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Sierra Rey-Tienda, Manuel Rey-Moreno and Cayetano Medina-Molina
Population concentration in urban areas has placed cities at the forefront of the global struggle to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Within cities, current mobility patterns are responsible for a significant proportion of environmental emissio...
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Adib Ahmad Kurnia, Ernan Rustiadi, Akhmad Fauzi, Andrea Emma Pravitasari and Jan ?enka
The Jakarta metropolitan region (the Jakarta megacity), located in the fourth most populous country in the world (Indonesia), is the largest urban agglomeration in the Global South?continues to grow, especially in its outer suburbs (Bekasi Regency). The ...
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Lu Jiang, Bowenpeng Ding, Xiaonan Shi, Chunhua Li and Yamei Chen
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João Reis, Pedro Alexandre Marques and Pedro Carmona Marques
(1) Background: Smart cities have been gaining attention in the community, both among researchers and professionals. Although this field of study is gaining some maturity, no academic manuscript yet offers a unique holistic view of the phenomenon. In fac...
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Jianxun Zhang, He Zhang, Rui Wang, Mengxiao Zhang, Yazhe Huang, Jiahui Hu and Jingyi Peng
CO2 is the main greenhouse gas. Urban spatial development, land use, and so on may be affected by CO2 and climate change. The main questions studied in this paper are as follows: What are the drivers of CO2 emissions of expanding megacities? How can they...
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Mathieu Lachatre, Gilles Foret, Benoit Laurent, Guillaume Siour, Juan Cuesta, Gaëlle Dufour, Fan Meng, Wei Tang, Qijie Zhang and Matthias Beekmann
Air pollution in Chinese megacities has reached extremely hazardous levels, and human activities are responsible for the emission or production of large amounts of particulate matter (PM). In addition to PM from anthropogenic sources, natural phenomena, ...
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Mark Z. Jacobson, Anna-Katharina von Krauland, Zachary F.M. Burton, Stephen J. Coughlin, Caitlin Jaeggli, Daniel Nelli, Alexander J. H. Nelson, Yanbo Shu, Miles Smith, Chor Tan, Connery D. Wood and Kelyn D. Wood
To date, roadmaps and policies for transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy have been developed for nations, provinces, states, cities, and towns in order to address air pollution, global warming, and energy insecurity. However, neither...
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Rafea Al-Suhili, Cheila Cullen and Reza Khanbilvardi
Urban flooding is a frequent problem affecting cities all over the world. The problem is more significant now that the climate is changing and urbanization trends are increasing. Various, physical hydrological models such as the Environmental Protection ...
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Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Uz Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan and Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a megacity and ch...
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Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Uz Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan and Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a mega...
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Ursula Loret de Mola, Brenton Ladd, Sandra Duarte, Nils Borchard, Ruy Anaya La Rosa and Brian Zutta
Latin American (LA) megacities are facing enormous challenges to provide welfare to millions of people who live in them. High rates of urbanization and limited administrative capacity of LA cities to plan and control urban growth have led to a critical d...
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Dorina Pojani and Dominic Stead
Megacities have frequently received a disproportionate amount of attention over other sizes of cities in recent discourse on urban sustainability. In this article, the authors argue that a focus on smaller and medium-sized cities is crucial to achieving ...
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Slobodan P. Simonovic, Angela Peck
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David Banister
This paper takes a historical perspective on how cities have become less sustainable in terms of transport, but it will argue that many positive changes have taken place even before the current concerns over CO2 and oil. There seem to be many more opport...
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Leila da Costa FERREIRA
O artigo enfoca o processo de globalização e as metrópoles, considerando que em futuro próximo asmegacidades estarão concentradas em países emergentes. De outra forma, à aceleração da desigualdadesocial soma-se a crise do Estado, que inviabilizou o seu p...
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Yalun Lei, Hongtao Zhou, Liang Xue, Libin Yuan, Yigang Liu, Meng Wang and Chuan Wang
Street quality plays a crucial role in promoting urban development. There is still no consensus on how to quantify human street quality perception on a large scale or explore the relationship between street quality and street composition elements. This s...
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João Ricardo Faria and Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.
Many of the world?s economies experienced rapid structural changes due to globalization and other forces over the past 50 years. During this period, developing countries were the recipients of massive foreign direct investment, and their industrializatio...
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Elaine Aparecida Rodrigues, Maurício Lamano Ferreira, Amanda Rodrigues de Carvalho, José Oscar William Vega Bustillos, Rodrigo Antonio Braga Moraes Victor, Marcelo Gomes Sodré and Delvonei Alves de Andrade
Nuclear science and technology (NST) offers a multitude of applications and tools and has a high level of regulation. However, its contribution to the achievement of global development goals is still incipient. Although its application is directly relate...
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Yujiao Chen and Zhengbo Luo
Housing price is one of the most concerning issues to the public worldwide. Studying the spatial characteristics of Shanghai?s housing prices and their explanatory factors is of great practical significance, for Shanghai is the largest city in China and ...
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