Comprehensive planning is how a city adapts to an inevitable future. No plan, and indeed no action a city can take, can prevent that future from occurring. One inevitable aspect of the future that deeply worries me, as one of the three billion humans living near sea level, is climate chan...
Depending on the historical context, location, or purpose of the city planning, the element found in the center may vary. Plazas, churches, or government buildings are among the most common elements and this is no accident, nor is the urban design pattern. Basically, the radial arrangement of...
no, I had food. She just needed to come home. Still she was late and not planning on coming home anytime soon. I told her I needed to go as I had been there for at least 5.5 hours at this point. I ended up telling her if she didn’t come home, I’d be contacting police ...
Energy (SLOPE) Platform- A free easy-to-access online platform, by the U.S. Department of Energy, to support data-driven state and local energy and decarbonization planning. SLOPE includes two distinct tools namely the Scenario Planner and the Data Viewer to support jurisdictions planning needs....
Considering these factors while planning UH projects can reduce risks and increase benefits. Finally, UH is a relatively economic measure to increase urban green spaces in order to increase social interactions and improve the environment of local urban areas. Our study provides a novel “eco” ...
Wildlife conservation in urban habitats is increasingly important due to current urbanization trends. We review the different approaches to studying birds in urban landscapes, and point out the importance of the habitat island ecological theory as a research framework for the management and conservation ...
land. It has no power to placelowerlimits on uses: local government cannot force a property owner to build a money-losing use, because “if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking” (Pennsylvania Coal vs. Mahon). Yet many of the problems planning seeks to solve are ...
a planning model of scarcity and austerity, rather than a beginning operating assumption of sufficiency and abundance. And so the prayer, the appeal, the argument is that if we’re in a moment where, let’s take America for instance, where we have gross domestic product of some $26 trillio...
The aim is to reveal the pathways and trade-offs through which governance and planning systems interactions constrain or open opportunities for transformative resilience to the challenges posed by urbanization and migration dynamics. To proactively deal with the new requirements emerging from urbanization,...
The spatial-temporal identification of potential risk with COVID-19 infection (Jia et al., 2020) can support decision-making and planning to enhance the success of mitigation implementation. The decision-making and planning based on spatial-temporal data analytics have been applied in different ...