Aem Elettricità SpA Aem Elettricità is part of Aem Group, a former multi-service power utility located in Milan, Italy. Following the market evolution, Aem Group is undergoing a period of deep changes, too. The major one derive from the achievement of the city distribution network previously owned by ENEL. Indeed, AEM and ENEL have shared the distribution in Milan since 1962. Now, according to ...

1. introduction urmia is one of the important historical cities of iran which in recent years has been associated with physical-spatial rapid expansion. one of the necessities of spatial planning of urmia is controlling the rapid expansion of the city in marginal areas that are unbalanced fertile land and industrial and mineral soils are under construction and this problem has presented numerou...

The City of Merida, in the State of Yucatán, obtains its drinking water primarily from three well fields located in the periphery of the city. In addition, there are water supply wells within the city. Water from the public water supply contains lead, cadmium, chromium in excess of the Mexican Drinking Water Norm. The following organic contaminants have also been identified in the ground water ...

The Buenos Aires “VotoElectronico” pilot project took place on October 23, 2005, in the City of Buenos Aires. It involved a pilot test of four different electronic voting systems, in at least 43 voting stations located throughout the City. The purpose of this report is to provide initial qualitative assessments of the pilot project. Quantitative analysis will hopefully be presented at a later d...

Three-dimensional numerical simulations are performed to investigate the effects of pressure drop across the turbine and solar radiance on the performance of a solar chimney power plant (SCPP). The SCPP system expected to provide electric power to a city is located in southern region of Iran (city of Lamerd, Fars province). Its dimensions are similar to the Manzanares prototype (built in Spain,...

There is widespread public support for open space provision and for efforts by government to limit sprawl. We demonstrate that open space policies should not be viewed as independent of—or necessarily compatible with—growth management goals. We examine the impacts of open space designation on the urban landscape in a spatial city model with two important and empirically-relevant features: (1) r...