Children’s Urban Environments in an Ancient City: Social and Physical Realities

Ancient Iranian Urban Structure and its Situation in Contemporary City

Associations between Social and Physical Environments, and Physical Activity in Adults from Urban and Rural Regions

Objectives This study investigates investigated the relationship between social and physical environments, and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) amongst adults in both rural and urban areas within Korea. Methods A sample of 128,735 adults from the 2013 Community Health Survey (CHS) was analyzed using a multilevel logistic analysis. Results Urban residents with higher satisfactio...

Urban Dictionaries: Modeling and Simplifying City Environments

Urban environments are challenging to model because they are both very large and very diverse. The size of the environment makes capturing the details of every structure prohibitive, leaving us with only sparse information. Photogrammetric reconstruction attempts to build 3D structures but is often not robust and requires manual input, thus making it difficult to scale to large areas. Procedura...

Big city life: carnivores in urban environments

Cities may represent one of the most challenging environments for carnivorous mammals. For example, cities have a dearth of vegetation and other natural resources, coupled with increased habitat fragmentation and an abundance of roads as well as altered climate (e.g. temperature, light, rainfall and water runoff). It is therefore intriguing that several carnivore species have become established...

Noise pollution and its spatial distribution in urban environments (case study: Yazd city, Iran)

This study focuses on identifying source and frequency of noise pollution in Yazd, Iran. For data collection, we used two approaches: First we selected 55 monitoring stations for 122 km grid network; the distance between two stations was 2 km. Then, at the same time, we measured the sound pressure level (SPL) at main roads; the distance between two monitoring stations in this case was 1 km. Aft...