Assessing Damage and Restoring Trees After a Hurricane by Edward F. Gilman, Mary L. Duryea, Eliana Kampf, Traci Jo Partin, Astrid Delgado, Carol J. Lehtola

“…Duryea, Eliana Kampf, Traci Jo Partin, Astrid Delgado, and Carol Lehtola was funded by the Florida Division of Forestry and the USDA Forest Service, Southern Region as part of the Urban Forest Hurricane Recovery Program. Includes sections with guidelines for chainsaw safety, how to hire tree care professionals, how to tell which damaged trees can recover and which should be removed, how to restore trees to health after a hurricane by pruning -- both immediately after the storm and after few years' growth, specialized information for dealing with palm and pine trees, how to prevent damage by using effective design and management practices, and lists of decay resistant and wind resistant tree species for Florida. …”
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ST-LSTM: A Deep Learning Approach Combined Spatio-Temporal Features for Short-Term Forecast in Rail Transit by Qicheng Tang, Mengning Yang, Ying Yang

“…The short-term forecast of rail transit is one of the most essential issues in urban intelligent transportation system (ITS). Accurate forecast result can provide support for the forewarning of flow outburst and enables passengers to make an appropriate travel plan. …”
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An Influence Analytical Model of Dedicated Bus Lane on Network Traffic by Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram by Yingying Ma, Yuanqi Xie, Yongjie Lin

“…To study the influence mechanism of dedicated bus lanes on the urban road network, this paper proposes a novel analytical model of macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) and passenger macroscopic fundamental diagram (p-MFD) and the corresponding indicators based on MFD and p-MFD to evaluate the operation of the network. …”
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De l’argument à l’action : la biodiversité au service des jardins familiaux by Jean-Noël Consalès, Sophie Joimel, France Cordier, Cloé Jareno, Élodie-Denise Chenot, Christophe Schwartz

“…On the national level, it shows that biodiversity is an integral part of the strategy developed by the National Federation of Allotment and Community Gardens (in French Fédération nationale des jardins familiaux et collectifs) in support of these urban vegetable gardens. This association facilitates projects designed to be sustainable and to provide a favourable environment for plant and animal life. …”
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D’une école de paysage à l’autre : retour d’expérience sur un enseignement de la géographie au service des paysagistes by Hervé Davodeau

“…These two perspectives make it possible to better understand and untangle a number of “pedagogical conundrums” which are characteristic of the teaching of geography considered as a supporting discipline in the training of landscape architects and urban planners. The article partially reproduces the first (pedagogical) volume of a research publication (Davodeau, 2020), which explains its biographical and reflective dimension.…”
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More Than Grades: How Students Define Holistic Student Success by Anjali Sundararaman, Kathy Baek, Matthew Gee, Audrey Weber, Monica A. Corzo, Jacob Dinardi, Cara J. Connor, Kathryn Nesbit, Elaine Musselman, Linda M. Platas, Susanna Jones

“…Participants consisted of a diverse group of students from a large urban public university. A team of multidisciplinary researchers conducted a qualitative study adopting a phenomenological approach. …”
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Robust Optimization for Electric Vehicle Routing Problem Considering Time Windows Under Energy Consumption Uncertainty by Dan Wang, Weibo Zheng, Hong Zhou

“…Compared to fossil fuel-based internal combustion vehicles, electric vehicles with lower local pollution and noise are becoming more and more popular in urban logistic distribution. When electric vehicles are involved, high-quality delivery depends on energy consumption. …”
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Florida's Water Resources by Tara Wade, Tatiana Borisova

“…Drought and water shortages in the state have caused urban planners and policy makers to pay closer attention to water use, water supply development, and water resource management. …”
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Entre o comércio e a governação local. Fernão Gonçalves Façanha: um mercador eborense de finais da Idade Média by Joaquim Bastos Serra

“…This is a powerful businessman who held various positions in the municipal administration and in other urban institutions and played a relevant role in the public life of the city. …”
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Assessment and Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders over the Internet by Leah Steele, Hannah Lade, Stephanie McKenzie, Trevor G. Russell

“…For those living outside of urban areas, however, access to physiotherapy can be limited. …”
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El Madrid de la Bestia : l’apocalypse urbaine d’Álex de la Iglesia by Diane Bracco

“…Through the deployment of strategies of grotesque distortion, de la Iglesia invites us to see in his filmic re-elaboration of the metropolis the metonymy of a Spain that has lost all its points of reference: while taking possession of the urban landscape, integrated into a spectacular production, de la Iglesia lifts the veil on the paradoxes of a postindustrial society which longs for modernization, at the dawn of the third millennium, although it still harbours the residues of a dictatorial past that the advent of democracy has not enabled to eradicate.…”
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Through Infrastructure: Pneumatic Transport and the Continuity of the Technical Fix from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century by Laura Meneghello

“…In fact, air pollution occupies a crucial position in the hierarchy of urban problems. The article analyses sustainability discourses related with nineteenth-century atmospheric railways and similar air-driven transport solutions up to the present day, showing how techno-scientific plans and utopian representations put forward the idea that environmental problems could be solved through technology. …”
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Optimization Model of Traffic Sensor Layout considering Traffic Big Data by Xu Sun, Zixiu Bai, Kun Lin, Pengpeng Jiao, HuaPu Lu

“…In order to improve the accuracy, reliability, and economy of urban traffic information collection, an optimization model of traffic sensor layout is proposed in this paper. …”
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Del papel en blanco y negro al Do it yourself digital. La evolución de la prensa graffitera en Madrid by Celeste Martín-Juan

“…Madrid has witnessed, since the seventies, the socio-cultural transformation of Spanish society and the emergence of different urban cultures (Rock, Punk, Heavy, etc.). At the same time, the city has seen the emergence of a new independent press movement specialized in these new cultural movements, such as fanzines. …”
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Aporia of Participatory Planning: Framing Local Action in the Entrepreneurial City by Ryan Love

“…This trend is seen as attendant to still larger city-transformative processes of gentrification and neoliberalisation, or ‘urban entrepreneurialism.’ The essay concludes, finally, with an exposition of the central challenges at hand, and presents an alternative envisioning of participation as a mode of nonintegrative or counterhegemonic praxis.…”
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Espaces de l’insécurité : réalités territoriales et réponses locales à la délinquance by Igor Lefèvre

“…It thus questioned the relevance of the résidentialist paradigm (that is to say, the assumption of a crime would depend in form and intensity of urban, sociological , economic and demographic patterns and trends) and its impact on work organization and missions of law enforcement forces, but also all the local actors involved in security policy and crime prevention. …”
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De la matière conquérante à la matière troublante by Ilona Woronow

“…To conclude, comparing the discourse on matter in both urban and rural settings allows us to interpret formal achievements as a response to the second facet of fascination – anxiety.…”
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Le LiDAR : vers une meilleure connaissance des paysages du karst by Kamila Bensaadi, Anne Hecker

“…This lack of knowledge, and particularly the lack of knowledge of the ordinary open-air karst, leads to it being neglected by elected representatives and urban planners. For a long time, knowledge of this landscape involved major field studies which were complex and lacked exhaustivity because of natural obstacles. …”
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Modeling Pan Evaporation for Kuwait by Multiple Linear Regression by Jaber Almedeij

“…The data used here for the modeling are daily measurements of substantial continuity coverage, within a period of 17 years between January 1993 and December 2009, which can be considered representative of the desert climate of the urban zone of the country. Multiple linear regression technique is used with a procedure of variable selection for fitting the best model forms. …”
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Mandatory Lane Changing for Bus Exiting by Ronghan Yao, Xiaojing Du, Wenyan Qi, Li Sun

“…This research provides some references for intelligent decision-making of lane changing in urban public transportation.…”
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