Sumio Oshiro “Evaluation of Urban Environment and Urban Policy”

Urban landscape and quality of urban environment by means of geographic information system

Quality of urban environment as a subset of quality of life now represents the search for happiness and personal satisfaction in urban environment and is a broad concept which is concerned with the overall well-being in urban environment. The purpose of this study was to investigating the quality of urban environment according to the 5 urban landscape indicators; Land use, Green space, Populati...

Delivering Goods in Urban Areas: How to Deal with Urban Policy Restrictions and the Environment

The sustainability of the freight transportation system is an important topic, with many open research questions. In this project, you will review one paper that addresses some aspect of sustainable freight transportation. You will then discuss this paper with your peers, and present a synthesis of the group's papers. After a class-wide discussion, you will be asked to articulate one important ...

China’s Policy on Rural-urban Migrants and Urban Social Harmony

Rural migrants have suffered from serious social exclusion in the Chinese urban society. However, since the early 2000s, the Chinese government emphasizes social harmony as an important national development goal. Together with the reorientation of development goals, the livelihood of rural migrants has received unprecedented State attention. This paper studies the policy changes and examines wh...

High Density Urban Environment

[Healing environment and urban health].