growing tendency for urbanization and rapid development of the cities has resulted in urban neighborhoods obstructing the access of each other to the natural sources e.g. solar energy, natural ventilation. sunlight as the main part of input energy in urban energy balance equation and natural lighting is of vital importance. this paper attempts to achieve an optimum morphology for residential bl...

Based on the official statistical sources available from Office of Prosecutor General and State Judicial Administration Ukraine, group component environmental crime has been analyzed for period 2009-2022. The long-term criminological analysis made by authors allowed identifying specific characteristics criminals in this category finding out indicators criminal activity, including as part organi...

Physiological equivalent temperature (PET) is one of most used indices for outdoor human well-being evaluation; its determination particularly helpful adaptation strategies in built-up areas affected by the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. In this work, we presented a methodology to compute spatially and temporally resolved PET values during heatwave at city level, based on combination satel...

1Member of JSCE, Ph.D., Researcher, Dept. of Civil Eng., Univ. of Tokyo (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan) 2Member of JSCE, Dr. Eng., Professor, Dept. of Civil Eng., Univ. of Tokyo (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan) 3Member of JSCE, Ph.D., Professor, Inst. of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS (Beijing 100085, China) 4Ph.D., Professor, Cold and Arid Regions Envi. and Eng. Research Inst., CAS (Lanzho...

In this paper, we propose the knowledgeable envi. ronment as a framework for integrated systems for human-machine co-existing space. In the knowledgeable environment, integration is achieved as knowledge-level communication and cooperation. We abstract all machines as information agents whose roles and communication are understandable for people. Ontology is here used as explicit representation...