness, diversity, density, and connectivity. Together they lead to a single idea when considering spatial distributions potentially in a virtuous ... -
Confronting Urban Displacement: Social Movement Participation and Post-Eviction Resettlement Success in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Sage Publications, 2012)This article investigates whether urban social movement participation influences post-eviction resettlement success. Pre- and post-eviction interviews were conducted with sixty-four slum dwellers from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, ... -
Congested Cities vs. Sprawl Makes You Fat: Unpacking the Health Effects of Planning Density
(Liverpool University Press, 2018-06)Since the contemporary version of urban planning emerged in the nineteenth century, the field has been centrally concerned with the issue of density. Planners have variously tried to solve problems created by densities ... -
Creating a Replicable, Valid Cross-Platform Buffering Technique: The Sausage Network Buffer for Measuring Food and Physical Activity Built Environments
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2012)Background Obesity researchers increasingly use geographic information systems to measure exposure and access in neighborhood food and physical activity environments. This paper proposes a network buffering approach, the ... -
Cycling, the Built Environment, and Health: Results of a Midwestern Study
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Defining Suburbs
(Sage Publications, 2012)There is no consensus as to what exactly constitutes a suburb. This article examines the range of suburban definitions in terms of their structure and the topical issues that they grapple with. Suburbs have been defined ... -
Delineating urban park catchment areas using mobile phone data: A case study of Tokyo
(Elsevier BV, 2020-05)Urban parks can offer both physical and psychological health benefits to urban dwellers and provide social, economic, and environmental benefits to society. Earlier research on the usage of urban parks relied on fixed ... -
Designing Biologically-inspired Smart Building Systems: Processes and Guidelines
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Do Adolescents Who Live or Go to School Near Fast-Food Restaurants Eat More Frequently from Fast-Food Restaurants?
(Elsevier BV, 2012)This population-based study examined whether residential or school neighborhood access to fast food restaurants is related to adolescents' eating frequency of fast food. A classroom-based survey of racially/ethnically ... -
Does large-sized cities' urbanisation predominantly degrade environmental resources in China? Relationships between urbanisation and resources in Changjiang Delta Region
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)Outward expansion of urban lands in the developing nations is often associated with a substantial loss of environmental resources such as forests, wetlands, freshwater and cash crop fields. Yet, determining how different ... -
The Economic Effects of Green Spaces between Planned and Unplanned Communities in Los Angeles County
(Locke Science Publishing Company, 2018-12)This paper examines the relationship between the sale price of single-family properties and green-space characteristics for three communities in Los Angeles County. The results shed light on how green spaces geographically ... -
Effect of Street Connectivity and Density on Adult BMI: Results from the Twin Cities Walking Study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2012)Background The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the US population has risen dramatically in recent years. To try to explain this, some studies have examined the association between the built environment and obesity ... -
The engineer as judge: engineering analysis and political economy in eighteenth century France
(Informa UK Limited, 2009)The eighteenth century represents a major turning point in French engineers' conception and practice of calculation. This turning point can be described as a transition between the traditional use of arithmetical and ...