A complexity approach to defining urban energy systems

Urban Agriculture and a Planning Approach to Urban Food Systems

Defining innovation: Using soft systems methodology to approach the complexity of innovation in educational technology

This paper explores what educational technologists in one South African Institution consider innovation to be. Ten educational technologists in various faculties across the university were interviewed and asked to define and answer questions about innovation. Their answers were coded and the results of the overlaps in coding have been assimilated into a definition. Soft systems methodology (SSM...

A neural network approach to predicting urban building energy consumption

`Only for the MLP do we include the hourly weather data as part of the input space, resulting in 25 features. And for the ResNet model, we one-hot encode day of the week and month into our input space, resulting in 41 initial input features. MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON (MLP) Our baseline of comparison is a basic MLP that consists of three fully connected layers, containing a hidden layer with 24 neur...

Urban Energy Computing: a Multi-Layered Approach

Smart urban-level applications require high-fidelity and high-resolution models. This circumstance has raised the interest in computational models of mass, energy, and information flows in the urban context. Toward this end, we focus in the present contribution on a multilayered approach to urban energy computing. The variance in the spatial and temporal resolution of the queries' purpose and i...

Sustainable Urban Development with a New Approach to Ethics

  Background: With the massive growth of cities in the last two or three decades and the multifaceted role these cities play, the planning and cultural management of cities has become strangely complex and difficult. In general, there are economic, social, cultural, educational and physical problems in most cities despite numerous complaints from people. The purpose of this study is to examine ...