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Urban Science, Volume 2, Issue 4

December 2018 - 27 articles

Cover Story: The use of night satellite images allows us to observe the intensity of the urban uses of space. This makes it possible to overcome the traditional analysis of the urbanization process based only on the level of artificialization of land cover. The cover image, from the new NASA SNPP satellite equipped with the VIIRS-DNB instrument, shows the nighttime image of the Iberian Mediterranean coast (Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands). It is an area that has experienced intense urbanizing pressure in recent decades, and is becoming one of the main urban areas in Southern Europe. The article studies the potentialities of night satellite images in this region to assess the intensity of urban uses and its seasonal variations throughout the year. (Image: Earth Observation Group, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)). View this paper.
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Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,153 Views
26 Pages

19 December 2018

Urban cyclists are exposed to many traffic-related air pollutants including particulate matter (PM) that may increase vulnerability to health effects. This study investigates second-by-second personal exposure to PM2.5 (fine particulate matter that i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,555 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2018

In this paper, we study the consequences of neoliberal urban policy, in terms of the segregation and social changes experienced in the Cabanyal neighborhood located in Valencia, Spain. In doing so, we analyze the process of residential mobility that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,079 Views
19 Pages

12 December 2018

Cotonou is the largest city and main economic centre of the nation of Benin, Africa. Following independence, the city has experienced major population growth resulting in the extensive development of slums on flood plains and marshes causing the loss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,025 Views
17 Pages

Bayesian Inference on Dynamic Linear Models of Day-to-Day Origin-Destination Flows in Transportation Networks

  • Anselmo Ramalho Pitombeira-Neto,
  • Carlos Felipe Grangeiro Loureiro and
  • Luis Eduardo Carvalho

10 December 2018

Estimation of origin–destination (OD) demand plays a key role in successful transportation studies. In this paper, we consider the estimation of time-varying day-to-day OD flows given data on traffic volumes in a transportation network for a se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,374 Views
14 Pages

3 December 2018

The city of Barcelona, like other cities in the world, suffers strong internal socio-economic inequalities in its neighborhoods. Numerous works have sought to detect, quantify, characterize, and/or map existing intra-urban differences, almost always...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,848 Views
17 Pages

29 November 2018

Responses from Central New Jersey residents (n = 290) to nine survey items about pro-environmental behaviors were analyzed for their connection to survey respondents’ local built and natural landscape characteristics. These nine survey items were of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,843 Views
17 Pages

29 November 2018

The contribution shares the approach of critical urban studies that have conceptualized urbanization more as a process than as a sum of spatial forms. Thus, the contribution studies the urbanization process not only from the point of view of the phys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,770 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Economic Crisis in Areas of Sprawl in Spanish Cities

  • Arlinda García-Coll and
  • Cristina López-Villanueva

28 November 2018

The development of dispersed urbanism in Spain ran parallel to the real estate boom and consolidated a new model of city sprawl based on the expansion of suburban areas. This process, which started in the mid 1980s, came to a halt with the onset of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,281 Views
18 Pages

27 November 2018

After the fall of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the socialist legacy became a matter of contested discourses, coming from the new national governments. However, with the recently awakening nostalgia for socialism and growing in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,855 Views
24 Pages

The Failure of Eco-Neighborhood Projects in the City of Madrid (Spain)

  • Elia Canosa Zamora and
  • Ángela García Carballo

27 November 2018

The objective of this article is to analyze the implementation of eco-neighborhoods in the city of Madrid. This is a new formulation that joins, within neighborhood scale, purposes of environmental sustainability with social and economic aims. First,...

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