Global cities are relatively central nodes in a worldwide hierarchy of urban centers. In recent years several Chinese cities have begun to participate as more central players in this global network. While cities atop the global hierarchy of the world's urban places attract wealth, glamour, and ...
Methods A cross-sectional study of sexual maturation of healthy urban Chinese girls was conducted in 9 representative cities of the eastern, western, southern, and northern parts and central region of China between 2003 and 2005. At examination, stages of breast and pubic hair development were ...
Ultrafine particles and PM2.5 in the air of cities around the world: Are they representative of each other? Environ. Int. 129, 118-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.05.021 [73] Jones, A.M., Harrison, R.M., 2016. Emission of ultrafine particles from the incineration of ...
Notably Beijing is one of the most polluted capitals in the world. Hence, the focus of the study area is on Beijing. In the first stage, we analyze spatial and temporal characteristics of air pollution of the 6 cities while in the second stage the Granger causality test is applied to ...
The survival of paratransit services in Asian developing cities solely depends on users' perceptions and degree of acceptance. This paper explores the characteristics and perceptions of paratransit (Motodop and Remork) users in Phnom Penh. A questionnaire survey was carried out with 479 Motodop and ...
Halle was one of cities that had many problems according to unification and transition. Although Halle and Leipzig had similar geo-economic conditions at the starting point of transition after unification, two cities showed different paths of urban development. In this study some factors such as ...
Gen Xers came of age during the emergence of the deadlyAIDSepidemicin the 1980s, which gave a new urgency to the notion of “safe sex” practices. They saw a changing world order, having lived through the end of theCold Warwith the fall of theBerlin Wallin 1989 and thecollapse of the...
Commuting is one of the most basic daily activities in the mankind world,the commuting tools have influence on the basic commuting characteristics in a certain extent.Through the tracing survey of 2005 the alteration of residential area in Pudong area,the author analyzes the space-time characteristic...
than those in the rainfall runoff,except for TP and Zn.The snowmelt runoff concentration of TP on the school playground,rooftop and in the residential area,as well as the COD on the school road,were higher than the values of the Fifth Class of the Surface Water Quality Standard of China....
With the city as the main form of human settlement in the world (Fragkias and Seto, 2009), the sustainable development of cities is an important global issue and one of the 17 main goals of global sustainable development (United Nations, 2015). Many related studies on sustainable urban devel...