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Jou-Man Huang and Liang-Chun Chen
With the global warming effect and the rapid growth of global urbanization, the concept of urban heat islands (UHIs) has become one of the most important environmental issues in the world. Early studies on UHIs mostly focused on highly developed, large c...
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Albert Bourassa, Philippe Apparicio, Jérémy Gelb and Geneviève Boisjoly
Many studies have proven that urban greenness is an important factor when cyclists choose a route. Thus, detecting trees along a cycling route is a major key to assessing the quality of cycling routes and providing further arguments to improve ridership ...
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Mohammad Paydar, Asal Kamani Fard and Soheil Sabri
Although an increase in walking is recommended to improve physical activity and public health, especially among older adults, the frequency of outdoor pedestrian activities, including walking, should be reduced when there is increased air pollution. Ther...
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Wanshu Wu, Jinhan Guo, Ziying Ma and Kai Zhao
Safety is an important quality of street space that affects people?s psychological state and behavior in many ways. Previous large-scale assessment of street safety focuses more on social and physical factors and has less correlation with spatial design,...
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Fan Xue, Xiao Li, Weisheng Lu, Christopher J. Webster, Zhe Chen and Lvwen Lin
Recent technological advancements in geomatics and mobile sensing have led to various urban big data, such as Tencent street view (TSV) photographs; yet, the urban objects in the big dataset have hitherto been inadequately exploited. This paper aims to p...
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Yoganand Korgaonkar, David Phillip Guertin, Thomas Meixner and David C Goodrich
Green Infrastructure (GI) practices are being implemented in numerous cities to tackle stormwater management issues and achieve co-benefits such as mitigating heat island effects and air pollution, as well as water augmentation, health, and economic bene...
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Feng Gao, Shaoying Li, Zhangzhi Tan, Xiaoming Zhang, Zhipeng Lai and Ziling Tan
Dockless bike sharing plays an important role in residents? daily travel, traffic congestion, and air pollution. Recently, urban greenness has been proven to be associated with bike sharing usage around metro stations using a global model. However, their...
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Yingbin Deng, Yingwei Yan, Yichun Xie, Jianhui Xu, Hao Jiang, Renrong Chen and Runnan Tan
Walking is one of the most commonly promoted traveling methods and is garnering increasing attention. Many indices/scores have been developed by scholars to measure the walkability in a local community. However, most existing walking indices/scores invol...
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Nancy Alvan Romero, Francesca Cigna and Deodato Tapete
The coastline environment and urban areas of Peru overlooking the Pacific Ocean are among the most affected by El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, and its cascading hazards such as floods, landslides and avalanches. In this work, the complete arc...
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Francesca Conti,Angelo Pasquale D'Angelo,Ricardo Tendero Caballero
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The following work concerns a building located in the northern area of Madrid, at 29 Apolonio Morales street, close to Paseo del Habana and surrounded by medium height residential buildings and private garden areas. Based on a climatic analysis of the ci...
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