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Neshat Rahmani and Ayyoob Sharifi
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification system is used in this study to analyze the impacts of urban morphology on a surface urban heat island (SUHI). Our study involved a comparative analysis of SUHI effects in two Japanese cities, Sapporo and Hiros...
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Yue Deng and Rixing He
The determination of a reasonable spatial analysis unit is an essential step in urban functional zone (UFZ) division, which significantly affects the results. However, most studies on the division of functional zones are based on excessively large spatia...
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Yan Long, Shiqi Luo, Xi Liu, Tianyue Luo and Xuejun Liu
The urban fringe area is a discontinuous spatial phenomenon that refers to the urban-rural interlacing zone which is undergoing urbanization on the fringe of the core built-up area of a large city after the emergence of industrialization. Dynamic, ambigu...
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Gabriela Azócar de la Cruz, Gabriela Alfaro, Claudia Alonso, Rubén Calvo and Paz Orellana
Wildland fires are a phenomenon of broad interest due to their relationship with climate change. The impacts of climate change are related to a greater frequency and intensity of wildland fires. In this context, megafires have become a phenomenon of part...
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Guangyue Nian, Jian Sun and Jianyun Huang
Road traffic congestion is a common problem in most large cities, and exploring the root causes is essential to alleviate traffic congestion. Travel behavior is closely related to the built environment, and affects road travel speed. This paper investiga...
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Edward J. Anthony, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Valdenira F. dos Santos, Antoine Gardel and Manon Besset
The Amazon River delta may be currently characterized biophysically as a relatively preserved delta compared to the rampant vulnerability of many of the world?s large deltas. This status of relative preservation is reflected in a number of criteria: The ...
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Nikolaos M. Papadakis and Georgios E. Stavroulakis
Noise barriers are a critical part of noise mitigation in urban and rural areas. In this study, a comparison of the insertion loss calculations of noise barriers via the Finite Element Method (FEM) and various formulae (Kurze?Anderson, ISO 9613-2/Tatge, ...
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Junjue Zhang and Fenzhen Su
Current studies of urban spatial morphology have rarely focused on the particularity of coastal cities, such as sea?land gradient features and bay types. In this paper, we provide a method to analyze the spatial and vertical distribution of construction ...
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Joel Dearden, Yi Gong, Mark Jones and Alan Wilson
Urban areas are now the dominant human habitat, with more influence than ever on economies, environment and our health. Dynamic urban models are increasingly applied to explore possible future scenarios of urban development to achieve sustainability. How...
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Edmundo Ximenes Rodrigues Neto,Antônia Jesuita de Lima
Pág. 807 - 828
Analisa-se o padrão de governança que orienta o Programa Lagoas do Norte (PLN), procurando compreender se essa intervenção incorpora as demandas locais. Implantado em 2008 pela Prefeitura Municipal de Teresina, com o apoio do Banco Internacional para Rec...
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