Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Urban Systems"”.
-
Sustaining Glasgow's Urban Networks: the Link Communities of Complex Urban Systems
… will remain to be accommodating the growing urban population while drastically reducing environmental pressure. Contemporary urban agglomerations (large or small) constantly impose burden on the natural environment by conveying ecosystem services to close and distant places, through coupled …
-
Advancing PSS with complex urban systems sciences and scalable spatio-temporal models
… and information tools to aid and inform urban planning processes. However, scholarly communities identify that PSS has yet been popularized in planning practices, and not fully capable of meeting the challenge of understanding complex urban environments. I am dedicated to investigate and …
-
Spatial segregation in complex urban systems : housing and public policy in Santiago, Chile
… services for all, especially adequate housing. Urban change in the mega-city has been particularly rapid and has involved a complex interaction between multiple actors at multiple levels. Tracing the patterns of urban development within this context is complex and involves incorporating the …
-
Deciphering human activities in complex urban systems : mining big data for sustainable urban future
"Big Data" is in vogue, and the explosion of urban sensors, mobile phone traces, and other windows onto urban activities has generated much hype about the advent of a new 'urban science.' However, translating such Big Data into a planning-relevant understanding of activity patterns and travel …
-
OPEs, What Do We Do? Modeling Emissions, Fate, and Mitigation of Organophosphate Esters in Urban Systems
… linear free energy relationships multimedia urban model (ppLFER-MUM) to better model PMOC fate and emissions in cities. Application of the model to OPEs in Toronto, Canada, I identified that chlorinated-OPEs acted as PMOCs with atmospheric deposition driven by efficient scavenging from air to …
-
Comparative study of urban and rural operation and maintenance practices of water distribution systems at Kai !Garib Municipality
… requirements of rural areas differ from those of urban areas due to differences in demand patterns, lengths of mains and consumer densities. This study investigated O&M practices in both rural and urban areas in the Kai !Garib local municipality. The study applied selected performance indicators …
-
Competitività in sostenibilità urbana e territoriale. L’Emilia Romagna, regione d’Europa
The thesis in Urban and Regional Geography titled “URBAN AND TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS IN SUSTAINABILITY. EMILIA-ROMAGNA, REGION OF EUROPE” is divided into two sections. Section one is additionally composed by two chapters (chap. 1 and 2) and deals with theoretical and gnosiological issues. …
-
The integration of urban system science and physical design: dynamic simulation technologies for urban resilience
One of the major challenges in plan-making for urban resilience is dealing with the deep uncertainty inherent in urban systems. While design/planning solutions are intended to manage or abate a wide array of negative impacts on the built environment, they many times fail to achieve their intended …
-
Optimal structures and collective dynamics of human flows in transportation networks.
… structural properties of human mobility within urban environments through the lens of complex systems and network science. Beginning with an introduction to the relevance of studying cities and human mobility, we outline our aim to investigate the interplay between transportation network …
-
Demolition in American city planning
Demolition is deeply embedded in urban systems. It has been explained as both the inevitable churn of the built environment and as a grand gesture of human control of the urban organism. This thesis examines the three main arguments for demolition: social reform, modernization, and non-conformity. …
-
Adversarial robustness of deep learning models : an error-correcting codes based approach
Efficient operation and control of modern day urban systems such as transportation networks is now more important than ever due to huge societal benefits. Low cost network-wide sensors generate large amounts of data which needs to processed to extract useful information necessary for operational …
-
Sustainable urban development under climate change and resource scarcity
The urgent need to transform our patterns of urban development has been expressed not only by the scientific community but also in the policy arena. Current concerns relate to increasing urbanisation and global environmental trends in regard to resource scarcity, climate change and degrading …
-
Measuring Educational Gains and Setting Consequences: Charter Schooling and the No Child Left Behind Policy
… school improvement models, especially in large urban systems.
-
A multiscalar, interdisciplinary study of the social and ecological dynamics of urban agriculture in Chicago, IL
Although always a part of city life, urban agriculture has recently attracted increased attention from diverse groups in the United States, which promote it as a strategy for stimulating economic development, increasing food security and access, and combatting obesity and diabetes, among other …
-
Putting big data in its place : understanding cities and human mobility with new data sources
… of the planet's population lived in cities. Urbanization, already over 80% in many western regions, is increasing rapidly as migration into cities continue. The density of cities provides residents access to places, people, and goods, but also gives rise to problems related to health, …
-
Percepção de risco em áreas de inundação na cidade de Santa Rita, Paraíba.
The growth of urban systems and the increase in population density have contributed to the construction of natural disaster risks resulting in major impacts on these systems. This paper studies on a regional scale the municipality of Santa Rita in the state of Paraiba and the problems related to …
-
Interrelationships Between Urban Travel and Other Infrastructure
… of how transportation interacts with other urban systems by demonstrating how alternative data sources can reveal mobility patterns and human activity in near real time. Traditional transportation research depends on household surveys and administrative records, which are costly and slow to …
-
Regenerative Design for Future Cities
Architectural design is closely tied to our urban systems and the built environment. With increasingly densified spaces and overwhelming construction projects, how will our city sustain and revitalize itself under this social and demographic change? Regenerative design by definition is a restoring …
-
Directed biogenic fabrication : programming cells and their ecosystems to grow civil infrastructure
… cells. I propose that imbuing our buildings and urban systems with life, or at least biologic capabilities, will enable tight interconnections between fundamental species occupying different infrastructural niches, resulting in urban ecosystems that develop and evolve closed-loop resource cycles …
-
Domestic migration networks in the United States
… has been substantial interest in understanding urban systems at the national and global scales: what are the economic and social ties that link cities together, and what is the network structure formed by such ties? At the same time, human capital accumulation is increasingly seen as a, primary …
Page 1 of 4