According to the 2010 U.S. Census, close to 80 percent of the U.S. population lives in metropolitan areas, and Mississippi’s population is 49 percent urban, one of the smallest urban populations in the country. As urban populations and urban areas expand, the urban forest increases, too, and the U.S. urban area is expected to increase more than 8 percent by 2050,1 or an addition roughly the siz...

This paper is about automatic tagging of urban areas considering its constituent Points of Interest. First, our approach geographically clusters places that offer similar services in the same generic category (e.g. Food & Dining; Entertainment & Arts) in order to identify specialized zones in the urban context. Then, these places are analysed and tagged from available information sources on the...

iran including attractive places and high potential for tourism (external and internal) and investing on tourism industry including social and economic effects leading to constancy of tourism areas. unfortunately, despite high capacity of developing tourism in our country, this capacity has not recognized well and has not utilized for development of iran. the special factors influence on transi...

Real-time SLAM in large-scale environments is a computationally demanding task. This paper discusses an approach to dealing with storage and computation constraints based on selective evidence gathering at significant areas in the environment. Local measures of novelty, based on the input from multiple sensors, are used to detect salient locations. This can then be used to trigger the collectio...

Urban space comprises not only physical forms buildings, streets, plazas, trees, etc. – but also the people 'acting on them'. The purpose of this thesis is to increase our awareness of behavior and environment relationships, focusing on local movement at the individual level in a pedestrian environment. The thesis describes the experiment Mouse.class, as a concept demonstration model, which all...

The study investigated restorative experiences in relation to respondents' everyday favorite places and analysed the associations between the use of favorite places, restorative experiences, their determinants and aspects of self-rated health. A simple random sample of 1273 inhabitants, aged between 15 and 75 years, of two major cities in Finland (Helsinki and Tampere) completed a postal questi...

BACKGROUND Long-stay hospitalization is often a consequence of insufficient care structures. This article examines the characteristics and care conditions of long-stay hospitalization (LSH) in an urban area in Germany. METHODS Extensive data of patients in the urban catchment area of the Medical School of Hannover, capital of Lower Saxony, were evaluated during a 10 years period. RESULTS AN...

As a relatively recent human phenomenon, cities are the physical culmination of many pre-existing psychological, social and cognitive capacities. The persistent presence of deliberately empty spaces in urban areas both past and present signals the conscious creation and maintenance of those locales at various levels: household, neighbourhood and civic/centralizing. Domestic empty space, in part...

Preferences for unfamiliar urban environments were studied as a function of urban categories, viewing time, and four predictor variables: complexity, coherence, identifiability, and myster¥. A nonmetric factor analysis of the preference ratings for the Iongest viewing-time condition yielded live dimensions: Contemporary Life, Alley/Factory, Urban Nature, Unusual Architecture, and Older Building...

Urban experimentation with sustainability has been gaining prominence in policy and academic discourses about urban transformations, spurring the creation of urban living laboratories and transition arenas. However, the academic literature has only begun examining why experimentation flourishes in particular cities, and why it conforms to place-specific styles. Meanwhile, the strategic niche ma...