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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Urban quality of life"”.
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Park Availability and Expenditure Effects on Crime, Poverty, Wealth and Obesity Indicators
Urban parks play an important role in cities. Lack of understanding about their effects on urban dwellers and their capacity to play a role in promoting social well-being could diminish their benefits. With population growth in cities, park managers may need to increase the quantity and quality or …
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Développement des indicateurs de la qualité de vie urbaine à l'aide de la télédétection à très haute résolution spatiale cas de la ville de Hanoi
In studies of urban quality of life, the information that can be extracted from satellite images is limited by image resolution and by the standard method of pixel classification. Recently, very high spatial resolution (VHSR) satellite images have allowed the development of new remote sensing …
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Living Together: A Capability Approach to Spatially Segregated Areas of Bogota
The rapid and ongoing process of urbanisation in Bogota has brought about significant socio-spatial segregation between city-dwellers. Such segregation is becoming increasingly complex as patterns of fragmentation are evolving towards a more ‘cellular’ differentiation between rich and poor –urban …
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Stormwater management and multipurpose infrastructure networks
In urban planning and design, natural systems are a key element of explorations about how to design for sustainability. As part of these efforts, academics and practitioners have also begun to explore the ways in which the utilization of natural systems can and should change our approach to the …
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Using images to present stated preference information: an application to the built environment.
… been used to measure preferences and trade-offs in areas such as marketing, transport, health and environmental economics. With some exceptions these techniques have not typically been applied to public space within the built environment, nor have they attempted to incorporate computer …
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Estudo de impacto de vizinhança: um instrumento para a melhoria da qualidade de vida na zona sul da cidade de João Pessoa – PB.
… population focuses, in its majority, in the urban areas, as indicates DSNI (Demographic Studies National Institute), that around 3,3 billion of people, that is 51% of the world population lives in the urban areas. In all the world, especially in the so called developing countries, since it is …
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Continuous synthesis of metallic and oxidic palladium nanoparticles with tunable sizes for catalytic applications
Air pollution is of particular importance in modern society due to its negative effects on human health, urban quality of life and the environment and is part of the UN Sustainability Goals. Catalytic converters have changed the course of the transport industry in efforts to significantly reduce …