As a platform for community networks, public information spaces that mirror the city metaphor are being developed around the world. The aim of digital cities is to pursue a future information space for everyday urban life, unlike the creation of new businesses which is the current obsession of the Internet. We started the basic research project called “Universal Design of Digital City,” a five ...

A City Biodiversity Index (CBI) has been proposed and applied at the international level to enable local municipalities and cities to manage biodiversity and ecosystem services in a sustainable manner. CBI databases are being constructed as global platforms, though the available dataset is limited. The land-use dataset is one of the datasets that can be utilized to apply the CBI on the national...

environmental protection is a key element in urban management. due to complex relationships between human and environment in metropolises the importance of environment is ever-increasing. in this paper the current situation of environment in tehran metropolis including air, water, biodiversity and human habitat along with the most crucial threats, their effect as well as the associated agencies...

Ensemble runs of high-resolution (~10 km; N1280) global climate simulations (2005–2010) with the Met Office HadGEM3 model are analysed over large urban areas in south-east UK (London) and China (Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing region). With a focus on areas, we compare meteorological observations to study response modelled surface heat fluxes screen-level temperatures urbanization. has simple slab ...