Understanding the complexity of urban expansion requires an analysis of the factors influencing the spatial and temporal processes of rural-urban land conversion. This study aims at building a statistical land conversion model to assist in understanding land use change patterns. Specifically, GIS coupled with a logistic regression model and exponential smoothing techniques is used for exploring...

In this paper we design some characteristics of a possible E-governance system for the urban mobility. In particular we shortly present the complex city features and the background automata gas paradigm for a microscopic modeling. Moreover we show some statistical laws based on long time series of traffic dynamics data, fundamental for the now-casting and the private vehicles mobility control. ...

due to complexity and huge varieties in mega cities, their administration need suitable policy making that is designed specifically for each city. so, in the light of contingency approach and collage metaphor, in each city, designing of a mixed policy making system is necessary; a system that is able to use collection of current policy making models, and support urban management system for adop...

Data from the urban renewal experience in Syracuse, New York are used to examine the impact of race on patterns of intra-urban migration. The results show that, overall, the migration patterns exhibited an exponential decay in frequency with increasing distance. Both blacks and whites display this pattern, but blacks tend to cluster more closely around the point of origin. Indirect evidence is ...

The goal of an urban plan is to provide a development vision for a given territory. Three crucial issues in the conception and implementation of urban plans are how to define the program, how to convert the program into a flexible design, and how to adapt the design to changes in the program. This paper describes the preliminary results of ongoing research aimed at devising a methodology for ad...

Commencing with the history of cinema and of communicative technology, this essay focuses on the ways the cinematic sensibility and urban existence have influenced the contemporary experience of surveillance and complexity. And vice versa.

Area-based strategies have been widely employed in efforts to improve population health and take action on social determinants of health (SDH) and health inequities, including in urban areas where many of the social, economic and environmental factors converge to influence health. Increasingly, these factors are recognized as being part of a complex system, where population health outcomes are ...