On the trail of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, we must recognize the multi-faceted nature of a given urban space, establish a link between individual practices and the city as a whole, explore the non-hierarchical relationship between ideal and material realities and, finally, shed light on the decisive nature of the city’s selfvisibility. From this perspective, Invisible cities are probably...

Automobile has become the dominant transport mode in the world in the last century. In order to meet a continuously growing demand for transport, one solution is to change the control approach for vehicle to full driving automation, which removes the driver from the control loop to improve efficiency and reduce accidents. Recent work shows that there are several realistic paths towards this dep...

This article examines the determinants of the location of large firms’ headquarters across a rich sample of European urban areas, focusing on the availability of nonstop intercontinental flights. We also account for the influence of other aspects: the proximity to large markets and specialized providers, congestion and tax costs, the availability of skilled labor, and the role of the urban area...

introduction one of the critical issues associated with sustainability in the twenty-first century is how cities are growing and developing in the space. rapid urban growth and physical development of cities cause disintegration of the spatial organization of cities and consequently spatial inequality between urban spaces. this phenomenon can be considered as spatial segregation or fragmentatio...

Wire line infrastructures can be considerably more expensive and time consuming to deploy than a wireless one. In addition, rural areas and developing countries frequently lack optical fiber or copper-wire infrastructures for broadband services and providers are unwilling to install the necessary equipment for regions with little profit potential. Wireless approaches could address this problem....

urbanization development followed by increase in travel demand in recent years made some problems for cities such as traffic, lack of suitable parking, environmental issues, economic and social etc. meanwhile, public transport, especially bus services are very important in the development of urban functions thus, paying attention to different aspects of the transport in order to increase its ef...

suffering from disorder and chaos, tehran is a city capable of introduced as one of the most beautiful cities in the world for its historical and geographical capacities. unfortunately, in the modern era and after the islamic revolution when urban development destiny started to depend on engineers due to their increasing authority in urban management, culture role was undermined and tehran unde...

Urban infrastructure provisions are increasingly shifting from public good to private property, with cities and regions valued merely on a quarter-to-quarter basis. The argument in this article is threefold. The urban infrastructure landscape is undergoing financialization. Additionally, building on Graham and Marvin who describe how infrastructure networks are being unbundled locally, these in...

This paper proposes using data broadcasting to build urban intelligent information infrastructures. It presents a conceptual framework for integrating cellular network location management into geographical data broadcast to provide efficient location dependent services. Within the context of the proposed framework, the paper then discusses the four major research issues: generic and geographic ...