Finnish national research project, Userand Businessoriented Suburb Renovation Concept (KLIKK), was started in January 2012 and will end in June 2014. The perspective of energy efficiency is emphasised in the project, but also it addresses what improving the energy efficiency of suburban apartment buildings means from the standpoint of architecturally valuable buildings representing different pe...

Abstract Unprecedented urbanisation in China has profoundly reshaped the country’s social-spatial structure. Owing to economic suburbanisation and urban redevelopment processes, migrants coming from rural areas are increasingly concentrated suburbs rather than city centres. Against this backdrop, paper focuses on residential segregation between locals, geographical (re)structuring centre suburb...

The microbial quality of water plays a key role in community health. The present study aimed to determine the microbial quality of the drinking water distribution networks in the urban and rural areas of Dasht-e Azadegan County, Iran and assess the influential factors in the quality of drinking water.In this descriptive-analytical study, 907 drinking water samples were collected from the urban ...

This paper introduces an analytic framework that can be used to assess the relationships between individual movement differentials and place characteristics, on the one hand, and aggregate mobility levels and city-suburb population change (in size or composition), on the other. Application of this framework using census data for individual metropolitan areas allows the analyst to decompose popu...

fifty-nine samples of washed and unwashed leaves of 4 species of plants in tehran and 24 similar samples of the suburb (as control) were analyzed for pb content. a significant difference was seen between pb contents of washed and unwashed urban samples, while no significant difference was observed between the control samples. the mean pb contents of the urban suburb samples were also significan...

In this article, we examine how in the 1960s political leadership Anjou, a suburban community Greater Montreal region, cultivated stereotypical ideal of bourgeois residential suburb contrast with its actual dynamics development metropolitan region. Our analysis focuses on three dimensions ideal: monofunctionalism, autonomy, and an exclusive apolitical community. For each these dimensions, show ...