Like other developing countries where traffic is a significant sound nuisance, in Indonesian urban areas boisterous. How this condition regulated by the government so that community can live healthily and comfortably very crucial issue. Unfortunately, Indonesia has not had any environmental improvement since regulation was enacted. Additionally, regulators officers who run rule carelessly worse...

The article presents a strategy for renovation in the riverside area: improvement of water protection functions; rehabilitation disturbed territories; use recreational and urban planning potential such territories creating framework on waterfront; integration eco-clusters into structure development an integrated management system waterfront zones. As result research, necessity rethink attitude ...

To further evaluate the factors influencing public heat and air-quality health, a characterization of how urban areas affect the thermal environment, particularly in terms of the air temperature, is necessary. To assist public health agencies in ranking urban areas in terms of heat stress and developing mitigation plans or allocating various resources, this study characterized urban heat in Cal...

Urban areas are a complex combination of various land-cover types, and show a variety of land-use structures and spatial layouts. Furthermore, the spectral similarity between built-up areas and bare land is a great challenge when using high spatial resolution remote sensing images to map urban areas, especially for images obtained in dry and cold seasons or high-latitude regions. In this study,...

In this paper breastfeeding was studied among 10240 urban and 10794 rural mothers, whose children were 18 to 23 months of age. The sample size for rural and urban areas was equal, butin each province the cluster sampling method was used proportional to the population of each district. The results ofthe study show that between 17% to 28% of urban mothers in the provinces have deprived their...

Almost two and a half billion people representing 45 per cent of the world's population live in urban areas. In 1990,37 per cent of the developing world's population lived in urban areas and about one third of the urban population in the developing countries lived in urban slums and shanty towns. In 1990, more than 75 per cent of all South Americans were living in urban areas, the highest degre...