Journal articles: 'Urban toolkit'

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Fleischmann, Martin. "momepy: Urban Morphology Measuring Toolkit." Journal of Open Source Software 4, no. 43 (November 20, 2019): 1807. http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.01807.

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Petrulaityte, Aine, Fabrizio Ceschin, Josephine Kaviti Musango, Betty Karimi Mwiti, Christer Anditi, and Peris Njoroge. "Supporting the Development of Gendered Energy Innovations for Informal Urban Settlements: GENS Codesign Toolkit for Multistakeholder Collaboration." Sustainability 14, no. 10 (May 21, 2022): 6291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14106291.

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There is still little knowledge about the link between gender mainstreaming and energy security in informal urban settlements and there is limited design support to address this linkage. This paper presents the development and evaluation of the Gender for Energy Security (GENS) codesign toolkit, which was made to facilitate the design of gendered energy innovations for informal urban settlements. The toolkit was developed by applying the Design Research Methodology (DRM) and is grounded in the findings of a literature review, semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in two informal urban settlements. The toolkit aimed to support codesign processes by providing its users with knowledge about the gendered energy scene in informal urban settlements and facilitating idea generation for gendered urban energy innovations. The evaluation of the GENS codesign toolkit was conducted during a one-day multistakeholder codesign workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. During the testing, we found that the toolkit was successful in facilitating energetic discussions, helping its users to learn about the gender–energy nexus in informal urban settlements and generate original ideas for gendered energy innovations. The toolkit is an addition to the current tools, handbooks and manuals on mainstreaming gender in the energy sector, with a unique focus on informal urban settlements and supporting idea generation.

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Leone, Davide. "U’Game – a toolkit for urban gaming." Interaction Design and Architecture(s), no. 40 (April 15, 2019): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-040-004.

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This paper is about a pervasive game factory based in Palermo. The main issue is to highlight the main features of these productions in generating new interfaces and new access keys to the heritage. The paper describes the point of view of this small society focuses about the connection between real world and world of games using both physical an digital supports. The text focuses on three games produced inside a participatory process arguing the role of urban and pervasive games as a citizenship tool.

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Chan, Deland. "Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit." Technology|Architecture + Design 3, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 119–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24751448.2019.1571841.

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Abusaada, Hisham. "Strengthening the affectivity of atmospheres in urban environments: the toolkit of multi-sensory experience." Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 14, no. 3 (August 20, 2020): 379–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arch-03-2020-0039.

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PurposeThe affectivity is conceptualised in the literary work of phenomenological theories as a significant factor in urban environments studies that are related to change people's feelings. This article aims to present toolkits for creating affective urban atmospheres, which is based on communications between people and place.Design/methodology/approachTo better comprehend the links between the felt body theory and reconstructing affective urban atmospheres in urban environments, this article has performed bibliographic investigations on the sensible approaches and presented Toolkit related to the multi-sensory experience.FindingsThis article breaks new ground to discuss the concepts of the felt body, vital drive and daily multi-sensory experience as a contribution to urban studies applications.Research limitations/implicationsThis article clarified the possibility of creating affective urban atmospheres through the concepts of affectivity as a process at a pre-design stage.Originality/valueIn conclusion, it is argued that work on multi-sensory experience in urban environments needs to address the felt body and vital drive to become a set of urban studies tools of perceptual dimension.

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Marome, Wijitbusaba, Boonanan Natakun, and Diane Archer. "Examining the Use of Serious Games for Enhancing Community Resilience to Climate Risks in Thailand." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (April 15, 2021): 4420. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084420.

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This paper presents the ‘Kin Dee You Dee’ (Thai for ‘Eat well, live well’) toolkit, which comprises three sets of serious games aimed at facilitating discussions and transformative learning on resilience to urban low-income communities. The first stage of the toolkit creates awareness of key concepts related to resilience, the second stage allows participants to map individual and community assets and identify risks associated with them, and the final stage encourages participants to reflect upon potential threats and to create a strategic plan in response. The study examines the toolkit’s potential in increasing meaningful community engagement and participation, and enhancing disaster risk awareness through the application of the toolkit in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region and Udon Thani province, which are areas that are highly exposed to climate risks. This paper presents the concepts, development and application of the ‘Kin Dee You Dee’ toolkit, concluding that it is a useful tool that can allow policymakers and other involved stakeholders in city development projects to engage with communities and increase risk awareness.

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Miller, C. "The creative city: A toolkit for urban innovators." Community Development Journal 36, no. 2 (April 1, 2001): 165–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/36.2.165.

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Wainer, Gabriel. "Developing a software toolkit for urban traffic modeling." Software: Practice and Experience 37, no. 13 (2007): 1377–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.809.

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Zhang, Kefeng, Ana Deletic, Cintia B. S. Dotto, Ross Allen, and Peter M. Bach. "Modelling a ‘business case’ for blue-green infrastructure: lessons from the Water Sensitive Cities Toolkit." Blue-Green Systems 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 383–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.018.

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Abstract Stormwater management through Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) delivers multiple benefits across urban environments. However, current integrated modelling tools fail to provide a simplified way of assessing these benefits. In this study, we reflected upon the development of an interdisciplinary BGI planning-support tool, known as the Water Sensitive Cities Toolkit (the WSC Toolkit) and offer guidance for effective tool development going forward. Based on interdisciplinary research, the WSC Toolkit incorporates a suite of independent sub-modules but can be connected together to provide integrated assessment, allowing evidence-based quantification of multiple benefits associated with BGI, e.g., stormwater treatment and harvesting, stream hydrology, erosion, minor flooding, urban microclimate, etc. Distinguished from other larger complex models, the WSC Toolkit was characterised by its simplicity, modularity and extensibility, providing scenario-based integrated assessment of these benefits. Through case studies, we demonstrated how the WSC Toolkit can be used to support improved decision-making towards maximising the benefits of BGI. We also showed how it can act as a platform for practical application of latest research outcomes and meanwhile encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration. We reflect upon five key lessons that could guide future researchers in developing effective integrated assessment tools, particularly within highly interdisciplinary fields such as BGI.

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Karimipour, Hoda, Vivian W. Y. Tam, Khoa N. Le, and Helen Burnie. "A greenhouse-gas emission reduction toolkit at urban scale." Sustainable Cities and Society 73 (October 2021): 103103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103103.

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Morgan, George. "Review: The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators." Media International Australia 131, no. 1 (May 2009): 171–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0913100126.

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Hamilton, Andy, Gordon Mitchell, and Sami Yli-Karjanmaa. "The BEQUEST toolkit: a decision support system for urban sustainability." Building Research & Information 30, no. 2 (March 2002): 109–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/096132102753436486.

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Mihajlov, Vladimir. "URBAN DEVELOPMENT TOOLKIT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: CRITICAL REVIEW OF STATE INTERVENTION IN PRAXIS." Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People 1, no. 3 (December 22, 2012): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.26458/jedep.v1i3.26.

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This paper aims to review the various forms of state intervention in urban planning, and its purpose is to reconsider guidelines for solving problems in cities, caused by climate change.After World War II, urban planning was guided by centralized state management, in the scope of progress and social justice. State intervention was recognized as an instrument for creating new models of the city spatial organization. However, because of the new market conditions arising, the policies about Urban Development came in the focus again, in order to control global influences, mainly climate change (the costs of construction, environmental pollution and hazards). It is therefore necessary to return again to the public intervention in urban planning. This will not be easy, because it has to be consistent with democratic freedoms; some of them should be strengthened, and some limited to ameliorate the effects of climate change.In conclusion, the set of general guidelines is expected, in order to translate the policy measures for climate change mitigation, into the instruments urban development is controlled by. Therefore, the changes in defining of building codes are expected, as well as the standards for energy conservation and land-use control (zoning, taxes and urban regulations, etc.).

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Whyte, Angus, and Ann Macintosh. "Representational Politics in Virtual Urban Places." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 35, no. 9 (September 2003): 1607–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a34237.

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EDEN, a famous garden, is also an acronym for the Electronic Democracy European Network, a project involving a consortium of public administrations (local authorities), academic institutions and technology companies. The thirty-month project aims to improve communication between the administrations and citizens in decision-making processes to do with urban planning, and at time of writing is in the transition from ‘requirements analysis’ to implementation of a software toolkit. The EDEN project is concerned, amongst other things, with the mobility of messages to and from urban planning officers in public administrations. Mobility, that is, from people ‘outside’ a city administration to people ‘inside’ it via a website, a virtual place from where messages are to be routed to a correct destination. The planning of virtual urban places is a new concern for both urban planners and systems designers working to implement ‘information society’ initiatives. These two occupations and research fields share similar methodologies, models, and artifacts used to intervene in the practices of their clients. This paper describes how the practices through which planning is made political have been represented in the ‘requirements analysis’ of the EDEN toolkit. The politics of the project do not just lie in its objective, the reconfiguring of ‘virtual’ political geographies in parallel with the ‘real’. The distinctions made between virtual and real politics are themselves political. Setting aside any essential differences between the two, we will look instead at the politics of representation and representations embedded in the EDEN project and software.

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Petri, Aaron C., Bev Wilson, and Andrew Koeser. "Planning the urban forest: Adding microclimate simulation to the planner’s toolkit." Land Use Policy 88 (November 2019): 104117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104117.

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Zhu, Lei, Jinghui Wang, Venu Garikapati, and Stanley Young. "Decision Support Tool for Planning Neighborhood-Scale Deployment of Low-Speed Shared Automated Shuttles." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2674, no. 9 (July 23, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198120925273.

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Increasing interest and investment in connected, automated, and electric vehicles as well as mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) concepts are paving the way for the next major transformation in transportation through automated and shared mobility. The initial excitement toward rapid deployment and adoption of automated vehicles (AVs) has subsided, and low-speed automated shuttles are emerging as a more pragmatic pathway for introducing automated mobility in geofenced districts. Such shuttles hold the promise to provide a viable alternative for serving short trips in urban districts with high travel densities. As interest in low-speed automated shuttle systems (to improve urban mobility) increases, the need for tools that can inform communities in relation to benefits or disadvantages of automated shuttle deployments is imminent. However, most of the existing transportation planning and simulation tools are not capable of handling emerging shared automated mobility options. This paper presents a microscopic simulation toolkit that can be used by cities and communities to plan for the deployment of low-speed automated shuttles systems, as well as other shared mobility options. Labeled as the Automated Mobility District modeling and simulation toolkit, the proposed decision support tool intends to help cities evaluate the mobility and sustainability impacts of deploying shared automated vehicles (SAVs) in geofenced regions. This paper describes the toolkit, as well as a sample scenario analysis for the deployment of low-speed automated shuttles in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. Results from the scenario study demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed simulation toolkit in planning for advanced mobility systems.

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Bauch, Nicholas, and Emily Eliza Scott. "The Los Angeles Urban Rangers: actualizing geographic thought." cultural geographies 19, no. 3 (April 19, 2012): 401–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474012441465.

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The Los Angeles Urban Rangers (LAUR) is one of a growing number of collectives associated with the art world that offer new methods for expressing and performing insights rooted in geographical thought. Borrowing the US National Park Service ranger ‘persona,’ the LAUR demonstrate a number of ways to untangle nature-society issues in cities. The ranger persona is successful in part because of its ability to spatially relocate the affect associated with (supposed) pristine nature to urban places. The article contains a toolkit of programs that the LAUR have employed to re-activate urban space.

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Correale, Marcia Rebecca, Leslie Jayne Soever, and Yoga Raja Rampersaud. "A Model to Implement Standardized Virtual Care for Low Back Pain Amongst a Large Network of Providers in Urban and Rural Settings." Journal of Primary Care & Community Health 13 (January 2022): 215013192211306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501319221130603.

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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care (VC) was not routinely offered for assessment of low back pain (LBP), a highly prevalent, disabling condition. COVID-19 related healthcare closures resulted in a rapid backlog of patients referred to a provincial interprofessional LBP program. Without management, these patients were at high risk of experiencing untoward outcomes. Virtual care became a logical option. However, many clinicians lacked experience and confidence with LBP virtual care (LBP-VC); and either were unfamiliar with, or did not have access to, requisite technology. Multi-stakeholder engagement was utilized to understand barriers, identify enablers, and ultimately promote VC for LBP. As a result of the multi-stakeholder engagement, the concept of a toolkit for LBP-VC, including clinical resources and guidelines, emerged. The toolkit contains preparatory steps for VC and a standardized approach to virtual LBP assessment. Key steps in the toolkit have potential applicability to other musculoskeletal populations.

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Kastner, Patrick, and Timur Dogan. "Eddy3D: A toolkit for decoupled outdoor thermal comfort simulations in urban areas." Building and Environment 212 (March 2022): 108639. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108639.

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Nouman, Ahmad Saleem, Ata Chokhachian, Daniele Santucci, and Thomas Auer. "Prototyping of Environmental Kit for Georeferenced Transient Outdoor Comfort Assessment." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8, no. 2 (February 5, 2019): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8020076.

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Environmental data acquisition tools are broadly used for climate monitoring and urban comfort assessment followed by data mining and sensing techniques for putting into evidence the relationship between environmental qualities of urban spaces and human well-being. Within this context, an environmental toolkit is a fundamental tool to evaluate transient outdoor comfort. This study explains the prototyping and validation of a mobile environmental sensor kit. The results show the prototype has reasonable accuracy despite its affordability with respect to industrial sensors.

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Galanis, Athanasios, Anestis Papanikolaou, and Nikolaos Eliou. "Bikeability Audit in Urban Road Environment." International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems 5, no. 2 (April 2014): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijoris.2014040102.

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Promotion of cycling can improve the sustainability level of a city or an urban area. This study presents a methodology that audits the bikeability level of the urban road environment across three selected routes in the city of Volos, Greece. This methodology is a useful toolkit in order to evaluate and improve the bikeability level of the urban road environment and also evaluate existing bikeways. Four suitably trained auditors rode their bikes and evaluated the bikeability level using an audit tool in order to audit specific features that influence bicycling suitability across the road segments and intersections of the selected routes. Furthermore, the auditors graded specific features of the road environment in order to set a bikeability score for each tested route. Finally, this study concludes that the bikeability level of the selected routes was moderate and certain actions are necessary in order to be improved.

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Martínez-Solano, F., Pedro Iglesias-Rey, Juan Saldarriaga, and Daniel Vallejo. "Creation of an SWMM Toolkit for Its Application in Urban Drainage Networks Optimization." Water 8, no. 6 (June 18, 2016): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w8060259.

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Willging, Cathleen, Miria Kano, Amy Elizabeth Green, Robert Sturm, Marisa Sklar, Sonnie Davies, and Kristen Eckstrand. "Enhancing primary care services for diverse sexual and gender minority populations: a developmental study protocol." BMJ Open 10, no. 2 (February 2020): e032787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032787.

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IntroductionCompared with heterosexual, cisgender populations, sexual and gender minority (SGM) people are more likely to suffer from serious health conditions and insufficient access to health services. Primary care is at the frontlines of healthcare delivery; yet, few clinics have resources or mechanisms in place to meet SGM patient needs. This developmental study protocol focuses on reducing health disparities among SGM patients by identifying, adapting and developing SGM practice guidelines/recommendations and implementation strategies for primary care clinics in urban and rural New Mexico. Using input from patients, healthcare advocates and providers, and researchers, the study will pilot a practice parameter and implementation toolkit to promote SGM-specific cultural competence at multiple service delivery levels.Methods and analysisWe will recruit providers/staff from four Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serving ethnically and geographically diverse communities. Incorporating the Implementation of Change Model and an intersectionality perspective, data collection includes a systematic review of SGM-specific practice guidelines/recommendations, focus groups and semistructured interviews, quantitative surveys and the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) with providers/staff. We will categorise guidelines/recommendations identified through the review by shared elements, use iterative processes of open and focused coding to analyse qualitative data from focus groups, interviews and the NGT, and apply descriptive statistics to assess survey data. Findings will provide the foundation for the toolkit. Focus groups with SGM patients will yield supplemental information for toolkit refinement. To investigate changes in primary care contexts following the toolkit’s pilot, we will undertake systematic walkthroughs and document review at the FQHCs, analysing these data qualitatively to examine SGM inclusiveness. The structured data-informed Plan-Do-Study-Act method will enable further revision of the toolkit. Finally, focus groups, interviews and quantitative surveys with providers/staff will highlight changes made in the FQHCs to address SGM patient needs, barriers to sustainment of changes, satisfaction, acceptability, usability and feasibility of the toolkit.Ethics and disseminationThe study has been reviewed and approved by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation Institutional Review Board. Informed consent will be obtained from all participants before their involvement in research activities begins. Study results will be actively disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations, social media and the internet, and community/stakeholder engagement activities.

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Goode, Ana D., Nyssa T. Hadgraft, Maike Neuhaus, and Genevieve N. Healy. "Perceptions of an online ‘train-the-champion’ approach to increase workplace movement." Health Promotion International 34, no. 6 (November 16, 2018): 1179–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day092.

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Abstract Prolonged sitting is now recognized as an emergent work health and safety issue. To address the need for a scalable sitting-reduction intervention for workplaces, the BeUpstanding™ Champion Toolkit was developed. This free, online toolkit uses a ‘train-the-champion’ approach, providing a step-by-step guide and resources to workplace champions to assist them in raising awareness and building a supportive culture to reduce sitting time in their team. This qualitative study explored champion and staff perceptions of the beta (test) version of the toolkit. Seven work teams, from a range of workplace sectors (blue-/white-collar), sizes (small/medium/large) and locations (urban/regional) participated; all team members were exposed to the program (n = 603). Approximately 4 months after program initiation, semi-structured interviews were conducted with all champions (n = 7); focus groups were conducted with a random sample of staff (n = 40). Champions were followed-up again at 12 months (n = 5). Transcripts were coded by two researchers, with codes organized into overarching themes. All champions found the ‘train-the-champion’ approach, and the toolkit acceptable. Common enablers for intervention delivery included: champion passion for staff health and wellbeing; perceived fit of the program within existing practice; and, management support. Champions and staff reported improvements in knowledge/awareness about sitting, cultural norms, perceived stress, productivity and resilience. Facilitators for sustained change over time included a stable organizational climate and ongoing management support; barriers included workload intensification. The beta version of the BeUpstanding™ Champion Toolkit was highly acceptable to workplace champions and staff, and was perceived to have benefits for team culture and staff knowledge and wellbeing.

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Bouziotas, Dimitrios, Evangelos Rozos, and Christos Makropoulos. "Water and the city: exploring links between urban growth and water demand management." Journal of Hydroinformatics 17, no. 2 (December 4, 2014): 176–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2014.053.

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Urban water management is currently understood as a socio-technical problem, including both technologies and engineering interventions as well as socioeconomic dimensions and contexts vis-à-vis both end users and institutions. In this framework, perhaps the most important driver of urban water demand, at the intersection between engineering, social and economic domains, is urban growth. This paper examines aspects of the interplay between the dynamics of urban growth and the urban water cycle. Specifically, a cellular automata urban growth model is re-engineered to provide growth patterns at the level of detail needed by an urban water cycle model. The resulting toolkit is able to simulate spatial changes in urban areas while simultaneously estimating their water demand impact under different water demand management scenarios, with an emphasis on distributed technologies whose applicability depends on urban form. The method and tools are tested in the case study of Mesogeia, Greece, and conclusions are drawn, regarding both the performance of the urban growth model and the effectiveness of different urban water management practices.

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Collins, Alan, and Stephen Drinkwater. "Fifty shades of gay: Social and technological change, urban deconcentration and niche enterprise." Urban Studies 54, no. 3 (July 19, 2016): 765–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098015623722.

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The development of urban gay villages in England has previously been explored via the conceptual toolkit of the New Economic Geography. While arguably retaining explanatory legitimacy in historical perspective, looking forward its validity is contended to be terminally undermined by changes in broader macro-social trends. The intention of this work is to address a relative lack of attention devoted to broader macro-level processes contributing to the decline or significant re-configuration of urban gay areas. A revised developmental model is presented and considered as part of a transition stage towards a post gay era.

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Pettit, Chris, Y. Shi, H. Han, M. Rittenbruch, M. Foth, S. Lieske, R. van den Nouwelant, et al. "A new toolkit for land value analysis and scenario planning." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 47, no. 8 (May 18, 2020): 1490–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808320924678.

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In the digital era of big data, data analytics and smart cities, a new generation of planning support systems is emerging. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer is a novel planning support system developed to help planners and policy-makers determine the likely land value uplift associated with the provision of new city infrastructure. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit was developed following a user-centred research approach including iterative design, prototyping and evaluation. Tool development was informed by user inputs obtained through a series of co-design workshops with two end-user groups: land valuers and urban planners. The paper outlines the underlying technical architecture of the toolkit, which has the ability to perform rapid calculations and visualise the results, for the end-users, through an online mapping interface. The toolkit incorporates an ensemble of hedonic pricing models to calculate and visualise value uplift and so enable the user to explore what if? scenarios. The toolkit has been validated through an iterative case study approach. Use cases were related to two policy areas: property and land valuation processes (for land taxation purposes) and value uplift scenarios (for value capture purposes). The cases tested were in Western Sydney, Australia. The paper reports on the results of the ordinary least square linear regressions – used to explore the impacts of hedonic attributes on property value at the global level – and geographically weighted regressions – developed to provide local estimates and explore the varying spatial relationships between attributes and house price across the study area. Building upon the hedonic modelling, the paper also reports the value uplift functionality of the Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit that enables users to drag and drop new train stations and rapidly calculate expected property prices under a range of future transport scenarios. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit is believed to be the first of its kind to provide this specific functionality. As it is problem and policy specific, it can be considered an example of the next generation of data-driven planning support system.

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Nejman, Ryszard, Maciej Łepkowski, Anna Wilczyńska, and Beata J. Gawryszewska. "The right to wild. Green urban wasteland in the context of urban planning." Urban Development Issues 59, no. 1 (October 16, 2018): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/udi-2018-0027.

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Abstract In the authors’ view, the existing urban planning system is not favourable to the temporality and variability of urban wastelands, which complement traditional urban greenery through a range of functions such as; gardens, meeting spaces, places to walk the dog etc. Consequently, the aim of the paper is to investigate functions and possible scenarios for the development of urban wastelands in Poland. The methods used in the research include a comparative assessment of wasteland case studies from Warsaw and Tarnów and a comparison of possible development scenarios based on case studies from different cities across Europe. Wastelands were researched to establish their location, their functions, the distance from inhabited areas and the types of other green areas located within a 5 min. isochrone from the surrounding housing area. Case studies of development scenarios were researched to establish their changing functions, the continuity of design and the algorithm of creation. The authors conducted qualitative interviews, mapping, inventories of territorial marks (makeshift benches or other constructions made by users showing the way they ‘own’ the area), investigation of local development plans and literature reviews to gather the data used. The collation of results has led to the creation of a ‘wastelands toolkit’ – a tool dedicated to urban planners and decision makers.

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Van Ameijde, Jeroen. "Data-driven Urban Design." SPOOL 9, no. 1 (May 27, 2022): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/spool.2022.1.03.

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Nicholas Negroponte and MIT’s Architecture Machine Group speculated in the 1970s about computational processes that were open to participation, incorporating end-user preferences and democratizing urban design. Today’s ‘smart city’ technologies, using the monitoring of people’s movement and activity patterns to offer more effective and responsive services, might seem like contemporary interpretations of Negroponte’s vision, yet many of the collectors of user information are disconnected from urban policy making. This article presents a series of theoretical and procedural experiments conducted through academic research and teaching, developing user-driven generative design processes in the spirit of ‘The Architecture Machine’. It explores how new computational tools for site analysis and monitoring can enable data-driven urban place studies, and how these can be connected to generative strategies for public spaces and environments at various scales. By breaking down these processes into separate components of gathering, analysing, translating and implementing data, and conceptualizing them in relation to urban theory, it is shown how data-driven urban design processes can be conceived as an open-ended toolkit to achieve various types of user-driven outcomes. It is argued that architects and urban designers are uniquely situated to reflect on the benefits and value systems that control data-driven processes, and should deploy these to deliver more resilient, liveable and participatory urban spaces.

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Hunt, D. V. L., I. Jefferson, and C. D. F. Rogers. "Assessing the sustainability of underground space usage — A toolkit for testing possible urban futures." Journal of Mountain Science 8, no. 2 (March 31, 2011): 211–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11629-011-2093-8.

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Semyachkov, Konstantin. "Smart city interfaces." SHS Web of Conferences 128 (2021): 04021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202112804021.

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The work clarifies the concept of a smart city interface as a toolkit for the interaction of digital systems and a wide range of users within the framework of the digitalization of the urban environment. The paper shows that the success of the formation and development of smart cities is associated not only with the introduction of digital technologies in various aspects of the urban environment, but also with the willingness of the population to use these innovations, as well as the toolkit for user interaction with digital systems, i.e. smart city interfaces, their usability and efficiency. The work systematizes the basic principles of the development of interfaces of smart cities, it is shown that the basic principles of creating interfaces are also typical for other digital systems, for example, used in the digitalization of enterprises or individual areas of economic activity. On the other hand, the complexity and multidimensionality of the digital ecosystem of the city requires the development of special principles for the formation of effective tools for interactions within the digital space of the city. The novelty of the research lies in the development of the theoretical foundations of the functioning of modern cities in the context of the formation of a digital society.

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Iturriza, Marta, Josune Hernantes, and Leire Labaka. "Coming to Action: Operationalizing City Resilience." Sustainability 11, no. 11 (May 30, 2019): 3054. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11113054.

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There is an urgent need to build city resilience in order to face upcoming foreseen and unforeseen disasters more holistically, economically and collaboratively. Population trends mean that people are moving to urban areas and the traditional approach to crisis management is becoming obsolete as it is no longer able to deal with the new challenges that are emerging such as social dynamics or climate change. In this context, there are numerous studies and strategies that define how to build city resilience and consequently sustainable cities. However, decision-makers have trouble putting the knowledge in the studies and strategies into practice, as they find this information to be too abstract or far from their daily activities. More practical tools are needed to facilitate the operationalization of city resilience and familiarize decision makers with the concept. To that end, this paper presents both a qualitative and quantitative toolkit that enables decision makers to study, understand and train themselves to operationalize city resilience properly. This toolkit is composed of two complementary tools, namely the Resilience Maturity Model (RMM) and a serious game called City Resilience Dynamics (CRD). The paper also discusses the key points that led to a useful, trustworthy and flexible toolkit that decision-makers can use in building city resilience.

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Navickienė, Eglė. "CONTEXT AS A CREATIVE TOOLKIT FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: PERSPECTIVES OF MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN HERITAGE." Creativity Studies 13, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 406–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cs.2020.11666.

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Integration into architectural or urban context as an evaluation criterion is claimed to be subjective and hardly substantiated. In spite of its ambiguity, it is generally accepted as one of the basic demands in architectural design. So what the context is in architectural design? The article explores specific understandings of architectural-urban context from characteristic perspectives in urban heritage protection and management. From perspective of architectural heritage protection, context is physical architectural objects nearby, perceived visually in a static mode, and respected in interventions by achieving harmonious relationship with it. From the point of view of cultural landscape, context is an interacting natural and man-made environment, constantly changing according to place-specific natural and cultural processes; its processual character and the accumulated meanings that rise from imbedded experiences ought to be continued in following architectural transformations. Historic urban landscape approach assumes that context is constantly developing through urbanization, cultural, social and economic processes, which cultural uniqueness and identity is saturated by place-based meanings, experiences and emotional relationships attributed by local community, ought to be contributed in present-day architectural transformations. From the point of view of sustainable development, context is an inherited cultural, social, material, economic resource and a source of traditional knowledge, performance and behaviours to be adapted and carried on towards a greater sensitivity to the environment, culture, climate, and place, and for the wellbeing of local community.

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Alexander, Lisa T. "Bringing Home the Right to Housing to Advance Urban Sustainability." Symposium Edition - Sustainable Communities 4, no. 2 (December 2017): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/jpl.v4.i2.1.

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The title of my talk today is Bringing Home the Right to Housing to Advance Urban Sustainability. You may ask what is the right to housing? Why do we need to bring it home? And what does it have to do with the broader topic of today’s symposium, urban sustainability? The human right to housing, although not a formal American federal or constitutional right, provides an important legal and normative framework that can help American cities and states better balance the needs of owners and non-owners in local housing and development struggles. If American cities and states want to create sustainable urban communities that will flourish for generations, they will need the human right to housing as one legal tool in their sustainability toolkit. If we understand the term urban sustainability to include not just the sustainability of the land, air, water, and spaces that humans occupy, but also the sustainability of the inhabitants and positive social relationships in urban spaces, then the human right to housing must become a part of cities’ urban sustainability arsenal.

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Sekerin, Vladimir, Mikhail Dudin, Dmitri Shevchenko, Konstantin Zadornov, and Diana Maleeva. "Economic and Mathematical Modeling of the Quality of Services Provided by the Urban Passenger Transport Infrastructure Us-ing Nonfinancial Indicators." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.38 (December 3, 2018): 452. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.24602.

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The article reviews the issues of justifying the expediency of using financial indicators to assess the quality of passenger transportation and identification of the main factors that influence the quality of transportation. An economic and mathematical model of the passenger transportation quality using nonfinancial indicators was developed in the study.It was proposed to use a mathematical toolkit of the theory of queuing systems (QS) to study the operation of the route of the urban passenger transport system (UPTS).

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Hisham G. Abusaada, Abeer M. Elshater, Hisham G. Abusaada, Abeer M. Elshater. "Exploring urban paradigms tackling COVID-19 in blogs communities: The case of SDG 11: استكشاف تصدي النماذج الفكرية الحضرية لـكوفيد-19 في مجتمعات المدونات: حالة الهدف 11 للتنمية المستدامة." Journal of engineering sciences and information technology 5, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 55–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.26389/ajsrp.m120421.

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This article provides a systematic and critical review of urban paradigms that incorporate economic and cultural diversity, information technology, and competitiveness considering the SDG 11. It explores the possibility of discussing future research using sets of research topics and words of coexistence predefined in urban planning and design literature. This work uses a deductive approach, content analysis and systematic and critical review to highlight the social challenges that address social distancing strategy reflected in SDG 11. The authors systematically focused on blogs published online in 2020, specifically in urban studies, social sciences, planning theory, and public health. They tested their reliability against articles included in the Scimago rank. The findings provide a toolkit with social and behavioural settings, mobility, infrastructure, and urbanization in the post-pandemic era. This study recommended a review of the importance of taking blogs that discuss new urban intellectual models to confront the Coronavirus when developing sustainable cities and societies according to SDG11, after ensuring their reliability.

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Ilyinichna Romanova, Anna, Dmitrii Sergeevich Romanov, Olga Viktorovna Maksimchuk, and Alexander Vladimirovich Voronin. "Basic Principles of Innovation Management in the Urban Economy of Smart-City." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.38 (December 3, 2018): 412. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.24593.

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The key direction in the formation of a "smart" city is its spatial development. The principles of accessibility, openness and comfort of the urban space that creates conditions for the interaction of its inhabitants come in place of the principles of industrial, technocratic minimalism. Hence, the task of municipalities to form fundamentally new public spaces. Flexible and multifaceted. The urban economy is often identified with housing and communal services, thereby emphasizing the priority for local authorities to provide people with heat, water, electricity in front of other issues. This most important sphere, complicated by a multitude of problems, is a grateful field for innovation and application of a special economic toolkit. And it is here that there is a possibility of a qualitative innovation breakthrough, in terms of creating and developing an "intelligent" urban economy, or SMART-city.

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Neutens, Tijs, Mathias Versichele, and Tim Schwanen. "Arranging place and time: A GIS toolkit to assess person-based accessibility of urban opportunities." Applied Geography 30, no. 4 (December 2010): 561–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.05.006.

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O'Sullivan, David, David Martin, and Chorianopoulos Ioannis. "Review: Complex Spatial Systems: The Modelling Foundations of Urban and Regional Analysis, GeoComputation, the Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 28, no. 3 (June 2001): 475–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/b2803rvw.

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Marnat, L., C. Gautier, C. Colin, and G. Gesquière. "PY3DTILERS: AN OPEN SOURCE TOOLKIT FOR CREATING AND MANAGING 2D/3D GEOSPATIAL DATA." ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences X-4/W3-2022 (October 14, 2022): 165–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-x-4-w3-2022-165-2022.

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Abstract. In recent years, the production of 3D geospatial data using formats such as IFC, CityGML and GeoJSON, has increased. Visualizing this data on the web requires solving a variety of problems, such as the massive amount of 3D objects to be visualized at the same time and the creation of geometry suitable for a 3D viewer. Cesium and OGC introduced the 3D Tiles format in 2015 to solve these issues. They have created a specific format optimized for streaming and rendering 3D geospatial content, based on the glTF format developed by Khronos. The recency of the 3D Tiles format implies the need to experiment around this format and to test its interoperability with other geospatial and urban data formats. There is also the will to innovate on the organization of 3D objects in order to offer a better control on the visualization. Therefore, there is a need for an open source tool capable of converting 3D geospatial data into 3D Tiles to visualize them on the web, but also to test and develop new methods of spatial clustering and creating Levels of Detail (LoD) of urban objects. We propose Py3DTilers in this paper, an open source tool to convert and manipulate 3D Tiles from the most common 3D geospatial data models: CityGML, IFC, OBJ, and GeoJSON. With this tool, we ensure that the generated 3D Tiles respect the specification described by the OGC, in order to be used in various viewers. We provide a generic solution for spatially organizing objects and for creating LoDs, while allowing the community to customize these methods to go further in finding efficient solutions for visualizing geospatial objects on the web.

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de Falco, Stefano, Margarita Angelidou, and Jean-Paul D. Addie. "From the “smart city” to the “smart metropolis”? Building resilience in the urban periphery." European Urban and Regional Studies 26, no. 2 (July 20, 2018): 205–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776418783813.

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The “smart city” has risen to global prominence over the past two decades as an urban planning and development strategy. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the “smart city” is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledges these concerns, but recognizes the potential of “urban intelligence” to enhance the resiliency of metropolitan areas. As such, we focus on an under-researched dimension of smart city urbanism: its application in peripheral urban areas. The paper introduces a threefold typology of: (a) geographic (spatial); (b) hard (material); and (c) soft (social) urban peripherality. Second, it reviews the concept of urban resilience and considers how its central characteristics can inform the objectives and implementation of “smart city” infrastructures and planning. Six European smart city plans are assessed via a qualitative content analysis, to identify the target of smart city actions; the characteristics of urban resilience mobilized; and the spatial focus of planned interventions. The comparative analysis reveals a variegated set of smart-city approaches. Notably, “smart” actions aimed at enhancing social innovation are the most common type of intervention, while overall there remains a strong tendency for smart urbanism to focus on the urban core. We conclude by calling for a research agenda addressing smartness in, of, and for, peripheral urban spaces and communities.

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Fagnant, Daniel, and Kara M. Kockelman. "Anticipating Roadway Expansion and Tolling Impacts: Toolkit for Abstracted Networks." Journal of Urban Planning and Development 140, no. 4 (December 2014): 04014010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)up.1943-5444.0000188.

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Nemchinov, M. V., and A. S. Kholin. "Trends in Development of Integrated Transport Schemes for Cities." World of Transport and Transportation 18, no. 3 (December 26, 2020): 120–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2020-18-120-133.

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The article discusses the process of planning the work of urban transport operations in the form of an integrated transport scheme (ITS), which is the transport part of the master plan for development of a city, and studies organization of urban transport. The objective of the article is to formulate the main directions of developments in the field of transport planning based on modern domestic and foreign experience and knowledge, and on retrospective analysis of changes in the field of urban transport planning.The methodology is presented for the conditions prevailing in the Russian Federation, the peculiarity of which comprise a relatively late (compared to European countries and the USA), but rapidly developing motorization of the country, a change in qualifications of specialists working in the field of urban transport planning, a certain loss of experience and skills in development of ITS in recent years.The suggested conclusions represent a brief description of the concept of a common toolkit, a scheme and the most promising methods for developing approaches to development of integrated transport schemes and require further in-depth research in each specific segment.

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Papp-Váry, Árpád, and Alexandra Szűcs-Kis. "The Social Media Communication of Hungarian County Seats: Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube Presence." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio 8, no. 1 (December 1, 2021): 84–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/auscom-2021-0007.

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Abstract The communication toolkit of urban marketing has changed significantly in recent years, with online solutions and social media becoming the focus of attention besides (and, in a way, instead of) classic offline tools. In our study, we explore how this toolkit can be effectively applied to cities and how cities should communicate through different platforms. For this purpose, we have created a kind of social media tutorial regarding Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. In our own primary research, we used data from the first quarter of 2021 to investigate the presence of Hungarian county seats on the abovementioned three platforms. For this purpose, in addition to the usual social media data, such as page likes, subscribers, number of views, or even the activity rate, we created a much more complex, professional but also – inevitably – somewhat subjective analysis system. It would be also worthwhile for other cities to use this criteria system as a checklist or to adopt good practices from the cities at the top of the list.

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Ravetz, Joe, and Ian Douglas Miles. "Foresight in cities: on the possibility of a “strategic urban intelligence”." foresight 18, no. 5 (September 12, 2016): 469–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/fs-06-2015-0037.

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Purpose This paper aims to review the challenges of urban foresight via an analytical method: apply this to the city demonstrations on the UK Foresight Future of Cities: and explore the implications for ways forward. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on the principles of co-evolutionary complex systems, a newly developed toolkit of “synergistic mapping and design”, and its application in a “synergy foresight” method. Findings The UK Foresight Future of Cities is work in progress, but some early lessons are emerging – the need for transparency in foresight method – and the wider context of strategic policy intelligence. Practical implications The paper has practical recommendations, and a set of propositions, (under active discussion in 2015), which are based on the analysis. Originality/value The paper aims to demonstrate an application of “synergy foresight” with wide benefits for cities and the communities within them.

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Palma, Valerio, Federico Accorsi, Alessandro Casasso, Carlo Bianco, Sarah Cutrì, Matteo Robiglio, and Tiziana Tosco. "AdRem: An Integrated Approach for Adaptive Remediation." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (December 22, 2020): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010028.

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Abandoned industrial sites are generally characterized by soil and subsoil contamination. The paradigm currently employed for their remediation is “tabula rasa”, i.e., remediation of the entire site before its repurpose. However, this method is not economically, socially, or technologically sustainable: it delays the reuse of large areas, often well-connected to infrastructures, whose reuse may prevent further soil consumption. A possible solution to this problem is the application of adaptive reuse principles. This study, conducted at FULL (Future Urban Legacy Lab) in Politecnico di Torino, presents an interdisciplinary approach to spatialize, visualize, and manage interactions between reclamation and urban design for the transformation of contaminated urban areas. The core is based on a decision support parametric toolkit, named AdRem, developed to compare available remediation techniques and schematic urban design solutions. AdRem uses a 3D modeling interface and VPL scripting. Required input data are a geometric description of the site, data on the contamination status, viable remediation techniques, and associated features, and schematic urban design recommendations. A filtering process selects the techniques compatible with the site use foreseen. The output is an optimized remediation and reuse plan that can support an interdisciplinary discussion on possible site regeneration options.

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Mohammed, Gamal, and Noha Mahmoud. "An Urban Code in Traditional Middle Eastern Contexts: The Edge Environment as a Central Theme for Reading the Social Pattern Language of Historic Sites." SAGE Open 9, no. 1 (January 2019): 215824401982560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244019825604.

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This article discusses a new concept that may help professionals and specialists read the “urban code” of Middle Eastern traditional contexts that was developed from the mix of social aspect and spatial morphology, illustrating how these elements are interconnected in a way that highlights the values and qualities and their reflections on the physicality of the city. This urban code envisions and analyses the relevance of the social pattern language of the traditional context to its urban manifestation, leaning on the “edge environment” as a new generative concept. It outlines the relationship between the ideologies buried underneath the walls of the spatial form of traditional built environment such as Cairo and sheds light on those ideologies in a way that helps us read them within the context of modern values pertained to the sense of community. The notion of the edge environment may contribute to design education restoration, preservation, and upgrading processes as design toolkit that employs careful interventions by fine-tuning the edge environment.

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Gómez Cruz, Edgar. "Black Screens: A Visual Essay on Mobile Screens in the City." Visual Communication 19, no. 1 (October 24, 2019): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470357219872237.

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This visual essay, along with the Black Screens photographic series upon which it is based, has two aims. On the one hand, it is intended as a visual exploration of the increasingly central role that mobile phones have in our everyday lives. In a time when digital technologies are ubiquitous in urban settings of developed countries, the images reflect, visually, on what this pervasiveness looks like. The other aim is to present suggestions of how methods borrowed and/or inspired by art and street photography could potentially expand the toolkit of ethnographic inquiry.

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Nowak, Theresa J. "Implementation of a Health Literacy Universal Toolkit to Improve Postdischarge Care at an Urban Trauma Center." Journal of Trauma Nursing 26, no. 4 (2019): 180–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/jtn.0000000000000446.

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Pankratova, Nataliya, Nadezhda Nedashkovskaya, Hennadii Haiko, and Volodymyr Biletskyi. "Assessment of environmental risks of underground transport infrastructure development by BOCR method." Visnyk of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, series Geology. Geography. Ecology, no. 55 (December 1, 2021): 285–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2410-7360-2021-55-21.

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Formulation of the problem. Solving the problems of urban transport communications, in particular the constantly growing intensity of automobile traffic in megalopolises, is one of the main directions of minimizing the environmental and man-made risks of the urban environment. Global concepts of greening large cities pay considerable attention to the possibilities of underground space to take on the functions of the most dangerous and risky surface objects and communications, since the impact of any underground object on the environment is much lower (than similar on the surface) and can be better controlled. At the same time, planning for the development of underground transport infrastructure should be based on a systematic methodology and tools for analyzing complex systems. Purpose. It consists in the use of system tools (BOCR method - criteria of benefits, opportunities, costs and risks) for planning underground transport infrastructure of large cities to ensure minimization of environmental and man-made risks of urban space and prioritization for the construction of road tunnels (for example, the General Plan of the Kiev city). Methodology. A methodology and decision support toolkit for calculating the priorities of alternatives based on hierarchical and network criteria models are proposed. The modified BOCR method developed by the authors (N. Pankratova, N.I. Nedashkovskaya) was applied to assess decision alternatives taking into account benefits, costs, opportunities and risks. Results. System models of two road tunnels, according to the General plan of the Kiev city until 2025 were developed. Assessment of the models using the BOCR method (criteria for benefits, opportunities, costs and risks) was performed. The priorities of alternatives for tunnels' routes aggregated over a network of parameters and a reasonably expedient sequence of their construction were calculated according to the criteria for reducing the environmental and man-made risks of the urbanized space. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the target function of the system model for the development of underground infrastructure in large cities is to minimize the environmental and man-made risks of urban space. The capabilities of the modified BOCR method have been expanded and two alternative tunnel track models have been successfully tested. Practical significance. The research methods and results provide investors, city state administrations and public organizations with an effective toolkit for assessing the priority of the construction of underground urban facilities to regulate urban development in order to improve environmental standards and the safety of life in megacities.

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