CITY OF HAWTHORNE OCEAN FRIENDLY GARDEN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT

Havana: A Bike-Friendly City?

The abrupt breakup of the USSR and socialist bloc in the early 1990s dealt a devastating blow to the island's economy. Almost overnight, beneficial aid and trade provided by the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ground to a halt, including 80% of foreign trade previously conducted as barter and sales of 13 million tons of oil per year at preferential prices. When the Cuban economy bottomed...

CMS HQI Demonstration Project

In July 2003, Premier, Inc. and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project (HQI), a three-year program designed to determine if financial incentives are effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. In the demonstration, CMS will measure performance and pay incentives to participating hospitals that achieve superior...

Spatial justice in the age-friendly city index of Tehran

Background: World Health Organization has proposed age-friendly cities as an urban development approach. Likewise, the spatial distribution of urban facilities can be considered an important issue among urban planners. Method: In 2019, a sample of 770 elderly people was selected by the multi-stage sampling method. Data collection was accomplished using a standard questionnaire of the World Heal...

The V-City Project

3D geoinformatics have entered the digital age, hesitantly in some areas, and rampantly in others. Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth are household names. However, these projects are limited to textured 3D landscapes, aerial 2D images and a few boxy building envelopes. The V-City project is a European research initiative to surpass these limitations, and create a system for intuitively ex...

Hawthorne Effect