With energy resource scarcity and energy crisis in the world, energy efficiency has become a subject of great importance. In warm and humid climates as well as cold and mountainous ones, annual energy consumption is too high to achieve desirable living conditions in built environments, and hence energy efficiency measures and practices in such buildings is of utmost priority. Given the direct r...

Urban air quality is a major problem for human health and green infrastructure (GI) one of the potential mitigation measures used. However, optimum GI design still unclear. The purpose this study to provide some recommendation that could help in (mainly, selection locations characteristics trees hedgerows). Aerodynamic deposition effects each vegetation element different scenarios are investiga...

The availability of very high spatial resolution satellite images over urban areas is recent. The very high spatial resolution enables a real representation of streets on a map, but generates a significant increase of noise. A state-of the-art on road and street extraction with the evolution from linear to surface models for road and street is proposed. Then, a method for extracting urban stree...

Building façade colors play an important role in influencing urban imageability, attraction and citizens’ experience. However, the relations between street functions building color distribution, harmony diversity have not been thoroughly examined. We obtained dominant of façades Changning District, Shanghai, utilizing Baidu view images, image semantic segmentation technology K-means algorithm. ...

INTRODUCTION A critical building block of a functional successful city is the presence of vibrant streets; streets that encourage walking. The level of pedestrian activity is an indicator of a great street as well as economic viability and is often used in determining rental values for retail premises. Walking creates a healthy population and is reflective of a liveable city. Walking is also cr...

In aiming to decrease the number of casualties and people with difficulty in wide-area evacuations due to a large earthquake, it is highly important to visualize and quantify the potential danger in residential areas. In this paper, we construct a multi-agent simulation model, which describes property damage (such as building-collapse, the spread of fire and blocking of streets) and people’s ev...