The impact of cities on the environment increasingly dominates the debate on sustainability. Most global and regional environmental problems originate in cities. Cities concentrate increasing numbers of people and human activities; thus, they import increasing amounts of natural resources and export vast quantities of emissions and waste. Urbanization also entails major changes in the way peopl...

Urban remote sensor geocomputation is at a crossroads. In one direction lie opportunities for developing models for detailed mapping of urban morphology from very high spatial resolution imagery; and in the other the possibility of creating broader integrative models that link spectra with functional variables for measuring urban growth and sustainability. The former overlaps with traditional p...

This work applies the sustainable evaluation to the case of transport and land use planning in urban areas. A set of indicators according the three dimensions of sustainability, environment, economics, and social aspects, are defined to evaluate the mobility in urban areas. The aim of this work is to present a procedure to define a Sustainable Mobility Index in Urban Areas. A set of transports ...

Planning and construction are well-known practical topics; however, eco-city developments and their sustainable effects on the city are less known. Xi’an is a typical city that has a target to become an eco-city. This city is selected in this case study with the aims of (1) framing eco-practices to enhance the understanding of an eco-city development and (2) evaluating the effect of eco-practic...

The notion of sustainability is widely used from micro to macro scale studies but only few approaches deal with its measurement. Increased global interest in sustainability has triggered attention in indicators as a means of achieving a more sustainable world. Although the search for indicators has led to the development of criteria for good indicators, it has also been dominated by scientific ...

Research summary One of the main challenges of European post-industrial cities is to prevent urban sprawl. Hence, increasing the density of inner cities instead of building new constructions in the peripheries has become a priority. However, city centres are already built and occupied by communities. Therefore, urban renewal projects aiming at increasing the density of the urban fabric should t...

report by: AkshAy MAni project Manager urban transport eMbarQ india [email protected] Madhav Pai director eMbarQ india [email protected] Rishi Aggarwal associate institutional relations eMbarQ india [email protected] design and layout by: nick Price about Wri the World resources institute is a global environmental think tank that goes beyond research to put ideas into action. We ...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...