Urban Studies - Science topic

Some of the journals where you can try are: Athens Journal of Architecture, Cities (Elsevier), European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, alphavillejournal you can find here @ alphavillejournal.com/, Urban Planning Open Access Journal

Dear Jyun-Kai Liang

Forget this one. First of all, their remark “in association with Scopus, SCIE and WoS is sheer nonsense. This is not how it works, what can happen is that a journal might be willing to publish (a selection) of conference papers (transformed to regular research papers or reviews) and when this journal happens to be indexed in Scopus then you might claim: your paper will be indexed in Scopus or something like this). Furthermore, if you click on the ‘journal’ link (scroll to above)

https://scholarsforum.org/event/journal-list.php?id=2409935 you find numerous problematic journals, like:

- African Journal of Biological Science, see for discussion about this nowadays dubious journalhttps://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_a_single_journal_rapidly_publish_over_500_articles_in_a_short_timeframe_while_maintaining_Scopus_indexing_standards

- Journal of Electrical Systems, too long story why but this journal is no longer trustworthy (just look at 2024 and see the staggering increase of (unrelated) papers) and their claim to be memner of DOAJ is fake https://journal.esrgroups.org/jes

- Migration Letters see here on RG https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_real_homepage_URL_of_migration_letters_journal

-Journal of Namibian Studies see my reply of July 27th, 2023, here https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_know_if_a_given_journal_is_Scopus_or_not

-Journal of Advanced Zoology see https://www.researchgate.net/post/Journal_of_Advanced_Zoology_ISSN_0253-7214_is_this_journal_hijacked

-European Chemical Bulletin see https://www.researchgate.net/post/Impact_factor_of_european_chemical_bulletin

-Webology see my reply of January 21st 2023 here https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_Do_I_know_if_any_Journal_is_fake_or_authentic/6

So, just based on these serious red flags I would say: avoid.

Best regards.

PS. It is a remarkably similar list as found for another fake conference https://www.researchgate.net/post/Fake_or_Legitimate

Thanks Gemechu Y. Ofgeha

Dear Dr. Ewe,

I do agree with Dr. Maru that, The application. of complexity, and science to urban problems is valid for multi-disciplinary teams. Complex systems offer a nice in-depth perspective by looking at modern civilization's pressing issues facing modern civilization from unique angles. It fills the gap between societal information and actual knowledge, as well as basic models of complicated systems. Throughout the studies, we conduct, emerging characteristics like robustness, critical transitions, and predictability are crucial.

Dear Amirhosein Shabani ,

AI can help deeply integrate sustainable strategies into the urban environment with real time information. AI can help urban planners decide routes that help with larger traffic management, equitable public transportation, smarter utilities with better efficiency.

https://www.aiplusinfo.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-and-urban-design/#:~:text=AI%20can%20help%20deeply%20integrate,smarter%20utilities%20with%20better%20efficiency.

Regards,

Shafagat

Many Thanks Khaled Mahmoud Heba

Hi Thais,

I'm fascinated by your research as I am also considering to do digital/ photography ethnography for my future research on women's entrepreneurship in poverty contexts. Have you read Sarah Pink and colleague's work on digital ethbography? You may find some inspirations there.

In Poland prof. Śleszyński led such research.

Walkabity has to have some real numerical basis, otherwise its just wasted words.

Mapping?

This is a good video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_bFBN5ZJE

Dear Pritiranjan Das

Here are some of the most prominent models for simulating urban growth. Besides, Jiří Kroc has provided a very good approach as well.

Thanks and regards

Gowhar Meraj

One of the rights of a citizen is his peace of mind. Lack of responsibility for this issue leads to lack of concentration, aggression and ultimately mental disorders of citizens. This is stated in Article 6 of the Charter of Citizenship Rights: Citizens have the right to participate in the performance of legal responsibilities and to provide the necessary financial resources, clean air, public green space and parks, clean and waste-free passages and a city without pollution. Have audio and ecology.

The main sources of urban noise pollution include factories, construction works, noises from the air conditioning system and noises from transportation (aircraft engine noises, car horns). Noise inside the home, such as the sound of televisions and vacuum cleaners, is also important.

Different sound levels based on the distance of each noise source.

Below are some frequently heard sounds with their approximate decibel levels at the same distance from the noise source. As you can see in the table below, it is defined in terms of "dB (A)" when the measurement is made on an "A" scale to simulate human hearing.

Dear Joseph

The City Reader by Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout (Routledge, 1996, multiple reeditions) is a very good start. Of course you should also consider Leonardo Benevolo, Françoise Choay. And Urban and Regional Planning by Peter Hall, Mark Tewdwr-Jones (Taylor & Francis)

You should also invite students to read in other languages. For example: Bernardo Secchi, Prima lezione di urbanistica (Laterza)

2 = Disagree

Use real time study and measure the actual data.

I am currently teaching social innovation to Master's student currently. If you are interested I could share with you the syllabus.

From a southern perspective, I will go for option 2. Like @Luis Fernando indicated, we need to rethink our understanding of city making especially in the global south. Obviously the city is being shaped largely by the people as opposed to 'our plans' - let's plan from the peoples perspective (inclusive, participatory planning). Miraftab's piece on 'insurgent planning' will offer you a clearer insight of my point of departure. Hope this helps

You can find what you are looking for in the urban development publications on the website of the Research Center of the University of Stuttgart.

Dear Wolfgang Haupt and Nanja Christina Nagorny-Koring ,

Here in Brazil, Costa (2008) created a Sustainable Urban Mobility Index (IMUS), which is a survey based on some areas, such as: accessibility, environmental aspects, social aspects, political systems, transport infrastructure, -Motorized, integrated planning, traffic and urban circulation, urban transport system. The document is in Portuguese, but for this we have Google Translate.

Regards,

Fábio Matos.

Content analysis is a research technique used to make replicable and valid inferences by interpreting and coding textual material. By systematically evaluating texts (e.g., documents, oral communication, and graphics), qualitative data can be converted into quantitative data. https://www.terry.uga.edu/management/contentanalysis/research/

Therefore, Use these tools as:

*URBAN GEOmatics

* Step-by-step narrative guide and the iterative approach

*since content analysis is relatively weak as compared to grounded theory or hermeneutic phenomenology, substantiate content analysis with thematic analysis and descriptive phenomenology

I definitely believe that SD goals can be a guide for achieving good urban planning. See especially No. 11 of UN S goal for 2030 -"Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" which recommends 7 objectives for sustainable urbanism. International Standards Organisation (ISO) is also working for the 17 UN goals by preparing standards for city development@ : Health standards, Climate action, Sustainable urbanism and cities are the first 3 standards in line with the said goals.

Dear Dr. Abeer Elshater

It will be great if there is a full description on the scope and aim of the journal if available.

Hello all,

I came across two very interesting web pages for NSSO Data.

https://nssounitlevel.wordpress.com and

I had queries on nsso extraction, weights and analysis with linking UFS blocks to unit level data to which both have helped.

I think ETH has the best programs in these areas.

Thanks, it looks interesting.

المدينة (البيئة الحضرية )...هي كائن معقد فيه جوانب اجتماعية واقتصادية وثقافية وحضارية وعمرانيةمعقدة ومتفاعلة ببعضها البعض .............وكل هذه الجوانب بحاجة الى مزيد من التخطيط الحضري ........وبحاجة الى منجزات كل العلوم الاخرى لحل مشاكل البيئة الحضرية ...........فعلى سبيل المثال عند تطبيق مبادئ المدن الذكية بحاجة الى قاعدة بيانات تفصيلية وتتحدث بشكل اةتماتيكي وفق برامج معدة لهذا الغرض ....وهذا يعني يجب ان يكون لدينا حكومة الكترونية وسكان لديهم خبرة في مجال الاتصالات فضلا عن بنية الكترونية في كل القطاعات الخدمية والاقتصادية والنقل والامن وووو....الخ حتى يتمكن المخطط الحضري ان يقوم بوضع اسسى لمدينة ذكية ....اي انها تبدا بحل مشاكلها بنفسها.......

The number of participants can not be 1% here for so large population size. You may take maximum number of participants as per your capacity.

Elena Andreyeva : Georgia State University, United States

Hi Sandycarmello,

it is important to recognise that the internet is fundamentally transforming the way economies work and will fundamentally alter how we build cities.

Consider also exploring a new settlement theory such as we are developing at http://beautilitydevelopments.com.au

Have a look at the publications below. I am certain there is something of interest

There has been plenty published on urban development in Istanbul. A few publications that covers various themes and aspects I have listed below. I sincerely hope htat they are helpful to you.

Tolga İslam, Current Urban Discourse, Urban Transformation and Gentrification in Istanbul Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)   Architectural Design     Year:2010, Volume:80, Issue:1, First page:58, Last page:63

Idil Arslan-Alaton; Gulen Iskender; Aysegul Tanik; Melike Gurel; Suleyman Ovez; Derin Orhon         Current situation of urban wastewater treatment plants in megacity Istanbul , Elsevier Desalination, Year:2009, Volume:246, Issue:1-3, First page:409, Last page:416

Ahmet Karaburun; Ali Demirci; I-Shian Suen, Impacts of urban growth on forest cover in Istanbul (1987–2007) , Springer-Verlag, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Year:2010, Month:07, Volume:166, Issue:1-4, First page:267, Last page:277

C. Nil Uzun, Globalization and urban governance in Istanbul, Springer-Verlag, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Year:2007, Month:03, Volume:22, Issue:1, First page:127, Last page:138

DIKMEN BEZMEZ    The Politics of Urban Waterfront Regeneration: The Case of Haliç (the Golden Horn), Istanbul             Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)            International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Year:2008

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ÖZLEM ÖZ; MINE EDER     Rendering Istanbul's Periodic Bazaars Invisible: Reflections on Urban Transformation and Contested Space         Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)            International Journal of Urban and Regional Research             Year:2012

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Sencer Ayata   Migrants and Changing Urban Periphery: Social Relations, Cultural Diversity and the Public Space in Istanbul’s New Neighbourhoods          Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)            International Migration             Year:2008

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Tahire Erman; Aslýhan Eken    The “Other of the Other” and “unregulated territories” in the urban periphery: gecekondu violence in the 2000s with a focus on the Esenler case, Istanbul           Elsevier            Cities   Year:2004

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Ülke Evrim Uysal         An urban social movement challenging urban regeneration: The case of Sulukule, Istanbul             Elsevier            Cities   Year:2012

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Kuyucu, T.; Unsal, O. 'Urban Transformation' as State-led Property Transfer: An Analysis of Two Cases of Urban Renewal in Istanbul      Sage Publications         Urban Studies Year:2010, Volume:47, Issue:7, First page:1479, Last page:1499

Arzu Kocabaş Urban conservation in Istanbul: evaluation and re-conceptualisation      Elsevier            Habitat International             Year:2006, Volume:30, Issue:1

Ozan Karaman            Urban Renewal in Istanbul: Reconfigured Spaces, Robotic Lives         Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)       International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Year:2012

Lovering, John; Türkmen, Hade           Bulldozer Neo-liberalism in Istanbul: The State-led Construction of Property Markets, and the Displacement of the Urban Poor       Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)           International Planning Studies             Year:2011, Month:02, Day:

Volume:16, Issue:1, First page:73, Last page:96

Dinçer, İclal     The Impact of Neoliberal Policies on Historic Urban Space: Areas of Urban Renewal in Istanbul             Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)           International Planning Studies   Year:2011, Month:02, Day:, Volume:16, Issue:1, First page:43, Last page:60

Lovering, John; Evren, Yigit     Urban Development and Planning in Istanbul    Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)             International Planning Studies   Year:2011, Month:02, Day:, Volume:16, Issue:1, First page:1, Last page:4

Demir, Hülya; Yilmaz, Ahmet   Measurement of Urban Transformation Project Success Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process: Sulukule and Tepeüstü-Ayazma Case Studies, Istanbul          American Society of Civil Engineers     Journal of Urban Planning and Development        Year:2012, Month:06, Day:, Volume:138, Issue:2, First page:173, Last page:182

Enlil, Zeynep Merey     The Neoliberal Agenda and the Changing Urban Form of Istanbul       Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)           International Planning Studies   Year:2011, Month:02, Day:, Volume:16, Issue:1, First page:5, Last page:25

Karaman, Ozan           Resisting urban renewal in Istanbul       Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)           Urban Geography             Year:2014, Month:02, Day:17, Volume:35, Issue:2, First page:290, Last page:310

Ozus, Evren; Turk, Sevkiye Sence; Dokmeci, Vedia    Urban Restructuring of Istanbul            Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)           European Planning Studies       Year:2011

Month:02, Volume:19, Issue:2, First page:331, Last page:356

Mills, Amy       Cultures of assemblage, resituating urban theory: A response to the papers on ‘Assembling Istanbul’             Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)           City      Year:2014, Month:11, Day:02, Volume:18, Issue:6, First page:691, Last page:697

Schoon, Danielle van Dobben ‘Sulukule is the gun and we are its bullets': Urban renewal and Romani identity in Istanbul             Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)           City      Year:2014, Month:11, Volume:18, Issue:6, First page:655, Last page:666

Eyüboğlu, Engin; Sema Kubat, Ayşe; Ertekin, Özhan   A New Urban Planning Approach for the Regeneration of an Historical Area within Istanbul's Central Business District         Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)           Journal of Urban Design Year:2007, Month:06, Day:, Volume:12, Issue:2, First page:295, Last page:312

Hi,

You can get pretty good data here: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

This US agency provides all kinds of data related with images from satellite from all around the world. There is unclassified and classified data. I recommend the landsat series which has data along the last decades.

Another alternative may be the Corine land-cover data (https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover) in Europe or a similar program for your study area.

Cheers

You say that it is significant, and it might be so. However, this should be your hypothesis and not your conclusion. The impact of greening can be measured as the increase in the total value of land associated with the elements of greening you identify. This is found by the use of hedonic analysis. Whether the value increase is worth it depends on the relative cost of the greening.

Be careful of correlation, especially spatial autocrorelation

OK. All the beat

Thank you Mr. Towe and Mr. Singh for information.

Are you denying that we recently had a near miss and lucky escape from a large asteroid?   I don't think this was overblown in the media.

Extract from my PhD

Dewey highlights that experience comprises of the transactions between mind and matter; where thinking individuals interact with a physical world. He states ‘all conduct is interaction between elements of human nature and the environment’ (Dewey, 1922:10). As highlighted by Almeder, whilst there are differences between strands of pragmatism, fundamentally, ‘all pragmatists are united in the belief that human existence inherently involves the active practice of making meaning through interaction with our environment’ (Almeder cited in Stark, 2014:88). It is argued that knowledge is generated through our transactions; our experiences, which occur within an environing context that consists of both social and physical realities. Dewey notes the importance of the physical environment in stating that ‘an experience is always what it is because of a transaction taking place between an individual and what, at the time, constitutes his environment’ (1938:43). The social dimension of the environing context is highlighted by Dewey’s colleague Mead who notes that human action is socially contextualized and human conceptualisation is a social reflection he states ‘we play the roles of all our group […] The inner response to our reaction to others is therefore as varied as is our social environment’ (Mead, 1913:377)

The relationship between the individual and their environment is viewed as two-directional.  Dewey states that ‘Where there is experience, there is a living being. Where there is life, there is a double connexion maintained with the environment’ (Dewey et al., 1917:8). He believes that we are simultaneously ‘of this world’ (shaped by our social environments and history), and ‘in this world’ (part of the world’s physical reality and able to affect the physical environment). Whilst every person’s action (agency) is affected by their environing context, influenced by the physical world, historical events and social constructions (structure), every individual is also regarded as having agency; an ability to make choices and to act on them.

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pragmatism is an approach that asserts that all experience is situated within an environing context that consists of material and social realities. When Dewey talks of transactions between mind and matter, aka experience, he is not just referring to ‘the totality of transactions between sentient organisms and their environing situation’ (Webb, 2007:1070). Thus, the concept of experience encompasses historical and collective experience that changes and informs our current and future transactions; our physical world, our personal and collective histories, as well as the actions of other individuals, are all acknowledged in shaping future experiences.

Sample survey would be logical for this. As long as you do random sampling to identify respondents, you can estimate parameters within the acceptable error margin.

Thanks

Thank you of your response wich are useful for me. Because in the case of Senagal, urban status done by only political decisions can't not to allow to distinguish rural and urban area. So official data on urbanization must  criticated to be the objectve realities of senegalese settlements 

 However there are rules in many countries, about the necessity of designing urban environment and making buildings accessible and usable for all groups of people including disabled ones, kids and old people, we see such problems you mentioned in many cities around the world. There are two major factors which without them it is impossible to make good cities for public. One is democracy and the other one is wealth in today's world lead by capitalism. Civil society makes the voice of disabled people heard and forces politicians to take proper actions. Such actions require socioeconomic and political stability to accomplish the goals in the long run. Vienna is one good example. Disabled people can use the city without getting help from other people in vast areas. Transformation of a city from the state that it's not usable for handicapped people to the desirable state is a long-term complex procedure involving network of many social groups, organizations, government, planning experts and people. 

Dear Edipo. I see this problem as a demand versus offering. But contextual and technological changes should be considered as well.

I would solve it studying some variables as: demographic change of the city in a range of 20-30 years, or more; incoming of new concurrents; profile of cab service users (average length of races, frequency of use by profile; main routes, for instance).

I think you could use linear programming to perform it, or expert assessment.

Best regards.

You might find the following paper, which is at least tangently related to your question, of some interest.

Larsen, James E. and John P. Blair. Price Effects of Surface Street Traffic on Residential Properties, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 2014, 7:2, 189-203. DOI: 10.1108/IJHMA-12-2012-0062.

Thank you, Bill, for the references. I didn't know of Walkyria Mor's work; obviously missed it in your new Palgrave book. Will look more carefully this time. I was a under a deadline to write my my policy & practice (remix) column (3 a year for 2 years) JAAL. Colin Harrison does the alternating three per year. I should have time at copyedit stage to add the Brazilian context. 

I'm enjoying the genre and just finished an 10-double-spaced page on multiliteracies. I think you will like it (if the editors of JAAL do). I see doctoral students, full( profs, and other folks using what I refer to as "so-called near- synonyms" of multiliteracies (multimodal reading and writing, new literacies, digital literacies, multiple literacies, and media literacy) in ways that I believe detract from  the concept of a pedagogy of multiliteracies. So, I wrote about 2500 words (the limit) on the importance in matters of policy and practice to distinguish between the near-synonyms and the initial take on the term. I realize language is dynamic, but when definitions are used loosely, it soon becomes a free-for-all. 

Beyond that, different subdivisions are needed for different applications.  Let me give you an example that I use in my own research in the redistricting processes in the various states:

Election data is available in the United States actually pretty quickly, but at the county level only.  What happens is that the clerk counts all of votes at a polling places and then calls those in to the Secretary of State.  These are then pushed up to the county level.  If you watch CNN or otherwise on election night, those are the maps you see.

Now, let's say you want to talk about the efficacy of the redistricting process.  To do that, I need to be able to simulate districts from the map that were not drawn in a biased manner from an established set of rules employed by the various states.  The county data is not as helpful because it is a dubious proposition that the counties themselves balance (and that's not how that is done anyway).  The districts are drawn by aggregating precincts, but that data is harder to come by.  The only complete set I can find for that is for 2008 (a landmark historical election because of the victory of a minority candidate for the first time).  There is a political philosophy called even swing which says that the effect of excitement or subduing of a voter base by a particular candidate can be assumed to be systematic across a population in an area.  By that level, if you want to predict the precinct level vote in 2012, you find the precinct votes for 2008 and the county votes for 2008, compute the percentage of the Democratic vote in that county that came from that precinct (and ditto Republican), and then use the 2012 county data to adjust the vote totals against that percentage.  That requires both levels of data, even if one is attainable from the other.  If you go back to my previous answer, that is terribly inefficient to have that only as the precinct file for that purpose.

So my previous answer is the theoretical answer.  It has to do with aggregation and the computational efficiency of it.  The practical answer is you often need multiple levels of that data for various reasons.  If multiple people need the same sorts of files, it is in the best interest of the distribution agency to take care of that for the users.

Thank you, Tom! Will look them up.

Hi Mithileysh,

It;s just a hypothetical situation of a tsunami plus flush flood in a city. No infrastructure at population level. Some satellite communication possible for Responders... 

Don't ask any questions. Instead, get the vehicle license numbers of people parked in the lot and the vehicles dropping off train travelers. From that, it may be possible to locate where the travelers originate. Use the data relating to these locations. Could this work?

For that purpose, you can try with QGIS open source GIS with AequlibriaE tool. You can download this from the plugins when downloaded QGIS. This plugin was a be experimental, and you can change it with knowledge of Python code. In this tool, you can find network calculation like shortest path, Impedance Matrix, Network preparation, etc.

See the publication by Bishop and Williams, Temporary City. Also, times square in NYC is a great example and the practice of <Temporary breakfasts>

hello Raoul,

thank you for your reply, I am happy to see the two interesting contributions you attached. Maybe too much trust can cause a lock-in situation where critical reflection is impossible. So yes,  trust might support or lubricate transformative social learning depending on types and levels of trust....and therefore contribute to the uncertainty and complexity. yes.

regards, Jifke

Nadege:

I have looked at "whitness" in the context of the classroom space which I hope can be of some help to your research:

Best regards,

Debra

Hey,

I do not know if I'll help, but I recommend:

Best regards

Arkadiusz Kampczyk

Dear Avi, We do not differ but we operate at different linguistic levels. Of course, as I have mentioned, in  the English-language cultural sphere governance in public policy is well-efined - not ruling (governing?) but participatory governance. My headache is deriving from another area, namely corporate governance. I do know what are linguistic problems with transferring that term to German, Dutch, not-mentioning the Slavic languages. So if somebody begins to apply a "cultural" dimension to governance or corporate governance, then a deeper linguistic approach is needed. BTW, you have opened up another interesting area. As a "moderate constructivist" with a relative good knowledge of social sciences and mathematics, I am beginning a project titled: "Good practices of corporate governance as a social construct". What does it mean "good"?  For me the dissemination of all "good" practices, governances, etc., is a wonderful example of the impact of constructivism upon the modern science. 30 years ago it would have been mathematically-grounded "optimal" governance. Now it's just a "good" one. "Good" according to what criteria, who is setting the criteria, are they universal, what are cultural subtleties of the "good"?Unfortunately, I have only a draft presentation on that in Polish. In September I will have a text in English submitted to a journal, or perhaps presented at conferences.  

P.S. My spelling errors are deriving from fast writing and not from ignorance. There is another story with "a" and "the" but they are sometimes difficult to comprehend by somebody form outside the Anglo-Saxon language sphere. Smiilarly as the Slavic "baroque" grammar is difficult to grasp by the Anglo-Saxons and many others. 

In the US, movement toward the use of prefabrication has been stymied by building codes that are really intended to protect the employment of certain trades (e.g., electricians and plumbers).

Agglomeration in cities are aggravating the problems of sane food production, safe health services and meaningful education for kids. We currently have the tools to provide decent education for rural kids and to pay proper prices for agricultural production, which are the main reasons rural folks seek to migrate.

But as long as we simply keep 'counting heads' in elections, the politicians have no incentive to put breaks in migration to cities, because it costs more to seek votes in rural areas. Unless we establish area-wise proportional representation in elections, giving more weight to rural voters, we won't see an end to over crowding in cities.

Using Bundle Adjustment, you can create 3D models from aerial or satellite imageries. In order to do this, different Softwares are developed. One that I have used is Photoscan.

Hi Pei, as a starting point I would recommend reading four relevant papers about literature reviews:

Cruz and Teixeira, 2010; Martínez-Fernández, Capó-Vicedo, Vallet-Bellmunt, 2012; Lazzeretti, Sedita and Caloffi, 2014; Hervas-Oliver, Gonzalez, Caja, Sempere-Ripoll, 2015.

Another option of software is Quantum GIS, which is opensource, highly customizable with LOTS of free plugins, developed using Pyhton (flexible, very popular between academics, good support community, and platform independent).   Whatever software you eventually decide to use, the crucial aspect to have in mind is theory and method to approach your study phenomena. Your aims and goals, as well as the intended application are relevant to a more precise answer. 

Try calculating the standard deviation of blue, green, and red wavebands on a per-pixel basis.  In ERDAS Imagine this function is called "Stack Standard Deviation."  I have generated this in portions of Accra using high-resolution satellite images (e.g., 2 m) and it seemed to provide higher values in slum areas.  You might want to run a focal mean (3x3 window) to smooth the result a little.

Dear Noel. You should consider the case of Tijuana (Mexico)-San Ysidro/San Diego (USA). The highest multipurpose (mainly workers and commercial trade,) temporary people flow around world (pedestrian, vehicle). Those flows are legal (visa) crossings and are registered by customs of both countries.

 Best regards!

Thank you @Eric expecting tutorial 

Dear Richard,

 I use in my teaching some discussions on the notion that can be found in:

* Vallance, Perkins and Dickson, "What is social sustainabililty? A clarification of concept"

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.01.002

* Littig and Griessler, "Social Sustainability: A Catchword between political pragmatism and social theory"

* Dempsey et al., "The social dimension of urban dvt"

DOI: 10.1002/sd.417

* Parra and Moulaert, "La nature de la durabilité sociale : vers une lecture socioculturelle du développement territorial durable"

and

* Mario Polese and Richard Stren, The Social Sustainability of Cities, U. of T., 2000

I hope these references are useful to you

Best regards

d.

Dear Rosa,

There is no single way to do it. On my Msc I did an evaluation of impacts on retail structure (you can one paper in English in here:

On my PhD I used a more conprehensive analysis. In this case you can also consider the concepts used in the evaluation literature. If you need further information let me know,

Thanks, all. I'm writing a book on how refugee resettlement transforms small cities (more than large cities) with an ethnographic focus on Fargo, North Dakota in the U.S. I need to update my literature review. I appreciate all of your suggestions and welcome more.

Hi Nadege,

I think you can have a look at Foucault's heterotopia,  Henri Lefebvre's spatial trialectics, and Edward Soja's Thirdspace. in all their conceptions, they argue that human-being create and modify (produce and reproduce) spaces which are not either place of oppressor or place of oppression. It means that the oppressor or just simply everyone who is influenced by power-relations creates a space within place of power through his/her everyday life experience. An example is Kubane where Kurdish people create their own spaces which is located in within the place of power, but governed and modified by themselves through their everyday life practices. Another example is West Bank or Gaza in occupied land of Palestine, in which Palestinians create their own living places through their everyday life experiences, through their resistance. Certainly this is a place of resistance, but it does not mean that resistance as its classic meaning is presented in the space, but as its influencing process through everyday life experiences of people who are living the oppression.

I hope it helps.

Roja

A second statement re. defining the urban:

The reason(s) why nineteenth century thinkers (including Weber, Simmel, etc.) found it necessary to write about the 'urban' has to do with several important socio-political issues of their time: the concentration of the landed aristocracy (a political obstacle from the point of view of the ascending capitalists) in the rural areas; the locational attraction of coal mines and the formation of slums nearby; the growth of the proletariat class in the cities and hence the threat of revolutionary forces there. One can go on, but the point is, I hope, clear: there were pressing and very specific reasons — mainly socio-political — why those who raised the question re. the urban in the nineteenth century did so. What are your reasons in the specific historical and geographic context in which you find yourself? If you cannot pin that down (analogous to what I sketched above), your search is likely to remain 'academic' in the negative sense.

Dear Marcos,

I can share a bit of my experience with you as I have been researching the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo) as an example of a multicultural city and its intercultural, educational narratives within everyday life biographies that occur in a given material space.

The aim of my research project was to reconstruct the dialectical relation between a human and a place as understanding this relation is fundamental while constructing and designing educational and pedagogical microsystem (that is the family, school, local community, community of the place and likewise), that altogether become education spaces of the self-creation.

I reconstructed the social-cultural potential and intercultural capital within the material space applying the fields of studies such as

1. human geography,

2. anthropology of place,

3. psychology of place,

4. environmental psychology,

5. place-conscious educatoin.

The research paradigms in such instance encompassed therefore symbolic interactionism and phenomenology.

As for literature I would recommend you the following (particularly the works of Yi-fu Tuan)

• Alexander C. et al., A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, New York 1977.

• Batty M., Longley P., Fractal cities, London 1994.

• Beatley T., Native to nowhere. Sustaining home and community in a global age, Washington 2004.

• Benko G., Strohmayer U., Space and Social Theory. Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity, Oxford 1997 .

• Canter D., Environmental interaction : psychological approaches to our physical surroundings, London 1999.

• Canter D., The Psychology of Place, London 2007.

• Case D., Contributions of journeys way to the definition of home: an empirical study of a dialectical process. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 16, 1996, 1-15.

• Casey E. S., The fate of place. A philosophical history, Berkeley 1997.

• Cresswell T., Place: A short introduction, Oxford 2004.

• Edwards R., Globalisation & Pedagogy: Space, Place and Identity, Hoboken 2002.

• Grumman C.F., The phenomenological approach to people-environment studies (w:) R. B. Bechtel, A. Churchman (eds), Handbook of environmental psychology, New York 2002

• Gruenewald D. A,. Foundations of place: A multidisciplinary framework for place-conscious education. American Educational Research Journal, 40(3): 619-654, 2003

• Gustafson P., Meanings of place: Everyday experience and theoretical conceptualizations. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21, 5-16, 2001.

• Kitchen R., Vallentine G. (eds.), Key texts in human geography, London 2008.

• Lang P., Pedagogy of place : seeing space as cultural education, New York 2004.

• Low S. M., Zúñiga D. L., The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture, London 2003.

• Løvlie L., The pedagogy of place, Nordic Studies in Education, 2007, Vol.27(01).

• Massey D., Space, Place, and Gender, Minnesota 1994.

• Massey D., Jess P. (eds.), A Place in the World? Places, Cultures, Globalization, Oxford 1995.

• Norberg-Schulz C., Genius loci. Towards a phenomenology of architecture, New York 1980 .

• Relph E., Place and placelessness, London 1976.

• Seamon D., Murgerauer, R. (red.), Dwelling, place, and environment. New York 1989.

• Seamon D., Phenomenology, place, environment, and architecture. A review of the literature. Environmental and Architectural Phenomenological Newsletter (E.A.P.N.): 6-7, 2001

• Somerville M., Davies B., et al, Place Pedagogy Change, Rotterdam 2011.

• Usher R., Putting space back on the map: globalization, place and identity, Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 34, nr 1, 2002.

• Wattchow B., M. Brown, A Pedagogy of Place. Outdoor Education for a Changing World, Monash 2011

• Yi-fu Tuan, Topophilia : a study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values, New York 1990.

• Yi-fu Tuan, Space and place : the perspective of experience, Minneapolis 1990.

• Yi-fu Tuan, Humanist geography : an individual's search for meaning, Staunton 2012.

 Good luck with your research!

What you want to find by using node place value method?

Ecosystems are changing from the local natural landscape to the global scales because  of population growth and urbanization, on the other word human activities are driving these changes and  threatening many of the ecological services that are essential to society. In this case the most fundamental human activities involve how we manage land use and shape our cities. A diagram is attached to illustrate the problems may arise during urban development. 

Dear Alexander,

I think the relationship between the private sector and the smart city concept is even closer: it is of ontological nature, as the smart city concept is, at least partially, a concept promoted by a series of private actors like IBM and Cisco.  Such actors aim at selling softwares that enhance the performance of urban infrastrutures using intelligent systems and big data collection and treatment. There are of course other definitions and geneaologies of the concept, but this one is the one that, in my opinion, is the most relevant in present-day cities.

The smart city tool is thus also a marketing offensive against the domination in urban infrastructures of firms like Veolia or Suez (Engie) that historically sold hardware (tubes, sewers, waterpipes, transportation infrastructures) and their exploitation as well as the commercialisation of the ressources. Such firms try to defend their domains of competence (and their profits) in promoting alternative forms of smart city.

This context, I think, is decisive as for the interpretation of the notion of smart city.

Hello Itzia,

I suggest you to use the ArcGis extensions, for this purpose. I did it in several occasion in the past years, for professional and academic purposes.

First, you should develop a DTM (Digital Terrain Model), or better a DEM (Digital Elevation Model, different from the DTM because you not only have the terrain height, but also the many elements on it, such as buildings and trees).

Then the Hillshade tool (http://help.arcgis.com/EN/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/009z/009z000000v0000000.htm) should be the step to do in order to project the shadow generated by the all elements (terrain hills or valleys, buildings, trees, etc.).

I hope this was useful.

Please let me know if you need more details, though on the internet there is plenty of material and tutorials ;)

Cheers,

Umberto

PS

Don't worry about the scale you are considering, as nowadays laptops are fare more powerful than the ones I used in 2011. You shouldn't have any problem even considering matrices of 1x1 metres.

Just to have an idea, in case you're interested, please check the paper I uploaded about the ICCSA conference of 2011, in Santander.