Global urban sustainability assessment: A multidimensional approach
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DOI: 10.1002/sd.1887
Abstract: A new strategic direction for greening our cities and making them smart to reduce the environmental impact of their performance, increase employment and economic viability, and to enhance the quality of life requires a thorough… read more here.
Keywords: urban sustainability; global urban; san francisco; performance ... See more keywords
High-resolution multi-temporal mapping of global urban land using Landsat images based on the Google Earth Engine Platform
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.055
Abstract: Abstract Timely and accurate delineation of global urban land is fundamental to the understanding of global environmental changes. However, most of the contemporary global urban land maps have coarse resolutions and are available for one… read more here.
Keywords: multi temporal; landsat images; google earth; urban land ... See more keywords
Developing communities: the Ford Foundation and the global urban crisis, 1958–66
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DOI: 10.1017/s1740022820000200
Abstract: Abstract Between 1958 and 1966 the Ford Foundation embarked on a series of pilot projects of ‘urban community development’ in India and the United States. This article will highlight how both of these programmes emerged… read more here.
Keywords: urban crisis; global urban; ford; ford foundation ... See more keywords
Global urban carbon networks: linking inventory to modelling.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c00965
Abstract: Cities utilize and manipulate an immense amount of global carbon flows through their economic and technical activities. Here, we establish the carbon networks of eight global cities by tracking the carbon exchanges between various natural… read more here.
Keywords: carbon; carbon networks; urban carbon; networks linking ... See more keywords
The Global Urban History Project
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DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2017.1402695
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper introduces Planning Perspectives readers to the Global Urban History Project (GUHP), a new initiative to support sustained conversations in the field of global urban history that has important implications for international planning… read more here.
Keywords: history; history project; global urban; urban history ... See more keywords
The occupation of cropland by global urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 and its implications
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DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab858c
Abstract: Large-scale urban expansion worldwide has exerted great impacts on cropland and its net primary productivity (NPP), which can affect whether food security and sustainable development goals will be met at global and local scales. Although… read more here.
Keywords: expansion; urban expansion; global urban; cropland npp ... See more keywords
The global urban housing affordability crisis
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098017711649
Abstract: This critical commentary confronts and explores the – so far under-recognised and under-researched – emergent global crisis of urban housing affordability and affordable housing provision. This crisis results from the fact that housing-related household expenses… read more here.
Keywords: housing affordability; urban housing; global urban; housing ... See more keywords
On the way to a more global urban study of China
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DOI: 10.1177/20438206231168898
Abstract: Teo et al.'s (2023) article effectively highlights that producing new narratives or imaginations is key to developing a deeper understanding of both Chinese cities and those of other contexts. However, certain ‘information cocoons’ still require… read more here.
Keywords: geography; global urban; urban study; study china ... See more keywords
Assessment on Global Urban Photovoltaic Carrying Capacity and Adjustment of Photovoltaic Spatial Planning
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DOI: 10.3390/su13063149
Abstract: To promote the effective combination of photovoltaic (PV) utilization and urban development, this study proposes that solar PV generation should be taken as an important resource and environmental carrying capacity factor, which is defined as… read more here.
Keywords: spatial planning; assessment global; carrying capacity; photovoltaic carrying ... See more keywords