The German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg with its regional capital Stuttgart is a major field for the mobility transition in Europe. As one seven living labs state, MobiQ—Sustainable Mobility through Sharing Neighborhood follows civil society, non-commercial approach. Utilizing research design labs, and practice work hand to promote citizen participation co-designing co-producing neighbor...

The landscape of the environment we live in is an image of our common humanity. The sense of place individuals and people as a whole have is both a biological response to the surrounding physical environment and a cultural creation. People get attached to places that are critical to their well-being or cause them distress. This paper sketches the story of ‘ Sahet Alqaryoun’ , a public open spac...

sustainable transportation with the aim of urban sustainable development aims to improve the environmental quality and the socio-economic condition. one of the most important strategies for achieving sustainable transportation is planning and designing for walking, or in other words increasing urban walkability. therefore, increased walkability has become a key issue in urban planning. understa...

Spatial and temporal aberration detection methods for disease outbreaks in syndromic surveillance systems Dongmei Chen a , John Cunningham b , Kieran Moore c & Jie Tian d a Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada b Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit, ON, Canada c Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada d Department of Geology & G...

While correlations between maternal education and child health have been observed in diverse parts of the world, the causal pathways explaining how maternal education improves child health remain far from clear. Using data from the nationally representative India Human Development Survey of 2004-5, this analysis examines four possible pathways that may mediate the influence of maternal educatio...

We are presenting in this volume selected, peer-reviewed, short papers that were presented at the 3rd International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS’14) which took place in Djerba, Tunisia, during October 8-11, 2014.

Available online 31 July 2008