Abstract For achieving sustainable cities, mobility is one of the key elements. Policymakers around world are taking different strategies to ensure urban at local level. However, assessment neighborhoods a developing country received significant research gap. This study attempts close this gap by deriving and comparing neighborhood sustainability based on three indicators: modal share, travel t...

BACKGROUND Given the enormity of challenges involved in pandemic preparedness, design and implementation of effective and cost-effective public health policies is a major task that requires an integrated approach through engagement of scientific, administrative, and political communities across disciplines. There is ample evidence to suggest that modeling may be a viable approach to accomplish ...

Infrastructure projects require lifecycle-based assessment, considering the interests of multiple stakeholders concerning three pillars sustainability. There has been a heightened curiosity in employing sustainability indicators for gauging impacts developmental projects. Even though literature is abundant on assessment methods, there no proper one urban infrastructure context Gulf states. Thus...

Cities are sites of human, ecological and institutional stress. The elements that make up the city – its people, landscapes processes engaged in constant assemblage disassembly, joining pulling apart. Reporting findings a three-year multi-disciplinary deep case study, this paper examines role urban nature mediating relationship between stressed humans places. It applies theory to show how such ...

elineation of urban functional areas helps policymakers and planners understand the connections between core cities surrounding them, subsequently develop policies solutions that can serve local populations. This article develops a readily applicable econometric method for delineation considers aspects their surroundings. We perform analysis using data 78 Polish cities, grouping them by populat...

Detecting and quantifying anomalies in urban traffic is critical for real-time alerting or re-routing in the short run and urban planning in the long run. We describe a two-step framework that achieves these two goals in a robust, fast, online, and unsupervised manner. First, we adapt stable principal component pursuit to detect anomalies for each road segment. This allows us to pinpoint traffi...

The rich identity, originality and validity of the “Ancient Iranian Urbanism and Architecture”, always have been stimulating the urban designers and planners to have research about their valuable qualities and historical principles. Unlike the past, today’s Iranian cities have inefficient urban qualities; because they are inspired by the western urban designs, without paying attention to their ...

Urban areas are expected to continue their rapid growth in the twenty-first century. Globally, cities are major sources of greenhouse gases emissions and their high population densities make them potential focal points of vulnerability to global environmental change. Moreover, their reach, in terms of flows of materials and resources, extends far outside their borders. Evidently, it is no longe...