Les écoquartiers, territoires d’expérimentation des nouvelles utopies urbaines ? Le cas de l’habitat participatif by Abdourahmane Ndiaye, Aurélie Carimentrand, Marie-Reine Gallard

“…Taking the hypothesis that eco-neighbourhoods can facilitate experimentation in housing and the sharing of living spaces by fostering resident involvement, we have crossed the discourse analysis from the planning authorities of the corpus 'EcoQuartiers 2011' with three case studies from the Bordeaux urban area. We will show that the experimentations freely entered into by the residents come up against numerous restraints (property, funding, planning), whereas participative housing projects initiated by housing providers and local councils are closer to real estate operations of social home ownership. …”
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Approvisionner les villes en briques et en tuiles : les carrières urbaines d’argile en France by Bruno Comentale

“…The case of Beauvais shows that the extraction and firing of clay contributed to the construction of a peri-urban area.…”
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Impacto de la Educación Formal y Migración en el Desempeño de las Empresas Familiares: Un Caso en Jerez, Zacatecas by Héctor Gabriel Villegas-Berumen, Humberto Morales Magallanes, César Landeros Soriano

“…It was found that companies whose average educational level is high do not necessarily have better performance expectations in a Mexican urban area with low economic growth, due to the phenomenon of migration at an early age. …”
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Evaluation of the pharmacological treatment of arterial hypertension associated to heart failure in Camarones town. by Pedro Miguel Milián Vázquez., Idalmis Pérez Alemán, Carlos Martín Álvarez, Maira Quirós Enríquez., Lidia Vázquez Montero

“…<strong>Methods:</strong> A descriptive-prospective study was carried out, this consisted in the use of prescription-indication drugs through a simple random sample study of 43 patients, representing the 35.2 % in six Family Clinical Units of the urban area of Camarones’ Communitarian Policlinic, Palmira, Cienfuegos, during the first semester of 2004. …”
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Improving Wind Speed Forecasting for Urban Air Mobility Using Coupled Simulations by Mounir Chrit, Marwa Majdi

“…Hazardous weather, turbulence, wind, and thermals pose a ubiquitous challenge to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and electric-Vertical Take-Off and Landing (e-VTOL) aircrafts, and the safe integration of UAS into urban area requires accurate high-granularity wind data especially during landing and takeoff phases. …”
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Pengaruh Lebar Lajur Lalu Lintas Terhadap Kecepatan Kendaraan Pada Jalan Perkotaan by Titi Kurniati

“…A total of 12,273 instantaneous vehicle speed data were collected on four road sections with similar facilities and traffic conditions but different lane widths in the urban area of ​​Padang City. Data on the relationship between speed and lane width are presented descriptively statistically. …”
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Development of a Public Transport Accessibility Index for Older Commuters: A Time-Based Approach by Kaniz Fatima, Sara Moridpour, Tayebeh Saghapour

“…EPTAI identifies the level of access of the elderly to public transport (train, tram, and bus) in an urban area. The time-based EPTAI includes different trip purposes, including shopping trips (trips to shopping centres), medical trips (travel to healthcare centres), education trips (travel to education centres), and recreation trips (e.g., restaurants, parks, and cafes). …”
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An Emotion Detection GIS-Based Framework for Evaluating Exposure to Heatwave Scenarios in Urban Settlements During a Pandemic by Barbara Cardone, Ferdinando Di Martino, Cristiano Mauriello, Vittorio Miraglia

“…The proposed model was tested on the urban area of study of the city of Naples in Italy, taking into consideration a heatwave scenario that occurred in the summer of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic and analyzing the variation in exposure in the thirty districts into which the city is partitioned. …”
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Micromobility Station Placement Optimization for a Rural Setting by Taraneh Askarzadeh, Raj Bridgelall

“…Most studies analyzed deployments in high-density urban areas. This research determines the best locations for 5 new bike-sharing stations in Fargo, North Dakota, a small urban area in the rural United States. …”
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Experimental Study on Double Row Micropiles and Anchors Composite Retaining Structure in Deep Fill Site by Wenfeng Liu, Jie Mao, Hongxing Zhao, Guangbiao Shao

“…The results show that double row steel piles and anchors composite retaining structure is feasible when excavating deep fill site in the urban area. In the composite retaining system, the stress of the front pile is greater than the back pile, the back pile has a lag when it starts working, and the axial force of the middle and upper anchor is greater than that of the bottom anchor.…”
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Is the Real Estate Market of New Housing Stock Influenced by Urban Vibrancy? by Alice Barreca, Rocco Curto, Diana Rolando

“…The attractiveness and vibrancy of an urban area are very complex aspects that both Public Administrations and real estate developers and construction companies have to carefully consider in order to correctly address their investments and sustainable urban development projects. …”
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The geographical factors affecting ICT diffusion process in the healthcare sector. A case study in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan by Tsutomu Nakamura

“…Based on the ICT’s utilization, the results demonstrate that the diffusion of medical information system was determined by existing social relations ; however, the degree of social relations was not always proportional to the size of the urban area. System-diffusion patterns were found to be a different form than those in previous studies. …”
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Uncovering and estimating complementarity in urban lives by Xin Liu, Konstantinos Pelechrinis

“…We perform our simulations and analysis on two different spatial levels, namely, the venue level, as well as, the urban area level (e.g., zip code, neighborhood, etc.). …”
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Mapping of mental health care facilities and psychiatrists in a North Indian district of India by Aninda Debnath, Harshal Ramesh Salve, Rajesh Sagar, Anand Krishnan, Rakesh Kumar, Shashi Kant

“…Most psychiatrists were concentrated in the urban area. The number of psychiatrists per lakh population was 1.1 in urban, compared to 0.54 in rural Faridabad. …”
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Visualization Method of Heat Risk through Light Environment Reproduction Considering Cloud Coverage by Shibata Ryoya, Ozaki Taira, Kubota Satoshi, Yasumuro Yoshihiro

“…While the Ministry of the Environment provides heat index information for urban area scales online, there are no means to obtain localized heat index data. …”
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Study on Control of Wall Deflection in Earth Stepped-Twin Retaining Wall Using Anchor Method by means of Numerical Simulation by Kazuki Maehara, Akihiro Hamanaka, Takashi Sasaoka, Hideki Shimada, Seiya Sakuma

“…The demand for specific earth retaining wall methods is increasing along with the advancement and overcrowding of underground space use such as the presence of adjacent structures in an urban area. To cope with this, the method named earth stepped-twin retaining wall is increasingly being applied. …”
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Crash Risk Prediction Model of Lane-Change Behavior on Approaching Intersections by Yingshuai Li, Jian Lu, Kuisheng Xu

“…The primary objective of the present study is to explore the risk level of the lane-changing implementation process under different driving tendencies upon approaching signalized intersections in an urban area. This paper defines the Integrated Conflict Risk Index (ICRI), which takes into account the probability and severity of risk. …”
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Investigation of the Soan River Water Quality Using Multivariate Statistical Approach by Zakaullah, Naeem Ejaz

“…For the Soan River (Pakistan), seven sampling sites were selected in the urban area of Rawalpindi/Islamabad, and 18 major chemical parameters were examined over two seasons, i.e., premonsoon and postmonsoon 2019. …”
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MODIS Aerosol Optical Thickness Product Algorithm Verification and Analysis by Yulong He, Lin Sun, Zhendong Sun, Xueqian Hu

“…The results indicate that the DTB algorithm has a higher inversion accuracy in vegetation area, whereas HARLS algorithm performs better in urban area; the HARLS and DTB algorithm accuracies in desert area type were found to be similar. …”
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Variations of Near Surface Energy Balance Caused by Land Cover Changes in the Semiarid Grassland Area of China by Qun’ou Jiang, Chengcai Tang, Enjun Ma, Yongwei Yuan, Wei Zhang

“…Although the conversion from cropland to grassland will reduce the energy flux, the expansion of urban area and decreasing of forestry area will bring about more energy flux. …”
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