One major bonus for people living in small, less developed regions of China is that there is now a tourism infrastructure being built around and invested in ancient towns, allowing people to earn money as well as preserve their historical cultures. Visiting one of these ancient towns or villages...
Day, created by the UIA in 1985, has chosen to concentrate on "Architecture for Resilient Communities," emphasizing the role and duty of architecture in fostering thriving community existence while initiating a global dialogue regarding the interconnectedness of urban and rural regions within every ...
I spoke too with forest rangers who recalled the terrible mudslides that once engulfed the village, which, thanks to the erosion-fighting properties of the newly planted forests, have now become a thing of the past. Their stories echoed those I had heard in countless other regions. In Aksu P...
Urban-to-rural community radon level and year of construction trends by sub-region. Panel (A) A map of three indicated sub-regions of Canada, showing the distribution of residential buildings as a function of community types for our study (outer pie charts) and the 2021 Canada Census (inner...
On the land use characteristics and the land consolidation models of rural residential area of the hilly and mountainous regions in Southwest China:a case ... Land consolidation (LC) in rural residential areas is one of the important measurements or techniques of readjusting rural land use ...
The HSM recommends that users generate SPFs for their particular regions to improve the crash prediction process. The HSM provides default SPFs for different roadway facilities. Many studies have developed SPFs for rural two-lane roadways (Wang et al., 2019; Wali et al., 2018, Li et al., ...
Context Quantifying the interactions between land disturbances and energy and water balances, particularly evapotranspiration (ET), is helpful for understanding the land-atmospheric interactions and assessing the effects of urbanization on local climate and hydrological processes at a landscape scale. ...
The Green Rural Revival Program was launched in 2003 in east China's Zhejiang Province, one of the country's richest and most developed regions. The province's GDP ranks fourth in China today, but its rapid industrial development was achieved at a cost for the environment. ...
Analyzing several types of human settlements—populated places and regions—in a country can yield insights into how human settlement variations shape COVID-19 transmission. This study focuses on COVID-19 incidence in India across its urban and rural districts, motivated by three main reasons. ...
Fig. 1: Impact of rural land cover types in the different rural regions on the surface UHII in the different urban regions. a–e, From the left to right, respectively: NRLC, woodland, cropland, impervious surface and water body. The horizontal coordinates represent the different urban ladders...