Cities are complex systems, comprising of many interacting parts. How we simulate and understand causality in urban systems is continually evolving. Over the last decade the agent-based modeling (ABM) paradigm has provided a new lens for understanding the effects of interactions of individuals and how through such interactions macro structures emerge, both in the social and physical environment...

Beside the enormous grow of Chinas mega-cities, also small cities and big villages show up an urban sprawl that makes a monitoring essential. Especially in the eastern part of the country, forced by the economic growth, the sprawl of urban fabric is extreme. This causes a need for a frequently and rapid monitoring in order to take pace in mapping and documentation. The typical turn rate of coun...

This paper views that destination brand as a holistic brand conception, and uses the attributes-based perceptual map technique to describe the static meaning of the positioning conception. With a case study of Shaoxing City in China, two main attributes historical culture and comprehensive function in local university students’ perception are achieved, and Shaoxing’s local university students’ ...

Deaths by venomous animals are medical emergencies that can lead to death and thus constitute sanitary problems in some regions of the world. In the South of America, the accidents by these animals are a common sanitary problem especially in warm, tropical or subtropical regions, related with rural work in several countries. Argentina is located in the extreme South of South America and a minor...

today analyzing seismicity hazard urban different areas is critical and inevitable due to develop and to expand cities in seismically active zones and naturally, the hazard because the earthquake is more in the bigger cities and the necessity to consider these hazards would be increased. expanding the cities in iran seismically active zones caused to be necessary to analyze earthquake hazard. b...