We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city’s current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant neighborhoods. We propose a model with residential externalities that features multiple equilibria at the neighborhood level. In particular, developing a resi...

Solutions of RG equations for β(α) and α(Q) are found in the class of meromorphic functions satisfying asymptotic conditions at large Q (resp. small α), and analyticity properties in the Q 2 plane. The resulting α R (Q) is finite in the Euclidean Q 2 region and agrees well at Q ≥ 1 GeV with the M S α s (Q).

Residential land-use expansion, an important component of urban sprawl, has a variety of drivers and environmental implications. The goal of this article is to address the timing, location, and mechanisms of different types of residential development. Using 10 land-parcel data and aerial imagery taken between 1950 and 2000 for eight townships in southeastern Michigan, we sampled and classified ...

This paper presents a residential water demand forecasting model using a back propagation neural network (BPNN) in the context of residential buildings in Korea. The water demand of a building demonstrates a highly complex and non-linear phenomenon reflecting such features as geographic and climatic and special types of buildings. We describe the impact of several potential determinant factors ...

Respite aims to alleviate the stress and burden of caring for someone with an intellectual disability and/or autism. Respite can take place in a number of different ways, but most commonly occurs in a residential setting. Based on survey and interview data with carers (CAs), service users and stakeholders (STs) in a northern city in England, this article explores some of the perceived or actual...

T his study investigates the factors affecting the demand for new residential buildings in urban areas of Iran during 1976-2010. The demand function for new residential buildings in urban areas was estimated and then the existence of a long-run relationship among variables of this function was studied using the Bounds testing of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Co-integration procedure. The t...

This paper focuses on analyzing the spatial pattern of residential burglaries in London, Ontario. It discusses the problems associated with using geo-referenced data on residential burglary incidents. The relative risk ratio is applied as a measure of the intensity of residential burglaries. The highest relative risks of residential burglaries are found in the core area of the city and the risk...

As a result of rapid urban economic development and improvement in living standards, urban residential electricity consumption in China is increasing quickly. Although the factors which influence the urban residential load are complex, an objective analysis followed by the setting up of a logical urban residential load forecast model can offer a scientific basis for decisions regarding urban po...

This paper presents an OSGi based service infrastructure for delivering, managing and developing context aware services in connected homes. An OSGicompliant residential gateway (RG) is deployed in connected homes to bridge the Internet and the home networks and devices. A device access system architecture has been embedded in RG and devices to facilitate device discovery, capability sharing and...