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Bajnai, László, and Attila Józsa. "An Insight into Operational Urban Development in Hungary in the Light of Regulation-Based Urban Development." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies 13, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 39–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/auseur-2018-0004.
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Abstract An operational urban development relying on the structured cooperation of the public and private sectors is indispensable to purposefully address the challenges posed by sustainable development. Its evolution in Hungary may serve as inspiration for other countries as well. In the period preceding the regime change, it underwent a much more significant disruption as compared to regulation-based urban development. Afterwards, its methods, procedures, and instruments suitable for use in a democratic rule-of-law state and under market economy conditions had to be rebuilt from scratch. For this to happen, two external factors provided assistance: the French–Hungarian urban development cooperation and the EU. As a result, we could witness the successful development of the methods as well as of the conceptual, strategic, and operational planning tools forming a coherent system of operational urban development planning carried through with the public sector’s physical intervention into the urban tissue.
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Zacharias, John. "Addressing Global Climate Change With Big Data-Driven Urban Planning Policy." International Journal of E-Planning Research 10, no. 4 (October 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijepr.20211001.oa1.
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Cities in China gather data to support strategic and operational management, including databases on buildings, land use, human occupancy, underground services, and travel surveys. However, these data are seldom used to analyze policy decisions, with urban planning confined largely to operational planning. Real estate and financial interests dominate strategic planning, while an ecological crisis threatens urban sustainability in the long run. In this research, carbon emissions (CE) related to planning, building, and intra-urban travel are measured for two representative types of typical urban development in southern China, using data from Shenzhen. The two types are contemporary planned units (PUD) and dense, low-rise developments (VSD). It is found that VSD accounts for less than one-third the CE of PUD, although there is considerable diversity in the performance of PUD. Based on this research, major reductions in CE can be achieved by focussing urban planning policy on carbon-efficient development.
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Janssen, Céline, Tom A. Daamen, and Co Verdaas. "Planning for Urban Social Sustainability: Towards a Human-Centred Operational Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 13, 2021): 9083. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13169083.
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In Europe, growing concerns about social segregation and social stability have pushed calls to make cities ‘inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ higher on policy agendas. However, how to approach such generic policy objectives and operationalise them for planning practices is still largely unclear. This article makes a conceptual contribution to the operational understanding of social sustainability in urban planning practices. The article argues that, between theoretical concept and operational forms, different evaluative approaches towards social sustainability may be taken. Evaluating three dimensions of policy operationalisations in The Netherlands, we argue that Amartya Sen’s capability approach provides a promising conceptual framework for operationalising social sustainability in cities in Europe and beyond. We compare capabilities with a more commonly applied resource-based conception to show that the former is more accurate and potentially more effective, because it shifts the evaluative space of social sustainability from means (i.e., urban resources) to ends: the eventual well-being of urban citizens.
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Gharehbaghi, Koorosh, Bambang Trigunarsyah, and Addil Balli. "Sustainable Urban Development." International Journal of Strategic Engineering 3, no. 2 (July 2020): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijose.2020070104.
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Due to Melbourne's ongoing growth, there is continuous pressure on its transportation infrastructure. Further, to maintain its position as one of the most livable cities in the world, Melbourne needs to always look at ways to optimize technology and lifestyle while being conscious of its effects on the environment in order to encourage a sustainable development agenda. Such a stance is part of Melbourne's future sustainable urban development strategy including ‘Melbourne 2017-2050.' As a part of such strategy, this article discusses the possibility of underground urban structures (UUS) to further alleviate Melbourne's continuous urban development problems. Four case studies, Lujiazui, Hongqiao, Montreal, and Helsinki, were studied. These four case studies have some comparability with Melbourne's CBD. Particularly, both Montreal and Helsinki have relevance to Melbourne which is appealing. Predominantly, these two cities' main objective of UUS matches that of Melbourne's long-term urban planning goals. Noticeably, improving the livability along with reducing building operational costs are central to Melbourne's 2017-2050 planning and beyond. According to Melbourne 2017-2050, as a sustainable urban development focus, the city's high livability needs to be maintained together with finding alternative ways to reducing building operational costs. This research would thus serve as a springboard to further investigate the UUS for Melbourne city.
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Zhu, Yadi, Zijia Wang, and Peiwen Chen. "Planning for Operation: Can Line Extension Planning Mitigate Capacity Mismatch on an Existing Rail Network?" Journal of Advanced Transportation 2018 (June 27, 2018): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1675967.
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Operational planning in China is perhaps more important today than ever before owing to the ongoing expansion of urban rail in the country. As urban rail networks increase in size and complexity, new lines added to them significantly alter both their topologies and operational characteristics. Thus, appraisal of alternative lines from the perspective of operation while planning is crucial. In this study, a method to forecast demands for new lines and obviate the effects of their addition, in terms of overcrowding in urban rail networks, was developed based on smart card data from existing networks. Using the card data and forecasted demand, transfer demand and section load can be estimated through the route choice model, and hence the influence of new lines on the operation of the network can be analyzed. The results of application of the proposed method to a case of line extension of a network in Beijing showed that it effectively prevented overcrowding by fewer interchanges on the line extension. Approximately 63% of passengers desiring an interchange on the target line altered their interchange from the station that had acted as bottleneck to the new interchange. Consequently, the headway of the feeding line was reduced from 6 min to 3.5 min. Hence, the capacity mismatch problem no longer occurred.
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Wegener, Michael. "Operational Urban Models State of the Art." Journal of the American Planning Association 60, no. 1 (March 31, 1994): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944369408975547.
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Atalay, Ahmet. "Determination of Operational Efficiency in Urban Public Transport Lines." Civil Engineering Beyond Limits 2, no. 1 (January 6, 2021): 16–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.36937/cebel.2021.001.004.
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The increasing number of urban centers and the increasing number of vehicles caused by industrialization caused problems such as lack of infrastructure in traffic, environmental pollution and an increase in energy requirements. This situation led the city administrators to search for solutions in order to improve the efficiency of public transportation systems and increase their efficiency. In this study, it is aimed to determine the functional efficiency of the bus lines used in urban public transportation. For this purpose, the lines are classified according to their functional activities by using the functional data of the lines. Both classical cluster analysis and self-organizing mapping (SOM) method were used for classification. Data from Erzurum main public transport lines were used to implement the methods. According to the findings of this study, it was determined that the two methods achieved similar results. As a result, it has been determined that classification of public transportation lines used in cities according to their functional efficiency will be beneficial for decision makers to make correct planning. With the right planning in public transport lines, significant economic and environmental benefits will be obtained.
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Olson, Richard S., and Robert A. Olson. "Urban Heavy Rescue." Earthquake Spectra 3, no. 4 (November 1987): 645–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.1585451.
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Recent foreign disasters reinforce the argument that it is past time to distinguish conceptually post-earthquake “urban heavy rescue” (UHR) from the generic “search and rescue.” It is especially important to appreciate the problematic operational environment of UHR and the political as well as the lifesaving implications of UHR successes and failures. Effective UHR requires complex inter-governmental, public-private, and civil-military preparedness planning. At this point in time, UHR remains the weak link in the entire response chain to the inevitable major urban earthquake in the United States.
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Gabe, J., S. Trowsdale, and R. Vale. "Achieving integrated urban water management: planning top-down or bottom-up?" Water Science and Technology 59, no. 10 (May 1, 2009): 1999–2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.196.
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Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) acknowledges a broad range of environmental and socio-economic outcomes but the link between design intentions and operational performance is not always clear. This may be due in part to a lack of shared principles that remove bias and inconsistency in assessing the operational performance of IUWM. This paper investigates the possibility of developing shared principles through examination of shared objectives and shared indicators within two logical and integrated frameworks for urban residential developments that aspire for IUWM and sustainable development. The framework method was applied using very different approaches—one a top-down urban planning process, the other a bottom-up community consultation process. Both frameworks highlight the extent to which IUWM is part of a broad social and environmental system. Core environmental performance objectives and indicators were very similar, highlighting the potential to develop shared principles in reporting and benchmarking the environmental performance of neighbourhood developments. Socio-economic indicators were highly variable due to process and likely contextual differences, thus it is unclear if the influence of IUWM on these variables can transcend the social context unless the practice of urban water management can expand its core responsibility beyond “hard” physical infrastructure.
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Diappi, Lidia. "Models in Understanding and Planning the City." SCIENZE REGIONALI, no. 3 (October 2009): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/scre2009-003008.
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- (Paper first received, April 2009; in final form, July 2009) Abstract The aim of this paper is to present a both chronological and conceptual overview of thirty years of Italian research in the branch of urban modelling within the international context. It frames the Italian contributions within international modelling developments, showing the close interrelations which have been established throughout the period considered. During this brief but creative period we have witnessed substantial shifts in approaches: from a macro perspective to a micro-scale description of urban phenomena; from a static to a dynamic setting; from the role of operational tools in evaluating urban policies to theoretical investigation of urban complexity. The paper is organized around six families of models, which are characterized either by the theories underpinning them or by the formalism used.Keywords: models, system theory, complexityJEL Classification codes: C53, C63, O21
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Du, Mu, Nan Kong, Xiangpei Hu, and Lindu Zhao. "Tactical Production and Distribution Planning in Urban Logistics under Vehicle Operational Restrictions." Procedia Computer Science 126 (2018): 1720–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.08.105.
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Cui, Qing, Fan Chen, Cun Wei Zhan, and Shen Qiang Liu. "Analysis and Countermeasures Research on Planning Environment Impact Assessment (PEIA) of Urban Rail Transit Planning in China." Advanced Materials Research 838-841 (November 2013): 1281–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.838-841.1281.
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Based on the analysis and summary of 19 PEIA cases of urban rail transit (URT) planning, this paper pointed out the major problems on PEIA of URT in practice, such as the depth of environmental impact prediction was inadequate, Optimal comments to URT Planning were not operational, and Public Participation was not representative etc. In response to these problems, this paper put forward some suggestions on both of regulating the technical means of PEIA for URT and improving the capacity of PEIA technical personnel. It could be helpful to improve the scientificity and practicity of PEIA for of urban rail transit planning in China.
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Zhang, Xue Zhong, Wei Shui Fei, and Xiao Jun Ning. "Exploring Urban Road System Structure and Operation Mechanism about the Traffic Intersection Congestion." Applied Mechanics and Materials 209-211 (October 2012): 945–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.209-211.945.
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In the face of increasingly congested urban traffic caused by all sorts of harm, how to solve the traffic congestion problem in the urban is becoming the major hot spot which domestic and foreign experts and scholars pay close attention to and study. This paper in a microscopic angle to analyze the problem -- urban traffic intersection congestion，not in macroscopical city planning, transportation planning, urban traffic demand to discuss. Through exploring the urban road system structure and operational mechanism, development of the automobile overpass is to solve the intersection congestion.
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Rickwood, Peter. "Residential Operational Energy Use." Urban Policy and Research 27, no. 2 (June 2009): 137–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111140902950495.
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Sharma, Sheetal. "Correlating soil and urban planning for sustainable water cycle." Journal of Water and Land Development 40, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 137–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jwld-2019-0015.
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Abstract Hydrological modelling and processes using modern hydrological models like SCS Curve Number, HCS, HSPF (Hydrologic Simulation Package-Fortran) and kinematic wave models are widely used nowadays in various researches. But using these modelling in drawing the attention of urban planners for challenges and multiple interactions in heterogeneous urban catchments and water systems is still a shortcoming in water sensitive, planning principle. The art of urban planning and technical implementation using behavioural changes in water responses to urban catchments is the need of present urban planning. The complexities of effects and behavioural changes in the water system or urban catchments and incomplete knowledge of these interactions result in failures of sustainable urban developments. Urban planning needs water sensitive methodology to synchronize soil, water and land cover operational with the population over it. The paper reviews the water sensitive urban planning considering the role of soil in urban planning for water and lands correlations, with the purpose of identifying current limitations and opportunities for future urban planning. Data availability and simplified methods are still a strong limitation for urban planners. Therefore, urban hydrology is often simplified either as a study of surface runoff over impervious surfaces or hydraulics of piped systems. Hence the paper provides approach and universal solution to forecast the behaviour of urban catchment for urbanization in terms of natural land-water cycles and its application in planning existing or new urban catchments. The methodology consists of observing Urban watershed catchment areas with different soil groups and built-up induction over them. A detailed study of water levels in hydrological wells and runoff pattern for the period of 40 years have provided a linear correlation of soil, roughness, land cover, infiltration, ground water and built upon the basis of soil behaviours. These correlations conclude to make regression equations as the blueprint for future urban planning norms to be followed by the planners, engineers, and hydrologists for planning.
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Wessels, Bridgette, Yvonne Dittrich, Annelie Ekelin, and Sara Eriksén. "Creating Synergies Between Participatory Design of E-Services and Collaborative Planning." International Journal of E-Planning Research 1, no. 3 (July 2012): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijepr.2012070101.
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In this article, the gap between participatory design of services and planning processes is identified. This means that any innovations in service design – whether technological, social, or locality-based – are not fully developed. The authors address the relationship between operational design and strategic planning. The article feeds some of the insights gained from participatory design into debates about collaborative and communicative planning by drawing on two exemplars. One focuses on creating a synergy between designing and planning in transforming neighborhood-based children’s services: the other discusses the design of Web 2.0 for on-line public consultancy for comprehensive planning and for mobile services for disabled people. All require synergies between operational design and strategic planning to support participation in collaborative planning for accessibility in urban spaces. The article shows how the development of design constituencies within various contexts of participatory design provides a vehicle for developing collaborative and communicative planning.
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Ranzato, Lorenzo. "Dall'urbanistica al governo del territorio: i nuovi orientamenti della pianificazione e delle politiche urbane." ARGOMENTI, no. 25 (June 2009): 131–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/arg2009-025005.
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- This article aims to explain the implicit complexity of planning, a notion which has been recently defined in Italy by the expression "governo del territorio". It is divided into three parts. The first describes the evolution of planning in Europe throughout a century of history: from the modernist urbanism to the comprehensive planning, from the decision making evolution up to the recent forms of governance. The second sums up the latest fifty years of planning in Italy, which is undergoing today a complex and innovatory change. The third examines some keywords relating to cities and metropolitan areas. They refer to the recent notion of "governo del territorio", which calls for a redefinition of the relationship between the technical-instrumental dimension of urbanism (design oriented and based on new structural and operational plans) and the socio-political dimension of planning, responsible for the coordination of new urban policies and governance processes.Keywords: Urbanism, Town planning, Urban and regional planning, Urban governance Parole chiave: Urbanistica, Pianificazione territoriale, Governo del territorio.
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Baporikar, Neeta. "Urban Development Through Smart Cities in India." International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change 3, no. 3 (July 2016): 36–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcesc.2016070103.
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India is on the path of developing its smart cities at a faster pace in near future. But what constitutes a smart city and what is purpose of this focus remains to be explored. Through in depth literature review and grounded approach this paper, appraises the genesis of smart city to develop a better understanding of urban problems. It explores how smart cities intend to relate the infrastructure, operational functioning, planning through management, control and optimization to ensure equity, fairness for realizing better quality of city life. The paper also attempts to review how informed participation creates shared knowledge for democratic governance. Anticipated paradigm shifts that will occur in this area of research and the expected impacts in developing and planning smart cities in general and in particular the steps being taken in India in development of smart cities is delved into.
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Durkin, Michael E., and John Hopkins. "The San Salvador Earthquake of October 10, 1986—Architecture and Urban Planning." Earthquake Spectra 3, no. 3 (August 1987): 609–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.1585448.
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Major damage from the October 10 earthquake was concentrated in and around the capital city of San Salvador. Losses exceeded $900 million, or 25% of El Salvador's 1986 gross domestic product. Poor soil conditions, ineffective land use controls, and inadequate building practices combined with the severe shaking intensity to produce widespread damage to both engineered and nonengineered structures. Residential, institutional, and commercial buildings sustained heavy damage. Nonstructural damage and damage to building contents contributed to economic and operational loss. Government officials are making a deliberate attempt to incorporate new knowledge in reconstruction planning. However, recovery and reconstruction will be a slow process due to the current state of the economy.
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Moser, Caroline O. N. "From gender planning to gender transformation: positionality, theory and practice in cities of the global South." International Development Planning Review 43, no. 2 (April 1, 2021): 205–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2020.9.
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This article reflects on my contribution as an urban feminist scholar-gender expert practitioner to Gender and Development (GAD) theory and practice in cities of the South in relation to my changing positionality within specific institutional contexts. My journey started in the 1980s with urban gender planning, conceptualised in the Development Planning Unit, a United Kingdom-based urban planning unit. After a ‘diversionary’ decade in the World Bank, experiencing GAD non-alignment between individual and institutional positionality, my journey continued as a Ford Foundation external advisor, developing an operational approach to urban gender transformation. As I moved across the feminist scholar-gender expert divide, contextualised within changing GAD debates, I highlight and critique differences and similarities between ‘political’ and ‘technical/instrumental’ knowledge production of gender practice, and conclude that it is the cyclical synergies between them has produced the significant changes in GAD theory and practice.
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Anjomani, Ardeshir. "An integrated land-use/transportation forecasting and planning model: A metropolitan planning support system." Journal of Transport and Land Use 14, no. 1 (January 5, 2021): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.1412.
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Over the last several decades, land-use/transport interaction models have evolved. Although these models have the potential to become primary demographic forecasting and planning vehicles in metropolitan transportation planning for most large US urban regions, some gaps and improvements must be addressed. This paper briefly discusses a newly developed and refined integrated land-use/transportation model. It also introduces innovative approaches to modeling an urban area including a variant of a geographic information system-based land-use and environmental suitability analysis, as main components in deriving development potential for a small-cell grid of the study region. This approach enables the inclusion of public and stakeholder input into the modeling process, facilitates micro-level consideration of trip generation, trip distribution, and mode-choice inside the land-use demographic model, thus furthering the integration of transportation and land use in the modeling process. Such considerations and utilization of rule-based approaches and concerns of economic development and environmental and sustainability factors help close some existing gaps of operational models designed for real world practical applications. All of these features contribute toward further improvement of these models.
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Mospan, N. "ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT PLANNING UNDER SUSTAINABLE CITY DEVELOPMENT." Municipal economy of cities 3, no. 156 (July 1, 2020): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.33042/2522-1809-2020-3-156-8-16.
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This research paper devoted to the urban freight transport planning under sustainable city development. Continued urban population growth, traffic congestions, financial losses because of longer delivery times, harm-ful impact on environmental are highlighted as strong arguments for the freight traffic management in the cities. The article aims to help all stakeholders understand the challenges brought about by freight activities in an urban context, and make the planning process consistent and comprehensive for the city freight transportation system improvement. The brief overview of some recent foreign and native studies in urban transport planning and traffic engi-neering reveals main field of interests for modern researchers. The clear focus of the analysed scientific works di-rected on such aspects in sustainable urban freight transport development as energy and economic efficiency, eco-friendliness, safety, institutional and legal issues of freight transportations. Special attention is paid to the analy-sis of government initiatives in sustainable transport system development of Ukraine. Identification of the main freight transportation features in an urban area is carried out on the initial re-search stage. Each feature has an explanation for better understanding necessity of their usage in the freight transport planning process. The other focus of the research devotes to the description of the stages during urban freight transport planning process. Author attends a deep freight transport demand and supply analysis for a de-termination of the basic freight distribution regularities in an urban context. Therefore, a list of indicators for subsystem of city freight transportation evaluation is presented in the article. The whole set of indicators is divid-ed into economical, operational, environmental, social and general groups of indicators. Moreover, the compo-nents of successful measures implementation for an urban freight transport subsystem improvement are highlight-ed. Financial management, political support, institution, organisation and legal framework condition are consid-ered as the key elements of successful plans and measures implementation. Keywords: planning, sustainable development, freight transport, urban population, authorities.
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Daramola, Oluwole, Ayodeji Olatunji, Ademola A. Akanmu, Adewale Yoade, Deborah Bunmi Ojo, and Babatunde Omotosho. "Multiplicity in Municipal Administration and Its Implication on Urban Planning Functions in Nigeria." International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development 12, no. 1 (January 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.2021010101.
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This study assessed the effects of multiple components of municipal administrations on the functions of urban planning agencies in Nigeria, using Osun State as the case study. It examined the profile of the professionals across the levels of planning agencies in the state, the key activity areas of the planning agencies, operational parameters of the planning agencies, and the relationship between the planning agencies. Data used for the study were sourced from questionnaire administered on the heads of all the 35 planning agencies in the state. The study revealed that the agencies experienced conflict of interest in their operations and the reason for that was mostly jurisdictional. Also, the agencies seldom related with one another. The study concluded that the structure of municipal administration in Nigerian is responsible for proliferation of planning agencies and, consequently, the duplication of planning functions in the state, nay, Nigeria. It recommended, among others, legislative reform for effective municipal administration in the state and Nigeria, as a whole.
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Parmar, Manoj, and Binti Singh. "Integrating Design and Planning in Informal Settlements." Academic Research Community publication 3, no. 3 (May 5, 2019): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/archive.v3i3.521.
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Informal settlements are often not included in the development plan of cities. Urban planning has increasingly been less concerned about provision of basic infrastructure and services to vulnerable communities living and working in informal conditions. Increasing official apathy pose major challenges to achieving the globally accepted goal of inclusive urbanization as envisaged in Sustainable Development Goals / SDGs.. Goal 11 that aims at creating Safe, resilient, inclusive and sustainable cities will remain distant until we factor in the informal living and working conditions into our current urban planning narrative.GazdharBandh is a Notified Slum by Slum Redevelopment Authority (SRA) of MMRDA (Maharashtra Metropolitan Region Development Authority). The slum pocket is located in western suburb of Santacruz west, Mumbai. Gazdhar Bandh shows high density informal housing within the “no development zone” as per the development plan 2034, in estuary conditions that is vulnerable to recurrent floods.Slum upgradation faces multiple challenges with the complex interplay of local diversities, relocation and livelihood concerns. Using the case study of Gazdar Bandh slum, we examine how community responses to housing and other design strategies like public spaces, streetscapes, and makeshift spaces as immediate responses can go a long way to build long term resilience and factored into the broader city level planning narrative. The findings broadly examine the question: How can urban planning and design embrace uncertainty and concludes with an operational framework drawing on participatory planning and good urban place engaging multiple stakeholders.
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Ahmed and Alipour. "Urban Form Compaction and Energy Use Intensity in New Social Housing Neighborhoods in the UAE." Sustainability 11, no. 14 (July 11, 2019): 3815. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11143815.
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With increasing global awareness of sustainable development, federal and local authorities in the UAE have developed agendas for energy efficiency in all development sectors, especially for buildings and urban development. With the belief that urban form is integral to urban sustainability, several recently developed single-family social housing neighborhoods in the UAE have shifted from conventional sprawling urban forms to more compact ones. Unfortunately, the impact of this shift on operational and cooling energy use intensities (EUIs) is unknown. Adopting a comparative computational method, this study investigates the effect of compact urban morphologies on EUIs. In addition to a case study representing conventional urban sprawls, six recently designed housing neighborhoods in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Al Ain were selected to represent new compact urban forms. This study uncovered an inconsistent relationship between floor area ratio (FAR) and average housing operational and cooling EUIs. To justify these results, the effects of increased lot coverage area, street grid patterns, building configurations, and climate zone on operational and cooling EUIs were studied, and all except climate zone were proven effective. This study concludes that the current design philosophy of compacting the urban form has not successfully met the Emirates Green Building Council’s (GBC) sustainable operational EUI benchmark of 90 kWh/m2/y. While further urban compactness (i.e., increased FARs) is needed, the other urban morphological measures examined in this study should be considered for achieving a more sustainable urban form for social housing.
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Combes, François. "Equilibrium and Optimal Location of Warehouses in Urban Areas: A Theoretical Analysis with Implications for Urban Logistics." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2673, no. 5 (April 7, 2019): 262–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198119838859.
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This paper presents a structural microeconomic model of the choice of warehouse location in urban logistics. The model is theoretical and analytical. It brings the focus on operational constraints, their diversity, and their influence on costs. The location decision is modeled as a trade-off between land rents (making it costly to locate close to the center of the urban area) and transport costs (which increase non-linearly when the warehouse moves away from the city center). The influence of various parameters on the optimal warehouse location is analyzed. The following conclusions are drawn. First, increased demand contributes to the explanation of logistic sprawl: when the density of operations (pick-ups and deliveries) increases in a given area, transport is more efficient, making it less necessary for warehouses to be close to the city center. Second, urban logistics is a heterogenous sector and, depending on the operational constraints, will not react homogenously to changes in economic parameters or the implementation of public policies. Third, economies of scale are identified: some implications are discussed. Fourth, the paper briefly discusses how land-use planning regarding, in particular, warehouses, can help internalize some of the externalities of urban logistics.
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Shen, Shi Guang, Hao Wang, Jun Fei Wen, Si Hui Wang, and Chen Jing Fan. "Study on Urban Green Space System Planning Based on Ecological Suitability Evaluation: A Case of Luancheng City in China." Advanced Materials Research 368-373 (October 2011): 1788–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.368-373.1788.
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For a long time, planners get used to apply qualitative analysis and subjective knowledge to define urban green space system. Lacking support of quantitative analysis, the incomplete inventory will result in subjective evaluation, low pertinence. And the required depth and level for planning will not be strong enough. This study strives for introduce ecological suitability evaluation to urban green space system, derives the supporting theory, framework, and evaluation model. By using GIS, Luancheng green space system is generated based on the ecological suitability analysis. Also, this study shows that green space system planning is more operational and reliable based on ecological suitability evaluation.
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Liu, Pengyu, Chao Wu, Miaomiao Chen, Xinyue Ye, Yunfei Peng, and Sheng Li. "A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Effects of Urbanization’s Socio-Economic Factors on Landscape Patterns Considering Operational Scales." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (March 24, 2020): 2543. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062543.
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Landscape patterns are significantly affected during the urbanization process. Identifying the spatiotemporal impacts of urbanization’s socio-economic factors on landscape patterns is very important and can provide scientific evidence to support urban ecological management and guide managers to establish appropriate sustainability policies. This article applies multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) to reveal the relationships between landscape patterns and the socio-economic factors of urbanization in Shenzhen, China, from 2000 to 2015, in five-year intervals. MGWR is a powerful extension of geographically weighted regression (GWR) that can not only reveal spatial heterogeneity patterns but also measure the operational scale of covariates. The empirical results indicate that MGWR is superior to GWR. Furthermore, the changes in operational scale represented by the spatial bandwidth of MGWR in different years reflect temporal changes in the spatial relationships of given factors, which is significant information for urban studies. These multiscale relationships between landscape patterns and the socio-economic factors of urbanization, revealed via MGWR, are useful for strategic planning around urban dynamic development and land resource and ecological landscape management. The results can provide additional insight into landscape and urbanization studies from a multiscale perspective, which is important for local, regional, and global urban planning.
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Blečić, Ivan, Tanja Congiu, Giovanna Fancello, and Giuseppe Andrea Trunfio. "Planning and Design Support Tools for Walkability: A Guide for Urban Analysts." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (May 28, 2020): 4405. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114405.
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We present a survey of operational methods for walkability analysis and evaluation, which we hold show promise as decision-support tools for sustainability-oriented planning and urban design. An initial overview of the literature revealed a subdivision of walkability studies into three main lines of research: transport and land use, urban health, and livable cities. A further selection of articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases focused on scientific papers that deal with walkability evaluation methods and their suitability as planning and decision-support tools. This led to the definition of a taxonomy to systematize and compare the methods with regard to factors of walkability, scale of analysis, attention on profiling, aggregation methods, spatialization and sources of data used for calibration and validation. The proposed systematization aspires to offer to non-specialist but competent urban analysts a guide and an orienteering, to help them integrate walkability analysis and evaluation into their research and practice.
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Rezaee, Elham Darban, and Fatemeh Kalantari. "Proposal of an Operational Model to Measure Feelings and Emotions in Urban Space." Journal of Landscape Ecology 12, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 34–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2019-0014.
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Abstract People of different cultural backgrounds show different emotional reactions to different urban areas. Finding out how a constructed environment and emotional aspects are related and influence human behavior can be of a great significance in urban planning. Such studies are rooted in environmental psychology and socials sciences; there is a dearth of proper methods and techniques of evaluation with this regard. Moreover, so far there has been no academic study even a review of the relevant practical methods. Thus, there is a need for finding a valid objective evaluation procedure for emotional responses people make to urban space aiming to improve the design of urban areas and urban plan policymaking. In the present research, initially, a review of the research methodologies in environmental psychology, affect and emotions was done. Then, a qualitative content analysis of 30 of the latest projects and research was done in terms of the methodology and tools. Then, the final model was proposed in five stages based on the methods and tools of operationalizing the measurement of feelings and emotions in urban areas. The proposed model combined different research types and different methods applied in different disciplines and thus contribute greatly to solving urban problems.
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Porta-Sancho, Juan R., Jesica T. Castillo-Rodríguez, Ignacio Escuder-Bueno, and Sara Perales-Momparler. "The need for municipal action planning against flood risk: the risk-informed journey of the municipality of Oliva (Spain)." VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability 1, no. 2 (December 20, 2016): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2016.6849.
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Society demands higher safety levels, including those actions related to urban planning and protection against natural hazards and manmade threats. Therefore, authorities respond to these demands through new regulatory and operational frameworks to cope with existing and future risks. The Spanish regulatory framework regarding flood risk management, based on the European context, defines the required procedures for emergency management, involving all authorities responsable for civil protection and urban planning. This framework requires all municipalities at medium or high flood risk to develop and implement local action plans against flood risk (PAMRI, by its acronym in Spanish), which must include a risk estimation, analysis and evaluation, along with the description of actions for a risk-informed urban planning and emergency management. The City Council of Oliva developed the corresponding plan, approved by the regional government in June 2016, including new aspects such as the figure of the Technical Director, and a comprehensive and quantitative flood risk analysis to support decisionmaking on emergency management and planning.
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Imai, Ryuichi, Daizo Ikeda, Hiroyasu Shingai, Tomohiro Nagata, and Koichi Shigetaka. "Origin-Destination Trips Generated from Operational Data of a Mobile Network for Urban Transportation Planning." Journal of Urban Planning and Development 147, no. 1 (March 2021): 04020049. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)up.1943-5444.0000635.
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Dimitrijevic-Markovic, Svetlana, Natasa Danilovic-Hristic, and Ana Graovac. "The implementation of an urban plan - monitoring and evaluation in the case study of the detailed regulation plan for the reconstruction of four urban blocks in Vracar." Spatium, no. 41 (2019): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/spat1941041d.
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Regulation plans have been implemented in Serbia over the past twenty years as the main operational instrument of planning. However, a general, systemic investigation of the effects of their implementation has failed. Because the elements of regulation and the rules for development and construction applied significantly affect the character of an urban space, the intention is to point out the need to establish procedures and criteria for regular evaluation of the built environment and the need to continuously re-examine planning attitudes. The input data for redefining the scope and shape of regulation can be obtained by analyzing the planning process and evaluating its results. The chosen case study encompasses the plan for four urban blocks in Vracar and includes the 15-year period since its adoption. The extent to which the Plan has met the set objectives from the point of view of urban planning and conservation will be investigated through an analysis of the results obtained in practice, while failures and possible improvements will be pointed out.
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Luque-Ayala, Andrés, and Simon Marvin. "The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34, no. 2 (October 29, 2015): 191–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775815611422.
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Ferreira, Bruno, and Nelson J. G. Carriço. "Urban Water Infrastructure Asset Management Plan: Case Study." Open Engineering 9, no. 1 (October 2, 2019): 459–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eng-2019-0058.
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AbstractThe current paper aims the application of the Portuguese infrastructure asset management (IAM) methodology to a case study. The inevitable degradation of urban water infrastructures creates new challenges for water utilities engineers and manager, as they need to decide which components should be rehabilitated to efficiently match the public’s demand, while still providing a qualitative and efficient service that doesn’t compromise the financial integrity of water utilities.This methodology is based on a five-step structured sequence - (i) definition of objectives assessment criteria and metrics; (ii) diagnosis; (iii) plan production; (iv) plan implementation; and (v) monitoring and revision – being structured in three distinct levels of planning and decision (i.e., strategic, tactical and operational). The IAM methodology was applied to a sixty-year-old water supply system (WSS) located in Lisbon’s metropolitan area, Portugal, mainly focused on steps (i) to (iii) and to the tactical level of planning. Results obtained are discussed and the main conclusions are presented.
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Chen, Yan. "Research on Planning and Management of Large-Scale Sports Venues in Chinese Cities." Open House International 44, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 76–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2019-b0020.
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To improve the operational management benefits of large-scale sports venues, the literature data method, questionnaire survey method, and comparative analysis method were used to study the planning and management of large-scale sports stadiums in China. From the macro external environment, the micro external environment and the internal management of the venue, the opportunities and challenges of China's large stadiums were analyzed. Corresponding countermeasures to improve the efficiency of venue operation management were proposed. The results show that the proportion of business structure of large-scale sports stadiums in China was unreasonable, and the ontology management was in a polarized development trend. The venue utilization rate was generally low. In addition, the operational management benefits of large-scale sports stadiums in China were affected by the micro-external environment and the internal conditions of the venues. Therefore, this research has important reference significance for the operation and management of stadiums.
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Pera, Aurel. "Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review." Sustainability 12, no. 17 (September 2, 2020): 7164. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12177164.
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In this systematic review, I cumulate previous research findings indicating that sustainable urbanism and networked public governance can be instrumental in carrying out extensive sustainability and resilience objectives through steering urban transformations in the direction of sustainability and resilience. Urban analytics data infrastructure, multicriteria sustainability evaluation, and sustainable performance assessment display the intricate network dynamics operational within cities, impacting urban resilience decision-making processes and leading to equitable and sustainable urban development. Throughout July 2020, I conducted a quantitative literature review of the Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases, search terms including “sustainable urban planning,” “urban sustainability assessment,” “sustainable urban governance/urban sustainability governance,” “sustainable urban development,” “sustainable/sustainability behavior,” and “environmental performance.” As I focused on research published exclusively in the past two years, only 301 various types of articles met the eligibility criteria. By removing those whose results were inconclusive, unconfirmed by replication, or too general, and because of space constraints, I selected 153, mainly empirical, sources. Future research should investigate whether the assessment of environmental sustainability performance of heterogeneous urban configurations by shared sustainability policymaking through spatial green infrastructure planning and regulations articulate sustainable urban design and governance for the development of innovative performance.
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Racine, Jean Bernard. "From urban form to urban relations: in search for a new kind of reflexive and critical knowledge in urban geography and city monitoring." Dela, no. 21 (December 1, 2004): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dela.21.41-52.
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The paper explores what unites the social environment the material environment. both the material form, and, jointly, the sensibility that echoes it. .It argues that urban geographers need to develop a research model drawing on urban geography, on urbanism and on land management and capable of integrating the thoughts, the emotions, the affects and the valu-es of city dwellers and citizens and therefore knowledge situated at a micro-social level. However, such research still would need to lead to truly regulatory knowledge. Its translati-on into practical measures needs to be democratically approved, especially by actors who know how to think and act both locally and globally, in relation to multiple and complex territories of affiliation and intervention. This implies a huge effort of the imagination and of construction, both at the theoretical level and at the level of the operational tools needed. Indeed, the concept of “ urban project ”, which has been frequently encountered since the end of the ‘70s and which is supposed finally to supersede functionalist urbanism, cannot be conceived of without taking into consideration the population’s capability to participate and embrace projects or, on the contrary, to oppose them.
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Kagan, Pavel. "Monitoring of the development of urban areas with the use of information technology." MATEC Web of Conferences 193 (2018): 05031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819305031.
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This article describes the concept of building the technology for analysis and monitoring of urban development. It validates the relevance of creating such a technology. Parameters that affect urban development of city zones have been systematized. Important point of consideration was given to the ecological, social, economic, architectural and aesthetic factors that influence the development of urban zones. This developing technology for analysis and monitoring of urban development will enable the forecasting and planning for complex urban development of regions, depending on the existing context. It will also help control the implementation of targeted government programs in each municipal district of a city, through the use of automated generation and evaluation of operational and projected metrics.
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van der Helm, A. W. C., A. Bhai, F. Coloni, W. J. G. Koning, and P. T. de Bakker. "Developing water and sanitation services in refugee settings from emergency to sustainability – the case of Zaatari Camp in Jordan." Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 7, no. 3 (March 17, 2017): 521–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2017.107.
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As of the beginning of 2017, more than four years after opening, Zaatari refugee camp in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan hosts around 80,000 Syrian refugees. Zaatari is one of the largest refugee camps in the world, in one of the most water scarce countries. Since its establishment, drinking water has been trucked to communal facilities. Wastewater has been trucked from these facilities and from self-constructed storages next to households. To improve future sustainability in equitable water and sanitation access, public health conditions, environmental conservation and operational costs, household connected water and sewage networks are implemented. This shift from emergency to sustainable phase benefitted from adaptation of urban infrastructure methods. Maximising such investment requires stakeholder and project management, throughout design and implementation, for quality control of all processes and outputs, asset management and administrative strategies. A shift is necessary from a humanitarian approach toward a structured master planning vision. The planning urban utility perspective is essential for ensuring operational sustainability in the conception of water and sanitation systems in Zaatari refugee camp.
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Yakubov, Haris. "Green Building in Moscow: Problems and Contradictions." MATEC Web of Conferences 193 (2018): 04010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819304010.
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The article considers issues of green building development as a tool for greening urban spaces. Eco-development is considered not only as an eco-friendly home construction, but also as a maximum possible use of planning, construction and operational resources with the aim of greening urban space. The author examines motivations of the sphere of green building, evaluates relative advantages and disadvantages of introducing green building principles in actual Moscow conditions and provides regulatory materials for eco-development in Russia and abroad.
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Durst, Phillip J., Christopher T. Goodin, Cindy L. Bethel, Derek T. Anderson, Daniel W. Carruth, and Hyeona Lim. "A Perception-Based Fuzzy Route Planing Algorithm for Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles." Unmanned Systems 06, no. 04 (October 2018): 251–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2301385018500073.
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Path planning plays an integral role in mission planning for ground vehicle operations in urban areas. Determining the optimum path through an urban area is a well-understood problem for traditional ground vehicles; however, in the case of autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), additional factors must be considered. For an autonomous UGV, perception algorithms rather than platform mobility will be the limiting factor in operational capabilities. For this study, perception was incorporated into the path planning process by associating sensor error costs with traveling through nodes within an urban road network. Three common perception sensors were used for this study: GPS, LIDAR, and IMU. Multiple set aggregation operators were used to blend the sensor error costs into a single cost, and the effects of choice of aggregation operator on the chosen path were observed. To provide a robust path planning ability, a fuzzy route planning algorithm was developed using membership functions and fuzzy rules to allow for qualitative route planning in the case of generalized UGV performance. The fuzzy membership functions were then applied to several paths through the urban area to determine what sensors were optimized in each path to provide a measure of the UGV’s performance capabilities. The research presented in this paper shows the impacts that sensing/perception has on ground vehicle route planning by demonstrating a fuzzy route planning algorithm constructed by using a robust rule set that quantifies these impacts.
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Cutini, Valerio, and Camilla Pezzica. "Street Network Resilience Put to the Test: The Dramatic Crash of Genoa and Bologna Bridges." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (June 9, 2020): 4706. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114706.
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Various hazards and endemic threats are increasingly looming over cities, leading planners to rely on a rich toolbox of flexible and inclusive planning instruments and methods, capable of dealing with unpredicted events or sudden urban contingencies, when seeking sustainable urban futures. While sustainability-oriented innovative planning approaches are gaining momentum, ways to embed connected concepts in operational planning and design decision support systems have yet to be fully developed and validated. This paper tackles this issue by proposing and testing, in a real-life scenario, a method for the computational analysis of street network resilience, based on Space Syntax theory. The method is suitable to quantify the capacity of urban grids to absorb sudden disturbances and adapt to change, and to offer support for mitigation decisions and their communication to the public. It presents a set of configurational resilience indices, whose reliability is qualitatively assessed considering the ex-ante and ex-post urban configurations generated by two exceptional and dramatic bridge crashes. These events occurred almost simultaneously in two Italian cities with peculiarly similar characteristics. The results confirm the value of the proposal and highlight urban form, and particularly its grid, as a key driver in building urban resilience, together with the self-organisation capacity of local communities.
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Ru, Xiaolei, Xiangdong Xu, Yang Zhou, and Chao Yang. "Critical Segments Identification for Link Travel Speed Prediction in Urban Road Network." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2020 (September 8, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8845804.
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Predicting traffic operational condition is crucial to urban transportation planning and management. A large variety of algorithms were proposed to improve the prediction accuracy. However, these studies were mainly based on complete data and did not discuss the vulnerability of massive data missing. And applications of these algorithms were in high-cost under the constraints of high quality of traffic data collecting in real-time on the large-scale road networks. This paper aims to deduce the traffic operational conditions of the road network with a small number of critical segments based on taxi GPS data in Xi’an city of China. To identify these critical segments, we assume that the states of floating cars within different road segments are correlative and mutually representative and design a heuristic algorithm utilizing the attention mechanism embedding in the graph neural network (GNN). The results show that the designed model achieves a high accuracy compared to the conventional method using only two critical segments which account for 2.7% in the road networks. The proposed method is cost-efficient which generates the critical segments scheme that reduces the cost of traffic information collection greatly and is more sensible without the demand for extremely high prediction accuracy. Our research has a guiding significance on cost saving of various information acquisition techniques such as route planning of floating car or sensors layout.
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Troy, Patrick, Darren Holloway, Stephen Pullen, and Raymond Bunker. "Embodied and Operational Energy Consumption in the City." Urban Policy and Research 21, no. 1 (March 2003): 9–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0811114032000062128.
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Alegre, Helena, Sérgio T. Coelho, Dídia I. C. Covas, Maria do Céu Almeida, and Adriana Cardoso. "A utility-tailored methodology for integrated asset management of urban water infrastructure." Water Supply 13, no. 6 (September 12, 2013): 1444–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2013.108.
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This paper presents the integrated methodology for infrastructure asset management (IAM) developed in AWARE-P, an R&D project aimed at producing adequate and effective support tools for assisting urban water utilities in decision making and rehabilitation planning (www.aware-p.org). The proposed methodology addresses all three planning and decisional levels (strategic, tactical and operational) and follows a plan-do-check-act (PDCA)-inspired cycle. The methodology assesses the water systems and any planning solutions along the cost, risk and performance dimensions, with a variety of standardized assessment methods and models proposed for each. It differs from existing approaches in the incorporation of the entire IAM process into a single organised framework, with an integrated, long-term vision of the urban water network – looking at the infrastructure as a system, and not as a mere sum of individual assets. The paper describes the approach and illustrates its application with reference to the several business cases already undertaken.
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Soberman, Richard M. "Rethinking Urban Transportation: Lessons from Toronto." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1606, no. 1 (January 1997): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1606-05.
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Toronto is widely perceived to have developed efficient solutions to transportation during periods of rapid population growth, attributed largely to significant investment in public transit and effective means of managing growth in an orderly manner. Relative to comparably sized cities elsewhere in North America, the downtown has flourished and urban sprawl appears to have been contained within reasonable limits. Yet, despite a high degree of centralized planning and policies that favor transit over road improvements, on a regionwide basis, both modal split and transit ridership have actually declined, road congestion has reached serious levels in outlying regions, and the central area is losing its dominance as the location of new employment creation. This experience suggests a need to rethink the advisability of continued preoccupation with rail-dominated (subway, light rail transit, and high-technology transit), centrally oriented, capital-intensive transit improvements at the expense of lower-cost (and lower political profile) operational enhancements of surface transit, more effective means of dealing with road congestion, and greater reliance on business principles in the provision of transit service. In particular, there is a need to rethink government policies that favor capital over operational improvements, cost-based subsidy formulae that reward high costs rather than performance, intergovernmental transfers that obfuscate real costs perceived at the local decision-making level, and evaluation procedures that rely on alleged social and environmental advantages wherever reasonable ridership estimates fail to justify the selection of a preconceived preferred technology in assessing the true viability of new projects.
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Wu, Zheng Wang, and Ze Yu. "Visual Ecological Design of High-Density Urban Residential Area Based on Green Seeing Ratio." Advanced Materials Research 838-841 (November 2013): 2923–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.838-841.2923.
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The article proposed that the green seeing ratio should be introduced in high density planning and design of residential area in China, pointing out that the green seeing ratio is a clear, effective index of strong operational in visual ecological design. It is necessary and feasible that the green seeing ratio as a evaluation index in the planning and construction of high density urban residential area in China. Advocates to take a combination of centralized and decentralized groups-residential areas and other ways of planning that by reducing the area of road, natural green details, take the tortuous roads and other methods can effectively improve the green seeing ratio. Some guidelines being followed in the building layout, open space design, road shape, plant greening in the detail design can effectively improve the green seeing ratio of high density residential area.
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Wagner, Magdalena, and Walter Timo de Vries. "Comparative Review of Methods Supporting Decision-Making in Urban Development and Land Management." Land 8, no. 8 (August 7, 2019): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land8080123.
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This paper discusses how and where technologies supporting decision-making can play, or are already playing, a role in both urban development and land management. The review analyzes and compares three types of technologies: cellular automata (CA), artificial intelligence (AI), and operational research (OR), and evaluates to which extent they can be useful when dealing with various land planning objectives and phases. CA is one of the most useful models for simulating urban growth, AI displays great potential as a solution to capture the dynamics of land change, and OR is useful in decision-making, for example to conduct locational analyses. The evaluation relies on a collection of relevant articles, selected on the basis of both content and actuality. The paper offers new perspectives towards innovative methods in urban planning and land management and highlights where and when which type of tool can be considered useful and valid. The existing gaps, i.e., phases or areas in spatial planning or land management where the methods have not been applied, are also discussed.
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Rosen, Michael, Jim McCready, and Tony Bull. "Raising the profile of Canada's 9th forest region: Urban forests." Forestry Chronicle 82, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 54–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc82054-1.
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A recent CIF Ottawa Valley section meeting in Carleton Place, Ontario was cause for reflection on the important role of urban forests. In spite of their well-known benefits, Canadian urban forests are under great pressure. However, recent developments in municipal planning and the creation of the Canadian Urban Forest Network show some progress — developments encouraged for the first time by the most recent National Forest Strategy. This contrasts to a historic denial by forestry organizations to include urban forests as part of "Canada's Forests" in spite of their economic and environmental significance. It also contrasts with urban forest programs initiated by the USDA Forest Service in the United States. For smaller communities like Carleton Place, urban forests are very important. They are being recognized by the community through its Official Plan, in operational guidelines and through an R.P.F.-led volunteer Urban Forest Advisory Committee. Key words: urban forests, strategic urban forest plans, Canadian Urban Forest Network, Urban Forest Advisory Committee