Nowadays, the attraction to talents has become increasingly prodominent in determing future development prospect of cities. How quantify attractiveness cities is an important issue evaluating comprehensive competitiveness This paper takes Xi’an and other emerging first-tier China as main research object, classifies indicators that affect urban into five specific categories. A set evaluation mod...

Long branch attraction is a problem that afflicts phylogenetic methods and a procedure to detect a data set suffering from this problem is the long branch extraction method[1]. This method has been well cited and used by many authors for their analysis but no strong validation has been performed as to its accuracy. We performed such an analysis by an extensive search of the branch length search...

Problem statement. In the history of urban planning over past 150−200 years, historical continuity uniquely deep architectural and knowledge developed by generations architects planet has disappeared. As a result, buildings structures began to be created as formal-pragmatic objects opposing objective laws astroplanetary exchange connections, spatio-temporal matrix functioning always been basis ...

Since the massive scale of urban tourism (at end 20th century), which caused an exponential increase visitors to cities, density tourist activity in historic boroughs has come cause strong pressure on grid and buildings these spaces. Motivated by local policies, promote attraction expansion, this monoculture results a simplification way centres operate. Beyond academic acceptance concept overto...