The compact-city paradigm has received increased attention worldwide for its ability to achieve sustainable development. However, the claim that the compact-city paradigm contributes to sustainability has not been sufficiently verified. In this study we evaluate how major concepts in the...

Toxic sites worldwide expose millions to environmental and health risks. In response, public agencies in Western Europe and the United States have begun to identify and remediate contaminated sites. Public participation in cleanup decisions is a critical part of this process. US agencies...

A macrolevel approach for integrating regional economic models with urban metabolism <?tlsb=0.015w>models is developed. Challenges with consistency and aggregation persist in the integration of urban<?tlsb=0.015w> models between socioeconomic and environmental systems, and between the micro and macro scale. Using an...</?tlsb=0.015w></?tlsb=0.015w>

This paper explores the application of an informal shape grammar whose purpose is to generate new house designs in the hayat style. The hayat is a large shaded gallery open to the garden. It occupies the most important place in the composition of the house. The study is based on a corpus of...

Land-use strategies such as city compaction are the basis for creating livable communities with more accessible land-use patterns that reduce automobile dependency. In previous studies the various advantages of the compact city have been proven, especially from environmental perspectives, but...

Public transit service is a promising travel mode because of its potential to address urban sustainability. However, current ridership of public transit is very low in most urban regions -- particularly those in the United States. Low transit ridership can be attributed to many factors, among...

The utilization of multiagent technology for urban planning purposes has already received much attention with regard to predicting and evaluating the effects of different policy scenarios and plan alternatives. The generation of these plan alternatives, however, remains underexplored in this...

In this paper the wayfinding criterion always to ‘proceed in the direction of the target’, which is the core of the <?tf=“t906”>least-angle <?tf=“t905”>strategy, is examined. Although human route-selection behavior is much more complex than this, results of empirical studies presented in the literature suggest that...</?tf=“t905”></?tf=“t906”>