Pervasive large-scale infrastructures, such as cell phone networks, have the ability to capture individual digital footprints, and as a result, generate datasets that provide a new vision on human dynamics. In this context, cell phones and cell phone networks, due to its ubiquity, can be considered one of the main sensors of human behavior. The information collected by these networks can be use...

Most remote sensing studies of urban areas focus on a single scale, using supervised methodologies and very few analyses the “neighborhood” scale. The lack multi-scale analysis, together with scarcity training validation datasets in many countries lead us to propose fast unsupervised method for characterization areas. With FOTOTEX algorithm, this paper introduces texture-based characterize at t...

An urban energy transition is needed to address the two global environmental challenges of urbanisation and increasing carbon emissions. Urban energy landscapes represent the spatial patterns of urban energy systems which are visible in the built environment. Spatial regularities in the way systems of energy provision and use are organised are manifest in urban energy landscapes. Energy uses ma...

We engage and extend the concept of therapeutic landscapes through a case study at an urban American Indian health organization in the Midwestern United States. This case affords insights at the unique confluence of indigeneity and urbanization, prompting us to coin the construct "urban-indigenous therapeutic landscapes" to characterize such sites. These landscapes warrant urgent attention in l...

Urban fringes represent very complex landscapes because of their proximity and mutual dependency with cities and rural areas. These landscapes may be considered as transition entities characterized by fuzzy boundaries. An uncontrolled development of urban sprawl and land use changes in these areas may determine negative impacts on all natural, economic and social components. Thus, urban fringes...

Planning and developing urban tourism destinations must encompass landscape optimization to achieve healthy urban ecosystems, as well as for evolution sustainability. This study explored sustainable landscape planning by examining the optimization of landscape spatial distribution in an urban tourism destination–Nanjing, China—using an integrated approach that included remote sensing (RS), geog...

UbiComp in the Urban Frontier captures a unique, synergistic moment – expanding urban populations, rapid adoption of Bluetooth mobile devices, tiny ad hoc sensor networks, and the widespread influence of wireless technologies across our growing urban landscapes. The United Nations recently reported that 48 percent of the world's population current lives in urban areas and that this number is ex...

Northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) have been declining in abundance throughout their range for several decades, and perhaps a century. Although wildlife biologists are well aware of this trend, most attempts to understand the declines have examined only a few local populations in a limited geographic area or have examined declines at a very large scale without reference to specific popula...