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On Dec. 2009, the Chinese government set up a low-carbon target of a 40%~ 45% carbon emission reductions per unit of GDP by 2020 compared to the 2005 level. To contribute to these discussions, we developed a carbon emission supervision system for the low-carbon city construction. The concept, role, contents and construction methods of carbon emission supervision system for have been proposed. The...
Housing security is one of the main content of public services. According to performance every area of our country, the way and level of housing security has nothing in common with each other. In this paper, the factor analysis model is established to identify the key factors of the level of urban housing security. And then, cluster analysis model is constructed to research the regional difference...
While enjoying rapid economic development, China has been facing increasingly severe water scarcity. One objective of many local governments is to become a `water-saving city'. In order to achieve this objective, local governments in China require an efficient method to structurally analyze their water quantity and water quality problems. Based on the classical American policy analysis approach, we...
The new contribution of this paper is that we proposed a Spatial Strategic Plan Support System (SSP-SS). This SSP-SS can integrate the planning works conducted by different planning departments into a same platform and hereby support decision-making of local government on urban development from the viewpoint of sustainable development.
The MICE industry, tourism and real estate are called the three pillar industries of urban development. The MICE industry is the first choice for urban development around the world. In China, the MICE industry is still at the initial stage, so it can't develop orderly and healthily without Government's guidance and support. While facing the main problems of the current government's behaviors, it must...
On the basis of Tiebout's theory about optimal provision of public goods and achieve conditions, We have tested Tiebout's hypothesis on the basis of Chongqing district by operating an empirical model, and put some corresponding policies. This paper finds that in Chongqing China, although it has a significantly different conclusion from USA owing to the difference of urban structure, and we have take...
During City Regeneration Program of Hangzhou, a digital city management system was created in order to improve the effective of city management. The system is a significant part in regeneration program. The system realized the digital-object, digital-subject and digital-component. It is a public participateble system, which integrated and distributed city resource in an equal way. It is a system guided...
Under the background of global economic crisis, more and more local governments regard city marketing as a significant mode for urban development so as to strengthen urban competitiveness for more external development resources. However, since the social economic system of China is currently in a transitional period, decentralization, marketization and globalization urge the local governments to bear...
The influential factors, e.g. the management of government and the loans provision of banks were analyzed aiming at the reasons of real estate extortionate price in Wuhan. It has been deduced that the loans control is the most effective way to restrain extortionate price of real estate by analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Moreover, the suggestion that the local government should take the advantage...
It turns more and more important for a city to create a brand under the severe inter-urban competition. Brand positioning is crucial for city brand. Based on forerunner's research achievement and the experimental results, especially on the city brand positioning with full use of city resource endowment, this paper emphasizes on the research of city brand position under urban agglomeration through...
The fierce competition environment created by the age of globalization brings both opportunities and challenges to urban development in China and more and more local governments consider urban marketing an important means of urban competition strategy. Yet during the process of urban development, the core ldquohuman-centeredrdquo conception is abandoned, which stirs up fierce social conflicts. This...
Geolocalized photographical pictures realized during urban walkthrough are able to constitute a pertinent research matter for pedestrian emotional and semantical effects perception and representation acknowledgement. Ideoscenic-images manipulation processes analysis enables infra-logical access to visual ambiances recorded with the parameterized camera (framing, point, density...). So-producted knowledge...
In recent years, GIS technology is used for managing natural disasters such as landslides to habitat mapping through remote sensing. GIS system has also been used to address land use issues. Many local governments are adding GIS technology as part of their regular administrative management system. High cost of GIS system, shortage of appropriate GIS specialists, lack of understanding and policies...
Within the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution, a formal model for attitudes of decision makers is applied to the study of brownfield redevelopment projects. The formation of coalitions is examined in conjunction with attitudes, to illustrate what opportunities for cooperation exist within brownfield redevelopment. Combining attitudes and coalition formation within the graph model allows for a more...
Recently, the u-City market in Korea has increased dramatically due to the change of urban development paradigm. Not only the primary local governments but also the major cities are ready for the u-City project. In this research, u-City construction tendency and the schemata to realize the u-City in new towns like Company Cities and Innovative Cities are examined. The way to the u-City activation...
This paper presents and evaluates a governmental application that has been ported to run in a grid. The Gerpav application is used in the city of Porto Alegre, located in the south of Brazil, to maintain and plan the investments in the city road system, and grid technology brought substantial performance gains to its distributed version called GerpavGrid. We describe several optimizations strategies...
Land development is a critical task for municipalities and local governments. It demands a carefully crafted plan that takes factors of various aspects into considerations, including economical, financial, environmental, and regulatory. The cellular automaton (CA) model and several variations have been proposed and utilized to facilitate urban and regional land development, but elements in the models...
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