Big Data-Driven Urban Management: Potential for Urban Sustainability

User-Generated Big Data and Urban Morphology

Mining Social and Urban Big Data

In recent years, with the rapid development of positioning technologies, online social networks, sensors and smart devices, large scale human behavioral data are now readily available. The growing availability of such behavioral data provides us unprecedented opportunities to gain more in depth understanding of users in both the physical world and cyber world, especially in online social networ...

Interpreting Sustainability for Urban Forests

Incisive interpretations of urban-forest sustainability are important in furthering our understanding of how to sustain the myriad values associated with urban forests. Our analysis of earlier interpretations reveals conceptual gaps. These interpretations are attached to restrictive definitions of a sustainable urban forest and limited to a rather mechanical view of maintaining the biophysical ...

Urban water sustainability

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Urban planning, urban Management & Urban Air Pollution and solutions for solving it

In response to the facts that some Asian developing countries were experiencing the fastest rate of industrialisation and urbanisation, several international initiatives called for a better and ‘sustainable’ urban management. Development of management tools including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), cost benefit analysis (CBA), and environmental managemen...