In the 21 st century, shaping a future of resilient, innovative and sustainable cities through integrated approaches to energy, water, and food (EWF) systems and services poses unique challenges and opportunities (Brugmann et al., 2014). Urban EWF systems approaches are a high priority, especially as urban settings host the majority of the world's population. Cities and their EWF systems will a...

Since the number of urban residents is rapidly increasing, especially in developing countries, relatively cheap and fast methods for modeling and mapping such cities are required. Besides the creation and updating of maps from sprawling cities three dimensional models are useful for simulation, monitoring and planning in case of catastrophic events like flooding, tsunamis or earthquakes. With t...

The spatial distribution of income shapes the structure and organisation of cities and its understanding has broad societal implications. Despite an abundant literature, many issues remain unclear. In particular, all definitions of segregation are implicitely tied to a single indicator, usually rely on an ambiguous definition of income classes, without any consensus on how to define neighbourho...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify development strategies for Business Tourism in territories where this segment is not always given due consideration, especially at the level of local and regional development policies. Design – The paper discusses the concepts of Business Tourism and analyses the characteristics of a delimited territory in the Central Region of Portugal that en...

religious tourism is one of the varieties of tourism that authorities in this filed , believe iran, due to its special cultural and religious capacities and geographical position , has an important role in developing religious tourism industry. one of the important factors that affects industry tourism, especially developing the religious one ,is the aerial transportation industry for the time ...

Known for its ancient metropolises, China has recently amazed the world with its rapid urban development as it enters the new millennium. Although China is still a predominately agrarian society with only 36 percent of its population living in cities in 2000, it has more people living in cities (456 million) than the total population of any other nation in the world except India (National Burea...

This paper reviews trends in cycling levels, safety, and policies in Canada and the USA over the past two decades. We analyze aggregate data for the two countries as well as cityspecific case study data for nine large cities (Chicago, Minneapolis, Montréal, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington). Cycling levels have increased in both the USA and Canada, while cyc...

Introduction Cities 1 are a major form of the material, social and symbolic organization of societies. They are persistent and adaptive structures which fulfill a variety of social functionalities: habitat, production, services, political control over people and territories, as well as technical and symbolic mediation between nature and culture, groups and individuals. For a long time, and espe...