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14 Citations
4,909 Views
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14 October 2019

Parametric instruments are employed broadly across the building industry. The study of applying parametric techniques to sustainable form-based planning, however, remains insufficient. This paper therefore critically assesses parametric techniques fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,170 Views
31 Pages

1 August 2024

The core promise of land use and zoning reforms is to metamorphose the car-dominated urban spatial structure—which is the legacy of use-based, modernist land use and transportation planning of the past century—into human-centered forms of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data in Urban Land Use Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,879 Views
26 Pages

Form-based design codes have emerged as a planning tool aimed at shaping the physical form of neighborhoods to reinforce local character and enhance sense of place (SoP). However, their effectiveness in delivering these outcomes remains underexplored...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,026 Views
24 Pages

14 March 2019

Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is one of the pioneering cities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region that have recently prepared urban sustainability agendas for their cities. Nonetheless, the recently deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,123 Views
35 Pages

Contemporary zoning-driven planning has been associated with traffic hazards, pollution and noise, loss of human scale and public space, socio-spatial separation, and rigid development patterns that impede incremental renewal. In response, the New Ur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Regeneration: A Rethink)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,779 Views
21 Pages

12 November 2019

This paper proposes a motion planning algorithm for dynamic nonholonomic systems represented in a second-order chained form. The proposed approach focuses on the so-called holonomy resulting from a kind of motion that traverses a closed path in a red...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Planning and Control for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,244 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2023

Dalian, a typical modern colonial city, originated in the late 19th century and was planned and built by Russian architects. Academics have traditionally focused on the unique qualities of the spatial form from the early stages of urban development,...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Conservation of Urban and Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,190 Views
15 Pages

Parametric techniques have been implemented for planning projects in urban communities and neighborhoods. Form-Based Code, a representative planning approach, uses parametric techniques towards an efficient planning process with three-dimensional vis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Environment and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,269 Views
20 Pages

From Form-Based to Performance-Based Codes

  • Dalit Shach-Pinsly and
  • Isaac Guedi Capeluto

14 July 2020

The performance of the built environment is an important concern affecting the quality of life and plays a critical role in every urban milieu. However, it generally disappears in the drawing plans. Current planning regulations do not always include...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,243 Views
27 Pages

Regulating Façade Length for Streetscapes of Human Scale

  • Marianne Gatti,
  • Markus Nollert and
  • Elena Pibernik

15 December 2022

This paper starts from the hypothesis that streetscapes with shorter façade lengths are more pleasant for pedestrians than long and monotonous façades. It analyses four case studies where short façade lengths were implemented by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Cityscape—Structure, Aesthetics, Perception)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,595 Views
20 Pages

25 August 2021

To solve the problems that exist in the multi-stage forming of the straight wall parts, such as the sheet fracture, uneven thickness distribution, and the stepped feature sinking, a new forming toolpath planning and generation method for the multi-st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Metal Forming Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,267 Views
23 Pages

5 December 2023

Using teach pendants or offline programming methods can generate tool paths for robot manipulators to carry out production activities, such as spray painting on objects of different geometries. This task, in which the complexity of painting the surfa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing and Processing for 3D Computer Vision: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,929 Views
30 Pages

25 April 2024

Modular cyber-physical production systems are an important paradigm of Industry 4.0 to react flexibly to changes. The flexibility of those systems is further increased with skill-based engineering and can be used to adapt to customer requirements or...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0: Smart Green Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,666 Views
33 Pages

iPlan: A Platform for Constructing Localized, Reduced-Form Models of Land-Use Impacts

  • Andrew R. Ruis,
  • Carol Barford,
  • Jais Brohinsky,
  • Yuanru Tan and ,
  • Matthew Bougie,
  • Zhiqiang Cai,
  • Tyler J. Lark and
  • David Williamson Shaffer
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

To help young people understand socio-environmental systems and develop the confidence that meaningful action can be taken to address socio-environmental problems, young people need interactive simulations that enable them to take consequential actio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,392 Views
20 Pages

12 December 2022

The form of an ocean city, as a physical space, has an important impact on the city’s social economy, environment, etc. Whether the internal composition of an ocean city is well organized determines whether its form is sustainable and whether i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Planning and Sustainable Land Use)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,472 Views
26 Pages

10 October 2019

Lesson planning is both an important and demanding task—especially as part of teacher training. This paper presents the requirements for a lesson planning system and evaluates existing systems regarding these requirements. One major drawback of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,400 Views
30 Pages

13 January 2023

Architectural heritage in historic districts, as a complex type of heritage, encompasses both the uniqueness of the building itself and also shows cultural and regional characteristics as a group, especially for the heritage site that contains multi-...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,385 Views
17 Pages

In Thailand, the concept and measurement of urban planning rely on conventional zoning, which includes land use, building usage, and open space ratio. Conventional zoning focuses on both the growth of buildings in terms of physical dimensions and the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,263 Views
22 Pages

Understanding the Interconnection of Sustainable Marketing and Local Wisdom in Driving Sustainable Consumer Behavior

  • Nyoman Sri Subawa,
  • Caren Angellina Mimaki,
  • Kadek Diah Aristianti Divayani,
  • Komang Dina Setyawati and
  • Ni Wayan Dita Eka Widiani

14 January 2026

Grounded in the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study explores how sustainable marketing shapes consumer attitudes, brand image, and brand trust, and their implications for sustainable purchasing behavior among micro, small, and medium enterprises (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,508 Views
32 Pages

26 May 2025

Notwithstanding the Korean Urban Regeneration Act 2013’s support for sustainable neighborhood regeneration programs, the number and scale of such projects relative to large-scale urban redevelopment remain limited. To address this imbalance, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Planning and Sustainable Land Use—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,669 Views
21 Pages

Complete Path Planning for a Tetris-Inspired Self-Reconfigurable Robot by the Genetic Algorithm of the Traveling Salesman Problem

  • Anh Vu Le,
  • Manimuthu Arunmozhi,
  • Prabakaran Veerajagadheswar,
  • Ping-Cheng Ku and ,
  • Tran Hoang Quang Minh,
  • Vinu Sivanantham and
  • Rajesh Elara Mohan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 November 2018

The efficiency of autonomous systems that tackle tasks such as home cleaning, agriculture harvesting, and mineral mining depends heavily on the adopted area coverage strategy. Extensive navigation strategies have been studied and developed, but few f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Planning and Control for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,804 Views
12 Pages

4 January 2020

The paper presents an approach of the blockchain and smart contracts utilization for dynamic robot coalition creation. The coalition is forming for solving complex tasks in industry applications that requires sequential united actions from the severa...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
12,963 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2017

One of the problems urban areas are facing is the coupled effect of climate change and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. This article attempts to demonstrate the potential of spatial planning to reduce the UHI effect and, hence, to contribute to cl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Heat Island)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,488 Views
20 Pages

4 December 2020

The urban sprawl process of Ulaanbaatar has changed dramatically due to population growth. Ulaanbaatar city land management master plan defined the settlement zone area suitable for living as 33,698 ha. However, due to unrestricted urban sprawl cause...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,198 Views
16 Pages

Urban planning, as well as the type of city in which it takes place and is promoted, has changed a lot in Spanish cities since the return to democratically elected municipal governments in 1979. This work seeks to characterise the transformation that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fragmented City: International Mobility and Housing in Spain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,298 Views
13 Pages

Predicate-Based Model of Problem-Solving for Robotic Actions Planning

  • Oleksandr Tsymbal,
  • Paolo Mercorelli and
  • Oleg Sergiyenko

26 November 2021

The aim of the article is to describe a predicate-based logical model for the problem-solving of robots. The proposed article deals with analyses of trends of problem-solving robotic applications for manufacturing, especially for transportations and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics in Robot Control for Theoretical and Applied Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,011 Views
23 Pages

20 January 2023

Pengpeng Beach, near Niaoyu Fishing Harbor, is an offshore sandbar that formed on the west side of Niaoyu Island in Penghu County, Taiwan, in 1995. Due to siltation, Pengpeng Beach also forms a sandbar tail that stretches toward the Niaoyu Fishing Ha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development of Green Ecological Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,798 Views
12 Pages

14 February 2022

While there is good evidence supporting the positive effect of planning strategies like implementation intentions on the relationship between intention and behavior, there is less evidence on the moderating role of individual differences in planning...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Behavior Change: Theories, Methods, and Interventions)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,428 Views
25 Pages

Application of Path Planning and Tracking Control Technology in Mower Robots

  • Lixing Liu,
  • Hongjie Liu,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Jianping Li and ,
  • Pengfei Wang,
  • Shuteng Liu,
  • Jinxuan Zou and
  • Xin Yang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2024

Path planning and tracking is the most basic technology for mowing robots, among which the performance of algorithms has a great impact on their intelligence and efficiency. Based on the research of relevant references on mower robots, it mainly focu...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,598 Views
12 Pages

Form Factors of an Economically Valuable Sal Tree (Shorea robusta) of Nepal

  • Sony Baral,
  • Mathias Neumann,
  • Bijendra Basnyat,
  • Kalyan Gauli and ,
  • Sishir Gautam,
  • Shes Kanta Bhandari and
  • Harald Vacik
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 July 2020

The accurate prediction of the volume of standing trees is a prerequisite for planning and decision making in sustainable forest management. In Nepal, limited information on form factor (i.e. the ratio of the volume of a tree to the product of its ba...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,014 Views
38 Pages

22 December 2021

Biophilic design is developed in urban planning concepts for cities—in line with sustainable development. A case study of converting a former paper mill in Nanterre into a university campus showed what factors influence the emergence of the bio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Diversified Approach to Mitigate Crises in Urbanized Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,446 Views
13 Pages

6 February 2019

This study employs probabilistic analysis to evaluate the life cycle embodied environmental cost of Korean apartment buildings, with a focus on six major construction materials. To this end, the bill of materials was analyzed for 443 Korean apartment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Use and Management of Natural Resources in Buildings and in the Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,205 Views
18 Pages

Research on Path Planning Technology of a Line Scanning Measurement Robot Based on the CAD Model

  • Huakun Jia,
  • Haohan Chen,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Yichen Huang and ,
  • Yang Lu,
  • Rongke Gao and
  • Liandong Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 August 2024

With the development of robotics and vision measurement technology, the use of robots with line laser scanners for 3D scanning and measurement of parts has become a mainstream trend in the field of industrial inspection. Traditional scanning and meas...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,627 Views
29 Pages

Multi-Objective Coordinated Planning of Distributed Generation and AC/DC Hybrid Distribution Networks Based on a Multi-Scenario Technique Considering Timing Characteristics

  • Yongchun Yang,
  • Xiaodan Wang,
  • Jingjing Luo,
  • Jie Duan and ,
  • Yajing Gao,
  • Hong Li and
  • Xiangning Xiao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 December 2017

With increased direct current (DC) load density and the penetration of a large number of distributed generation (DG) units in alternating current (AC) distribution networks (DNs); a planning approach that considers transforming some of the AC lines i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,552 Views
14 Pages

Kinematic Modeling and Motion Planning of the Mobile Manipulator Agri.Q for Precision Agriculture

  • Giovanni Colucci,
  • Andrea Botta,
  • Luigi Tagliavini,
  • Paride Cavallone and ,
  • Lorenzo Baglieri and
  • Giuseppe Quaglia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 April 2022

In recent years, the study of robotic systems for agriculture, a modern research field often shortened as “precision agriculture”, has become highly relevant, especially for those repetitive actions that can be automated thanks to innovat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Machine Design in Italy 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
112 Citations
33,733 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2022

The 15-minute-city concept represents an increasingly popular urban policymaking and planning paradigm that seeks to shift attention to the neighborhood as a “place” rather merely a spatial and functional planning unit. The core premise o...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Science and Humanities for Smart Cities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,917 Views
21 Pages

25 February 2022

A critical review of urban planning scientific aspects of the study of the globalization of settlement systems, including the impact of cross-border and transcontinental links on global urban and interethnic integration and communication processes, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,305 Views
17 Pages

Ecological Planning of Manufacturing Process Chains

  • Berend Denkena,
  • Marcel Wichmann,
  • Simon Kettelmann,
  • Jonas Matthies and
  • Leon Reuter

25 February 2022

Production planning is a critical step for the implementation of sustainable production. It is necessary to consider energy and resource efficiency in all planning phases to promote sustainable production. In this paper, an approach for environmental...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation and Its Opportunities for Sustainable Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,823 Views
25 Pages

8 December 2022

As a systematic, preventive, and structural adjustment method of improving building energy conservation and carbon emission reduction, urban planning has received extensive attention. However, due to the insufficient interface between energy-saving t...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,051 Views
20 Pages

27 October 2019

Industrial parks have various sources and conversion forms of energy. The many uncertainties in the planning of industrial park integrated energy systems (IPIES) pose a great risk of regret in planning schemes; thus, an expansion planning method for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Operation, Regulation and Planning of Power and Natural Gas Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,503 Views
12 Pages

2 November 2021

The present study identifies suitable sustainable public policy for the administration of archaeological zones in Mexico, particularly in the states of Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo (Maya region). Given the rapid economic growth of the Southeast...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heritage as a Driver of the Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,316 Views
41 Pages

27 August 2014

Groundwater is a form of natural capital that is valued for the goods it provides, including ecosystem health, water quality, and water consumption. Degradation of groundwater could be alleviated through social investment such as for water reuse and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability and Institutional Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,259 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2017

During the past few decades, the Swedish spatial planning system has experienced numerous problems and challenges. In particular, there have been changes in legislation and an increased neoliberalisation of planning that gives private actors a larger...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transport Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,238 Views
10 Pages

16 July 2019

The Process Capability Index (PCI) has been widely used in industry to advance the quality of a product. Neutrosophic statistics is the more generalized form of classical statistics and is applied when the data from the production process or a produc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in Neutrosophic Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,055 Views
11 Pages

Smart Techniques in Urban Planning: An Insight to Ruled-Based Design

  • Carlo Pisano,
  • Giuseppe De Luca and
  • Ahmadreza Shirvani Dastgerdi

22 December 2019

In the last decades, the ideology of managing the city form and performance through pre-determined plans has gradually lost its validity. Some contemporary urban planning theories suggest the application of smart design techniques for managing urban...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Urban Planning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,328 Views
16 Pages

20 April 2023

The rise in the issue of the metropolitan dimension in the last decades has sparked new needs to conceptualize vast urbanized territories and develop a structured reflection on the various forms of urban–rural relationships. Urban planning in g...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
416 Views
24 Pages

9 October 2026

Municipal climate plans differ in policy purpose and documentary coverage, complicating comparisons of their preparedness for implementation. This study examines how plan-based implementation readiness varies across four climate-planning episodes in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Adaptation and Mitigation in the Urban Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,775 Views
26 Pages

11 August 2023

With the implementation of China’s rural revitalization strategy, the societies and economies of villages have been comprehensively developed, but the carbon emissions in rural areas have also been increasing year by year. Therefore, low-carbon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition: Land Use Change and Its Environmental Effects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,284 Views
17 Pages

Classification of Spatial Objects with the Use of Graph Neural Networks

  • Iwona Kaczmarek,
  • Adam Iwaniak and
  • Aleksandra Świetlicka

Classification is one of the most-common machine learning tasks. In the field of GIS, deep-neural-network-based classification algorithms are mainly used in the field of remote sensing, for example for image classification. In the case of spatial dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,804 Views
42 Pages

19 January 2024

Coastal spaces are shaped by human activity. Approaching their urban spaces allows us to analyse the concepts of structure, growth, and management. Highlighting the problems associated with these concepts can lead to intensive scientific analysis and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods and Tools for Spatial Modelling of Urban Processes: Multidimensionality, Temporality and Territoriality)

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