How can architects and urban planners design sustainable future cities? Are urban designers really designing urban systems? And which new computerbased techniques have changed the way they think, plan, and communicate? In this article we will investigate how design thinking can contribute to the planning of sustainable future cities. We will emphasize the benefits of using computer-based techni...

Urban areas have been expanded throughout the globe. Monitoring and modelling urban growth have become a necessity for a sustainable urban planning and decision making. Urban prediction models are important tools for analyzing the causes and consequences of urban land use dynamics. The objective of this research paper is to analyze and model the urban change, which has been occurred from 1990 t...

This research presents a comprehensive review of the on smart urban energy retrofit decision-making. Based analysis 91 journal articles over past decade, study identifies and discusses five key categories approaches to decision-making, including simulation, optimization, assessment, system integration, empirical study. While substantial advancements have been made in this field, opportunities f...

Decision-making models often deal with problems that involve multiple criteria analysis in order to assess alternatives in various decision-making settings. On the basis of a systematic process, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has recently been recognized as a proven decision-making tool in a wide variety of fields. However, new methods to cope with evolving or scaled problems are emerging...

Human population continues to aggregate in urban centers. This inevitably increases the urban footprint with significant consequences for biodiversity, climate, and environmental resources. Urban growth prediction models have been extensively studied with the overarching goal to assist in sustainable management of urban centers. Despite the extensive body of research, these models are not frequ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND There is a highly inequitable distribution of health workers between public and private sectors in South Africa, partly due to within-country migration trends. This article elaborates what South African medical specialists find satisfying about working in the public and private sectors, at present, and how to better incentivize retention in the public sector. METHODS ...

Purpose This paper proposes an innovative approach to decision-making processes for urban freight planning that could easily be transferred across cities while capable of jointly taking into account: (1) all the conceivable and updated urban freight transport (UFT) measures that should apply to the specific city culture, structure and evolution, (2) all the relevant stakeholders and successfull...