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During itsstayinthethree cities, the delegation will meet with representatives of organizations responsible for the planning or management of waterfront areas (including the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, the New York City Department of City Planning, Port Metro Vancouver and the Waterf...
Take a walk on the Downtown Eastside, Vancouver’s historic district in the heart of the city. Once known simply as the East End, today’s Downtown Eastside is made up of several districts: Victory Square, the Hastings corridor, Chinatown, Strathcona, Japantown (aka Oppenheimer), North Hast...
For an evaluation of the city of Vancouver, a cumulative opportunity measure is used to quantify the availability of grocery stores reachable within a 15 min walking or cycling distance from residents’ homes, accounting for varying travel speeds to assess the proximity for different age groups of...
For an evaluation of the city of Vancouver, a cumulative opportunity measure is used to quantify the availability of grocery stores reachable within a 15 min walking or cycling distance from residents’ homes, accounting for varying travel speeds to assess the proximity for different age groups of...
Urban greenery is a strategy to improve the thermal environment in urban areas affected by heat islands and global warming. These phenomena can harm the citizens’ quality of life. Researchers have investigated the thermal benefits of urban vegetation, but only a few have explored its complexities ...
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Using multiple disparate data sources to map heat vulnerability: Vancouver case study. Can. Geogr. 2016, 60, 356–368. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Zhu, Q.; Liu, T.; Lin, H.; Xiao, J.; Luo, Y.; Zeng, W.; Zeng, S.; Wei, Y.; Chu, C.; Baum, S.; et al. The spatial ...
A follow-up issue that arose from the stakeholder meeting, as former director of planning of the city of Vancouver, Larry Beasley described it, was to find out whether these bottom-up initiatives would also contribute significantly to the desired numbers as well as attractiveness of the inner ...
Yunden Ariuntungalag 2, Odgerel Enkhjin 2, Boldbaatar Davaajargal 2, Davaasuren Davaadorj 5 and Noriko Hasebe 3 1 Division of Global Environmental Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan; osko_8888@yahoo....