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Urban Science, Volume 5, Issue 1

March 2021 - 33 articles

Cover Story: The study examines the resilience of nine selected neighborhoods from Shiraz, an old Iranian city. The selected cases represent three different urban form patterns, namely, traditional, semi-planned, and planned. Different indicators related to the physical configuration of lots, blocks, open and green spaces, and street networks are used to examine the resilience of each neighborhood to three major stressors, namely, earthquakes, extreme heat events, and floods. The results show that, overall, the physical form of the planned neighborhoods is more conducive to urban resilience. In contrast, the urban form of traditional neighborhoods was found to be less resilient. View this paper
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Articles (33)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,924 Views
17 Pages

Megaprojects, as a part of neoliberal urbanism, have become an important element of cities worldwide. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, the megaproject Santa Cruz Verde 2030 represents this type of project. The ambitious plan seeks to transform the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,410 Views
18 Pages

Gentrification on the Move. New Dynamics in Spanish Mature Urban-Tourist Neighborhoods

  • Josefina Domínguez-Mujica,
  • Jesús M. González-Pérez,
  • Juan Manuel Parreño-Castellano and
  • Dolores Sánchez-Aguilera

Mature tourism neighborhoods are a valuable laboratory for the study of socio-urban processes. In them, it is possible to analyze the urban transformations and social changes linked to tourism cycles: those corresponding to the stage of tourism invol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,089 Views
19 Pages

Takis Zenetos was enthusiastic about the idea of working from home, and believed that both architecture and urban planning should be reshaped in order to respond to this. He supported the design of special public spaces in residential units, aiming t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,397 Views
19 Pages

Since the onset of the global financial crisis, urban dwellers face an increasing number of obstacles in establishing themselves on the housing market. Against this backdrop, this paper addresses the variegated dynamics of real estate dispossession i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,562 Views
9 Pages

Cities Exacerbate Climate Warming

  • Lahouari Bounoua,
  • Kurtis Thome and
  • Joseph Nigro

Urbanization is a complex land transformation not explicitly resolved within large-scale climate models. Long-term timeseries of high-resolution satellite data are essential to characterize urbanization within land surface models and to assess its co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,700 Views
15 Pages

Disaster Recovery Practices and Resilience Building in Greece

  • Harry Coccossis,
  • Pavlos-Marinos Delladetsimas and
  • Xenia Katsigianni

This paper aims to elaborate on the notion of resilience by analysing the historical long-term impact of recovery processes that follow catastrophic events. In this respect, the approach reveals the importance of two major dimensions of disaster reco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,670 Views
18 Pages

Due to COVID-19, school districts in the fall of 2020 had to decide whether to conduct all classes in person or offer some or all of these classes virtually. Many school districts would decide on a program and then change their decision based on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,923 Views
19 Pages

Food and nutrition trends cater for many more functions than simply satisfying the physical need for food. Given the fundamental significance of everyday food it seems clear that it is also relevant in urban development processes. Nutrition trends an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,928 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2021

Across the world, capital cities are being relocated. Such practices have existed almost as long as capitals themselves. Against the background of the relocation of Indonesia’s seat of government from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, it is clear that such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,784 Views
18 Pages

26 February 2021

This paper examines the joint adjustment of population and employment numbers across America’s metropolitan areas during the period 1990–2015. Current levels of both are estimated, for 10 year periods, using their lagged (own and cross) levels and ei...

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Urban Sci. - ISSN 2413-8851