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Kubat, Ayşe Sema (author), Akay, Mert (author), Küçük Çalışkan, Ezgi (author), Soygüzeloğlu, Burcu (author)
For the last decades, interest in urban morphology studies has increased in Türkiye. Urban morphology has become a widespread study field within the quantitative and qualitative track of urbanism to investigate further the character of Turkish cities and their urban fabric. Aiming to make urban morphology an independent and interdisciplinary...
review 2023
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Zisopoulos, Filippos K. (author), Steuer, Benjamin (author), Abussafy, Ricardo (author), Toboso Chavero, S.T.C.H. (author), Liu, Z. (author), Tong, Xin (author), Schraven, D.F.J. (author)
The inclusion of the informal recycling sector (IRS) in a circular economy (CE) is challenging and it is gaining increasing attention by the academic community in an exponential yet fragmented way. In this narrative review, we demarcate the direct and indirect contributions of the IRS to various domains of the CE by drawing knowledge from...
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Valera, Elias Hernandez (author), Cremades, Roger (author), van Leeuwen, Eveline (author), van Timmeren, A. (author)
Cities are the core of social interactions and resource consumption in our current times. However, urban systems are still largely based on linear activities in which resources are discarded after usage. Current practices around waste reduce possibilities of circularity, mainly due to low percentages of sorting and recycling practices in high...
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Lefosse, D.C. (author), van Timmeren, A. (author), Ratti, Carlo (author)
In response to socio-ecological challenges, cities around the world are implementing greenification and urban forestry. While these strategies contribute to reducing the ecological footprint, they often overlook various social implications. This explains the increasing global attention to Biophilia, which emphasizes human–nature interaction to...
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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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Bracken, G. (author)
Asian cities are undergoing massive transformation in the face of globalization. Urbanization is not only part and parcel of these transformations; it is often the most visible expression of them. Three recent books explore some of these urban transformations: Marie Gibert-Flutre and Heidi Imai examine Asian alleyways as an urban vernacular...
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Balderrama, A. (author), Kang, Jian (author), Prieto, Alejandro (author), Luna-Navarro, Alessandra (author), Arztmann, Daniel (author), Knaack, U. (author)
Façades cover a significant amount of surfaces in cities and are in constant interaction with the acoustic environment. Noise pollution is one of the most concerning burdens for public health and wellbeing; however, façade acoustic performance is generally not considered in outdoor spaces, in contrast to indoor spaces. This study presents a...
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Bucci Ancapi, F.E. (author), Van den Berghe, K.B.J. (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author)
The built environment plays a central role in the transition towards the circular economy as they concentrate major consumer and polluter human activities. However, the way BEs are – and need to be – driven by policy to reach cities’ circular goals is still an under-researched aspect. Particularly, there is limited knowledge of policy...
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van Nijen, D.A. (author), Manganiello, P. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)
Power electronics traditionally plays a crucial role in conditioning the power of photovoltaic (PV) modules and connecting the systems to the electricity grid. Recently, PV module designs with more sub-module power electronics are gaining increased attention. These designs can offer higher reliability and improved resilience against non...
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Casali, Y. (author), Aydin, N.Y. (author), Comes, M. (author)
The challenges for sustainable cities to protect the environment, ensure economic growth, and maintain social justice have been widely recognized. Along with the digitization, availability of large datasets, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are promising to revolutionize the way we analyze and plan urban areas, opening new...
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Garzón Díaz, J.A. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Taormina, R. (author)
Surrogate models replace computationally expensive simulations of physically-based models to obtain accurate results at a fraction of the time. These surrogate models, also known as metamodels, have been employed for analysis, control, and optimization of water distribution and urban drainage systems. With the advent of machine learning (ML),...
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van der Meulen, G.J.M. (author), van Dorst, M.J. (author), Kuzniecow Bacchin, T. (author)
Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) offers an approach for alternative spatial organisation of cities and infrastructures fit to address urban and climatic challenges. However, its relevance in all contexts is questioned and transferability concerns arise when mainstreamed. Instead of considering water sensitivity as guiding concept for the...
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Machairas, Ilias (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)
Due to climate change, droughts will intensify in large parts of the world. Drought and its impacts on nature and agriculture have been studied thoroughly, but its effects on the urban environment is rather unexplored. But also the built environment is susceptible to droughts and estimation of its vulnerability is the first step to its...
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Zhang, Yufang (author), Koene, Marijke (author), Reijneveld, Sijmen A. (author), Tuinstra, Jolanda (author), Broekhuis, Manda (author), van der Spek, S.C. (author), Wagenaar, Cor (author)
Physical activity is good for people’s health. The relationship between the built environment and physical activity has been well documented. However, evidence is both scarce and scattered on specific urban interventions, i.e., intentional redesigns of the built environment that promote physical activity accompanied by pre- and post-effect...
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Tsui, T.P.Y. (author), Peck, David (author), Geldermans, Bob (author), van Timmeren, A. (author)
In recent years, implementing a circular economy in cities (or “circular cities”) has been proposed by policy makers as a potential solution for achieving sustainability. One strategy for circular cities is to reintroduce manufacturing into urban areas (or “urban manufacturing”), allowing resource flows to be localized at the city scale. However...
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van der Koogh, M.L. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Heller, Renée (author), Lukszo, Z. (author)
Global climate agreements call for action and an integrated perspective on mobility, energy and overall consumption. Municipalities in dense, urban areas are challenged with facilitating this transition with limited space and energy resources, and with future uncertainties. One important aspect of the transition is the adoption of electric...
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Tonne, Cathryn (author), Adair, Linda (author), Adlakha, D. (author), Anguelovski, Isabelle (author), Belesova, Kristine (author), Berger, Maximilian (author), Brelsford, Christa (author), Dadvand, Payam (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)
Goals and pathways to achieve sustainable urban development have multiple interlinkages with human health and wellbeing. However, these interlinkages have not been examined in depth in recent discussions on urban sustainability and global urban science. This paper fills that gap by elaborating in detail the multiple links between urban...
review 2021
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van der Hoeven, F.D. (author)
During the 1960s, radical ideas emerged in Dutch urban planning. For the first time, the two major cities in the Netherlands engaged in building high-rise residential districts. If we understand this period as an experiment, then the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam produced opposite but exciting results. The uncompromising Amsterdam...
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Gloerich, Inte (author), de Waal, Martijn (author), Ferri, Gabriele (author), Cila, N. (author), Karpinski, Tara (author)
Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have started to explore the application of...
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Agudelo-Vera, Claudia (author), Avvedimento, Stefania (author), Boxall, Joby (author), Creaco, Enrico (author), de Kater, Henk (author), Nardo, Armando Di (author), Djukic, Aleksandar (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Blokker, E.J.M. (author)
Water temperature is often monitored at water sources and treatment works; however, there is limited monitoring of the water temperature in the drinking water distribution system (DWDS), despite a known impact on physical, chemical and microbial reactions which impact water quality. A key parameter influencing drinking water temperature is...
review 2020
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