The article is devoted to the main aspects of development a “smart” or “digital city”. To date, approved “Strategy for Development Information Society in Russian Federation 2017-2030” being implemented quite fully. Within framework “Smart City” concept, one its components identified and considered article: “Urban governance”. authors believe that human factor urban management fundamental. But c...

Products and services offered under the smart city umbrella cut across numerous city operations and systems that benefit a range of stakeholders. Increasing urban populations raise the needs for innovative systems that are capable of regulating the use of resources within cities. City inhabitants are first-hand victims of the potential problems accompanying urban living. Much often, the inputs ...

Energy supply has become one of the most challenging issues facing the world in the 21st Century. Growing populations, more homes and businesses and a myriad of new appliances have caused energy demand to skyrocket in every part of the country. The fundamental method of operating the nation’s power grid has not changed much in the past 100 years. It has remained essentially the same, although t...

introduction: solve the problem of urban areas disturbed pushed the urban planners to adopted new strategies including of smart urban growth that in it pointed on prevent the spread of the city and allocate space to the other land uses in the center of city. in order to, the aim of this paper is spatial- physical analysis of future development of saqqez city using smart urban growth indicators ...

Drawing on empirically rich and theoretically grounded case studies, the articles in this issue explore ways which global governmental processes affect mobility and, similarly, how seemingly local movements impact upon processes.

We estimated the speed of Zika virus introduction in Brazil by using confirmed cases at the municipal level. Our models indicate a southward pattern of introduction starting from the northeastern coast and a pattern of movement toward the western border with an average speed of spread of 42 km/day or 15,367 km/year.