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INTRODUCTION Safe wastewater treatment methods have always been a challenge to the society. During the last 50 years, pollution abatement measures have been given high priority, particularly discharges from the growing urban areas. Early objectives were to reduce the emissions of organic matter and pathogens, while other objectives related to the emission of heavy metals and nutrients (phosphor...

Ivan Blecic, Arnaldo Cecchini, Poulicos Prastacos, Giuseppe A. Trunfio, Emmanuil Verigos 1 Università IUAV di Venezia Dept. of Planning Faculty of Urban Planning Venezia, Italy [email protected] 2 University of Sassari Dept. of Architecture and Urban Planning Faculty of Architecture Sassari, Italy [email protected] 3 Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas Institute of Applied and Computationa...

Automated public urban freight transportation networks have the potential to greatly increase the energy efficiency of material transport by more closely matching the mass of the goods being transported with the mass of the transportation apparatus and reduce the cost to society by removing the requirement for human supervision for each package. In this paper, we present an overview of the cons...

This work argues that open space has been utilized by local planning practice for numerous reasons that have reflected the shifting concerns of the planning profession since the nineteenth century. An intellectual movement that romanticized nature as distinct from social processes and a changing political economy made it possible for open space to serve an interventionist role in addressing soc...

Recent anti-systemic social movements have illustrated the central role of cities in social movement mobilization. We not only highlight the characteristics of urban social relations that make cities fertile ground for mobilization, but also point to the disjunctures between the geographies and spatialities of social relations in the city, and the geographies and spatialities of many systemic p...

The political participation of immigrants is an important gauge of their integration into thereceiving society more generally, as well as an indicator of the degree of openness of politicalelites towards ethnic minorities. With the restructuring of State intervention and the diffusion ofcivic culture, the role that immigrant associations play in shaping urban social policies has...

City, Culture and Society (Elsevier) aims to stimulate a new interdisciplinary paradigm that embraces multiple perspectives and applies this paradigm to the urban imperative that defines the century. The journal is looking at an academic audience, but is also seeking new readers, such as those working in the public sector, those employed in the private sector, those who contribute to internatio...

Nowadays, to analyse accessibility in construction would be absolutely impossible without referring to the development and consistent application of so called “new technologies”, which offer the possibilities to improve the mobility in urban and building environments and the capacity to use these environments. In fact, these technological advances lead to new achievements in personal autonomy (...

The article examines the impact of virtual public sphere on how urban spaces are experienced and conceived in our data-driven society. It places particular emphasis scale digital twins, which replicas cities that used to simulate environments develop scenarios response policy problems. also investigates shift from technical socio-technical perspective within field smart cities. Despite aspirati...