In order to make urban climate predictions at the city-scale and on long term experiment accessible to communities such as building engineers or urban planners, a method to calculate meteorological forcing for surface models is presented. This method is computed with weather data files from an operational measurement station outside of the city. The model, called the spatialized urban weather g...

introduction one of the critical issues associated with sustainability in the twenty-first century is how cities are growing and developing in the space. rapid urban growth and physical development of cities cause disintegration of the spatial organization of cities and consequently spatial inequality between urban spaces. this phenomenon can be considered as spatial segregation or fragmentatio...

it is increasingly recognized that the land-use change, especially urbanization has influenced hydrological attributes intensely. but in most urban designs, flood prediction is considered through type of land use (residential, industrial, and so on) and density. however, experiences show that this method has not been very successful. as a result, the present study aims to investigate and explor...

This paper presents an approach towards visual data mining in large-scale virtual 3D city models. The increasing availability of massive thematic data related to urban areas such as socio-demographic data, traffic data, or real-estate data, raises the question how to get insight and how to effectively visualize contained information. In our approach, we extend a real-time 3D city model system b...

extended abstractthe occurrence of natural disasters such as the earthquake has been threat human life and caused a great deal homelessness and displacement in the cities. in the early stages of dealing with such conditions one of the more important issues that is noticed by the responsible crisis management organizations is the optimum locating for contemporary settlement and organizing the li...

fast and unplanned city growth, has effects such as isolation of village societies, threatening urbancores and centers and small and weak societies, destruction of open spaces and open and natural regions. smart growthoffers a sustainable way for urban developing with appropriate use of available sources, increase of urban services,developing neighborhoods with different uses, making public tra...

Urban landscapes form the main parts of the city. One of these spaces is urban streets, in whichsocial interactions and urban vitality reach its maximum quality and quantity. One of the principles and properties ofurban landscape design is its intelligibility. A viewer who takes a look at an intelligible city and knows it can attract newemotional manifestations of city without damaging its orig...

This paper reviews the numerous and various applications of the SLEUTH urban growth model over the last decade. SLEUTH is a Cellular Automaton-based urban growth model that uses historical geospatial data for calibration of its parameters. Applications have covered the major cities of the United States, including Detroit, Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco and Albuquerque. The model h...