Block is the basic unit for studying urban activities of residents, and block vitality concrete expression dynamics at level. The quality block’s residential environment a crucial medium to satisfy residents’ pursuit high-quality life; good essential fostering further enhancing overall city. This study used distribution density cellular signaling data quantify constructed index system covering ...

Research on urban biodiversity has primarily addressed the effects of urbanization and human activity synergistically as it been virtually impossible to dissociate their impact city wildlife. However, anthropause resulting from COVID–19 lockdowns provided an unprecedented scenario study relative role avian communities. Here we provide evidence relationships between bird species richness in area...

The FuturICT project is a response to the European Flagship Call in the Area of Future and Emerging Technologies, which is planning to spend 1 billion EUR on each of two flagship projects over a period of 10 years. FuturICT seeks to create an open, global but decentralized, democratically controlled information platform that will use online data and real-time measurements together with novel th...

The lack for accessible housing in Australia has contributed to the marginalisation and exclusion of people with disability, older people and their families (Saugeres, 2010). It has also resulted in significant cost to the community, through an over-reliance on support services and specialist accommodation, and responses to avoidable home-based injuries (Ozanne-Smith, Guy, Kelly & Clapperton, 2...

This chapter focuses on Christopher Alexander's contribution to a phenomenology of wholeness, by which is meant finding conceptual and practical ways for understanding how things belong together so that they can indeed belong, whether one speaks of the parts of a well made building, the steps in an effective construction process, or the elements of a helpful theory. Throughout his professional ...

Sustainability and responsible resource exposure has become a major issue in everyday life. Government, customers, and increasing social responsibility force more and more organizations to positively optimize their environmental impact towards a better, livable planet. In this paper we propose a four-layered architecture and corresponding four-phased methodology to enable organizations to (1) d...