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- ArticleJuly 2023
Sustainable Aging in Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis: Assessment Indicators and Interactive Visualizations for Policy Making
- Joan Perez,
- Araldi Alessandro,
- Boyer Thomas,
- Bridier Sébastien,
- Decoupiny Fabrice,
- Fusco Giovanni,
- Laperrière Vincent,
- Trémélo Marie-Laure
Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 WorkshopsPages 339–353https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37105-9_23AbstractAs the world’s population continues to age and urbanization accelerates, the focus of urban sustainability has evolved towards promoting the needs and well-being of older adults in addition to environmental concerns. Urban environments have a ...
- short-paperNovember 2022
A geospatial modelling framework to assess flood risk under future scenarios of urban form (vision paper)
SIGSPATIAL '22: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information SystemsArticle No.: 11, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3557915.3560945Simulations of future urban form (road networks, land use type, building density and building type) are needed to provide greater clarity of future urban flooding dynamics. This paper proposes an interdisciplinary and novel geospatial approach involving ...
- research-articleMay 2020
Flexible parking: a model for calculating parking norms based on urban form and accessibility factors
SimAUD '20: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban DesignArticle No.: 14, Pages 1–8Sweden enacted ambitious environmental goals to mitigate climate change and cut carbon emissions. Swedish public agencies have promoted restricting parking norms to decrease automobile travel. This paper proposes a model to calculate flexible parking ...
- research-articleJune 2018
An image-based method to evaluate solar and daylight potential in urban areas
SIMAUD '18: Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban DesignArticle No.: 35, Pages 1–8Solar irradiance and illuminance are important renewable resources that can significantly increase buildings' energy efficiency, associated to solar passive and active techniques and use of daylighting. In addition, it is widely acknowledged that the ...
- short-paperOctober 2016
City form and well-being: what makes London neighborhoods good places to live?
SIGSPACIAL '16: Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information SystemsArticle No.: 70, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/2996913.2997011What is the relationship between urban form and citizens' well-being? In this paper, we propose a quantitative approach to help answer this question, inspired by theories developed within the fields of architecture and population health. The method ...
- articleJanuary 2016
Investigating public health through urban form data mining with geographic information system and space syntax
International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), Volume 6, Issue 2/3/4Pages 167–186https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAMC.2016.080954In this paper, we investigate the importance of urban form towards public health using geographic information system GIS and space syntax methods. Hankou riverside area of China is selected as a case study. Urban fabric and street network are combined ...
- research-articleApril 2013
A study of the relationship between urban form and environmental performance for three urban block typologies in Paris
SimAUD '13: Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture & Urban DesignArticle No.: 23, Pages 1–10This study explores the relationship between urban form and environmental performance by analyzing three representative urban street block typologies proposed for Paris through her urban history. The performances of these typologies in terms of daylight ...
- ArticleApril 2012
Utilization of Urban Form Information for Extracting Commuting Travel Carbon Emission on Urban Road Network
ITNG '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Ninth International Conference on Information Technology - New GenerationsPage 895https://doi.org/10.1109/ITNG.2012.88With the rapid urbanization of developing country, the harm effect to environment of urban carbon emission in traffic has attracted wide attention, under the background of global climate change. The widely used methods, such as remote sensing and ...
- ArticleOctober 2009
Urban Cliamtology, Energy Conservation and Thermal Performance of Lhasa City
ICEET '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Energy and Environment Technology - Volume 01Pages 497–500https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEET.2009.126Lhasa City, with its high altitude, has a stressful cold-dry climate, which severely affects energy conversation and thermal performance. Meanwhile, none of the current energy resource options, including cow dung, coal, and natural gas, and the current ...