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Impact of heat islands vs. city greening: Real-time monitoring and modeling of drinking water temperature in the city of Montreal in Canada

Absalan, Faezeh (author), Hatam, Fatemeh (author), Blokker, E.J.M. (author), Besner, Marie Claude (author), Prévost, Michèle (author), Bichai, Françoise (author)

Urbanization increases the land surface temperature through surface mineralization, adversely affecting vegetation and enhancing the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Global climate change has intensified this warming effect with more frequent and intense heatwaves during hot seasons. While these transformations influence soil temperature,...

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Envisioning the future—Creating sustainable, healthy and resilient BioCities

Wilkes-Allemann, Jerylee (author), Kopp, Mira (author), van der Velde, J.R.T. (author), Karaca, Elisabeth (author), Čepić, Slavica (author), Tomićević-Dubljević, Jelena (author), Bauer, Nicole (author), Petit-Boix, Anna (author), Brantschen, Evelyn Coleman (author)

Numerous challenges – from population increase to climate change – threaten the sustainable development of cities and call for a fundamental change of urban development and green-blue resource management. Urban forests are vital in this transition, as they provide various ecosystem services and allow to re-shape and re-think cities. Based on...

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RISE-UP: Resilience in urban planning for climate uncertainty: Empirical insights and theoretical reflections from case studies in Amsterdam and Mumbai

Krishnan, S. (author), Aydin, N.Y. (author), Comes, M. (author)

Climate change is one of the main drivers of uncertainty in urban planning, but only a few studies systematically address these uncertainties, especially in the long term. Urban resilience theory presents principles to manage uncertainty but largely focuses on individual urban systems rather than complex interdependent dynamics. Further, most...

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The acceptance of density: Conflicts of public and private interests in public debate on urban densification

Herdt, T. (author), Jonkman, Arend (author)

Urban densification is crucial for sustainable urban growth. Yet, its implementation often leads to local conflicts. To understand the interplay between private and public interests, we analysed media reports on densification policies and projects in Switzerland from 2009 and 2019, a period when Switzerland revised its Spatial Planning Act,...

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Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology

Nogués, Soledad (author), González-González, Esther (author), Stead, D. (author), Cordera, Rubén (author)

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) can potentially bring about major changes in cities. Anticipatory planning approaches may provide valuable opportunities for fostering desirable transitions and pre-empting undesirable impacts. This research employs a combination of two methods to define the key policies to support a transition to the desirable...

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Dataset on the literature on public participation and consensus building: Bibliography and meta-analysis of selected studies

Foroughi, M. (author), de Andrade, Bruno (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author)

The data presented in this Data in Brief article offers an insight into the scientific literature on conceptual and empirical approaches to public participation and consensus-building. It consists of articles retrieved from the Scopus search engine which feature “public participation”, “consensus”, and “value and attribute” in the title,...

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A geographic information system-based large scale visibility assessment tool for multi-criteria photovoltaic planning on urban building roofs

Zhou, Y. (author), Wilmink, D. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Ziar, H. (author)

Integration of photovoltaics (PV) into the urban environment will play a major role in the energy transition. However, installing PV systems on building roofs can be challenging, particularly for monumental buildings with strict architectural and social value restrictions. Assessing roof surface visibility is, therefore, key to finding as...

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Challenges of urban digital twins: A systematic review and a Delphi expert survey

Lei, Binyu (author), Janssen, P.H.T. (author), Stoter, J.E. (author), Biljecki, Filip (author)

Many challenges to operate digital twins remain, hindering their design and implementation, and are rarely discussed. Furthermore, issues of social and legal nature are often overlooked. We identify the challenges of operating digital twins in the urban context through a bifurcated and multi-dimensional approach: a systematic literature...

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Exploring potential futures: Evaluating the influence of deep uncertainties in urban planning through scenario planning: A case study in Rome, Italy

Mannucci, Simona (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Morganti, Michele (author), Ferrero, Marco (author)

Cities play a critical role in developing adaptable strategies to address the challenges posed by climate change. However, the inherent complexity of urban environments and their uncertain future conditions necessitate exploring innovative approaches and tools to assist the current planning practices. This paper presents a workflow rooted in...

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Investigate past polluting activities on public health and land uses

Hauser, S.J. (author), Aktürk, Gül (author)

Port regions are hubs connecting a nation and its hinterland to the rest of the world. Port cities' authorities and actors have always dealt with pressures and compromises in the sharing of space between agriculture, tourism, industry, and urban developments. The limited availability of land created conflicting uses over time especially when...

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Metro systems and urban development: Impacts and implications

Lin, Dong (author), Broere, W. (author), Cui, Jianqiang (author)

Many cities in the world have developed metro systems. Metro systems affect urban development in many ways, such as enhancing labour force mobility, increasing urban productivity and promoting urban underground space (UUS) utilisation to accommodate urban functions. This paper explores the relationship between metro systems and urban...

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The Role of Government Initiated Urban Planning Experiments in Transition Processes and Their Contribution to Change at the Regime Level

Newton, C.E.L. (author)

Sustainable urban (planning) experiments play a crucial role in transitions and are tangible ways to contribute to innovation and change in the long run. This paper discusses how urban experiments contribute to sustainability transitions by explicitly looking at an urban experiment’s capability to influence the regime level. The consequences of...

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The impact of street canyon morphology and traffic volume on NO₂ values in the street canyons of Antwerp

Voordeckers, D. (author), Meysman, F.J.R. (author), Billen, P. (author), Tytgat, T. (author), Van Acker, M. (author)

Air pollution remains a major environmental and health concern in urban environments, especially in street canyons that show increased pollution levels due to a lack of natural ventilation. Previous studies have investigated the relationship between street canyon morphology and in-canyon pollution levels. However, these studies are typically...

journal article 2021

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Volume comparison of automatically reconstructed multi-lod building models for urban planning applications

Doan, Truc Quynh (author), León Sánchez, C.A. (author), Peters, R.Y. (author), Agugiaro, G. (author), Stoter, J.E. (author)

3D city models are playing a growing role worldwide as sources of integrated information upon which different urban applications are developed. In the context of urban planning and design, semantic 3D city models can provide plenty of qualitative and quantitative information about the urban context and of the area(s) to be transformed. This...

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Evaluating a planning support system's use and effects in urban adaptation: An exploratory case study from Berlin, Germany

McEvoy, S. (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author), Brolsma, Reinder (author), Slinger, J (author)

Planning Support Systems (PSS) are increasingly used to support collaborative planning workshops in urban adaptation practice. Research has focused on developing such tools and evaluating their use in workshops but has not measured tools' effects over time on real planning processes, on the participants involved, and on the final outcomes....

journal article 2020

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The City of Tomorrow from... the Data of Today

Agugiaro, G. (author), Garcia Gonzalez, F.G. (author), Cavallo, R. (author)

In urban planning, a common unit of measure for housing density is the number of households per hectare. However, the actual size of the physical space occupied by a household, i.e., a dwelling, is seldom considered, neither in 2D nor in 3D. This article proposes a methodology to estimate the average size of a dwelling in existing urban areas...

journal article 2020

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Parking futures: Preparing European cities for the advent of automated vehicles

González-González, Esther (author), Nogués, Soledad (author), Stead, D. (author)

The introduction of automated vehicles (AVs)is a virtual certainty. Much less certain is the timing of their introduction and how rapid the transition to full automation will be. Various governments are already working to facilitate this shift by, for example, amending and elaborating regulations to support the introduction of AVs, or...

journal article 2020

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An interactive design tool for urban planning using the size of the living space as unit of measurement

Garcia Gonzalez, Gabo (author), Agugiaro, G. (author), Cavallo, R. (author)

In urban planning, a common unit of measurement for population density is the number of households per hectare. However, the actual size of the households is seldom considered, neither in 2D nor in 3D. This paper proposes a method to calculate the average size of the household in existing urban areas from available open data and to use it as a...

journal article 2019

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Automated vehicles and the city of tomorrow: A backcasting approach

Gonzalez-Gonzalez, M.E. (author), Nogués, Soledad (author), Stead, D. (author)

The introduction of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) into cities may fundamentally transform the design and use of cities. On one hand, AVs offer the potential to reduce the urban space requirements for roads and parking, creating more space for high-quality, liveable areas. On the other hand, greater motorisation and the availability to perform...

journal article 2019

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Web-based participatory mapping in informal settlements: The slums of Caracas, Venezuela

Falco, E. (author), Zambrano-Verratti, Jesús (author), Kleinhans, R.J. (author)

This article explores the potential of web-based participatory mapping tools for urban planning purposes and spatial information creation in informal settlements, i.e. the slums (barrios) of Caracas, Venezuela. While an increasing use of mapping tools is found in developed countries, fewer applications are found in informal settlements of...

journal article 2019