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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Comparison of Urban Forest Inventory & Management Software Systems by Michael G. Andreu, Erin M. Brown, Melissa H. Friedman, Robert J. Northrop, Mary E. Thornhill

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Planning a Wildland-Urban Interface Communication Program by Martha C. Monroe

“…FOR197/FR258: Planning a Wildland-Urban Interface Communication Program (ufl.edu) …”
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Metabolic Activity of Micromycetes Affecting Urban Concrete Constructions by Galina Yakovleva, Eugene Sagadeev, Viktor Stroganov, Olga Kozlova, Rodion Okunev, Olga Ilinskaya

“…We focused our study on the biodeterioration of concrete specimens widely used as a building material of urban houses by micromycetes isolated from the inner wall surface of the former military hospital in Kazan city, Tatarstan, Russia. …”
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Digital geocomputational technologies for the metaproject of urban green infrastructures by Valeria D’Ambrosio, Ferdinando Di Martino, Marina Rigillo

“… The paper presents a model to evaluate the ecological efficiency of urban green areas to support the meta-design of ‘green infrastructures’. …”
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Identifying urban resources to read socio-spatial inequalities by Aurélia Michel, Antonine Ribardière

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An Ethics of Care in the Teaching of Urban Collective Housing Projects by Patricia Reus, Jaume Blancafort

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Soil Characteristics and Management Practices for Urban Residential Landscapes by Brian J. Pearson

“…Newly constructed urban residential landscape soils sampled within Central Florida are dominated by large sand particles and possess low soil moisture retention. …”
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Effective smart rotary parking management in urban areas by Kaci Meziane, Salem Merabti, Zakaria Layate, Hakim Ait Said, Sofiane Amrane, Lydia Terki

“… With urbanization on the rise, coupled with the burgeoning intensity of traffic in cities, parking management is becoming an increasingly insurmountable problem. …”
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A Scientific Framework for Managing Urban Natural Areas by Frank J. Mazzotti, Carol Morganstern

“… The purposes of this paper are: to present a scientific framework for managing urban natural areas; to discuss general ecological issues and management concerns identified from our early efforts at applying this approach to Broward County ESL sites; and to discuss the Pine Island Ridge ESL site as a case study. …”
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A METHODOLOGY FOR THE EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONAL URBAN AREAS IN ROMANIA by ANTONIO TACHE, MONICA TACHE

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Interpreting public space as a medium for urban liveability by Alberto De Capua, Lidia Errante

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Experiences and Expectations: Drivers of Urban Tourist Destination Competitiveness by Vladimir Pavković, Tamara Vlastelica, Milica Kostić-Stanković, Jasmina Dlačić

Subjects: “…urban tourist destination…”
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Green solutions for removing and storing carbon in urban districts by Fabrizio Tucci, Marco Giampaoletti

Subjects: “…urban greening…”
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