Urban Management - Science topic

Dear Researchers, Scientists, Friends,

Digital twins are advanced simulation models that map real cities in a virtual world, enabling the testing of different development scenarios and the real-time response to potential risks. The research question is whether this technology will enable better city management in terms of spatial planning, transport, energy consumption and crisis response (e.g. climate change, overpopulation, infrastructure failures). Research shows that using digital twins significantly improves the effectiveness of urban management compared to traditional planning methods. On the other hand, traditional urban planning methods are still more effective because digital twins require a huge amount of data and expensive systems. Therefore, perhaps digital twins are only effective when combined with traditional urban management strategies and local policies. Therefore, the use of digital twins can optimise the functioning of cities through better management of resources, transport and infrastructure. Simulations make it possible to test different urban policy options, thus avoiding costly mistakes and ensuring a better quality of life for residents. However, the implementation of this technology requires significant investment in digital infrastructure, as well as an adequate level of education in the use of data. In addition, there is the question of the ethical aspects of such management - who will have access to this data and can it be used to surveil citizens?

Some aspects of my following articles are related to the above-mentioned problem:

APPLICATION OF DATA BASE SYSTEMS BIG DATA AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE IN INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATION

I have described the issue of Industry 4.0/5.0 technology applications, including Big Data Analytics, with the aim of improving data and information transfer and processing systems, in the following articles:

THE QUESTION OF THE SECURITY OF FACILITATING, COLLECTING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION IN DATA BASES OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

The Big Data technologies as an important factor of electronic data processing and the development of computerised analytical platforms, Business Intelligence

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Researcher's

I am currently exploring potential topics for my doctoral thesis in urban planning. Given your expertise and contributions to the field, I would greatly appreciate your insights and suggestions.

I am particularly interested in [urban management, urban housing, capital change, city connectivity and artificial intelligence], but I am open to exploring various themes that align with current challenges and innovations in urban planning.

If you have any ideas or recommendations for compelling research questions or topics that you believe would be valuable to explore, I would be incredibly grateful for your input.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

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I am focusing a research about the role of luxury as whole, -not only of luxury brands or operators- in recent urban trasformations. Did someone face off the same problem? What about processes of city branding and urban marketing? and the effect on the city/territory? 

I am working on smart city projects, and have become very interested in Alibaba's global template for urban management through AI

Alan Smart

U of Calgary

What will be the specific purpose of the urban strategic development framework? Does it has relation with the urban planning

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Urban Growth management strategies have been using widely to mitigate the negative impacts resulting from scattered and leap-frog urban development. Some cities are still experiencing urban sprawl while employing the Urban Growth Boundary for a long time. What went wrong?

The target is to examine urban management process of the city.

I need a list of blockwise codes used by NSSO in the survey for sampling of households in urban area.

what requirements for the urban planning decision-making?

I mean, MCDM does not exactly mean filling data in a model and running it. Real aspects of the problem must forcefully be considered. Perhaps the best way is illustrate this by some examples.

1-Precedence. Say that you have two projects A (build a government complex in an island in the middle of a city river), and B (Building a bridge connecting mainland with the island). How do you introduce the fact that to build the complex you first need to build the bridge? That is B > A.

2- A MCDM study calls for selecting either a tunnel, a bridge or cross the river using ferries. You only need one solution, that is, one project with ‘1’ score and the others with ‘0’ scores. How can you model this condition?

3- You are calling an international tender for supplying equipment for a hydro electric power plant. What provisions do you have in your model to allow joint ventures, which is two or more companies submitting together?

4- How do you consider in your modelling that if project C is selected, then project D can’t be selected?

5- How you tackle in your portfolio of projects the fact that there are already projects under different stages of construction, different completion dates, and you want to incorporate new projects? Of course you must indicate the model that projects underway must be finished; how do you model this?

6- In the last case you have a fixed annual budget to spend, however, each project has different annual percentages of completion and that annual budget can’t be surpassed

7 How do you manage to select projects in a portfolio when funds are not enough to execute them all? Say you need 32,457,617 Euros and only have 28,745,892 Euros.

8- - You are building a pulp mill in the north shore of a river, as well as developing crops agriculture, building two dams for water storage  for irrigation purposes. You know that villages and towns downstream are arguing that they will receive contamination of from the plant, and more salinization as well as less water. How do you manage to satisfy all parts involved?

9- A multinational operate in farming, that is, different crops, cattle rising, fruit farms and juice concentrate plants in several countries. How do they manage to select which crop to cultivate in each country, how many hectares of each one, where to build the fruit farms and considering that to build the concentrate plants they need first to have fruit available nearby? How do you tackle this multiple scenarios problem?

10- A City Hall wants to execute a five year plan for the city infrastructure including sewage and LED street lighting, social undertakings such as developing community centers for youngster to get kids off the streets and building recreational parks, and similar projects for other areas. The whole plan has a healthy budget that will be handed over from the central government on an annual basis. How do you model your initial decision matrix for making the corresponding selection and be sure that each area receives the amounts of money it needs?

11- A DM delivers a ranking of projects for a City Hall ten years plan. Projects G-A-M-N-B-C-Z-Y are chosen and in this order of importance. The DM submits this plan to the Mayor and he asks ‘Where is project X that I promised to be built during my campaign for office? The DM explains that project X was originally considered but was not selected by the model. The Mayor says ‘I don’t really care what the mathematical model days, I want project X incorporated into the plan’, believe me that this happens and very often. How do you manage to get this project X in the final solution?

12- You have a budget for city infrastructure with money coming from Federal, Regional and Urban sources, each one for different purposes. The plan calls for renovating new bridges, demolishing old ones or building new ones. How do you manage to model this?

13- How do you consider correlation between criteria? Assume that you have determined that under certain conditions criterion ‘Snowfall intensity’ is highly correlated with ‘Speed’. How do you model that?

14- In an oil refinery, you have production, storage and distribution. How do you manage a model in order never run out of storage and never leave clients without oil products? It is relatively easy using linked algebraic equations. However, how do you introduce those equations in your model?

15- Once a MCDM is solved, the DM informs stakeholders which is the solution. How is the DM answer when one stakeholder asks how market share, demand and competition affect the selected alternative when the three of them vary simultaneously, with different positive and negative rates and independently?

16- How do you model a problem with say 245 alternatives and 891 criteria and with many of them related?

17- In an urban road project with three different alternatives, there is a survey amongst people affected by the projects. How do you introduce the statistical data in the initial matrix?

These are real problems and a MCDM method should be able to solve them.

 If some practitioner ever found himself in any of these problems I believe that all RG community will be very grateful in knwing how it was solved and usinn which model

Would like to seek for your opinion on the above question. As observed apparently, prefabrication construction in residential housing only takes place, successfully, in those developed countries; while traditional cast in-site construction is still prevalent in those developing countries. Does it mean that prefabrication construction is viable in a country only when that country achieved certain degree of development?   

Data - Quickbird

Year - 2015

Motive - to develop 3D views and calculate volumes of select buildings, in an urban database

On the one side, multicriteria analysis is widely used to combine different phenomena, indicators, and stakeholders' perspectives.

On the other one, multivariate analysis seems quite underdeveloped in the current scenario.

Since the road to sustainability is populated by complex and heterogeneous phenomena, could multivariate techniques support decision-making processes within urban and regional planning?

Thank you for your suggestions.

According to recent changes in the Italian Law, several cities must face off their metropolitan dimension and provide a new plan for this area. I am interested in recent experiences and examples which started form another point of view, based on local cooperation and voluntary actions for setting up scope-based associations, as well as multi-puropose associations of municipalities, that can became a forum and/or a strategic table in which discuss the management of wider areas and work on a common vision/strategy for a large territory. Especially I would like to know samples related with tourism, transportation, urban sustainability and metabolism experiences, but also other kinds of focuses are warm welcome.

what are the parameters of transformations in urban form which can be regulated by the various regulatory interventions or may be the contraventions and violations in the building regulations which has resulted in the transformations.

How private urban projects led by companies differ from the projects in scientific institutions and what are the effects of these urban projects on the social and physical environment of the city. It is known that economy and human requirements are main concepts in urban planning field and we most balance them but what is really happening is a struggle between them.

I am doing a master thesis about this subject and I would like to get any help by giving ideas, references or telling the new concepts on this debate. 

Thank you in advance.    

What I am trying to question here is, is it the mindset of the people that restricts the development or there is something else which does not support?

Specifically in India, people do not respond the way they respond in the other countries towards different kinds of spaces and towards all kind of development.

Managing Historic Fabric with Regeneration Approach.

Hi all, I am working on the topic which is focused on Protected Landscape Areas in the Czech Republic. I would like to aim to verify claims which were raised as arguments against PLA. I would like to ask you, is there any publication which follows up PLA and their impact on regional development? Is there some publication which is focused on factors of regional development in protected areas? Is PLA problem for regional development or is it an advantage? Do you know some examples? Because one of the claim (the mayors of the affected municipalities told) was that the declaration of new PLA will mean "only limitation", restriction of movement in PLA, restriction of regional development, restriction of state administration, slowing the development of municipalities etc. 

Thank you so much for your answers.

Have a nice day.

I'm finishing my doctoral thesis on this subject. And before do it, I want to be sure to have all the previous information.

How we can price(calculate cost) garbage collection in different municipals of a city? These municipals in a city are out-sourcing all garbage collections using contracts with different companies. The municipals doesn't know real cost for contract of a year of own area and we need estimate it.

Currently companies offering their costs to municipals. for example we need 100 working sweeper, 20 cars for garbage collection etc. and total cost is N. But we need estimating to obtain real total cost for every area for better negotiating (preferably using simple and understandable methods). what do you suggest?

* We only want focus on municipals not households because households aren't directly paying garbage collection costs.

Thanks.

Precipitation on impermeable surfaces in cities frequently creates a surge in runoff during storms that is difficult to capture or divert. At the same time, some of these same cities are located in areas of water shortage.  Not long ago, during a discussion about water supply and drought (for example, in California), the idea of diverting storm water runoff into groundwater recharge came up.

I am not a civil engineer. I would be interested in learning about the feasibility of this idea and whether there are any designs or prototypes for this. .

 In many municipal areas, combined sewage outfalls (CSOs) are being replaced by underground storage tanks and tunnels for storm water runoff. The surge in surface water is retained and held, then pumped back out later, treated (it has a significant coliform count), and discharged. What if the treated storm water were pumped into an injection well or allowed to percolate through a sand channel to recharge the aquifer instead of discharged into waterways?

 There are obviously a lot of questions to be answered. Would the volume of water retained be worth it, would it be too expensive, would access to groundwater create an opportunity for inadvertent contamination from the surface, is there a mismatch between where the water falls and where the aquifers lie and therefore excessive costs for transport, etc.

I am aware of a few communities that have used direct connections with the aquifer to recharge groundwater with surging stream flow during precipitation events.