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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"sustainable cities"”.
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Planning sustainable cities: Coordinating accessibility improvements with housing policies
… in travel behavior and location choices. Several cities across the world are experimenting with ‘car-lite’ policies that aim to reduce auto ownership and use (and emissions) with the help of emerging mobilities, transit improvements, and/or urban design. Therefore, it becomes important to …
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Shallow Geothermal Energy in Urban Environment: Innovative solutions for sustainable cities
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Sustainable cities and institutional change : the transformation of urban stormwater management
It is widely argued that a sustainable future depends on the capacity of cities to substantially alter how they grow and consume natural resources. Research on sustainable cities has typically emphasized how this change ought to be achieved, outlining specific interventions in the form of new …
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URBAN REGENERATIVE DESIGN A PROTOTYPE DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE
… benchmark for achieving a self-sufficient urban sustainable design solution albeit with the understanding that such a benchmark may never be attained by urban designers fully. The past decade has seen a motivation to develop, apply and assess sustainable solutions through a comprehensive method …
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Urban science and the future of sustainable cities: Planning support systems and open data perspectives
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Cidades sustentáveis: gênese e perspectivas.
… starting from the literature relative to the sustainable cities concept, as well as their guiding concepts and historical developments in chronological order for the purpose of bringing current reality some examples of sustainable cities and attitudes to be taken to the deployment of the …
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Factors to improve project performance : lessons from a Chilean urban agriculture program
… area with a new initiative entitled the Toward Sustainable Cities Project. Similar urban agriculture programs began at the same time in Santiago, but only remnants of those projects remain: a program for seniors here, a demonstration garden at the environment center there. The project in Tome, …
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Pillars of stone or pillars of sand? An analysis of sustainability discourse in U.S. cities
… in addressing environmental concerns, cities currently operate at the forefront of the sustainability movement. City governments have taken up the task of translating the broad precepts of sustainability into concrete policy decisions and planning trajectories. Despite its widespread …
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O papel das organizações internacionais na disseminação de políticas públicas: o caso do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento e a Iniciativa Cidades Emergentes e Sustentáveis (ICES) no município de João Pessoa
… Bank and the implementation of the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative in the city of João Pessoa. To analyze this project, the most outstanding approach in the area of public policies was used: the Policy Cycle model. In this way, it was sought, through literature review, documentary …
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Space enabled smart Africa (SESA)
… at a rapid pace and so is the population growth. Cities in Africa are struggling to cope with the demand that urban migration brings. For example, Africa has over 60% of her population located in the urban areas. These urban locations are sprawling slums due to the massive influx of people and …
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Saving water in schools: evidence on the use of smart water meters and behavioural insights
… a model of water conservation interventions for sustainable cities.
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Deconstructing the boundary between environmental sustainability and social justice: decision-making and obscured rationalities in government-led housing in Johannesburg
… rationalities impact decision-making within cities. Given that urbanisation, poverty, and climate change impacts are concentrated in cities in the global South, the challenge of building socially just and environmentally sustainable cities predominantly lies with Southern cities. As a …
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Green Building in the Mile High City: An Economic and Historical Analysis of the Sustainable Landscape in Denver, Colorado
… previously available. The past and present of sustainable structures as well as the vernacular architecture of the region are analyzed in order to make useful projections about the future of the city and its buildings and potential planning policies. In conducting this analysis, methods …
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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.
… in the urban areas, aiding in the achievement of sustainable cities. Focusing on the so called South Zone of the city of João Pessoa – PB, the present study aims to observe and understand the spatial reproduction that locality and confront the basic precepts of SNI, so for verifying the quality of …
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Urban resilience through diversity
… Diversity contributes towards resilient and sustainable cities. He argues that for one to understand the importance of Diversity in an urban context, there needs to be an understanding of the meaning and definition of Resilience. According to Kayatekin, 2019, Landman 2012, there are …
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For the Fun of It: A Culture Theory Study on How Fun Informs E-scooter Experiences
… concerned with supporting a shift towards more sustainable cities.
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Standardising the city: A material-discursive genealogy of CPA-I_001, ISO 37120 and BSI PAS 181
… and guidelines for the governance of smart and sustainable cities. In this thesis, I survey the standards literature, develop a methodology for their study, and analyse three city standards, the institutions that support them and the material-discursive apparatuses that allow them to take shape. …
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Spatial planning strategies for sustainable municipal household water service provision: a case study of Thohoyandou Town in Vhembe District Municipality of Limpopo, South Africa
… It also aligns with key global goals, including Sustainable Development Goal 6 (clean water and sanitation) and Goal 11 (sustainable cities and communities).
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AI-driven smart cities: Digital twin simulation, V2X communication, and EV infrastructure optimization
As urbanization accelerates, cities face mounting challenges in transportation efficiency, safety, and sustainability. This dissertation explores the integration of Digital Twin (DT) technology, Connected Vehicle Communication (C-V2X), and Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure optimization to …
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Greener pastures of home: an ethnographic study on everyday sustainable practices in Nyanga, Cape Town
Most contemporary urban development in cities of the global South is responding to rapid urbanisation caused by prospects of employment opportunities and improved quality of life. Research in the field of sustainability in cities of the global South mainly focuses on economic and social development …
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