The generation of 3D models depicting cities in the past holds great potential for documentation and educational purposes. However, it is often hindered by incomplete historical data specialized expertise required. To address these challenges, we propose a framework city reconstruction. By integrating procedural modeling techniques machine learning within Geographic Information System (GIS) fra...

Many population centers in the American West rely on water from the Colorado River Basin, which has faced shortages in recent years that are anticipated to be exacerbated by climate change. Shortages to urban water supplies related to climate change will not be limited to cities dependent on the Colorado River. Considering this, addressing sustainable water governance is timely and critical for...

OBJECTIVES This study examined whether place and socio-economic status had differential effects on the survival of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Ontario during the 1980s and the 1990s. METHODS The Ontario Cancer Registry provided 29,934 primary malignant breast cancer cases. Successive historical cohorts (1986-1988 and 1995-1997) were, respectively, followed until 1994 and 2003. Diver...

The importance of a water supply and sewage treatment for urban sanitation is recognized in the modern world. Their contributions to public health have not, however, been well demonstrated by historical data, especially in Asian cities. In this research, we focused on the Asian cities of Tokyo and Singapore, which both developed significantly in the 20th century. We analysed their development p...

The Silk Road was a historical trade route that was most active in the 7-9 centuries. The old Silk Road is little more than history now, but the cities and countries spread out across the old networks have not entirely disappeared. Contemplating a new Silk Road oriented around electronic commerce invokes a paradigm shift in terms of the societal framework for changes to be enacted. In this pape...

This paper discusses the geometric correction of measured historical maps and the evaluation of accuracy with case studies on Silk Road maps, “Innermost Asia” and “Serindia,” made by Aurel Stein about 100 years ago, and Beijing maps, “Complete map of Peking, Qianlong period,” made about 250 years ago. The former case study deals with maps that cover thousand kilometers, and we delivered the err...

The world’s first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium BC. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring principle, and the appearance of a rational bureaucracy. Most assume cities and state-level social organization were deliberate functional adaptati...

The world’s first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium BC. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring principle, and the appearance of a rational bureaucracy. Most assume cities and state-level social organization were deliberate functional adaptati...

The world’s first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium BC. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring principle, and the appearance of a rational bureaucracy. Most assume cities and state-level social organization were deliberate functional adaptati...