Showing papers in "Cities in 2013"

TL;DR: A new measure to approach the accessibility of places in the frame of the digital economy is introduced – embedding different types of impedance distance functions – which reveals a core-periphery pattern in Europe owing to digital accessibility.

TL;DR: The Resilient City Planning Framework (RCPF) as mentioned in this paper is a conceptual framework that addresses the critical question of what cities and their urban communities should do in order to move towards a more resilient state in the future.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual resilience framework is proposed for designing, planning, and managing for resilience by including an evaluation of cultural and process dynamics within cities as well as their physical elements.

TL;DR: The State of African Cities report is already in its second year and no major assessment has as yet been undertaken of the report as mentioned in this paper, however, the present assessment highlights the key findings and explores major themes, and provides a critical evaluation of the claims contained in the report, arguing that, while on face value the report makes grand revolutionary claims, the core analyses and recommendations are less radical.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the spatial impacts of high speed rail (HSR) projects by jointly assessing both the magnitude and distribution of the accessibility improvements derived from a HSR project.

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of studies in this field and highlights the key issues and debates pertaining to measuring, analysing and theorising quality of life and happiness in cities and regions.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed land use dynamics, spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem service value (ESV), and the forces driving growth in the Hangzhou metropolitan area (HMA) in China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the distribution of urban green spaces in Singapore at the aggregate level and between the designated planning areas and found that the physical distribution of vegetation in the urban fabric is more important than the absolute quantum of vegetation to create a perception of pervasive greenery.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated visitors' views on key UGS variables and socioeconomic effect on UGS perception in Guangzhou, China and found good knowledge, positive perception and limited concern about safety.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine awareness and understanding of urban resilience in the planning policy arena in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where planning has a long history of managing water and how planning processes in the city consider or deal with the risks that it presents.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors hold a lens over key issues in transitioning to resilience in urban areas by outlining emerging challenges that may offer directions towards operationalising how cities might transition to a more resilient future, while ensuring that communities are at the center of the process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors call for a more elaborate bridging of national discussions, enhancing scholarly understanding of urban shrinkage, and reflecting upon governance and policy, and align the research on urban shrinkages with general challenges and strands of research in urban and regional studies, human geography, and spatial planning.

TL;DR: In this article, a "metacity" framework for sustainable transformations in cities is presented, embracing ecological processes in cities as complementary to those involving society, power, and economy, which can help identify components of resilience that can favor transformations that are more sustainable.

TL;DR: This simulation provides strong evidence that during the next decade planning authorities will have to cope with continuous as well as heterogeneously distributed urban growth.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used multi-temporal remote sensing data of land-use change to conduct a quantitative analysis on urban expansion patterns of 18 cities in different regions in China.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the impacts of factors on ridership within Metro stations' pedestrian catchment area (PCA) in Nanjing, China and developed a direct ridership model to explain the ridership at 55 metro stations using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and multiple regression analysis.

TL;DR: This article revisited the old debate with a new twist: assuming there was a "socialist city", is there a post-socialist one? And if so, is the new formation distinct not only from its socialist predecessors but also from contemporary European cities that were never socialist?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the residential preferences of the creative class in Dublin, Ireland and found that older workers preferred to live in suburban areas with good transport connections to the city centre or their place of employment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the alley greening programs in seven cities in the United States using the lens of sustainability planning and found that most of them are narrowly oriented toward stormwater management.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical study analytically investigates Helsinki's performance from the lens of knowledge-based urban development by comparing this urban region with eight international competitors, Boston, San Francisco, Birmingham, Manchester, Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto, and Vancouver.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a citizen satisfaction index (CSI) that combines 18 different scales with items derived from qualitative research and then reduces those items to a set of 21 questions.

TL;DR: Maya and Aztec cities exhibited a distinctive kind of low-density urbanism common in ancient Meso-america as discussed by the authors, and their residential areas of these cities resembled modern peri-urban zones and informal settlements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between urban growth and transportation in Jeddah using Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) approaches and developed eight indicators to bridge the knowledge gap.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the financial crisis as an opportunity to examine a number of key questions about the relationship of the creative economy and the city, and argue that weak conceptualisation of the nature of the relationship between the Creative Economy and the City, as well as a lack of clarity about what the Creative economy is, has subverted debates about this important topic.

TL;DR: An artificial intelligence approach integrated with geographical information systems (GISs) for modeling urban evolution using fuzzy logic and neural networks to provide a synthetic spatiotemporal methodology for the analysis, prediction and interpretation of urban growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the residential location choice of knowledge-workers at the intra-metropolitan level by applying discrete choice models and analyzed the relative importance of lifestyle and cultural amenities in addition to classic location factors.

TL;DR: Studying geographical scales and thresholds will facilitate development of specific guidance to urban designers and planners to create supportive built environments to facilitate physical activity engagement and re-connecting the fields of public health and urban design and planning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the long-term spatial distribution of four basic land cover classes to test if the "compact growth" observed up to early 1990s and the "sprawl" observed afterwards differently affect LCRs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors advocate a rethinking of the pragmatic issues underpinning public engagement and suggest a process framework that puts people as a major stakeholder for implementing PPP schemes.