A whole process resilience management practice in coastal engineering by Yingtao Zhou, Yingtao Zhou, Yingtao Zhou, Chenhui Jiang, Yuanshu Jiang, Yu Zhu, Yu Zhu, Yu Zhu, Yan Jin, Xian Wang, Xi Feng, Weibing Feng

“…Coastal zones are crucial for protecting land from marine disasters, but they are increasingly threatened by erosion caused by storms and rising sea levels. Urban coastal resilience engineering is a multidisciplinary practice that seeks to enhance disaster prevention capabilities and resilience along urban coastlines. …”
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Assessment of inappropriate use of antibiotics and contributing factors in Awi Administrative Zone, Northwestern Amhara regional State, Ethiopia by Belsti Atnkut, Atalaye Nigussie, Bekele Gebreamanule, Bulti Kumera, Tess Astatkie

“…Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and risk variables linked to the inappropriate use of antibiotics in urban and rural districts of the Awi administrative zone community. …”
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Prevalence, Treatment, and Associated Factors of Hypertension in Spain: A Comparative Study between Populations by Arturo Corbatón-Anchuelo, María Teresa Martínez-Larrad, Náyade del Prado-González, Cristina Fernández-Pérez, Rafael Gabriel, Manuel Serrano-Ríos

“…The prevalence and related factors of hypertensive subjects according to the resident area (rural versus urban) were investigated in two population-based studies from Spain. …”
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Emotional State as a Key Driver of Public Preferences for Flower Color by Juan She, Renwu Wu, Bingling Pi, Jie Huang, Zhiyi Bao

“…Flowers, as integral elements of urban landscapes, are critical not only for aesthetic purposes but also for fostering human–nature interactions in green spaces. …”
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A study on the carbon emission reduction pathways of China’s digital economy from multiple perspectives by Xiaoyan Shi, Zhenhua Zhu, Jiaxin Wu, Zhijiang Li

“…Under the influence of urbanization, there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between DE and CE. (4) Heterogeneity analysis finds that, compared to other types of provinces, the CER effect of DE is stronger in non-resource-based and economically developed provinces. (5) We propose five tailored recommendations for CER: fostering the synergistic development of the DE and industrial structure, strengthening the role of technological innovation, advancing urbanization and carbon reduction in a differentiated manner, formulating distinct policies for resource-based and non-resource-based provinces, and enhancing the construction of digital infrastructure in less-developed regions. …”
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Mapping the Dream: Designing Optimal E-Bike Routes in Valparaíso, Chile, Using a Multicriteria Analysis and an Experimental Study by Vicente Aprigliano, Catalina Toro, Gonzalo Rojas, Iván Bastías, Marcus Cardoso, Tálita Santos, Marcelino Aurélio Vieira da Silva, Emilio Bustos, Ualison Rébula de Oliveira, Sebastian Seriani

“…The city of Valparaíso, Chile, faces significant mobility challenges due to its steep slopes, complex urban infrastructure, and socioeconomic conditions. …”
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Phnom Penh ou l’ordre métropolitain : polices, pouvoirs et territoires by Gabriel Fauveaud

“…Secondly, I argue that strategies and practices of local police forces rely on different forms of “urban disorders”, which support a rent-seeking police economy. …”
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Les bruits de Madrid. Comment le cinéma écoute la ville by Jean-Paul Aubert

“…This study focuses on the construction of urban soundscape in six Spanish films which action takes place in Madrid : Surcos (1951) of Antonio Nieves Conde, Los Golfos (1959) of Carlos Saura, ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! …”
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Espaces, parcours cérémoniels et fabrication d’objets rituels dans la fête mexica d’etzalcualiztli by Elena Mazzetto

“…Nevertheless, the spatial dimension regarding the characterization and the distribution of the places of worship, as well as the urban itineraries taken by the participants are research topics that have not been investigated enough. …”
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An Improved Clustering Algorithm of Tunnel Monitoring Data for Cloud Computing by Luo Zhong, KunHao Tang, Lin Li, Guang Yang, JingJing Ye

“…With the rapid development of urban construction, the number of urban tunnels is increasing and the data they produce become more and more complex. …”
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Return to Stronger Employment Growth Expected in Cities by Anja Rossen

“…While there are no major differences between the administrative district types in the unemployment forecast, the expected growth in employment increases in cities and urban areas compared to the previous year, but stagnates in the case of the two rural structural types.…”
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Mésentente temporelle. La fabrique du patrimoine culturel urbain de Rio de Janeiro à l’épreuve des temps du territoire carioca by Véronique Zamant

“…Four moments of this process are analyzed as places of negotiation between the various historicity schemes, created and mobilized by the actors and their imbrications with the times of the urban transformation and those of sustainable development. …”
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Caractéristiques de la propriété foncière en espace périurbain by Alain Guéringer

“…Old land structures in the countryside are more or less imprinted by the urban dynamic and the results show a large diversity of cases between typical urban and typical rural property structures.…”
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Endangered clonal plant Rosa persica: Limited genetic and clonal diversity, abundant leaf phenotypic variation by Xiaolong Zhang, Xueyun Zhang, Na Li, Chenyang Sun, Chenjie Zhang, Chao Yu, Qixiang Zhang, Le Luo

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Environmental and Social Problems and Countermeasures in Transportation System under Resource Constraints by Qianyuan Li, Shaoying Tian

“…With the rapid development of urban economy and the acceleration of urbanization, the demand for urban traffic is increasing rapidly. …”
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Possible Biogeophysical Effects of Cultivated Land Conversion in Northeast China in 2010–2030 by Haiming Yan, Jinyan Zhan, Juan Huang, Tengteng Zhai

“…The simulation results indicate that the total cultivated land area in Northeast China will decrease during 2010–2030, mainly converting into urban and built-up land and forests due to the urbanization and governmental policies. …”
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Alpine Landschaft per Bahn. Die Bergmenschen bei Peter Rosegger und Heimito von Doderer by Roland Tusch

“…In the texts by Rosegger and Doderer, the travellers on the train provide different insights into the fascination that emanates from the mountains. The urban society that arrived at the Semmering with the railway felt itself to have come closer to the mountains; the locals probably always perceived them as urban people.…”
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Stochastic Electric Vehicle Network with Elastic Demand and Environmental Costs by Jie Ma, Hua Wang, Tianpei Tang

“…Along with the increasing number of the electric vehicles (EVs), an urban transportation network with a large number of EVs will come true in the near future. …”
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Optimization and Matching Scheme of Public Management Resources for Industry 4.0 and Smart City by Jinglin Fan, Lei Shi

“…With the development of Big Data, Industry 4.0, and other technologies, the concept of smart city has become a new goal, new concept, and new practice of many urban developments. It provides a method to solve the problem that public management cannot optimize resources in China’s urban development and puts forward a supporting scheme more in line with the optimization of public management resources. …”
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Assessing nighttime artificial light pollution from the perspective of an unmanned aerial vehicle tilt by Jiejie Wu, Liang Zhou, Deping Li, Daoquan Zhang, Tingting Jiang, Chengzhi Zong

“…Increasing artificial light at night (ALAN) impacts urban sustainability and contributes to light pollution. …”
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