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Urban Science, Volume 6, Issue 3

September 2022 - 23 articles

Cover Story: Within the debate on climate-proof urban regeneration, “eco-districts” are becoming possible integrated frameworks between urbanism and ecology. In this context, the state of the art on sustainable development and urban resilience points to the French context as an emblematic scope of study. In particular, the French EcoQuartiers are considered as best practices toward mitigation and adaptation strategies, providing an important contribution for a grid of references. Nevertheless, research opens a debate on the potentials and limits of these practices, related on the one hand to the quality, innovation, integration, and dissemination of the design solutions, and on the other hand to the economic and social costs that find a synthesis in the concept of “greentrification”. View this paper
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Articles (23)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,521 Views
23 Pages

Effectiveness of Urban Climate Change Governance in Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia

  • Tigezaw Lamesgin Addis,
  • Belay Simane Birhanu and
  • Tesfaye Zeleke Italemahu

16 September 2022

Addis Ababa is one of the eleven cities in Africa that have been taking bold action in meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement. At the present time, the city is working toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enabling the city to be resili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,849 Views
16 Pages

13 September 2022

Cities and urban systems are the places most responsible for climate change, but at the same time they are the places where its effects are felt the most. A state-of-the-art analysis showed that Ecological–Environmental, Settlement, and Infrast...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,840 Views
12 Pages

Rapid Damage Estimation of Texas Winter Storm Uri from Social Media Using Deep Neural Networks

  • Yalong Pi,
  • Xinyue Ye,
  • Nick Duffield and
  • on behalf of the Microsoft AI for Humanitarian Action Group

13 September 2022

The winter storm Uri that occurred in February 2021 affected many regions in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The State of Texas was severely impacted due to the failure in the electricity supply infrastructure compounded by its limited connect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,029 Views
16 Pages

Examining Decomposition and Nitrogen Mineralization in Five Common Urban Habitat Types across Southern California to Inform Sustainable Landscaping

  • George L. Vourlitis,
  • Emma Lousie van der Veen,
  • Sebastian Cangahuala,
  • Garrett Jaeger,
  • Colin Jensen,
  • Cinzia Fissore,
  • Eric M. Wood,
  • Joel K. Abraham,
  • Kevin S. Whittemore and
  • Elijah Slaven
  • + 5 authors

13 September 2022

Urban landscaping conversions can alter decomposition processes and soil respiration, making it difficult to forecast regional CO2 emissions. Here we explore rates of initial mass loss and net nitrogen (N) mineralization in natural and four common ur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,140 Views
16 Pages

Understanding Sources and Composition of Black Carbon and PM2.5 in Urban Environments in East India

  • Balram Ambade,
  • Tapan Kumar Sankar,
  • Lokesh K. Sahu and
  • Umesh Chandra Dumka

5 September 2022

Black carbon (BC) and PM2.5 chemical characterizations are crucial for insight into their impact on the health of the exposed population. PM2.5 sampling was carried out over selected residential sites of Jamshedpur (JSR) and Kharagpur (KGP), east Ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,071 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2022

Africa is a particularly vulnerable continent to the effects of climate and environmental changes. Several tree planting projects were launched as one of the plausible solutions to climate action. This paper reviews the recent tree planting projects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,503 Views
12 Pages

3 September 2022

There could be many empirical contexts which could be applied in urban resilience. The general objective of this research is to assess urban expansion and its implication on urban resilience in regio-metropolitan cities in the Amhara Region (Gondar a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
83 Citations
20,981 Views
16 Pages

Barriers and Challenges to Waste Management Hindering the Circular Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Justice Kofi Debrah,
  • Godfred Kwesi Teye and
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

1 September 2022

More and more, waste generated in most parts of the Western world has been recycled and transformed into new circularity products. However, managing waste within Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), such as in Ghana, has become a challenge due to the continued...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,954 Views
27 Pages

To contribute to the debate on climate-proof urban regeneration, the illustrated study seeks to understand how the provision of new multiscalar, multidimensional, and integrated planning tools based on sustainable and resilient strategies can guarant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,599 Views
20 Pages

Green innovation precisely reflects China’s new development concept and is the general trend for urban development in the future. In addition, e-commerce might become an important breakthrough platform to promote urban green innovation. In orde...

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