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Journal articles on the topic "Urban informatics, Sustainability Planning"
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Maffei, Roxana, Yelena Hudson, and Kim Dunn. "Telemedicine for Urban Uninsured: A Pilot Framework for Specialty Care Planning for Sustainability." Telemedicine and e-Health 14, no. 9 (November 2008): 925–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2008.0008.
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Lee, Jaehong, Hans Han, Jong-Yoon Park, and David Lee. "Urban Informatics in Sustainable Waste Management: A Spatial Analysis of Korea’s Informal Recycling Networks." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 11, 2021): 3076. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063076.
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Large-scale informal recycling networks often emerge among developing economies in response to the challenges of modern urban waste accumulation. South Korea, despite its highly industrialized, developed economy, still maintains an extensive informal recycling sector made up of networks of local junk shops and individual waste pickers. As cities’ large data sources have become more widely available, the use of urban informatics in sustainable smart waste management has become more widespread. In this paper, we use geographic information system (GIS) analysis in order to uncover patterns within Korea’s informal recycling system, looking at the relationship between population demographics, waste levels, and urban planning with the prevalence of junk shops across Korea. We then interviewed junk shop owners, urban planning researchers, and government officials in order to better understand the factors that led to the coexistence of the country’s informal and formal systems of waste management and how junk shops have changed their operations over time in response to recent developments in cities’ urban fabrics. We conclude by giving suggestions for how the usage of urban informatics could increase the efficiency and sustainability of the country’s waste management systems, while also discussing the possible pitfalls of using such existing datasets for future policy decisions.
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Enoguanbhor, Evidence Chinedu, Florian Gollnow, Blake Byron Walker, Jonas Ostergaard Nielsen, and Tobia Lakes. "Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria." Land 10, no. 5 (April 21, 2021): 443. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10050443.
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Land use planning as strategic instruments to guide urban dynamics faces particular challenges in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa, where urgent interventions are required to improve urban and environmental sustainability. This study investigated and identified key challenges of land use planning and its environmental assessments to improve the urban and environmental sustainability of city-regions. In doing so, we combined expert interviews and questionnaires with spatial analyses of urban and regional land use plans, as well as current and future urban land cover maps derived from Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing. By overlaying and contrasting land use plans and land cover maps, we investigated spatial inconsistencies between urban and regional plans and the associated urban land dynamics and used expert surveys to identify the causes of such inconsistencies. We furthermore identified and interrogated key challenges facing land use planning, including its environmental assessment procedures, and explored means for overcoming these barriers to rapid, yet environmentally sound urban growth. The results illuminated multiple inconsistencies (e.g., spatial conflicts) between urban and regional plans, most prominently stemming from conflicts in administrative boundaries and a lack of interdepartmental coordination. Key findings identified a lack of Strategic Environmental Assessment and inadequate implementation of land use plans caused by e.g., insufficient funding, lack of political will, political interference, corruption as challenges facing land use planning strategies for urban and environmental sustainability. The baseline information provided in this study is crucial to improve strategic planning and urban/environmental sustainability of city-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the Global South, where land use planning faces similar challenges to address haphazard urban expansion patterns.
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Simwanda, Matamyo, Yuji Murayama, Darius Phiri, Vincent R. Nyirenda, and Manjula Ranagalage. "Simulating Scenarios of Future Intra-Urban Land-Use Expansion Based on the Neural Network–Markov Model: A Case Study of Lusaka, Zambia." Remote Sensing 13, no. 5 (March 3, 2021): 942. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13050942.
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Forecasting scenarios of future intra-urban land-use (intra-urban-LU) expansion can help to curb the historically unplanned urbanization in cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and promote urban sustainability. In this study, we applied the neural network–Markov model to simulate scenarios of future intra-urban-LU expansion in Lusaka city, Zambia. Data derived from remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) techniques including urban-LU maps (from 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015) and selected driver variables, were used to calibrate and validate the model. We then simulated urban-LU expansion for three scenarios (business as usual/status quo, environmental conservation and protection, and strategic urban planning) to explore alternatives for attaining urban sustainability by 2030. The results revealed that Lusaka had experienced rapid urban expansion dominated by informal settlements. Scenario analysis results suggest that a business-as-usual setup is perilous, as it signals an escalating problem of unplanned settlements. The environmental conservation and protection scenario is insufficient, as most of the green spaces and forests have been depleted. The strategic urban planning scenario has the potential for attaining urban sustainability, as it predicts sufficient control of unplanned settlement expansion and protection of green spaces and forests. The study proffers guidance for strategic policy directions and creating a planning vision.
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Chaiechi, Taha. "Sustainable Tropical Cities: A Scoping Review of Multidisciplinary Methods for Urban Planning." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics 19, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 25–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.2.2020.3743.
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Most studies of urban sustainability are characterised by traditional approaches focusing on environmental aspects. These studies often neglect the influence of issues such as governance, society, culture, and geography. Multidisciplinary contributions remain poorly understood in this field, although evidence suggests that regional, geographical and socio-cultural factors are essential in shaping sustainable urban planning. Following Arksey and O'Malley’s (2005) scoping approach to literature reviews, this article provides a mapping technique and a scoping review to show the extent and nature of applied methodologies in the field of urban sustainability. The paper finds that there is a global need for sustainable urban planning through innovative multidisciplinary approaches. The paper calls for an accelerated knowledge creation in the field of urban development based on climate-classifications, socio-economic information, and locational characteristics. It particularly notes the need for research in the Tropics where distinct socio-economic dynamics and climate conditions have specific impacts on sustainable urban planning.
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Bouregh, Adel Saleh. "A Conceptual Framework of Public Participation Utilization for Sustainable Urban Planning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." Sustainability 14, no. 18 (September 13, 2022): 11470. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141811470.
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There is a growing concern for people to contribute to future developments in shaping their surroundings (town, community, and region) and, thus, their quality of life. Therefore, the study aims to propose a framework of public-participation exploitation for sustainable urban planning in Saudi Arabia. The framework proposed was developed based on analyzing the literature review and experts’ opinions through the Delphi technique. The framework covers planning levels and stages, participation methods, sustainability pillars, and the use of information communication technology (ICT). A proposed PP framework is produced, which is comprehensive, yet tailored for the urban-planning context of Saudi Arabia. The framework assists the management of PP properly. It addresses several practical elements that involve the citizens’ awareness regarding PP in the planning process, along with the accessibility of the populace to urban-planning issues. The framework shows that there is no single participatory technique that can satisfy all planning processes. The framework recognizes the importance of integrating sustainability into urban plans. It is concluded that the current framework helps to manage public participation properly and introduces the participants in the planning process, which eventually affects the urban planning of cities in Saudi Arabia.
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Matthew Taiwo, Ogungbenro, Salfarina Samsudin, Dzurllkanian @ ZulkarnainDaud, and Olukolajo Michael Ayodele. "A REVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF LAND-USE CHANGE ON SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 7, no. 5 (November 6, 2019): 1137–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.75150.
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to review the quest for physical development and economic viability which has overshadowed the social aspect of sustainable development that produces a liveable urban settlement in many emerging economies. Many of the urban areas of developing countries are characterized by sporadic/unguided land-use changes as a result of urbanization coupled with poor planning and management of land-use. Unfortunately, these changes are impacting negatively on the social fabric of sustainable and this calls for urgent attention.
Methodology: The study is based on an extensive review of literature on land-use changes and social sustainability in both the developed and emerging economies in order to identify gaps in practice and management of urban land development.
Main Findings: The results showed that although a considerable investment has been made and enormous efforts geared towards achieving sustainable development in Nigeria urban areas, little or no attention devoted to social sustainability in the planning and execution of these projects has rather led to unsustainable development. Many developmental projects and planning were politicized and thereby jettisoned social sustainability in the process.
Implication: It is important that urban land-use change should be appropriately monitored, purposively driven, and stakeholders must be responsive to promoting social sustainability to achieve a wholesome urban development.
Novelty: This study to the best of our knowledge is the first attempt that links urban land-use change and social sustainability especially in Nigeria. It has also provided information to guide the land-use planners, the policymakers and other stakeholders towards achieving a wholesome urban land-use development.
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Bonilla-Duarte, Solhanlle, Víctor Gómez-Valenzuela, Alma-Liz Vargas-de la Mora, and Agustín García-García. "Urban Forest Sustainability in Residential Areas in the City of Santo Domingo." Forests 12, no. 7 (July 7, 2021): 884. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12070884.
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Cities are territories vulnerable to climate change. An alternative to increase resilience and mitigate the effects of the climate context is urban forest planning to increase ecosystem services. This research constructed a forest cover sustainability index, based on 147 semi-structured interviews with residents of four residential areas of the city of Santo Domingo (Gazcue, Zona Colonial, Ciudad Nueva, and San Carlos), in which information was collected based on both benefit perception and tree management in their home and nearby public areas. The socioeconomic characteristics of the population and the information gathered from the measurements of the urban forest in both public and private areas of the city during the 2016–2019 period were considered, including these four residential areas, which established the ecosystem services provided by the urban forest. The results showed that Gazcue had a higher value in the forest cover sustainability index. The factors that influenced this result were: job stability, medium-high income, and property ownership. Likewise, the added value of the territory, whether in terms of tourism or the socioeconomic value of the population that inhabits it, is closely related to a greater attention to urban planning, prioritizing the conservation and landscape harmony that the arboreal component can provide. In conclusion, urban forest planning in cities should consider tree species, the design and structure of spatial arrangements, and a competent legal framework that can meet the challenges of territorial sustainability and contribute to the resilience and mitigation of climate change impacts.
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Li, Xiaopeng. "Suitability evaluation method of urban and rural spatial planning based on artificial intelligence." Journal of Intelligent Systems 31, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 245–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2022-0010.
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Abstract In order to realize the sustainable development of urban overall space, aiming at the increasingly serious environmental problems in the process of contemporary rapid urbanization, based on the relationship between urban and rural space and environmental capacity, a suitability evaluation method of urban and rural spatial planning based on artificial intelligence is proposed. This paper constructs the theoretical system of sustainable development evaluation of urban and rural spatial resources and uses artificial intelligence technology to reasonably select evaluation factors and standardize the evaluation indicators so as to achieve the research goal of accurately evaluating the suitability of urban and rural spatial planning. It analyzes the influencing factors of urban–rural spatial standard regional division, develops the design of the spatial planning suitability analysis system, and establishes the urban-rural spatial suitability evaluation. The scope of sustainability evaluation was extended to the level of urban and rural spatial planning and design, and the preliminary work was done to solve the problems of urban spatial structure and decision-making. The experimental results show that the planning method has high environmental adaptability and rationality.
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Enoguanbhor, Evidence, Florian Gollnow, Jonas Nielsen, Tobia Lakes, and Blake Walker. "Land Cover Change in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria: Integrating GIS and Remotely Sensed Data to Support Land Use Planning." Sustainability 11, no. 5 (March 2, 2019): 1313. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11051313.
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Rapid urban expansion is a significant contributor to land cover change and poses a challenge to environmental sustainability, particularly in less developed countries. Insufficient data about urban expansion hinders effective land use planning. Therefore, a high need to collect, process, and disseminate land cover data exists. This study focuses on urban land cover change detection using Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing methods to produce baseline information in support for land use planning. We applied a supervised classification of land cover of LANDSAT data from 1987, 2002, and 2017. We mapped land cover transitions from 1987 to 2017 and computed the net land cover change during this time. Finally, we analyzed the mismatches between the past and current urban land cover and land use plans and quantified the non-urban development area lost to urban/built-up. Our results indicated an increase in urban/built-up and bare land cover types, while vegetation land cover decreased. We observed mismatches between past/current land cover and the existing land use plan. By providing detailed insights into mismatches between the regional land use plan and unregulated urban expansion, this study provides important information for a critical debate on the role and effectiveness of land use planning for environmental sustainability and sustainable urban development, particularly in less developed countries.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urban informatics, Sustainability Planning"
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Erixon, Josef, and Tina Bosnjak. "Planning for sustainability : sustainable ideas for an urban environment." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5591.
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Examensarbetet har genomförts som en Minor Field Study (MFS), i Kina med fokus på hållbar fysisk planering. Begreppet hållbar utveckling är omfattande varför arbetet har begränsats att belysa fyra viktiga områden med stark koppling till fysisk planering; Energi, Transport, Vatten och Avfall. Examensarbetet har delats upp i två delar; Teori och Fältstudie - Shidao. Utvecklingen i Kina går snabbt och städer växer med en rasande fart i en process som många gånger dominerats av kortsiktigt ekonomiskt fokus. Under senare år har fysisk planering med fokus på hållbar utveckling uppmärksammats. Hållbarhetsbegreppet har bland annat sin utgångspunkt i det ekologiska kretsloppet. Industrialiseringen har inneburit kraftigt ökad energiförbrukning i Kina och kol används i stor utsträckning vilket är en av orsakerna till ökade föroreningar i landet. 16 av världens 20 mest förorenade städer ligger i Kina och lösningen på problemet är bl.a. förnyelsebara energikällor och att hushålla med energin. Den kraftigt ökande efterfrågan på bilar och ökade trafikmängderna orsakar allvarliga problem med föroreningar i storstäder runt om i Kina. Välfungerande kollektivtrafik lyfts fram som ett viktigt element i ett hållbart samhälle samtidigt som gång- och cykeltrafik ska uppmuntras och prioriteras i den fysiska planeringen. Hantering av vatten och avfall får också stora konsekvenser i den snabba utveckling som Kina står i. Efterfrågan på vatten ökar samtidigt som det uppstår stora problem med förorenat vatten. Dagvattenhanteringen är ett viktigt område där fysisk planering kan spela en avgörande roll. Vad gäller avfallshanteringen måste mängden avfall minskas samtidigt som allt mer av avfallet återanvänds eller återvinns. Följande referensområden har studerats med syfte att lyfta fram stadsutvecklingsprojekt med fokus på hållbarhet: Bo01/Västra hamnen i Malmö, Viikki i Helsingfors och Luodian Town i Shanghai. Cheklista som utgångspunkt för fältstudien i Shidao, Kina: Energi NYTTJA FÖRNYELSEBARA ENERGIKÄLLOR EFFEKTIV DISTRIBUTIONSTEKNOLOGI ENERGI-EFFEKTIVT BYGGANDE UPPMUNTRA TEKNOLOGI/SYSTEM FÖR ÅTERANVÄNDNING INFORMATION OCH MEDBORGARDELTAGANDE Transport PRIORITERA KOLLEKTIVTRAFIK UPPMUNTRA MILJÖVÄNLIG FORDONSTEKNIK MINSKA BILANVÄNDNING UPPMUNTRA GÅNG- OCH CYKELTRAFIK Vatten SÄKRA PRODUKTION OCH DISTRIBUTION RENA DAGVATTNET FÖRHINDRA ÖVERSVÄMNING BIDRA TILL MÅNGFALD OCH ESTETISKA VÄRDEN Avfall MINSKA, ÅTERANVÄND, ÅTERVINN FÖRBÄTTRADE, SANITÄRA DEPONIER INFORMATION OCH MEDBORGARDELTAGANDE Området, ett nedlagt industriområde, står inför en omvandling till bostäder, kontor och handel och under den tidiga planeringen har hållbarhetsaspekterna fått mycket lite fokus. Fältstudien omfattar en inventering av området men också en analys av de tidigare planerna som redovisats för den nya bebyggelsen. Analysen av tidigare planförslag har sin utgångspunkt i den nämnda checklistan och följs av förslag på ändringar av det befintliga planförslaget. Två områden, en offentlig miljö och en privat miljö har detaljstuderats. Befintligt planförslag arbetades om i två detaljerade planförslag för att rymma de åtgärder som lyfts fram i analysen. Stadsplaneringen i Kina står inför avgörande beslut vad gäller miljön. Planering på lång sikt kommer att krävas och många viktiga aspekter att ta hänsyn till inom hållbar planering ryms i den cheklista som presenteras i examensarbetet.Josef Erixon, tel: 070-3329196, Tina Bosnjak, tel: 070-6078064
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Stumpler, Martin. "Integrated and sustainable urban development planning : An empirical case study on the reflection of the Leipzig Charter’s principles in the context of German local urban planning." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2828.
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This master’s thesis deals with the concept of integrated urban development planning as e.g. promoted in the Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities. The legally non-binding character of the EU policy document raises the question of its implementation. On the local level, the drawing up of Integrated Urban Development Concepts (ISEKs) is recommended as strategic planning tool. However, the competence of the EU in urban affairs is limited and the preparation of such planning documents is subject to local self-governance. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to analyse, how the principles of integrated and sustainable urban development planning as laid out in the Leipzig Charter are reflected in local planning documents. Due to ambiguous definitions, the dimensions of the planning concept are presented in detail within the theoretical framework of this thesis. This is backed-up with policy statements and scientific evidence. Moreover, the concept is embedded in a broader planning theoretical framework since reference to planning theory is partly missing in the current discourse. In line with methodological requirements, the analysis provides a comprehensive description of the rhetorical context on integrated urban development planning on European and national level. It is outlined that this discourse is shaped by various actors in a multi-level setting with complex interrelationships. A qualitative content analysis has been chosen in order to assess the dimensions ‘integration’ and ‘sustainability’ in selected ISEKs. Since a comprehensive national framework and long experience in the application of integrated planning exists in Germany, a case study has been conducted for the cities of Greifswald, Kiel, Lübeck and Schwerin. The empirical analysis illustrates a great variety in the reflection of the dimensions of integrated planning as well as different approaches in the application of the sustainability paradigm. Besides the varying approaches, a high level of consistency with the principles laid out in the Leipzig Charter can be observed. However, these findings cannot be traced back to the awareness about the EU policy document. In contrast, other endogenous and exogenous motives for the ISEK preparation can be identified. They include the multi-faceted challenges for urban development as well as financial incentives or requirements within national programmatic frameworks. Nevertheless, the ISEKs include a European dimension as the reference to EU Structural Funds, EU initiatives in urban policy as well as cooperation within European city-networks shows. Further findings include that differences in the ISEK preparation in East and West Germany exists. They are explained by varying initial conditions and motives as well as different programmatic frameworks in the two Federal States Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Even though integrated urban development planning is promoted as a prerequisite for sustainable development, no clear evidence could be found in the analysis. Obstacles for the operationalization of the sustainability paradigm as well as the focus on the content and preparation process of the ISEKs are explanations here. The thesis concludes with some personal reflections under consideration of theoretical concerns and empirical findings. They bear the potential of recommendations for those involved in the ISEK preparation process.
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Belaieff, Antoine, Gloria Moy, and Jack Rosebro. "Planning for a Sustainable Nexus of Urban Land Use, Transport and Energy." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3304.
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Land use, transport, and energy systems create demands that are transferred to ecosystems. Urban sprawl is increasing, open space and farmland are disappearing and climate change is a growing concern. Yet local, national, and EU policies on sustainable development and economic growth are often at odds with one another. A sector-by-sector approach that focuses on incremental actions precludes effective, integrated solutions. Progress towards sustainability requires a systems-based perspective grounded in science. This paper presents a comprehensive and strategic framework to help communities (1) adopt a whole-systems view to land use, transport, and energy, (2) develop a vision to guide their actions, and (3) strategically adopt actions that close the gap between the current reality and the envisioned sustainable future. An emphasis is placed on strategies related to governance structures and strategies to secure political and public acceptance, including approaches to public participation.
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Nolan, Caroline, Mary Ostafi, and Mélina Planchenault. "Catalytic City Planning : Leveraging the Development Planning Process to move a Community Strategically towards Sustainability with Dublin City Case Study." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3502.
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More than half the world’s population now lives in urban areas putting the city on the frontline of the social and environmental challenge and yet, city planning presents many opportunities to move a city towards sustainability. The city development plan (DP) is a powerful vehicle for change. This research seeks to understand the gaps between an ideal catalytic development planning process and current reality, and provide recommendations to support the attainment of a city’s sustainability objectives. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) was used to define a generic “Golden Standard” planning process to help the local authority better leverage its internal resources and refine governance systems to achieve long-lasting cultural change from within to accelerate the city’s progression towards sustainability. A case study with the Dublin City Council’s Planning Department in Ireland provided valuable insight and limited practical application of the Golden Standard.
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McCreery, Anna C. "Urban Transportation Ecoefficiency: Social and Political Forces for Change in U.S. Metropolitan Areas." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337963928.
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Cooksey, Christy. "The Impacts of Urban Sustainability on Economic Prosperity: Sustainability in the Spotlight." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752361/.
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City officials are in the position to adopt and implement policies within their jurisdiction that can have lasting impacts for businesses, people, and the environment. Sustainability research has highlighted the need to protect the environment by adopting policies which support the three E's of sustainable development (environment, equity, and economy). Stepping aside from the traditional mechanisms for building a successful city focused on economy first can be challenging for policy makers. The problem city officials face is that changes towards environmental protectionism have long been considered harder on city economy than traditional development focused on economic prosperity. Additionally, sustainability planning is thought to mitigate potential negative impacts that planning for environmental protectionism and social equity may have on economic prosperity. To examine this problem faced by city officials, ordinal regression analyses was used to analyze (1) the possible effects of environmental protectionism and social equity on a city's economic prosperity, and (2) whether sustainability planning has a moderating affect between environmental protectionism, social equity, and economic prosperity. This analysis demonstrates that environmental protectionism and social equity are not associated with a decline in economic prosperity. Sustainability planning was directly associated with increased economic prosperity but did not moderate the relationship between environmental protectionism and economic prosperity.
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Perkins-High, Lily. "Can sustainability be local? : an examination of neighborhood sustainability assessment in Denver, Colorado." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105057.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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While the challenge of achieving a sustainable built environment is global, governments and nonprofits working to advance sustainability are increasingly turning to the neighborhood scale (Luederitz, Lang, and von Wehrden 2013). This attention to the neighborhood has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) standards, which evaluate neighborhoods against sustainability criteria. Since 2001, when the first NSA standard was published (Sharifi 2016), the number of NSA standards in use worldwide has climbed to 32 (Criterion Planners 2016). Despite this volume, there is relatively little written on individual NSA standards, and even less on how these standards compare to one another or relate to city-led sustainability efforts (Haapio 2012; Sharifi and Murayama 2013; Berardi 2013; Reith and Orova 2015; Komeily and Srinivasan 2015). This study addresses these gaps in the literature by studying four NSA standards in use in Denver, Colorado: LEED ND, 2030 Districts, EcoDistricts, and Sustainable Neighborhoods. This is the first study to examine the use of multiple NSA standards in the same city and the first to analyze the relationship between NSA standards and citywide sustainability efforts. I answer the following three questions: What are the similarities and differences between the intent, certification approach, and applicability of different NSA standards? Why are individuals, institutions, and cities adopting NSA standards and how satisfied are they with their choice? What is the relationship between NSA standards and city-led, city-scale planning? I find that the four NSA standards I examine prioritize different elements of sustainability, employ different approaches to certification, and operate in different development contexts, and that this diversity helps advance neighborhood-scale sustainability in Denver. I find that individuals adopt specific NSA standards as a result of a tangle of iterative decisions that draw upon the initiator's personal and professional networks, their knowledge of the variety of standards available, and the authority they possess. Finally, I find that these four NSA projects are well connected to the City of Denver but that rather than working through Denver's Office of Sustainability, they intersect with multiple City agencies, thus benefiting from Denver's mandate that all City departments support sustainability initiatives.
by Lily Perkins-High.
M.C.P.
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Leung, Pui-ching Hilda. "Planning for urban sustainability : promoting integrated transit-oriented development /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35081211.
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Leung, Pui-ching Hilda, and 梁佩貞. "Planning for urban sustainability: promoting integrated transit-oriented development." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45014140.
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Dossa, Zahir (Zahir A. ). "A positive approach to sustainability." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81639.
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Thesis (Ph. D. in Sustainable Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Sustainability is a complex term that is becoming increasingly used. While extremely important, sustainability is often misused and misunderstood, yielding undesirable effects. Furthermore, many organizations promote the image of being sustainable without embracing it, otherwise known as green-washing, yet those that truly are sustainable face difficulty communicating their sustainability practices and distinguishing themselves as such. Despite its complexity, sustainability remains an important term that necessitates a greater conceptualization. In this dissertation, three topics in sustainability (sustainability performance, sustainability innovation, and sustainable development) are explored through a positive approach. A positive approach, also referred to as an abundance approach, is one that espouses a greater understanding for how the highest ideals and fullest potential can be achieved as opposed to one that focuses on fixing immediate problems. Borrowing from positive organizational scholarship (POS) theory and the positive organizational ethics (POE) literature, a framework for capturing sustainability performance is developed in Chapter 2 that shifts the emphasis from minimizing negative externalities to maximizing positive outcomes. Extending upon POS theory, the crisis-PEN-innovation framework advanced in Chapter 3 aligns various literature on innovation to postulate that sustainability innovations are achieved through the formation of positive ethical networks (PENs) that arise in response to external crises. Finally in Chapter 4, a PEN analysis is conducted to foster a greater understanding of project trajectories and outcomes in the sustainable development field. It is therefore through the lenses provided by the POS and POE literatures that new frameworks for conceptualizing topics in sustainability can be developed.
by Zahir Dossa.
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Books on the topic "Urban informatics, Sustainability Planning"
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Vojnovic, Igor. Urban sustainability: A global perspective. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012.
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Urban sustainability: A global perspective. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012.
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Emerald cities: Urban sustainability and economic development. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Netzband, Maik, William L. Stefanov, and Charles Redman, eds. Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68009-3.
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A, Brebbia C., Martin-Duque J. F, and Wadhwa L. C. 1938-, eds. The sustainable city II: Urban regeneration and sustainability. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2002.
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David, Wilson. The politics of the urban sustainability concept. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Publishing, 2015.
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PECC General Meeting on "Sustainable Cities" (1st 2000 Bangkok, Thailand). Cities of the Pacific Rim: Diversity & sustainability. Paris: PUCA, 2001.
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Megacities: Urban form, governance, and sustainability. Tokyo: Springer, 2011.
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Infrastructure sustainability and design. New York, NY: Routledge, 2012.
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name, No. Story and sustainability: Planning, practice, and possibility for American cities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
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Yeh, Anthony G. O., Xia Li, and Chang Xia. "Cellular Automata Modeling for Urban and Regional Planning." In Urban Informatics, 865–83. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_45.
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AbstractIn recent decades, cellular automata (CA) have become popular for evaluating and forecasting urban transformation over time and space, especially in rapidly developing countries. These models enhance the understanding of urban dynamics and the complex interplay between land-use changes and urban sustainability. CA help governments, planners, and stakeholders to predict and evaluate the potential outcomes of future policy alternatives before making decisions. Thus, CA are frequently used to create what-if scenarios for policy implementation. This chapter includes an overview of the basic and state-of-the-art concepts and methods in urban CA modeling, as well as the latest studies, applications, and current problems. First, we conduct a systematic review of urban CA modeling to provide critical comments on previous and recent studies. The basic techniques, including the components of a basic CA model, modifications for urban modeling, and collection of data sources, are then provided, along with a classification of different types of urban CA. Finally, the applications of CA in urban studies and planning practices are presented, as well as discussions of further research. We also point out the major problems in recent studies and applications for further research.
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Kelly, Ashley Scott, and Xiaoxuan Lu. "Introduction." In Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative, 1–9. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4067-4_1.
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AbstractThe book’s introduction, Landscape as Development, introduces the distinct positions of critic and planner in development and offers initial justifications for a “critical” practice of ecological planning, as construed by landscape architecture. Landscape architecture has the most substantial ecological mandate among its sister disciplines of architecture and urban planning and has made significant recent historical contributions to development planning, including being the origin of modern landscape ecology and geographic information systems science. In order to become “critical,” landscape architecture, as planning, must recognize the contradictions between urban or economic sustainability and the critical social theory undercurrents in sustainable development. We introduce a working definition of “critical landscape planning” as it is developed throughout the book: A practice of critical landscape planning, routed in landscape architecture, uses multiple forms of sustainability to plan for landscapes engaging in (or encountering) development. The critical landscape planner holds a cultural-technological position and simultaneously applies science to specific site conditions, is critical of that science, and in the process and practice of applying it, refines and deepens the relevant scope of work. This introduction finishes by covering the structure of this book.
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Rauscher, Raymond Charles, and Salim Momtaz. "Sustainability and Urban Planning." In Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning, 5–35. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7509-1_2.
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Alho, André Romano, Takanori Sakai, Fang Zhao, Linlin You, Peiyu Jing, Lynette Cheah, Christopher Zegras, and Moshe Ben-Akiva. "Laboratories for Research on Freight Systems and Planning." In Urban Informatics, 171–95. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_12.
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AbstractAdvancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) and the advent of novel mobility solutions have brought about drastic changes in the urban mobility environment. Pervasive ICT devices acquire new sources of data that can inform detailed transportation simulation models, and are useful in analyzing new policies and technologies. In this context, we developed software laboratories that leverage the latest technological developments and enhance freight research. Future mobility sensing (FMS) is a data-collection platform that integrates tracking devices and mobile apps, a backend with machine-learning technologies and user interfaces to deliver highly accurate and detailed mobility data. The second platform, SimMobility, is an open-source, agent-based urban simulation platform which replicates urban passenger and goods movements in a fully disaggregated manner. The two platforms have been used jointly to advance the state of the art in behavioral modeling for passenger and goods movements. In this chapter, we review recent developments in freight-transportation data-collection techniques, including contributions to transportation modeling, and state-of-the-art transportation models. We then introduce FMS and SimMobility and demonstrate a coordinated application using three examples. Lastly, we highlight potential innovations and future challenges in these research domains.
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Morrissey, John E., Susie Moloney, and Trivess Moore. "Strategic Spatial Planning and Urban Transition: Revaluing Planning and Locating Sustainability Trajectories." In Urban Sustainability Transitions, 53–72. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4792-3_4.
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Allam, Zaheer. "Religion and Urban Planning." In Theology and Urban Sustainability, 1–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29673-5_1.
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Friedman, Avi. "Master Planning for Sustainability." In Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design, 29–36. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60865-1_3.
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Wiryomartono, Bagoes. "Urban Planning and Development." In Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism, 81–100. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8972-6_4.
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Doyon, Andréanne. "Emerging Theoretical Space: Urban Planning and Sustainability Transitions." In Urban Sustainability Transitions, 213–31. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4792-3_12.
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Wilson, Barbara B., and Timothy Beatley. "Educating Code-Switchers in a Post-sustainability World." In Urban Planning Education, 307–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55967-4_20.
Full textConference papers on the topic "Urban informatics, Sustainability Planning"
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Maretto, Marco, Barbara Gherri, Greta Pitanti, and Francesco Scattino. "Urban Morphology and Sustainability: towards a shared design methodology." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5695.
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The information revolution is radically transforming the very foundation of the ‘fossil city’. A ‘virtual’ macro-urbanism will intersect with an ‘actual’ micro-urbanism, physical and concrete, determining the form of the new urban environment. Within the binomial of macro- and micro- urbanism, urban morphology identifies an interesting socio-building scale that can serve as the basic strategy for sustainable city planning in the twenty-first century. Morphology thus becomes the necessary ‘plug-in’ for registering the different ‘networks’ that characterize the contemporary city – from IT and ‘smart’ devices to energy and environmental systems - translating these networks into building practices, into ‘fabrics’, for the physical city. At this purpose an Urban Design methodology has been developed in order to combine the Urban Morphology tools with those of Sustainability giving particular attention to the topics of the comfort outdoor and the passive environmental control systems. The methodology has then been applied in the Sant Adrià De Besos Waterfront Regeneration Project in Barcelona. Neighbourhood’s size, complexity and localisation, between the sea and a large area of brown fields at the northern gateway of the Catalan capital, has set up an interesting testing bench. A sequence of consecutive steps characterizes the methodology in which morphology, architecture and sustainability intersect one another within a single design process. References Gherri B. (2015) Assessment of Daylight Performance in Buildings: Methods and Design Strategies, (WIT Press, Boston). Gherri, B. (2016) ‘Environmental Analysis Towards Low Carbon Urban Retrofitting For Public Spaces’, Proceedings of HERITAGE 2016 – 5th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development,Vol. 1, p. 499-508. Marat-Mendes, T. (2013) ‘Sustainability and the study of urban form’, Urban Morphology 17, 123-4. Maretto, M. (2014) ‘Sustainable Urbanism: the role of urban morphology’, Urban Morphology 18(2), 163-74. Maretto, M. (2013) Ecocities. Il progetto urbano tra morfologia e sostenibilità (Franco Angeli, Roma).
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Hanzl, Malgorzata, Lia Maria Dias Bezerra, Anna Aneta Tomczak, and Robert Warsza. "A quest to quantify urban sustainability. Assessing incongruous growth." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5096.
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Urban planners, politicians and citizens need comprehensive and clear information in order to conduct or get involved into successful evidence based planning and policy making. The objective to improve the quality of planning outcomes both at the local and regional level necessitates in creation of design mechanisms which could help planners verify and support their approach with quantitative analyses and simulation tools. While this sort of problems has already been explored for a while, with an abundant literature on the topic, there still remains a lot to say, especially when it comes to evaluation of plans, such as local plans of urban development, general plans, studies for the municipalities or larger, inter-municipal associations. Along with the implementation of INSPIRE Directive in Europe, data for these analyses, so far patchy and incomplete, becomes slowly but progressively available. The use of quantitative analyses may refer to several aspects of physical form, such as connectivity, continuity of ecological systems, conciseness of built structures and urban boundary, analyses of the morphology of urban tissue, etc. Completed with the qualitative description and enriched with the socio-cultural preconditions assessment they may give a comprehensive picture both of the current and the planned state. The current paper presents an experience of mapping typologies of residential structures in the settlements neighbouring Lodz, Poland, with the objective to assess the existing densities and planned development capacities against the backdrop of demographic dynamics in these region.References Berghauser-Pont, M. and Haupt, P. (2010) Space, Density and Urban Form (Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft). Faludi, A. and Waterhout, B. (2006) ‘Introducing Evidence-Based Planning’, disP Plan. Rev. 165, pp.4–13. Laconte, P. (2016) ‘Introduction: assessing the assessments’, in Laconte, P. and Gossop, C. (eds.) Sustainable Cities. Assessing the Performance and Practice of Urban Environments. (I.B. Tauris, London, New York) 1–14. Newman, P. and Kenworthy, J. (1999) Sustainability and cities: overcoming automobile dependence (University of Chicago Press, Chicago). Rapoport, A. (1975) ‘Toward a Redefinition of Density’, Environment and Behavior 7(2), 133–158.
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Pathirana, H. P. W. P., and J. Munasinghe. "INFORMALITY IN FORMAL SPACES THROUGH SELF ORGANIZATION: A STUDY OF THE PEOPLE’S PROCESSES IN PUTTALAM TOWN IN SRI LANKA." In Beyond sustainability reflections across spaces. Faculty of Architecture Research Unit, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31705/faru.2021.10.
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Informality is an inevitable ingredient in an urban environment. The ‘formally’ established urban built environments are informally shaped by people for the appropriation of spaces for their activities. Within dominant institutionalized urban planning processes, such informalities are often regarded as ‘nuisances’, ‘out-of-place’, and ‘misfits’ in urban spaces. Yet, informally organized spaces are as important as formal spaces for the vitality, equity, and sustainability of all types of urban environments. People's processes in the creation and operation of informal spaces, resisting, contesting, and negotiating the dominant formal networks, have been the subject of many scholarly works over the last few decades, but a lack of empirical work and informative case studies on the subject has distanced mainstream planners and urban designers from learning and integrating such informal space production into institutionalized urban development processes. In order to mend this gap and reorient the prevalent understanding among planning professionals, a people’s endeavor in Puttalam town in Sri Lanka to form and sustain informal spaces is presented in this paper. The paper elaborates on the ‘self-organizing’ behaviour of the small-scale retail vendors and the day-to-day users of the city to withstand interventions by the authorities on the public market space of the town.
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Atay Kaya, Ilgi, and Nursen Kaya Erol. "A Proposal for GIS Based Evaluation of Urban Plans in Terms of Environmental Sustainability." In International Symposium on Environmental Protection and Planning: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) Applications. Cevre Koruma ve Arastirma Vakfi, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5053/isepp.2011.3-3.
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Ramamurthy, Adinarayanane, and Anusha Roy. "Green and blue infrastucture to regulate thermal comfort in high density city planning. A case of Navi Mumbai, India." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/amfc5106.
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Cities create an environment that is clearly distinct from their surrounding areas. Urban structures alter the surface energy budget, modify the vertical profile of various atmospheric properties, interact with both local and regional circulation, and introduce anthropogenic heat. As a result, the climate conditions in the urban environment significantly differ from their rural system. Sustainability in planning is a topic of high interest among urban planners, urbanist and policy makers yet lack of scientific knowledge in the field leads to low impact in evolving urban planning decisions. Urban climatic map, as a tool provides a visual and spatial information platform using Geographic Information System (GIS). Increase in vegetation and water surfaces, known as green and blue infrastructure (GBI), is of particular interest due to their multiple functionality and benefits for the urban environment, such as increasing urban biodiversity and improving air quality in case of urban vegetation. The urban climatic, environmental and planning parameters, as well as their impact, are considered to synthesize and comprehensively evaluate the physical urban environment with regard to thermal load and dynamic potential. The parameters considered to evaluate Thermal load include: Topography; Population Density; Land Surface Temperature; Air Temperature and Dynamic potential are: Normalized difference Built up Index; Normalized difference Vegetation Index; Normalized difference Water Index and Prevailing Wind of the study region. Study concludes with planning decisions to develop urban climatology-based map for GBI to enhance cooling effects and thereby undertaking measures to regulate thermal comfort in the city through green and blue infrastructure.
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Chanden, Mysore Chandrashekar, J. S. Aadithyaa, P. S. Prakash, and Haridas Bharath. "Machine learning for building extraction and integration of particle swarm optimization with sleuth for urban growth pattern visualization for liveable cities." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/pukd9844.
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Rapidly increasing population and migration from rural areas to nearby urban agglomerations develop tremendous pressure on system of the existing cities without compromising socioeconomic and cultural linkages. Policy interventions, both at global and local scale, have created newer avenues for the researchers to explore real-time solutions for problems world-wide. For instance, the outcome of 2015 United Nations agenda for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the year 2030 primarily focuses on urbanization issues and probabilistic modelling of future scenarios to obtain a robust alternative for resource utilization and further for maximizing sustainability through land use pattern analysis. This is the clear indication toward the very important role of “ever dormant” urban planning, especially in the case of a rapidly developing country such as India. Remote sensing and geo informatics along with Machine learning can provide extremely relevant information about the pattern change in cities and as input to visualize the future growth pockets. In this context, potential of cellular automata (CA) in urban modelling has been explored by various researchers across the globe. In the recent past, models have been drawing majority of the attention along with geographic CA processes about urban growth and urban sprawl studies. Most recent approaches include optimization of transition rules based on machine learning techniques and evolutionary algorithms that follow nature-inspired mechanism such as Genetic Algorithm, Ant colony optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), simulated annealing, Grey Wolf optimizer etc. Irrespective of any modelling technique, model calibration remains one of the challenging and most crucial steps towards obtaining realistic results. This research communication tries to demonstrate a novel idea of integrating PSO with SLEUTH post calibration of the spatial-temporal footprint of urban growth from the year 1990 to 2017 for Kolkata, a historical megacity of Eastern India. Results were evaluated and validated using statistical fit measuresreveals PSO-SLEUTH performed substantially better compared to traditional Brute Force calibration method (BFM). Another significant development was in terms of computation time of optimized values from days (BFM) to hours (PSO). The study identifies Kolkata region to be sensitive to spread and road gravity coefficients during calibration procedure. Results indicate growth along the transport corridors with multiple agents fuelling the growth. Further, with the aid of high spatial resolution data, buildings were extracted to understand the growth parameters incorporating neural networks. Using the results, renewable energy aspects were explored to harness and provide a suitable local solution for energy issues in energy gobbling cities. Pattern of landscape change, development of better process of modeling and extraction of building from machine learning techniques for planning smart cities with self-sustaining energy is presented in this research work.
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Cabrera, Fausto, Jesús Rafael Hechavarría Hernández, and Lorena Sánchez. "Zoning according to type of urban land: The case of Isidro Ayora canton, Guayas, Ecuador." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002350.
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The growth and development of urban land in the head of the Isidro Ayora canton, Guayas province in Ecuador, lacks adequate zoning and territorial planning. This research paper identifies factors such as homogeneous areas based on geographic, physical and socioeconomic variables. As a starting point, the current model of urban land use was established through the municipal cadastre. This information was corroborated and supplemented with the collection instruments and the applied methodology. The zoning proposal according to the type of urban land yielded satisfactory results when carrying out the analysis under a systemic approach of the variables that intervene in the decision-making process. The planning of the territory, its potential, and the territorial trends are focused on sustainability development.
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Ferrer y Arroyo, Mercedes, José Fariña Tojo, Ramón Reyes Arrieta, and Nersa Gómez De Perozo. "Paisajes urbanos híbridos-dispersos: tecnovación en gestión urbana sostenible." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7540.
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El creciente proceso de dispersión territorial de las ciudades latinoamericanas y venezolanas (Maracaibo),
deriva de la expansión incontrolada de la periferia urbana por ausencia o trasgresión de las restricciones
físico-geográficas y legales y es consecuencia de la migración, el laissez faire territorial, la poca
capacidad de gestión y la ausencia de cultura de sostenibilidad. Resulta de formas de producción del
hábitat -paisajes urbanos híbridos-dispersos, donde coexisten y se mezclan en un continuo espaciotemporal
desarticulado, fragmentos urbanos con diferentes códigos genéticos (urbanización espontánea y
planificada). Este patrón de ocupación y desarrollo urbano, basado en tipologías extensivas de bajo
rendimiento-intensidad de uso, genera fuertes presiones frente a las que parece no existir capacidad de
respuesta institucional o a las que muchas veces no se quiere responder por razones políticas e
ideológicas. La dispersión urbana en Maracaibo se ha traducido en el aumento de los costos de
urbanización, del incremento del déficit de los servicios infraestructurales, de las asimetrías en la
distribución espacial de calidad de vida y la precariedad. Este modelo disperso-insostenible que
caracteriza a Maracaibo - con 1,6 millones de habitantes - ha desbordado los límites de la ciudad,
ocupando los bordes de los corredores urbanos metropolitanos que desde la ciudad atraviesan la Zona
Protectora (ZP). La ZP es un green belt plurimunicipal de 20.800 Has, que bordea y define el limitefrontera
urbana del Archipiélago Metropolitano de Maracaibo (AMM). La ZP fue decretada en 1989 por el
Ministerio del Ambiente (MARN) para frenar la expansión anárquica de Maracaibo y actuar como agente regulador del clima y el medio ambiente en beneficio de la calidad de la vida urbana y como políticacontenedor
del crecimiento urbano de la ciudad, actualmente en proceso de ocupación por rituales
urbanos en expansión. La ponencia presenta la metodología -estrategia de planificación-evaluación
innovadora- (EPE+i) y resultados de un Estudio realizado para el Ministerio del Ambiente, con el fin de
decidir sobre la desafectación total o parcial de la ZP. Con ese propósito se evalúa el impacto de los
posibles futuros escenarios de ocupación urbana de la ZP, en la sostenibilidad del AMM. La EPE+i llena el
vacío de la planificación-gestión urbana en Venezuela, asumiendo el principio de sostenibilidad y
trenzando estratégicamente el proceso de Planificación-Gestión Urbana (PGU), con el modelo Presión-
Estado-Respuesta (PER) y el apoyo de Tecnologías de Información Geográfica (TIG) -imagen satelital y
SIG- para desarrollar modelos urbanos y atributos e Indicadores de Sostenibilidad Urbana (ISU)
específicos. La sostenibilidad y gobernanza (participación-interacción política y social multinivel), se
asumieron como principios clave del estudio, para la toma de decisión ética y construir una visiónhipótesis
territorial integral y concertada de futuro para el conjunto urbanos ZP-AMM. La ponencia
concluye presentando el resultado de la aplicación de la estrategia metodológica, EPE+i =
[PGU+PER+TIG] (tecnovación creativa), donde los modelos SIG de vulnerabilidad, consolidación y
conformidad de uso y el modelo síntesis, conformidad-adecuación ambiental y legal de la ocupación
urbana de la ZP, constituyen los atributos e ISU de Estado; los escenarios se transforman en atributos e
ISU de Presión y la gobernanza, evaluada a través de tres variables, legitimidad por desempeño,
gobernabilidad y participación, conforman los atributos de Respuesta y seleccionado como política urbana
y visión-hipótesis territorial integral para el conjunto ZP-AMM, el escenario E2: Corredores de Expansión
Tendencial, porque organiza la ocupación lineal urbana actual, a lo largo de los corredores
metropolitanos, manteniendo las áreas intermedias como zonas verdes de protección. Urban sprawl in Latin-American and Venezuelan cities derives from uncontrolled urban expansion of the
periphery, due to the absence or infringement of geographical and legal restrictions through planned and
spontaneous urban occupation (hybrid urbanization). This in turn results from migration and territorial
laissez faire; limited urban management capacity and sustainability culture in public, private and
community institutions although they perceived and inhabit a precarious environment and frequently
protest demanding services, security and houses. For Sempere (2005, is caused by illegal ways of habitat
production based on low density and extensive typologies. This urban pattern generates strong pressures
against which there is no institutional capacity or will to respond due to political or ideological reasons. This
disperse-unsustainable model in Maracaibo (capital of the Zulia State, located at the western extreme of
Venezuela) has led to the explosion of the city boundaries, and the occupation of the edges of the
metropolitan urban corridors, which run from the city across the Protective Zone (PZ). The PZ is a green
belt of 20.800 Hectares, decreed in 1989 to act as a policy-container of urban growth by defining the city
west boundaries and is in the process of transformation-mutation by urban rituals in expansion. It is the
territorial expression of the contemporary forms of making city which result from the practice of the visible
management government (VMG) in metropolitan Maracaibo, referred by Ferrer and others (2005) as
Maracaibo’s metropolitan archipelago (MAM). The paper describes the method, innovative planningevaluation
strategy (IPES) and the results of a study that evaluates the impact of sprawl -urban occupation
of the Protective Zone (PZ)-, in Maracaibo’s -hybrid metropolitan archipelago- (HMA) sustainability. The
IPES fills the gap of the local urban planning assuming the principles of sustainable development (SD) by
means of braiding the urban planning process (UPP) with the Pressure-State-Response Model (PSR) and
Geographical Information Technologies (GIT) -satellite images and GIS- to develop urban models, specific
attributes and urban sustainable indicators (USI). The IPES (UPP+PSR) is a multilayered-relational model
that works, within the PSR model and grapping this model with the UPP. In this model, the causes of
environmental changes, Pressure are correlated with the urban-spatial scenarios, their effects State, with
the diagnose synthesis and, the Response with the multilevel government and stakeholders, urban
projects, actions and policies, proposed and undertaken to deal with these changes. To reach an ethical
decision, a concerted vision of the future scenarios and to build an integral territorial hypothesis for the PZHMA,
sustainability and governance -stakeholders’ participation- were the key principles of the study. The
paper concludes presenting the IPES model (creative technovation), where the GIS models of
vulnerability, consolidation, conformity of usage and the model synthesis, environmental and legal
conformity-adequation of the urban occupation, serve as specific State Attributes; the envisioned urban - spatial scenarios constituted the Attributes of Pressure and urban governance, measured through three
variables, legitimacy by performance, governability and participation, configured the Response Attributes
and selecting as policy and integral hypothesis –vision for the PZ-MAM the E2 Scenario: Corridors of
Tendencial Expansion because controls, adjusts and organises the present lineal urban occupation along
the metropolitan corridors maintaining intermediate areas of green protection and re-creates a new hybrid
sustainable urban landscape, a compact, dense and multifunctional-polycentric PZ-MAM.
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González, Jorge E., and Estatio Gutierrez. "On the Environmental Sensible/Latent Heat Fluxes From A/C Systems in Urban Dense Environments: A New Modeling Approach and Case Study." In ASME 2015 9th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2015 Power Conference, the ASME 2015 13th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2015 Nuclear Forum. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2015-49583.
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Recent trends for denser cities and associated levels of human activity reflected in energy demands are requiring new ways for quantifying human environmental impacts in cities. There is little information on human-induced environmental heat fluxes from very dense urban environments, and far less information on the anthropogenic sensible/latent heat flux partition. To address this, a surface energy model that takes into account evaporation from impervious surfaces and from cooling towers from buildings was implemented in the multilayer urban canopy model (BEP+BEM) of the Weather Forecasting Research (WRF) model to estimate the overall sensible/latent heat fluxes from urban surfaces and from air condition (A/C) systems from buildings in complex urban environments. The scenario used as case study was New York City (NYC) during summers (2010 & 2013). Urban canopy parameters from the Department of City Planning of NYC were assimilated into WRF with BEP+BEM at 250 meters horizontal resolution to have an accurate representation of the city topology. The modeling approach was calibrated with surface weather stations in NYC showing general good agreement with slight tendency to overestimate maximum temperatures and underestimate moisture content at nighttime. The A/C component was estimated in 150W/m2 latent heat due to cooling towers, and close to 40 W/m2 in sensible. Evaporative cooling technology diminishes between 80 and 90% the amount of sensible heat which is transformed into latent heat. Impacts of anthropogenic in the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) reflect warm season increases in the PBL height, and significant increases of atmospheric instability.
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Cozens, P. "Planning, crime and urban sustainability." In SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2007. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/sdp070181.
Full textReports on the topic "Urban informatics, Sustainability Planning"
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Appleyard, Bruce, Jonathan Stanton, and Chris Allen. Toward a Guide for Smart Mobility Corridors: Frameworks and Tools for Measuring, Understanding, and Realizing Transportation Land Use Coordination. Mineta Transportation Institue, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2020.1805.
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The coordination of transportation and land use (also known as “smart growth”) has been a long-standing goal for planning and engineering professionals, but to this day it remains an elusive concept to realize. Leaving us with this central question -- how can we best achieve transportation and land use coordination at the corridor level? In response, this report provides a review of literature and practice related to sustainability, livability, and equity (SLE) with a focus on corridor-level planning. Using Caltrans’ Corridor Planning Process Guide and Smart Mobility Framework as guideposts, this report also reviews various principles, performance measures, and place typology frameworks, along with current mapping and planning support tools (PSTs). The aim being to serve as a guidebook that agency staff can use for reference, synergizing planning insights from various data sources that had not previously been brought together in a practical frame. With this knowledge and understanding, a key section provides a discussion of tools and metrics and how they can be used in corridor planning. For illustration purposes, this report uses the Smart Mobility Calculator (https://smartmobilitycalculator. netlify.app/), a novel online tool designed to make key data easily available for all stakeholders to make better decisions. For more information on this tool, see https://transweb.sjsu.edu/research/1899-Smart-Growth-Equity-Framework-Tool. The Smart Mobility Calculator is unique in that it incorporates statewide datasets on urban quality and livability which are then communicated through a straightforward visualization planners can readily use. Core sections of this report cover the framework and concepts upon which the Smart Mobility Calculator is built and provides examples of its functionality and implementation capabilities. The Calculator is designed to complement policies to help a variety of agencies (MPOs, DOTs, and local land use authorities) achieve coordination and balance between transportation and land use at the corridor level.
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Rao, Nitya, Sheetal Patil, Maitreyi Koduganti, Chandni Singh, Ashwin Mahalingam, Prathijna Poonacha, and Nishant Singh. Sowing Sustainable Cities: Lessons for Urban Agriculture Practices in India. Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24943/ssc12.2022.
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Despite growing interest and recognition of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) as a nature- based solution, there is limited empirical evidence in countries like India on its role in reconfiguring goals on environmental functions (such as biodiversity, waste management, water recycling, micro-climate regulation, etc.) and social wellbeing (such as food and nutrition security, gender relations, work burdens, land tenure and community ties). A need to address this gap led to the ideation of the project ‘Urban and peri-urban agriculture as green infrastructures’ ( UPAGrI ). When UPAGrI started in 2019, the research on UPA in India was thin but growing. However, the practical experience of urban farming across Indian cities is thriving and diverse, built on decades of bottom-up experimentation. Within the landscape of our ever-changing cities, we found vibrant communities-of-practice sharing seeds and knowledge, engaged online influencers discussing composting and water reuse, and stories of farming becoming sites of multi-generational bonding and nutritional security. This compendium is a collection of 29 such innovative UPA practices from across the different cities in the country. These diverse case studies are loosely categorized into four themes: environment and sustainability; food, nutrition and livelihood; gender and subjective well-being; and urban policy and planning. Written mostly by practitioners themselves, the case studies collectively recognise and celebrate UPA innovations and practices, serving as a repository of lessons for peer-to-peer learning, and demonstrating how UPA can be one of the many solutions towards sustainable, liveable Indian cities.
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Rao, Nitya. Sowing Sustainable Cities: Lessons for Urban Agriculture Practices in India. Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24943/ssc12.2023.
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Despite growing interest and recognition of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) as a nature- based solution, there is limited empirical evidence in countries like India on its role in reconfiguring goals on environmental functions (such as biodiversity, waste management, water recycling, micro-climate regulation, etc.) and social wellbeing (such as food and nutrition security, gender relations, work burdens, land tenure and community ties). A need to address this gap led to the ideation of the project ‘Urban and peri-urban agriculture as green infrastructures’ ( UPAGrI ). When UPAGrI started in 2019, the research on UPA in India was thin but growing. However, the practical experience of urban farming across Indian cities is thriving and diverse, built on decades of bottom-up experimentation. Within the landscape of our ever-changing cities, we found vibrant communities-of-practice sharing seeds and knowledge, engaged online influencers discussing composting and water reuse, and stories of farming becoming sites of multi-generational bonding and nutritional security. This compendium is a collection of 29 such innovative UPA practices from across the different cities in the country. These diverse case studies are loosely categorized into four themes: environment and sustainability; food, nutrition and livelihood; gender and subjective well-being; and urban policy and planning. Written mostly by practitioners themselves, the case studies collectively recognise and celebrate UPA innovations and practices, serving as a repository of lessons for peer-to-peer learning, and demonstrating how UPA can be one of the many solutions towards sustainable, liveable Indian cities.
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Hachem-Vermette, Caroline, Matteo Formolli, and Daniele Vettorato. Surface Uses in Solar Neighborhoods. IEA SHC Task 63, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18777/ieashc-task63-2022-0002.
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This report has been completed through international collaboration under the International Energy Agency (IEA) Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) Programme - Task 63 on Solar Neighborhood Planning. Specifically, the work contributes to Task 63 Subtask B - Economic Strategies and Stakeholder Engagement by identifying and discussing the potential usage of different urban surfaces in harvesting solar energy. Special focus has been placed on the identification of conflicts and synergies among solutions, and their contribution to the major climate resilience and sustainability objectives defined by solar neighborhoods.
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Community participation in health, family planning and development activities: A review of international experiences. Population Council, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh1996.1010.
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The family planning (FP)/maternal and child health (MCH) program in Bangladesh has achieved success in the recent past, mostly through a large-scale government service-delivery system with support and cooperation from donors and nongovernmental organizations. There is concern about the financial and social sustainability of the program. Other issues include achievement of replacement-level fertility within a stipulated period and improvement of MCH-FP service quality. It is widely believed that most of the concerns will be taken care of with effective community participation. Before activating community initiatives, it is worth carrying out action research. A literature review was completed from July to October 1996 to identify a range of models used for increasing community participation and experiences in terms of implementation, management, financing, monitoring and evaluation, and sustainability in both rural and urban areas. Attempts were also made to identify a set of indicators to assess the level of community participation in these programs. This report documents the results of the review.