Urban function renewal is essential for modern megacities’ urban planning and economic developments. This paper investigates the urban function renewal in Shenzhen, China based on a complex network method. According to the points of interest an...
We describe an “Urban Observatory” facility designed for the study of complex urban systems via persistent, synoptic, and granular imaging of dynamical processes in cities. An initial deployment of the facility has been demonstrated in New York City...
By 2050, a majority of the global population will reside in urban agglomerations. Intensifying natural hazards are posing serious challenges to populations within the urban agglomerations. Therefore, it is critical to evaluate the resilience of urban...
The two prerequisites for monitoring SDG11.A “support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning” are the classification of the u...
14 January 2020
Risk events frequently occur in “complex urban public spaces” (CUPSs) and cause serious economic losses and casualties. To reduce the risks and enhance the system resilience, this paper formulates a theoretical framework to assess the res...
21 October 2022
In the context of global environmental change and continuous urbanization, enhancing urban resilience is an important way to improve urban emergency management capacity and achieve sustainable development of urban systems. It is of great significance...
The utilization of urban green areas has increased, but it is unclear whether urban green areas can decrease the concentration of particulate matter at an industrial complex city in Korea. We measured the extent of particulate matter (PM) reduction a...
This paper analyzed urban network and regions in China using a complex network model. Data of daily migration among 348 prefectural-level cities from the Baidu Map location-based service (LBS) Open Platform were used to calculate urban network metric...
Public safety presents high importance in urban sustainable development. Transportation safety is a significant section in public safety. Over the last couple of decades, as a sustainable means of public transportation, urban rail transit presents a...
In this paper, the complex network of the urban functions in Shenzhen of China under the lockdown of the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is studied. The location quotient is used to obtain the dominant urban functions of the districts in Shenzhe...
In the context of intensive urban development, urban complexes have emerged as crucial public spaces that address the needs of urban populations. However, current research on urban complexes is predominantly qualitative and lacks a rigorous scientifi...
Urban development within an urban agglomeration is unbalanced; the coordinated development of urban agglomerations is the core task of urban development. There are now many mechanisms and methods to promote the coordinated development of urban agglom...
Complex urban systems, such as multi-floor rail transit stations and integrated railway transport hubs, are termed “complex urban public spaces” (CUPSs). These CUPSs facilitate people’s lives, but, at the same time, are threatened b...
An urban public traffic network is a typical high-order complex network. There are multiple types of transportation in an urban public traffic network, and each type has different impacts on urban transportation. Robustness analyses of urban public t...
Gentrification nodes act as city centers in new urban communities where people can work, meet, eat, and exchange. The spatial organization of these nodes, considered complex adaptive systems, is a crucial factor in achieving climate comfort. This pap...
The classification of optical satellite-derived remote sensing images is an important satellite remote sensing application. Due to the wide variety of artificial features and complex ground situations in urban areas, the classification of complex urb...
Residential areas are primary functional spaces of urban built-up areas, representing urban social structure externally and influencing urban spatial fabric (SF). Chinese cities have increasingly experienced urban renewal following significant popula...
Ottoman külliyes have structured urban life and city landscapes for centuries through the integration of monumental architecture, public functions, courtyards, circulation, vegetation, and constructed landscape elements. This study examines whet...
An urban metro network is susceptible to becoming vulnerable and difficult to recover quickly in the face of an unexpected attack on account of the system’s complexity and the threat of various emergencies. Therefore, it is necessary to assess...
Amidst the paradigm shift in park city development from quantitative metrics to spatial performance, urban complex parks—a novel green space type developed privately yet fulfilling public functions—present an innovative approach to park provision in...
The rapid development of the motor vehicle brings convenience to our life; however, it also increases the burden on traffic networks and the environment, especially when road space is limited. Traffic calming has proved to be an effective solution fo...
Increasing urban extreme rainfall, driven by global climate change and rapid urbanization, highlights the deficiencies of existing studies on urban system responses to flooding. Current functional assessments of floods often neglect spatial variation...
This paper presents a GIS-based method for supporting local administrations in the design of urban green areas while taking into account the complexity of the whole system. The proposed method merges the criteria of availability, accessibility, attra...
Population constitutes the foundational element of cities, and population migration drives the transfer of production factors among urban areas. The population migration network serves as an objective representation of intercity interactions, bearing...
Urban nighttime lighting extends human activity hours and enhances safety but also wastes energy and causes light pollution. Influenced by building obstructions and surface reflections, light emissions exhibit significant anisotropy. Remote sensing c...
The bus system plays an important role in the urban public transportation infrastructure system, providing a convenient way for the masses to travel. However, the operational resilience and functional stability of urban transit systems are frequently...
Fast and accurate predictions of the flow and transport of materials in urban and complex terrain areas are challenging because of the heterogeneity of buildings and land features of different shapes and sizes connected by canyons and channels, which...
With global climate change and rapid urbanization, it is critical to assess urban flood resilience (UFR) within the social-economic-natural complex ecosystem in dealing with urban flood disasters. This research proposes a conceptual framework based o...
Accurate extraction of the spatial distribution of buildings from remote sensing imagery in complex urban environments is essential for urban planning and development. However, existing methods often suffer from high computational costs and insuffici...
During a fire evacuation, long lateral evacuation distances, large crowds waiting for evacuation at the same level, and easily panicked populations are common. This research aimed to look into the large-scale evacuation behavior of urban underground...
An underground water supply pipeline system is an integral part of urban infrastructure. The safety, stability, reliability, and efficiency of this water system are critical for the daily work and livelihood of the people dependent on it. However, wi...
21 October 2026
Urban seismic resilience represents a central concern in disaster risk management, reflecting the profoundly destructive nature of earthquakes. Conventional engineering-based assessment methods are often inadequate to meet the demands of risk respons...
This paper considers the confrontation problem for two tank swarms of equal size and capability in a complex urban scenario. Based on the Unity platform (2022.3.20f1c1), the confrontation scenario is constructed featuring multiple crossing roads. Thr...
This study aimed to develop a Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) to visualise how urban environment factors impact dementia and cognitive decline, and potential causal mechanisms. In Group Model Building workshops with 12 researchers, a CLD was created to ide...
With the rise of the low-altitude economy, there is growing demand for performance and safety evaluation of logistics drones and urban aircraft operating in complex turbulent environments. Conventional wind tunnels, however, face challenges in simula...
To address the challenges of dynamic obstacles, limited perception, and multi-UAV coordination constraints in complex urban environments, a hierarchical control framework based on a virtual leader-follower architecture is proposed, covering global pl...
Background and objectives: The urban underground complex integrates comprehensive architecture and subterranean space, presenting physical and psychological complexities. To mitigate the negative experiences associated with this complexity, we need t...
2 January 2022
Rapid industrialization and urbanization in China have led to a rapid increase in the number of brownfields, however there is a lack of identification of the spatial extent of brownfields in cities and accurate assessment of brownfield redevelopment....
Global urbanization has long been hampered by the “metrocentric priority” paradigm, with small towns—core hubs for urban–rural integration—severely undervalued in practical value. Amid China’s transition to high-qu...
Path planning technology is of great consequence in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In order to enhance the safety, path smoothness, and shortest path acquisition of UAVs undertaking tasks in complex urban multi-obstacle environments, t...
14 October 2021
Antibiotics used for the treatment of humans and livestock are released into the environment, whereby they pose a grave threat to biota (including humans) as they can cause the emergence of various strains of resistant bacteria. An improved understan...
Economic systems worldwide are facing an urgent need to build resilience, and digital inclusive finance (DIF), as a key component, can effectively enhance urban economic resilience (UER) through technological convergence and resource optimization. Ex...
For high-precision navigation, obtaining and maintaining high-precision point-of-interest (POI) data on the road network is crucial. In urban areas with complex terrains, the accuracy of traditional road network POI acquisition methods often falls sh...
Within the BlueHealth project, funded under the Horizon 2020 European Union research framework, a number of targeted experimental design interventions were used to test the effect and impact of planning and design on encouraging people to use various...
This paper presents the results of the application of a holistic procedure for a seismic vulnerability analysis of complex masonry aggregates which are ascribable as cultural heritage buildings. The methodological framework allowed us to properly ide...
Improving human settlements diagnosis is a key factor in effective urban planning and the design of efficient policy making. In this paper, we illustrate how network theory concepts can be applied to reveal the topological structure of functional rel...
Urban sprawl is nowadays a pervasive topic that is subject of a contentious debate among planners and researchers, who still fail to reach consensual solutions. This paper reviews controversies of the sprawl debate and argues that they owe to a failu...
Urbanization is a rapidly accelerating global phenomenon that challenges sustainable development, requiring innovative frameworks for understanding and managing urban complexity. This study explores the application of Complexity Theory in sustainable...
As urban rail transit systems enter a stage of high-quality development, accurate short-term passenger flow forecasting has become essential for efficient operation and management. To improve the accuracy and robustness of multi-step short-term passe...
Urban road user detection supports safety-critical applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems, but architecture assessment requires balancing predictive performance with computational efficiency under controlled and leakage-aware evaluation c...
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