Area-population data for administrative boundaries can be reconciled with scaling relations valid for both the world’s cities data and with those obtained from natural cities, provided an effective area is adopted in place of polygon planimetric area of municipalities. We eventually proposed an ...
Much of what has been written about North African immigration in Europe focuses on policies of integration and their effects, and on problems experienced by North African subjects in the areas of employment, training, urban life, and civil rights in the host country. It may be interesting, also...
In subject area: Earth and Planetary Sciences Urban climate change refers to the changes in the physical environment of cities caused by urbanization, leading to increased temperatures and extreme heat events due to factors like high thermal mass from buildings and heat released from vehicles and air...
To be able to identify differences and similarities across Europe, rural case study regions near a metropolitan area and a tourist area in Finland, France, Hungary, the Netherlands and Spain will be presented. The Introduction paper closes out with a brief overview of the papers in this issue ...
Eastern and Southern Europe is enduring a severe heatwave, with temperatures reaching over 40 degrees Celsius in many countries including Greece, Croatia, Macedonia, and Romania. Driven by hot air from North Africa, this prolonged heatwave has raised significant threats for residents and has strained...
Parking consumes vast amounts of land; in Los Angeles County, for example, it totals about 200 square miles. In New York City alone, there are 3 million curb parking spaces (not counting parking garages), which account for 6% of the city’s area—the equivalent of 13 Central Parks!
driver such as population growth. However, the outcome of the urban expansion in Africa in terms of economic growth was poor23. The smallest increase in urban area occurred in Europe, which is already highly urbanized. These geographically divergent results are likely associated with national and ...
A growing body of literature suggests that urban land-use can create an increase in regional precipitation variability and intensity [60,63,64], known as the ‘urban rainfall effect’ [65•] (Figure 2). In Europe [66] and South China [67], there have been a few cases with observed ...
Across Europe, museums are being organized within or expanding upon historical monuments and buildings that have lost their original purpose. Then in a state of decay, this decision to reorganize them as cultural venues stops the decay and preserves the historical material, adding a new layer of ...
There are three statistical units related to the definition of a city in the statistical data, including prefecture (or total city), municipal district (or districts under the city), and built-up area (or built district), as shown in Figure 1a,b. Considering the comparison to Metropolitan ...