In this chapter we propose a new method of modelling urban pollutants arising from transportation networks. The efficacy of the proposed approach is demonstrated by means of a number of examples. Our models give rise to a number of surprising observations that are relevant for the regulation of pollution in urban networks: Different actions are required for the control of different pollutants a...

This paper provides a discussion of issues relating to public places, urban planning and community crime prevention. The first part of the paper examines the social nature of public space from the point of view of ownership, uses and users, urban design and regulation. The second part of the paper explores the application of crime prevention approaches and techniques to the planning and managem...

Planners have regarded understanding urban use per capita since the beginning of new thinking of urban development. This was stared with its pragmatics toward primary comprehensive urban plans and became a source for urban development plans that have tried to adapt per capita and standards with country’s conditions. Iran's Supreme Council for Planning and Architecture, determined standards per ...

Policy support for urban agriculture (UA) has increased internationally in the past decade, driven by factors such as decay, food insecurity, climate change and disasters, self-determination efforts Covid-19 pandemic. To date, there been little analysis of emergent practices across different cities Aotearoa New Zealand. address this gap, we examine key aspects UA assess application local plans ...

In the 1960s Indianapolis, Indiana’s near-Westside, was transformed by urban renewal projects that carved space for the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus out of a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was totally displaced, and today the former neighborhood covering 300 acres is completely effaced and the commu...

This paper is meant as a brief description of the Romanian syntax within the dependency framework, more specifically within the Universal Dependency (UD) framework, and is the result of a volunteer activity of mapping two independently created Romanian dependency treebanks to the UD specifications. This mapping process is not trivial, as concessions have to be made and solutions need to be foun...

The purpose of this study is to present the history of civil hospitals present in Pula through the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. All circumstances which are related to their founding and development have been analysed, together with a number of complex events which had influenced them through several decades. Careful archival and bibliographic research has made it possible to pre...