This paper was written by Edward Thompson, Jr., Senior Vice President, American Farmland Trust* in collaboration with the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. It is the fifth in a series of translation papers sponsored by the Funders’ Network to translate the impact of sprawl upon issues of importance to America’s communities and to suggest opportunities for progress that ...

UrbanSim is a tool for use by urban planners and others to help predict future patterns of urban development under different possible input scenarios, over periods of twenty or more years. It should support deliberation and debate on such issues as building new transit systems or freeways, or changing zoning or economic incentives, as well as on broader issues such as sustainable, livable citie...

The question of what makes a life livable is linked with the question, for an inhabitable world. This last was not Scheler’s but it follows from world that he describes, claims exhibited through tragic. When object immersed in sorrow, how possible to inhabit such world? What about persistence uninhabitable sorrow? answer lies less individual conduct or practice than forms solidarity emerge, acr...

The rationality and efficiency of the spatial structure an urban park system are critical in building a livable environment. Fractal theory is currently treated as frontier for exploring law complex systems; however, it has rarely been applied to systems. This study aggregation, grid correlation dimension models fractal Fuzhou, China. driving factors were analyzed innovative model was proposed....

Smart cities, developed as alternative to classical urbanism, are areas where information and communication technologies used make places more livable, sustainable efficient. If a city offers solutions problems related governance, people, economy, mobility, environment living issues, it can be defined "smart city". The smartness of cities measured on these six basic axes. By analyzing the evalu...

In this paper, we provide a novel approach to distinguish livable urban densities from crowded cities and describe how distinction has proved be critical in predicting COVID-19 contagion hotspots low- middle-income country. Urban population density—considered as the ratio of land area, without reference floor space consumption or other measures livability—can have large drawbacks. To address dr...

This paper was written by Jonathan Weiss of the George Washington University Center on Sustainability and Regional Growth* in collaboration with the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. It is the fourth in a series of translation papers sponsored by the Funders’ Network to translate the impact of sprawl upon issues of importance to America’s communities and to suggest oppo...