Urban scaling relations characterizing how diverse properties of cities vary on average with their population size have recently been shown to be a general quantitative property of many urban systems around the world. However, in previous studies the statistics of urban indicators were not analyzed in detail, raising important questions about the full characterization of urban properties and ho...

Urban fabric characterization is very useful in urban design, planning, modeling and simulation. It is traditionally considered as a descriptive task mainly based on visual inspection of urban plans. Cartographic databases and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities make possible the analytical formalization of this issue. This paper proposes a renewed approach to characterize urban f...

For the foreseeable future, world population growth will be mainly concentrated in the cities of developing countries. According to the United Nations (2000), by the year 2030 the world’s population will exceed today’s total by 2.06 billion persons, and some 1.94 billion of these will be added to the urban areas of lowincome countries. By 2030, it is believed, all developing regions will have c...

To promote sustainability in urban green spaces, it is necessary to know the diversity of spontaneous species these spaces. Based on investigation and analysis relevant scientific literature, their importance was contextually discussed, along with assessment local biodiversity impact Studies flora, or ecosystem services, studies exotic adaptability were summarized. Finally, existing issues rega...

of Paper Much of recent literature on globalization has focused on the impact of worldwide telematics, corporate globalization strategies and the rise of global economic ne tworks – tendencies which foster the disembedding of economic functions and social relationships from their locally bound contexts of interaction. In my paper I shall argue that globalization does indeed foster processes of ...