Can urban renewal policies reverse neighborhood ethnic dynamics?

Leveraging BGP Dynamics to Reverse-Engineer Routing Policies

Inter-domain routing policies are an important component of today’s routing infrastructure. Knowledge about these policies can be used for better traffic engineering, detecting misconfiguration, preventing policy conflicts and also, in understanding Internet routing. However, many domains consider their policies proprietary and rarely reveal them. Hence, techniques that reverse-engineer routing...

Urbius: a Method for Assessing the Sustainability of Urban Renewal Strategies at Neighborhood Scale

Research summary One of the main challenges of European post-industrial cities is to prevent urban sprawl. Hence, increasing the density of inner cities instead of building new constructions in the peripheries has become a priority. However, city centres are already built and occupied by communities. Therefore, urban renewal projects aiming at increasing the density of the urban fabric should t...

Ethnic and class clustering through the ages: a transdisciplinary approach to urban neighborhood social patterns

Neighborhood Ethnic Density and Psychosis in Immigrants

The paper by Veling and colleagues in the January issue (1) adds a critical piece of information to the schizophrenia literature, explaining the curious finding that the incidence of schizophrenia increases in individuals who emigrate to a new country. The authors used a clever epidemiological design to explore an association between the incidence of schizophrenia in immigrants and the ethnic d...

Lost Space Renewal; a Reborn of an Urban Water Body

Due to rapid growth of urbanization and economic demand, we are continuously losing our fields,our free lands, open sky, ponds, lakes; actually our breathing spaces. Sometimes for zoning policies, migration ortransferal of a particular business or activity, a place like waterfronts, body of water, military or industrial sites can lostits importance, kept vacant and become a dead place. These ar...