Does interdisciplinary team collaboration enhance the knowledge generated and shared in systems model building or does model building enhance the collaboration and collegiality of interdisciplinary team members? This paper addresses the processes involved in constructing dynamic system models of “deep complexity” related to scientific and environmental issues. Typically such model-building requ...

3D city models are important in urban planning for sustainable development. Urban planners draw maps for efficient land use and a compact city. 3D city models based on these maps are quite effective in understanding what, if this alternative plan is realized, the image of a sustainable city will be. However, enormous time and labour has to be consumed to create these 3D models, using 3D modelli...

The BuildZoom & Urban Economics Lab index is a joint endeavor of BuildZoom and the Urban Economics Laboratory of the MIT Center for Real Estate. The set of indices leverages BuildZoom’s repository of building permit data to track residential permitting activity, and was developed jointly with Professor Albert Saiz of the Center for Real Estate at MIT. Separate indices track permitting for const...

The extraction of 3D building geometric information from high-resolution electro-optical imagery is becoming a key element in numerous geospatial applications. Indeed, producing 3D urban models is a requirement for a variety of applications such as spatial analysis of urban design, military simulation, and site monitoring of a particular geographic location. However, almost all operational appr...

Urban dynamics deal with spatial organizations where a great complexity of interactions appears. Social and economic aspects interact and environmental objectives are nowadays a major purpose for sustainable urban development. We propose some generic modelling processes able to face with this complexity, in order to simulate the evolution of the city centers. These organizational centers need a...

The rapid urbanisation and the increase of world population underline the need of a new approach in the urban design, based on the energy efficiency and the sustainability of the built environment. When focusing on City Energy Modelling, unlike Building Energy Modelling, each urban simulation engine generally has its own tailor-made data-model: municipalities and other urban information data ad...

Building type information is crucial to many urban studies, including fine-resolution population estimation, urban planning, and management. Although scientists have developed many methods to extract buildings via remote sensing data, only a limited number of them focus on further classification of the extracted results. This paper presents a novel building type classification scheme based on t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to examine a resilience training intervention that impacts autonomic responses to stress and improves cardiovascular risk, psychological, and physiological outcomes in police. METHODS Officers [(n = 38) 22 to 54 years] modified emotional and physical responses to stress using self-regulation. Measurements include psychological and physiological measures [eg,...

The feasibility to develop a rapid urban seismic damage detection procedure utilizing satellite radar imagery is investigated. In direct observation of city-wide building loss, remote sensing damage detection techniques have shown merits in rapid damage detection in urban areas. Remote sensing technology has the capability of extracting buildings in urban scenes. Comparing “before” and “after” ...

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