Cities are rapidly growing. There is an assumption that 90% of global population growth will be in cities between now and 2030. Therefore, infrastructures and the environment have to be adapted to the changing demands. Moreover, new urban development strategies have to be elaborated. In 2007, the first international Visualization Summit of more than 100 international researchers and practitione...

EEective urban management and planning requires an understanding of the forces driving cities' development. Trends in population density and distribution are of particular importance, but are diicult to measure, and recent studies have come to connicting conclusions regarding the rate of decentralization in U.S. cities. We use a new metric to obtain new evidence regarding decentralization in U....

Electronic cities result from the implication of information and communication technology (ICT) in the contemporary era. Significant ICT development and internet network expansion as well as the need of urban management to new ideas in managing cities lead us toward a new strategy called "electronic cities". The current study aims at investigating the Electronic Cities' Strategic Plan...

during a very long period of time, civil engineers have been the only ones to be designated as the experts for underground space, while the planners and architects were the ones of the development at the surface. cities worldwide tend to overlook an invaluable asset that lies beneath their surfaces. most cities and urban regions are unaware of the benefits underground space use has to offer, bo...

E ective urban management and planning requires an understanding of the forces driving cities' development. Trends in population density and distribution are of particular importance, but are di cult to measure, and recent studies have come to con icting conclusions regarding the rate of decentralization in U.S. cities. We use a new metric to obtain new evidence regarding decentralization in U....

There is much enthusiasm currently about the possibilities created by new and more extensive sources of data to better understand and manage cities. Here, I explore how big data can be useful in urban planning by formalizing the planning process as a general computational problem. I show that, under general conditions, new sources of data coordinated with urban policy can be applied following f...