Community-Initiated Urban Development: An Ecological Intervention

An integrated urban development and ecological simulation model

This paper develops an integrated strategy to model the urban development and ecological dynamics in the Central Puget Sound Region. This effort is part of the Puget Sound Regional Integrated Synthesis model (PRISM) – an interdisciplinary initiative at the University of Washington aiming to develop a dynamic and integrated understanding of the environmental and human systems in the Puget Sound....

Ecological city and urban sustainable development

Abstract: Sustainable development is a new concept of scientific development, sustainable development requires us to change not only the concept of economic development, but also requires us to change the concept of social development. Development of the city as a social development and economic development is an important embodiment of the process of sustainable development but also in pursuit...

Sustainable Community Development and Urban Design

Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation: Development of the Intervention

INTRODUCTION The Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) intervention protocol was developed by collaborating trial investigators during a 24-month planning phase. To select the specific intervention methods included in the COMMIT protocol, the investigators used a wide variety of data from controlled and demonstration trials of smoking control strategies as well as advice f...

An Urban Lower Class Community