Previous urban sprawl studies have typically taken a cross-sectional approach without examining how sprawling urban areas are performing over time. Longitudinal studies of individual or household travel behavior and built-environment preference have made some progress in this direction, but very few studies have explored the longitudinal interaction of urban form with transportation and environ...

Central African cities are major centres of demand for wild meat, even when affordable alternative proteins widely available. Many people eat meat in restaurants; therefore, restaurateurs well placed to provide insights into the trade and consumer preferences. We surveyed 326 restaurants Brazzaville Kinshasa, adjoining capital Republic Congo Democratic Congo, determine which types sell how sale...

From the perspective of innovation value chain, this paper takes data seven cities in Xi'an, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Nanjing and Xuzhou from 2010 to 2020 as research object uses point-to-face, CRITIC weighting method matrix analysis carry out empirical analysis. This evaluates primacy explores problems gaps Xuzhou's by comparing it with national central city. Finally, gives corres...

This paper investigates the effects of decentralisation on living conditions in core cities of the European Union. It uses data from the Urban Audit to investigate whether the level of local expenditures relative to central government expenditures has any impact on the subjective appreciation of local living conditions as measured in the Urban Audit Survey in 75 cities as well as the actual qua...

An understanding of the relationships between the quantity and quality of environmentally relevant outputs from human processes and regional characteristics is a prerequisite for planning and implementing ecologically sustainable strategies. Apart from process-related parameters, continuous and discontinuous socio-economic long-term trends often play a key role in the assessment of environmenta...