Many industrialized countries are exploring ways to facilitate the prioritization of efforts targeting improved thermal efficiency in an aging building stock. Older buildings, typically, have inefficient building envelopes and higher energy-consumption patterns relative to new construction,...

This paper presents a recursive spatial equilibrium model for urban activity location and travel choices in large city regions that anticipate major development or restructuring. In the model, producer and consumer choices that adjust quickly to stimuli reach temporary equilibria subject to...

Making realistic predictions about the occurrence of crime is a challenging research area. City-wide crime patterns depend on the behaviour and interactions of a huge number of people (including victims, offenders, and passers-by) as well as a multitude of environmental factors. Modern...

Peri-urban areas are generally highly dynamic and fragmented zones. This is due not only to their functional and physical diversity and fragmentation, but also because they are the focus of a wide variety of perceptions and interests. This plurality causes on-going planning difficulties,...

Central to the practice of urban planning is the provision of services, which has potential public health and social welfare implications. However, service area analysis, typically, employs arbitrary travel-distance thresholds. Through this study we provide an empirical investigation into the...

A case study is used to analyse metropolitan growth management implementation in Greater Vancouver, adding to a growing base of literature studying plan development and implementation through an actor-network theory (ANT) lens. It focuses on Metrotown, an office node initially designated in the...

Land-use data can accurately reflect spatial pattern dependence (ie, spatial autocorrelation) and a nonlinear relationship with driving variables. In this study land-use dynamics in the Paochiao Watershed, Taiwan are forcast for the next fifteen years by incorporating artificial neural networks...

Life-space is a promising method for estimating older adults’ functional status. However, traditional life-space measures are costly and time consuming because they often rely on active subject participation. This study assesses the feasibility of using the global positioning system (GPS)...

On the basis of the principle of sustainable development, land-use planning often requires a compromise between economic development and environmental conservation with social justice advocated. Given that values, perceptions, and ideas vary among stakeholders, land-use planning often involves a...

Cities are the single largest contributor to climate change. Thus it is important that, where possible, low-carbon infrastructure is integrated into cities to try to reduce CO₂ emissions. Planning (plans, policy, and process) can encourage this. In this paper international best practice is...