Large cities are less green

Large cities are less green

We study how urban quality evolves as a result of carbon dioxide emissions as urban agglomerations grow. We employ a bottom-up approach combining two unprecedented microscopic data on population and carbon dioxide emissions in the continental US. We first aggregate settlements that are close to each other into cities using the City Clustering Algorithm (CCA) defining cities beyond the administr...

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Planning for Emergency Evacuation: Are Large Canadian Cities Ready?

This paper addresses the essential elements and strategies that should be in place for large-scale evacuations under emergency situations, particularly in densely used networks such as in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal to name a few. Some questions that possess some indispensable information to achieve that goal are proposed. A novel framework that addresses these questions is proposed...

Are Children Less Susceptible To COVID-19? A Case Series

Background The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 [2019-nCoV]) is the origin of several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. According to the reported data, children are less common to be infected by COVID-19. Besides, their mortality rate is almost zero. Case Presentation In this article, we investigated six childr...

Investigating Factors Affecting Urban Growth of Large Cities in Iran

The present paper focuses on determining the most important factors affecting urban growth in large cities of Iran through modeling and comparing the common and diverse points of urban growth obtained from other studies. For this purpose, by reviewing the theoretical concepts associated with urban growth, quantities and measurable variables are developed as proper frameworks to study the influe...