Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan and the revitalization of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn offer insights into the intersection of arts and urbanization after World War II. This intra-city comparison shows the aggrandizing pull of the international arena in the shaping of Lincoln Center and the arts it featured in contrast to the local focus and debate that transfor...

Google Street View (GSV) was used for urban land use classification, together with airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and high resolution orthoimagery, by a parcel-based method. In this data article, we present the input raw GSV images, intermediate products of GSV images, and final urban land use classification data that are related to our research article "Parcel-based urban la...

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...

Street layout is an important element of urban morphology that informs on urban patterns influenced by city growing through the years under different planning regulations and different socio-economic contexts. It is assumed by several authors that urban morphology has a fractal or monofractal nature. However, not all the urban patterns can be considered as monofractal because of the presence of...

UNLABELLED The physiological effects of natural and urban environments on the cardiovascular system of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients are not fully understood. This controlled field study examines the effects of restorative walking in a park vs. in an urban street environment on CAD patients' stress parameters and cardiac function. METHODS Twenty stable CAD patients were randomly allo...

Street food vending in urban areas of developing countries like Botswana continues to be a source of livelihoods to many (Joseph, 2011).The Government and relevant stakeholders need to understand holistically the challenges faced by street food vendors and develop interventions that will enable street food vendors to survive, grow and compete in a dynamic business environment. This study examin...

OBJECTIVE To assess consumption of street food (sold by vendors) and fast food (from fast food outlets) by different ethnic groups in South Africa. DESIGN A national cross-sectional survey representative of adults (> or = 16 years, N=3827) from different ethnic groups, provinces, geographic localities, and socio-economic strata was undertaken. METHODS Trained interviewers visited participan...

Bureaucratic regulation shapes cities in important ways. Yet certain aspects of how state regulation operates in urban neighborhoods have been understudied in geography and cognate disciplines. This article focuses on one understudied group of state actors: property use, health, and liquor inspectors, part of a wider group of “street-level bureaucrats” who, through their face-to-face contact wi...

1 Abstract A generic proecological traffic control model for the urban street canyon is proposed by development of advanced continuum field hydrodynamical control model of the street canyon. The model of optimal control of street canyon dynamics is also investigated. The mathematical physics' approach (Eulerian approach) to vehicular movement, to pollutants' emission, and to pollutants' dynamic...

Abstract: This paper aims to present a new and innovative way to consider 3D urban database through the generation of automatic textured triangular irregular network over cities from oblique imageries. The novelty of this approach lies in the fast and automated algorithms capable of extracting dense 3D volume from airborne imageries compared to traditional methods where such 3D models are usual...