BACKGROUND Many cities in developing countries experience an unplanned and rapid growth. Several studies have shown that the irregular urbanization and equipment of cities produce different health risks and uneven exposure to specific diseases. Consequently, health surveys within cities should be carried out at the micro-local scale and sampling methods should try to capture this urban diversit...

A contemporary trend is that more and more people are moving into cities, which causes the cities to grow at fast pace. This leads to a situation for the city where many challenges needs to be handled in order to develop a sustainable and attractive city for its citizens. For instance, housing, economy, culture, social and environmental conditions are challenges that needs to be grappled with f...

China is facing frequent waterlogging and an increasing water scarcity that mirrors the fast urban economic expansion of last 4 decades. To mitigate these issues, government promulgated “Sponge City” strategy; a concept rooted in practices western countries aimed at collecting reusing 65–90% rainfall. The application consists absorbent infrastructures such as green roofs rain gardens combined w...

Abstract Using the city of Bangalore as a specific instance, this article puts together framework metabolic cities and techno-spheres to show how ecology infrastructure constituted colonial cities. Divided between cantonment governed by British petah or native market town/village Mysore prince, medics were concerned numerous diseases affecting city. Attempts control flows water from town proved...

Tourism is a vital economic resource that can’t be excluded from government policies. In many countries, tourism one of the most important sources income for local economy. addition, urban development specialists consider as factor activating city' s dynamics, through creation new sources, i.e. support economy and infrastructures, specific quality services, establishment structuring broad socia...

Models focusing on interactions between land-use and transportation mostly assume an exogenous provision of infrastructures. We investigate here co-evolutionary processes transportation, at the scale Mega-City Regions, by introducing a toy model corresponding processes. In particular, our is specifically tailored to include governance ruling growth infrastructure. show through stylised numerica...

This paper explores how accountability metrics are enacted in unfolding healthcare practices. We examine the socio-technical infrastructures that underpin and enable quantification of care, and how users of quantified data not only react to quantitative practices and underlying infrastructures, but also actively give shape to them through practices of gamification. In the paper, we elucidate th...

In the context of Smart City environments, wireless sensor networking is playing a major role when enabling the utilization of networked infrastructures to introduce or improve a wide variety of services to be available to the citizens. How nodes communicate with each other is a key issue in these types of networks. This work presents a simple but yet efficient network discovery as well as an i...

Firstly, an Introduction section describes the transmission and reception infrastructures. Subsequently, results will be summarized in three sections: Simulcast, Monocast DRM and Monocast DRM Indoor Reception. The first study analyzes the quality of analogue and digital services in the multi-channel simulcast based on a set of static and mobile measurements. Also the potential interference betw...