Motorways in Portugal received large scale funding after the country joined the European Union in 1986, making it an ideal case to study the effect of road accessibility on the development of lagging rural areas. We investigate the relationship between rural population change and road accessibility ...
Portugal’s largest cities are Lisbon, Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, Braga and Amadora. Here we profile each of them and look at the sectors in which they excel. 1. Lisbon Population: 545,000 (metropolitan population: 2.87 million) Lisbon is situated on Portugal’s west coast on the ...
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Head toBrother Suto try traditional Taiwanese dishes made vegan. Or go for a fine dining experience at vegetarian restaurantYu Shan Ge, which is where I had one of the best meals of my life in terms of service (as well as food). I was impressed by this fine dining experience; menus st...
Cities have advanced in terms of economic and social status over the past five decades, improving the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people. However, population growth and urban expansion have put pressure on social and environmental conditions. This study examines urban policymakers’ ...
António Ferreira, University of Porto, Portugal,Jan Duffhues, the City of Amsterdam,Marco te Brömmelstroet, University of Amsterdam,Peter Ache, Radboud University, Nijmegen,Peter Pelzer, Utrecht University. ACTIVE MODE BLOCK PARTY: better cities for active modes ...
barriers for mitigation and fire breaks, and natural water storage features become water reservoirs for fire fighting operations. Wildfires regularly cause extensive devastation, affecting both poor and rich, in the USA, Australia, Europe (including Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece); and ...
Explore the high-net-worth-individual population and growth data for all 97 cities in the interactive chart below or click on the other tabs to see the World’s Top 10, the wealthiest cities in each of five regions across the globe, and the seasonal hotspots for centi-millionaires with inve...
Over 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas and this number is expected to reach almost 70% by 2050 (ref.1), highlighting the importance of studying the drivers of health in cities2. Even areas of the world that were traditionally more rural (such as parts of Asia and Afr...
(2) add diverse city indicators like building shapes, street views, population counts, and points of interest to network nodes, and (3) get summary city indicators for any geographical area they’re interested in. At its core, Urbanity aims to bring our computational tools and theoretical ...