While a number of previous papers have documented the poor general health of Australia's Aboriginal population, relatively few have considered the health of Aborigines living in Australia's urban centres. In this latter instance, Aborigines have access to conventional medical services and they live in a physical environment that does not differ greatly from that experienced by the lower-class w...

Two new global urban products have recently appeared: the Global Urban Footprint (GUF) and the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL). This paper evaluates the GUF and GHSL for the city of Milan, Italy through comparison with two European Union (EU) land use/cover reference products, namely the Urban Atlas and LUCAS. The results demonstrate that the GUF and GHSL are very similar to each other and...

In the light of ongoing global urbanization and the high pace of resource consumption, there is an urgent need to foster compact cities. Currently, however, we lack integrative guidelines on how to manage trade-offs between urban densification and the provision of green space. Against this background, this study applies the concepts of green infrastructure and ecosystem services to develop a gu...

Technologies are increasingly taking advantage of the explosion in the amount of data generated by social multimedia (e.g., web searches, ad targeting, and urban computing). In this paper, we propose a multi-view learning framework for presenting the construction of a new urban movement knowledge graph, which could greatly facilitate the research domains mentioned above. In particular, by viewi...

The rise of wireless networks and portable computing devices has been accompanied by an increasing interest in technology and mobility, and in the urban environment as a site of interaction. However, most investigations have taken a relatively narrow view of urban mobility. In consequence, design practice runs the risk of privileging particular viewpoints, forms of mobility, and social groups. ...

Newer incarnations of the Universal Dependencies (UD) resources feature rich morphological annotation on the wordtoken level as regards tense, mood, aspect, case, gender, and other grammatical information. This information, however, is not aligned to any part of the word forms in the data. In this work, we present an algorithm for inferring this latent alignment between morphosyntactic labels a...

Capturing, representing, modelling and visualizing the dynamics of urban mobility have been attracting the interest of the research community recently. One of the drivers for recent work in this area is the availability of large datasets representing many aspects of the urban dynamics. Applications for these studies are diverse and include urban planning, security, intelligent transportation sy...

A body of literature has emerged over the past three decades to quantify the sprouting form of our contemporary cities. This paper adds to this literature by investigating the urban form of the City of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. The novelty of this research is the use of firm micro data for the examination of the types of economic clustering and their influence on urban form. Furthermore, we ...

This study presents a practical methodology to monitor the spatiotemporal characteristics of urban expansion in response to rapid urbanization at the provincial scale by integrating remote sensing, urban built-up area boundaries, spatial metrics and spatial regression. Sixty-seven cities were investigated to examine the differences of urbanization intensity, urbanization patterns and urban land...

As Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) permeate people’s interactions, designers face the challenge of creating new forms to promote contact among unrelated individuals and fostering the communication and potential support to leverage the sense of community in public spaces. This work is related to Urban Computing, studying the correlation among people, urban spaces and technologi...