Les territoires du tramway moderne : de la ligne à la ville durable by Jacques Stambouli

“…A new tramway line constitutes a new supply within the economic transport system of an urban area and this supply in turn produces potential effects within that system and its three environments. …”
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Effective Population Size of Korean Populations by Leeyoung Park

“…There were no differences in past changes in population sizes with a comparison between an urban area and a rural area. Age-dependent current and recent effective population sizes represent the modern history of Korean populations, including the effects of World War II, the Korean War, and urbanization. …”
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Study on a Stratified Sampling Investigation Method for Resident Travel and the Sampling Rate by Fei Shi

“…Finally, for the main urban area of Kunshan City in Jiangsu province, China, we discussed the reasonable values of parameters in the formulas and obtained sampling rates for travel surveys in different residential areas. …”
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HPV vaccine knowledge and willingness to vaccinate among senior primary school students in Guangdong province, 2022: a cross-sectional survey by Li WU, Yongxin LIANG, Zurui ZENG, Tiantian LI, Xiangcai WEI, Jianhong XIA

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that participants who were female (odds ratio [OR] = 2.15, 95% confidence interval [95%CI]: 1.60 – 2.80), lived in an urban area (OR = 1.56, 95%CI: 1.20 – 2.02), and from the Pearl River Delta region (OR = 3.64, 95%CI: 2.28 – 5.81) and the northern region of the province (OR = 5.65, 95%CI: 4.00 – 7.97) were more likely to have heard of HPV, and the participants were female (OR = 2.11, 95%CI: 1.60 – 2.78), lived in an urban area (OR = 1.45, 95%CI: 1.11 – 1.89), and from the Pearl River Delta region (OR = 5.20, 95%CI: 3.06 – 8.83) and the northern region of the province (OR = 6.30, 95%CI: 4.39 – 9.06) were more likely to have heard of HPV vaccine; the results also showed that the participants who were female (OR = 7.07, 95%CI: 4.89 – 10.21), had heard of HPV (OR = 1.94, 95%CI: 1.29 – 2.93), and were aware of HPV vaccine (OR = 1.65, 95%CI: 1.07 – 2.55) were more likely to be willing to receive HPV vaccination. …”
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CROSS-BORDER CO-OPERATION EUROREGIONS IN THE ROMANIAN DANUBE BORDER-ZONE by RADU SĂGEATĂ, MIHAELA PERSU

“…Although the Danube River has favoured the emergence of an urban area, yet the respective towns do not form a coherent system, the zone itself being extremely rural as a whole. …”
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Isolation of Streptococcus bovis in a Patient with Undiagnosed Colon Cancer. A Case Report by Ledys Pérez Morales, Jorge Emilio Barletta del Castillo, Odette Quiñones Cherta

“…Hence, it was decided to present the case of a 57-year-old patient from an urban area with a 6-year history of diabetes mellitus type I and alcoholism, who was admitted to the hospital in Cienfuegos because of significant gastrointestinal bleeding and fever (39-40 o C). …”
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Key Techniques and Risk Management for the Application of the Pile-Beam-Arch (PBA) Excavation Method: A Case Study of the Zhongjie Subway Station by Yong-ping Guan, Wen Zhao, Shen-gang Li, Guo-bin Zhang

“…The design and construction of shallow-buried tunnels in densely populated urban areas involve many challenges. The ground movements induced by tunneling effects pose potential risks to infrastructure such as surface buildings, pipelines, and roads. …”
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Immigrant integration in ITI/SUD strategies: The case of Athens, Greece by Nikos Karadimitriou, Thomas Maloutas

“… Foreign immigration from low-income countries to the Athens Functional Urban Area (FUA), started in earnest in the early 1990s. …”
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Rurban Communities of Quito: Between the Entrepreneurialism and the Right to the City by Manuel Bayón Jiménez

“…Two seemingly contradictory spatial trends are occurring today in the peri-urban areas of Quito, which reshapes the dispute of territorialities: i) an unprecedented expansion of the urban area along the rural boroughs and ii) a growing recognition of land rights of indigenous and peasant communities in the Constitution of Ecuador, as well as the right to the city. …”
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Cooperative Downloading by Multivehicles in Urban VANET by Di Wu, Yingrong Bi, Jie Liang

“…In VANET (vehicular ad hoc network), RSUs (road side units) have limited coverage and high deployment cost, so they are deployed sparsely in urban area, which leads to blind zone (BZ) between adjacent RSUs, where vehicles cannot connect to Internet by RSUs. …”
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Immigrant integration in ITI/SUD strategies: The case of Athens, Greece by Nikos Karadimitriou, Thomas Maloutas

“… Foreign immigration from low-income countries to the Athens Functional Urban Area (FUA), started in earnest in the early 1990s. …”
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Global urban activity changes from COVID-19 physical distancing restrictions by Srija Chakraborty, Eleanor C. Stokes, Olivia Alexander

“…Here we use satellite-derived nighttime lights to quantify and map daily changes in human activity that are atypical for each urban area globally for two years after the onset of the pandemic using machine learning anomaly detectors. …”
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Reims/Durocortorum, cité des Rèmes : les principales étapes de la formation urbaine by Robert Neiss, François Berthelot, Jean-Marc Doyen, Philippe Rollet

“…Then, the rise of the town to the position of provincial capital coincided with an ambitious new founding initiative which created an urban area of 500 ha, surrounded by a gigantic city wall of which the layout seems to recall the ancient founding of the site and shows a remarkable continuity in the land settling and in the general plan.…”
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Optimized Distribution of Beijing Population Based on CA-MAS by Haoguang Liang, Zhong Wang

“…The results showed that (1) the unplanned layout of Beijing’s population is inefficient and will result in the slow agglomeration of populations into surrounding small towns, (2) the suburbanization of the population (while employment opportunities remain centralized) increases the stress of the city commuters, (3) the current policy guiding the distribution of residential and commercial areas is effective, accelerating the formation of small town clusters, which play a role in the city’s radiation and diffusion, contributing to reducing urban commuter stress, and (4) promoting the homogenization of public resources, planning the development of a multicenter urban area, and promoting mixed use (commercial and residential) zoning are the main measures recommended to strengthen the sustainability of Beijing’s urban development and to optimize spatial layout.…”
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Analysis of Traffic Conditions in Urban Region Based on Data from Fixed Detectors by Shidong Liang, Shuzhi Zhao, Minghui Ma, Huasheng Liu

“…Because of the difficulty of collecting the traffic parameter of travel speed from widely distributed fixed detectors directly, in this paper, the relationship between average travel speed and queue lengths at signalized intersections within the urban area is established based on an equivalent assumption. …”
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Le sol comme socle de la renaissance paysagère en vallée de l’Orge by Suzelle Hecht, Franck Boittin, Emmanuel Pranal

“…This area includes 300 km of watercourses and is located between a first dense encircling urban area and a second one in which housing becomes sparser in favour of cropland and wooded hillsides. …”
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Communs (im)matériels : enjeux épistémologiques, institutionnels et politiques by Arnaud Buchs, Catherine Baron, Géraldine Froger, Adrien Peneranda

“…The research objects (urban area, water, land, cooperatives, seeds, summer pastures) are analyzed thanks to various theoretical and conceptual corpora reflecting the diversity of the disciplines mobilized (economics, geography, planning, law, management, anthropology and political science). …”
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Application of Modified NSGA-II to the Transit Network Design Problem by Jie Yang, Yangsheng Jiang

“…The transit network design problem involves determining a certain number of routes to operate in an urban area to balance the costs of the passengers and the operator. …”
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Communs (im)matériels : enjeux épistémologiques, institutionnels et politiques by Arnaud Buchs, Catherine Baron, Géraldine Froger, Adrien Peneranda

“…The research objects (urban area, water, land, cooperatives, seeds, summer pastures) are analyzed thanks to various theoretical and conceptual corpora reflecting the diversity of the disciplines mobilized (economics, geography, planning, law, management, anthropology and political science). …”
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Habiter sur serre à Eden Square. Un espace collectif tempéré à l’épreuve de ses habitants by Valérie Foucher-Dufoix, Laetitia Overney

“…This paper reports on a bioclimatic building of 87 housing units organized around a green house, Eden Square, delivered in 2012 in the Rennes urban area (France) by architects Christian Hauvette and Pierre Champenois, who describe it as “a social and ecological utopia”. …”
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