Scenario Analysis on Climate Change Impacts of Urban Land Expansion under Different Urbanization Patterns: A Case Study of Wuhan Metropolitan by Xinli Ke, Feng Wu, Caixue Ma

“…Urban land expansion plays an important role in climate change. …”
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Analysis on the Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Urban Expansion and the Complex Driving Mechanism: Taking the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration as a Case by Luo Liu, Jianmei Liu, Zhenjie Liu, Xuliang Xu, Binwu Wang

“…In this context, analyzing the driving mechanism of urban land expansion in complex urban systems facilitates sustainable urban development. …”
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Challenges and strategies in meeting urban tree canopy targets: A scenario discovery analysis to guide urban forest planning in new developments by Raymundo Marcos Martinez, Natthanij Soonsawad, Mariana Dias Baptista, Stephen Cook, Guy Barnett, Joseph Chee, Tim Field, Tim Muster

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Rabies vaccinations at the rural–urban divide: successes and barriers to dog rabies vaccination programs from a rural and urban campaign in Zambia by Ricky Chazya, Chilufya Aneta Susan Mulenga, Andrew D. Gibson, Frederic Lohr, Cassandra Boutelle, Sarah Bonaparte, Oline Sinywibulula, Gareth Thomas, Patricia Bwalya, George Dautu, Linous Munsimbwe, Geoffrey Muuka, Luke Gamble, Ryan M. Wallace, Michelle A. Waltenburg

“…Private veterinary services were commonly utilized among surveyed dog owners in urbanized communities in Lusaka, suggesting that they are an important collaborator for achieving rabies herd immunity. …”
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Automation of urban technological census. The historical centre of Bethlehem by Elisabetta Doria

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Land Use in the Rural-Urban Interface: Subdivision Design by Lauren McDonell, Martha C. Monroe, Jay Tomlinson

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Timetable Design for Urban Rail Line with Capacity Constraints by Yu-Ting Zhu, Bao-Hua Mao, Lu Liu, Ming-Gao Li

“…To design an efficient and economical timetable for a heavily congested urban rail corridor, a scheduling model is proposed in this paper. …”
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PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEM OF HOUSING CONTROL IN URBAN SETTLEMENTS by M. Stadolin

“…The article analyses the existing system of housing control, reveals modern problems and peculiarities of state supervision and municipal control in the housing sector of urban settlements, proposed measures for further development of the system of control over the provision of housing services.…”
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Addressing Misconceptions about Wildland-Urban Interface Issues by Martha C. Monroe

“… Residents in the wildland-urban interface probably have some notions about their local environment. …”
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URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE: A REVIEW by Fahmyddin Araaf Tauhid

“…., the need to explore other urban infrastructure strategies than conventional one is required. …”
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Urban Forests in Florida: Do They Reduce Air Pollution? by Francisco Escobedo

“…FOR-128, a 3-page fact sheet by Francisco Escobedo, presents the factors behind pollution removal by trees, estimates the amount of air pollution removal for three Florida cities, and presents strategies for managing urban trees for air quality improvement. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, October 2007. …”
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URBAN GEOSITES AND RECREATIONAL TOURISM. BAHÍA BLANCA, ARGENTINA by Jorgelina Leguizamón, Verónica Gil, Valeria Natalia Gil

“…In this way, the purpose is to capitalize new urban and peri-urban spaces within the most current modalities of the tourism market. …”
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Olivers Twisted: Urban Milieu from Text to Media by Mario Martino

“…Both films underscore a crucial interest in the urban milieu and enthusiastically explore it, stressing an optimistic culmination in happy ending. …”
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Miami-Dade County’s Urban Forests and Their Ecosystem Services by Francisco Escobedo, Joy Klein, Micah Pace, Henry Mayer, Sebastian Varela

“… The urban forest in Miami-Dade County reduces air pollution, controls stormwater, reduces crime, increases real estate values, and improves livability. …”
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Urban Road Change Detection using Morphological Processing by Ei Phyu Sin Win

Subjects: “…Keywords—satellite, NASA, urban, developing, schedule, morphological processing.…”
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Information practices in multi-professional work in urban planning by Anna Suorsa, Anna-Maija Multas, Emilia Rönkkö, Eevi Juuti, Anelma Lammi, Heidi Enwald

“…This study investigates information practices to develop multi-professional work in the planning of healthy living environments in and around urban planning. Method. A qualitative approach was used to study information practices in two city organisations in Finland. 16 professionals working in urban planning, urban planning, traffic, landscaping, promotion of well-being and environmental health and protection were interviewed in semi-structural interviews. …”
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Quantifying Urban Sprawl and Its Driving Forces in China by Jintao Wang, Shiyou Qu, Ke Peng, Yanchao Feng

“…Against the background that urbanization has proceeded quickly in China over the last two decades, a limited number of empirical researches have been performed for analyzing the measurement and driving forces of urban sprawl at the national and regional level. …”
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Evaluating Spherical Trees in the Urban Environment in Budapest (Hungary) by Krisztina Szabó, Eszter Tőke, Attila Gergely

Subjects: “…urban trees…”
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A Stable Routing Protocol for Vehicles in Urban Environments by Hyun Yu, Sanghyun Ahn, Joon Yoo

“…In this paper, we propose a VANET routing protocol that works based on the real-time road vehicle density information in order to provide fast and reliable message delivery so that it can adapt to the dynamic vehicular urban environment. In the proposed mechanism, each vehicle computes the real-time traffic density of the road to which it belongs from the beacon messages sent by vehicles on the opposite lane and its road information table. …”
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An Approach to Modeling the Impact of Traffic Incident on Urban Expressway by Yaping Li, Jian Lu, HongWu Li, Huihui Xiao, Qingchao Liu

“…To identify network bottlenecks of urban expressway effectively is a foundational work for improving network traffic condition and preventing traffic congestion. …”
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