Today, when the development of country and society is inextricably linked with culture, demand population for modern buildings cultural entertainment purposes extremely high. The conducted indicative assessment foreign domestic experience in designing complexes showed dynamics from monofunctionality to multifunctionality. To form a new perspective on design concert halls, methods have been stud...

We study strategies for targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in three US cities: Miami, Seattle, and Chicago. Differences in demographic, geographic, and other structures lead to differences in the social interaction networks in the three cities. This has consequences for how the containment strategies should be applied to mitigate the spread. We use large-scale simulations to ...

There is a widely held belief that agglomeration economies encourage significantly more successful and productive innovation activities. Based on this some scholars even suggest policies designed to stimulate in non-urban areas are ineffective waste of resources. Investigating the geographic concentration patented inventions 14 developed countries, we find most countries patenting geographicall...

The assessment of public adaptation policies, strategies and plans to evaluate progress, effectiveness long-term sustainability is challenging. potential develop an ex-post evaluation linked outcomes limited given the lack policy implementation globally uncertainty related when how impacts will happen. Ex-ante evaluations, by contrast, seem more feasible they focus on processes, contents output...

Do scaling relations always provide the means to anticipate the relationships between the size of cities, costs of maintenance, and the socio-economic benefits resulting from their growth? Scaling laws are considered a universal principle that describes the development of complex systems such as cities. It seems that regardless of their location or history, the growth of cities is associated wi...