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urbanization, and as the basic unit of the city, how to develop suitable regeneration participation mechanisms and strategies has become an important issue, especially for the comprehensive design and management of integrated strategies to promote internal drive so that it can operate on a regular ...
To develop the extreme water level analysis framework the Maeslant storm surge barrier in the Netherlands is used as case study. Three features make this barrier a logical starting point for this study. Firstly, its iconic nature – the Maeslant barrier is seen worldwide as a good example for...
We use the classification caliber in theSeventh Census Sub-county Data, classifying mega-cities, megacities, type I megacities, and type II megacities as large cities; and other cities as medium and small citiesFootnote2, and the regression results are shown in Table13. The regression results sh...
Avoiding unnecessary disruptions keeps civilization humming.Many ancient water technologies could be catalysts for solving the world's water problems today. They could help deliver water to growing megacities, like Lima, Peru. With over 10 million people in its metro region, Lima ...
During the past four decades, China has experienced tremendous urbanization, leading to a dramatic growth of cities in both quantity and size (Liu, Liu, Qi, & Jin, 2018). For example, the number of megacities with a population of more than 5 million increased from 2 to 16 from 1978 to...
How to help, and how not to help, the poor in the megacities of the South Generalising about urban governance and the urban poor across most of the globe is unhelpful. Unfortunately, I see far too many current examples of that di... A Gilbert - 《City》 被引量: 5发表: 2013年 ...
Few literatures urge future megacities-region and heatwave adaptation scenarios (Marcotullio et al., 2020); and in the urban context of the Mediterranean heatwave and its adaptation strategies (Maggiotto et al., 2021). In Bangladesh, heatwave acts on human health and individual performance, ...