Identités collectives ; territoires et mémoires by Sylvie Contrepois

“…The project’s methods include regional advisory groups in each of the country partner and important efforts to disseminate the results to local citizens.The area studied in France is located in the Paris suburbs and is composed of two adjacent urban areas (“communautés d’agglomérations”), one being Evry and the other Corbeil-Essonnes. …”
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The Chinese Mountains as a Night-time Stage: a Study of the Sound and Light Show Impressions of Liu Sanjie (Guilin, Guangxi Region) by Wei Xiang, Philippe Bachimon

“…As the tourism sector grows as a whole, night-time tourism is playing a significant complementary role in the regional development not only of urban areas, but also of the mountainous areas that surround them. …”
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Ground Displacements due to the Deformations of Shallow Tunnels with Arbitrary Cross Sections in Soft Ground by Qiongfang Zhang, Kang Cheng, Cungang Lin, Yadong Lou, Panpan Guo, Xiaolu Gan

“…Nowadays, a huge number of shield-driven tunnels with noncircular cross sections are constructed in urban areas all around the world. However, the ground displacements associated with tunneling still form a difficult issue, especially for noncircular tunnels. …”
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Indoor Air Pollution was Nonnegligible during COVID-19 Lockdown by Wei Du, Gehui Wang

“…The implementation of stringent lockdown resulted in less traffic and industrial emissions, thus reduction of various ambient air pollutants were observed in urban areas. Considering people stayed longer time in indoor, the indoor air pollution (IAP) might play a more important role for human health during lockdown. …”
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Optimizing the Composite Cost Involved in Road Motor-Transporting Trucks by Taking into Account Traffic Condition by Hongying Fei, Chengyi Zhang

“…Since the vehicle transporters mainly are the severe-polluting heavy-duty vehicles and their exhaust emissions vary under different traffic conditions, it is necessary to improve the planning of road motor-transporting services by taking into account road traffic condition, especially for urban areas. This study aims at minimizing the composite cost, including both the economic cost related to the driver cost and fuel consumption, and the social cost related to the vehicle emissions. …”
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Urban Land Value Estimation Model based on Income Capitalization Method by Sugito Nanin Trianawati, Affriani Asri Ria, Ramadhani Anisa Nabila Rizki

“…The high land prices often observed in urban areas result from increased demand, whereas the availability of land remains fixed. …”
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The circular economy for food in future cities. Good practices that define Smart Food by Franco Fassio, Elisa Cionchi, Alice Tondella

“…When the population increases, the resources demand increases in the urban areas too, and environmental problems and socio-economic differences among citizens emerge. …”
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Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes by Chiara Catalano, Thomas E. Hauck, Susann Ahn, Salvatore Pasta

“… Regarding the maintenance of urban green infrastructure, most stakeholders prefer achieving an oversimplified aesthetic archetype of cleanliness and order at the cost of high maintenance, whilst landscape architects try to reproduce islands of near-natural vegetation even where the environmental factors typical of urban areas do not allow it. In the long term, the struggle between these two opposite ways of conceiving the look and the role of green infrastructure appears pointless: in the end, what decides the identity of most urban green infrastructure is the ‘vegetation by use’, that is, the daily people’s use of these spaces (whether accessible). …”
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Climate change dominates over urbanization in tropical cyclone rainfall patterns by Zifeng Deng, Gabriele Villarini, Zhaoli Wang

“…Here, we employ a convection-permitting numerical model to quantify the relative effects of urbanization and climate change on rainfall from ten typhoons across a highly urbanized area in China. We show that climate change is largely responsible for the changes in the spatial pattern and amounts of rainfall from tropical cyclones; on the other hand, urbanization consistently contributes to the redistribution of rainfall, and its positive effects are comparable to those of climate change in the urban core. …”
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Comparative Thermal Analysis of Different Cool Roof Materials for Minimizing Building Energy Consumption by Y. Anand, A. Gupta, A. Maini, Avi Gupta, A. Sharma, A. Khajuria, S. Gupta, S. Sharma, S. Anand, S. K. Tyagi

“…The roof and walls in the urban areas contribute to major share in the absorption of solar radiations and also retard the outflow of the absorbed radiation from the building envelope, thereby increasing the global warming by inducing the heat island effect. …”
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La mise en scène nocturne de la montagne en Chine. Enquêtes sur le spectacle son et lumière Impressions de Liusanjie (Guilin, Province du Guangxi) by Wei Xiang, Philippe Bachimon

“…As the tourism sector grows as a whole, night-time tourism is playing a significant complementary role in the regional development not only of urban areas, but also of the mountainous areas that surround them. …”
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Assessment and Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders over the Internet by Leah Steele, Hannah Lade, Stephanie McKenzie, Trevor G. Russell

“…For those living outside of urban areas, however, access to physiotherapy can be limited. …”
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Applying multispecies justice in nature-based solutions and urban sustainability planning: Tensions and prospects by Christopher M. Raymond, Pauliina Rautio, Nora Fagerholm, Valtteri A. Aaltonen, Erik Andersson, Danielle Celermajer, Mike Christie, Maria Hällfors, Maria Helena Saari, Himansu Sekhar Mishra, Alex M. Lechner, Melissa Pineda-Pinto, David Schlosberg

“…Abstract While substantial efforts have been made to identify and address issues of environmental justice in urban areas, the question of how to consider and plan for the concerns of humans and other species remains a major challenge. …”
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Apports de l’imagerie satellite pour le suivi de l’impact des événements cycloniques à Madagascar by Thibault Catry, Christophe Révillion, Pascal Mouquet, Gwenaëlle Pennober

“…The synergetic use of optical and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) sensors, with high temporal and spatial resolution allowed to : (i) carry out a near-real time monitoring of floods caused by Haruna during the crisis and a characterization of water level subsidence in post-crisis (combining SPOT 5, RADARSAT-2 and Pléiades images), (ii) a mapping of floods related to Enawo in urban areas and in rice fields in the regions of Sambava and Maroantsetra (combining Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and participatory mapping).…”
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Study of forecasting urban private car volumes based on multi-source heterogeneous data fusion by Chenxi LIU, Dong WANG, Huiling CHEN, Renfa LI

“…By effectively capturing the spatio-temporal characteristics of urban private car travel, a multi-source heterogeneous data fusion model for private car volume prediction was proposed.Firstly, private car trajectory and area-of-interest data were integrated.Secondly, the spatio-temporal correlations between private car travel and urban areas were modeled through multi-view spatio-temporal graphs, the multi-graph convolution-attention network (MGC-AN) was proposed to extract the spatio-temporal characteristics of private car travel.Finally, the spatio-temporal characteristics and external characteristics such as weather were integrated for joint prediction.Experiments were conducted on real datasets, which were collected in Changsha and Shenzhen.The experimental results show that, compared with the existing prediction model, the root mean square error of the MGC-AN is reduced 11.3%～20.3%, and the average absolute percentage error is reduced 10.8%～36.1%.…”
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Modelling emergency response times for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) patients in rural areas of the North of England using routinely collected data by Megan Harries, Anastasia Ushakova

“…Response times to these areas were found to be over 3.5 minutes slower than for urban areas making it worthy of further exploration. …”
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Changes in Uterine Cancer Incidence Rates in Egypt by Saad Alshahrani, Amr S. Soliman, Ahmed Hablas, Mohamed Ramadan, Jane L. Meza, Steven Remmenga, Ibrahim A. Seifeldein, Robert M. Chamberlain

“…Future studies should focus on verifying the possible effect of hysterectomy on lowering the incidence, the factors related to the changes in rates between rural and urban areas, and the possible impact of nutritional and epidemiologic transitions on the increasing rates.…”
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Services availability and readiness assessment of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in primary healthcare facilities: evidence from selected districts in Ghana by Michel Adurayi Amenah, Jacob Novignon, Ama Pokuaa Fenny, Irene A. Agyepong, Tim Ensor

“…In terms of facility types, 57% of CHPS facilities, 59% of health centres, and 44% of clinics provided all the selected ASRH services. Urban areas reported a 51% provision rate of these services, slightly less than the 54% observed in rural areas. …”
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Improvement Measures for Waterlogging Prevention and Control Standards of Highly Built-up Areas by ZHANG Xiaoju, REN Dawei

“…For highly built-up urban areas,further improving the waterlogging prevention and control standards and refining the waterlogging prevention and control system with a limited land use space are problems demanding prompt investigation.Taking Shenzhen's improvement strategies for waterlogging prevention and control standards as an example,this paper analyzed the main points and applicability of several measures,including source optimization,vertical adjustment,improvement of pipe network standards,multi-aspect drainage system,diversified detention measures,and joint control of flood and waterlogging.By investigating representative basins,this paper also built a Mike Flood model to evaluate the effects of different waterlogging prevention and control schemes.The results show that an 85% reduction of waterlogging risk areas can be achieved by comprehensively applying the waterlogging prevention and control measures according to local conditions under a once-in-a-hundred-year rainstorm,indicating the efficacy of those measures.The results provide a reference for cities to develop improvement strategies for waterlogging prevention and control standards under similar conditions.…”
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La production de logements en Belgique et à Bruxelles – Acteurs, dynamiques, géographie by Christian Dessouroux, Alice Romainville

“…If economic activity and collective housing continue to be concentrated in urban areas, the proliferation of single-family dwellings in suburban areas - dating back to the 19th century - continues unabated. …”
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