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Comprehensive understandings to the built environment especially the urban form is a prerequisite for building a smart city. This paper is based on computational methods to examine the urban fabric of Hankou, China, as a case study. Quantitative and comparative analyses are involved to understand the characteristics on the block scale, where massive demolition and new construction coincide with the...
Megacities in India are historically the major economic growth centers and Kolkata is the oldest and the most densely populated mega city. An assessment of sustainable development challenges and possible green growth strategies give rise to some interesting insights that are generalisable as well. Sustainable development priority assessment for Kolkata district brings forth the issues which go beyond...
Studies have suggested the importance of implementing climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in combination with considering possible co-benefit and trade-off among them. However, quantification of such co-benefit/trade-off at city scale is still its infancy. Accordingly, using a micro zone level spatial explicit land use model which we have developed, this study assesses the co-benefit...
This paper extends the concept of our proposed [1]-[3] electricity sharing system as a complement or alternative to a feed-in tariff (FiT) to achieve CO2-neutral transportation in cities. In our proposed system, electricity generated from widely introduced solar photovoltaic panels (PVs) is stored in the “cars not in use” in a city. In Japan, almost half of the cars in the central Tokyo metropolitan...
India is witnessing a rapid surge in urban mobility demand as a result of its increasing population, rapid urbanization, rising income levels and the growth and spread of cities. The growth in urban travel demand is majorly driven by cities as LDV sales continue to increase at 26% and the share of two- and four-wheelers in the vehicle mix is increasing in cities. Such a pattern would have vital implications...
Development strategies in the central China has brought unprecedented opportunities and challenges for Wuhan city circle of development. In order to investigate the sustainable development modal of Wuhan “1+8” city cluster area, this paper analyzes the development of Wuhan “1+8” city cluster area by using three theoretic views (i.e. system view, non-additive law, and utility maximization law) based...
with the rapid development of economy and urbanization, urban environment is getting increasingly worse, several cities even face serious ecological crisis. So that carrying out the application of urban ecosystem research into cites' sustainable development decision-making is becoming the key task to solve the contradiction between environment protection and urban economic-social development. Since...
The paper explores the Urban Acupuncture as a strategy in Urban Renewal. It argues that urban acupuncture is an approach of urban renewal which uses the smallest effort in the critical point to get the maximum result just like the ancient Chinese "acupuncture" (medicine). Three types of urban acupuncture, including Public space, Flagship building and Festival market are analyzed through...
Urban development and environment protection are interdependent. In the global environmental crisis, human development faces severe threat. Landscape design is a main content of urban environment design, and its core is to harmonize the relation between human and the environment. In front of the major topic of environment, landscape design faces severe challenge. In order to realize sustainable development,...
Contemporary urban environment is facing big changes caused by a series of synthetic factors on politics, economy, technology, society and culture. Its goals and design concepts have shifted from the fulfillment of the basic function of life into the improvement of whole qualities of cities. Forming the key part of city fabric, urban historical centre helps link scattered individual historical buildings,...
Low-carbon development is the inevitable trend of national economic development, and as one of the main pollution sources towards urban environment, it is advisable for port to implement a low-carbon withdrawal mechanism, which has become a realistic choice in sustainable development of port city. The necessity of port low-carbon withdrawal mechanism is firstly explained in the paper, and then four...
Aiming at the problem of the low rate of land utilization, poor living conditions in rural residential area, this paper puts forward the concept of new rural residential area construction which of the characteristics such as clear aim, sustainable development, systematic construction, regional differences, urban-rural coordination, and diversity of subjects. It also analyzes the problems and the reasons...
Analyzing spatio-temporal characteristics of land use is essential for understanding ecological consequences of urbanization. More importantly, such analyses can provide basic information for sustainable management of land resources. The East Pearl River Delta (EPRD) in southern China, which has experienced a rapid urbanization process from 1979 to 2005, was taken as a study region to analyze the...
Urban morphology is an overall form of urban spatial structure as an external outline shape of urban space. Study on the evolution of urban morphology and identification of its expansion direction is related to the sustainable development of urban spatial structure. So, it has been an important research field of urban planning subject. This paper analyzed the evolution of urban morphology and identification...
In the new version of Beijing master urban planning (2005-2020), Tongzhou District, one of the metropolitan marginal area in Beijing, was oriented as the integrated service center for the development of new towns and cities in the future. The function of Tongzhou new town is the key area for functional expansion of the centeral Beijing. In the initial and middle phases, it provides service for the...
Study on urban environmental safety has become a forefront topic of urban sustainable development. Evaluation of urban environmental safety is the foundation to strengthen urban environmental management and make urban environmental management decisions. This paper constructed an evaluation index system of urban environmental safety composed of environmental quality, pollution control and environmental...
The purpose of this document is to communicate an economic vision for Urban Economics. Solving the environmental problems associated with urbanization requires lateral thinking, or rather vertical thinking. Problems abound when considering the environmental challenges of an increasingly urban society. Among these are a decreasing vegetation cover of the soil, water absorption capacity, shade and temperature...
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