1. Background and purpose With the development of economy and society, as well as the growing demands on quality of life, the improvement of residential environment quality has become the key targets of city policy and urban planning, where the research on residential environment evaluation is the important first step. The study on Environment Quality Index (EQI) for residential area is one of ...

The commentator suggests that it is necessary to extend the classical connotation of  global city which focuses much on the functions of controlling global capital and production. Global city should also include the dimensions of the leading role and capacity on health improvements and well-being promotion. The commentator agrees with authors’ assessments about Shanghai’s substantial progress o...

“Given the high land values in central business sections of our leading cities, the skyscraper is not only the most efficient, but the only economic utilization of certain strategic plots. An exhaustive investigation... has conclusively demonstrated that the factors making for diminishing returns in the intensive development of such plots are more than offset by the factors making for increasin...

Urban expansion form is the most direct manifestation of urban expansion in space. Although it has been widely and vigorously studied, relatively little attention has been paid to reveal its spatiotemporal characteristics at the administrative level over a long timeframe. In this study, 31 Chinese municipalities and provincial capitals were selected as subjects to identify the urban expansion f...

revenues, yet their constituents are demanding improved services. Only Oracle provides a modular, yet unified platform that delivers intelligent, innovative, and integrated services and the tools necessary to determine which services are effective and how to quantitatively justify funding them to their constituents and central government organizations. Oracle’s City Platform Solution: Best Prac...

waves have been detected in China. Live poultry market (LPMs) exposure is regarded as a major risk of H7N9 virus infection. However, despite strict interventions implemented in the epicenter cities during each outbreak, reports indicate a gradual nationwide spread of the virus. In this study, the impact of LPMs interventions in virus persistence and transmission in the province of Guangdong, th...

waves have been detected in China. Live poultry market (LPMs) exposure is regarded as a major risk of H7N9 virus infection. However, despite strict interventions implemented in the epicenter cities during each outbreak, reports indicate a gradual nationwide spread of the virus. In this study, the impact of LPMs interventions in virus persistence and transmission in the province of Guangdong, th...

Wuhan and Pittsburgh, as a pair of Sino-US sister cities, are both important industrial cities of their countries in the history. Since 1970, Pittsburgh gradually transformed itself from an industrial city to a post-industrial city, impressively solved its pollution problems and became one of the most livable cities in the U.S. However, over the past decades, which may be called the global era,...