Sustainable vertical urban neighbourhoods: an assessment framework of liveable high-rise built forms in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Rafif Alshebl

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Hanging latrines: far away from functional latrines within the very heart of an urban centre by Saha Shyantani

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Urban environmental problems by Robert A. Obudho, Rose A. Obudho, Otiso K. Mairura

“…Urbanization in Kenya is proceeding at a very rapid rate and in the last two decades, the urban population has been growing within the range of 6 to 8 per cent per annum. (1) This present growth and trend of urban centres has resulted in an immeasurable number of urban environmental problems such as slum and squatter settlements, lack of building maintenance, lack of drainage, water supply and sanitation, noise pollution, air pollu­tion and lack of solid waste disposal. …”
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Multiscale daylight modeling for urban environments by John Mardaljevic, George M. Janes

“…The quantity and quality of daylight in buildings is continually varying due to the natural changes in sun and sky conditions from one moment to the next. In urban settings, the dynamics of daylight illumination are ampli ed by the vertical extent of buildings and the density of the built form. …”
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Nitrate contamination in peri-urban Maputo (Mozambique) by Lucas Chairuca, Ismael Hassane

“…In almost all shallow wells and locally in some of the boreholes very high nitrate concentrations (till 500 mg/I) are measured. …”
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Map-matching in complex urban road networks by Washington Y. Ochieng, Mohammed Quddus, Robert B. Noland

“…The algorithm was tested on a complex urban road network with a high resolution digital road map. …”
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Establishing the zero-carbon performance of compact urban dwellings by L.A. Steijger, Richard Buswell, Vincent Smedley, Steven Firth, Paul Rowley

“…Therefore, it is very likely that zero-carbon compact urban dwellings may require a net off-site import of electrical and/or thermal energy.…”
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Premature saturation of water demand due to rapid urbanization by S. Abu Ubaiddha, M. Manoharan

“…Though the growth rate, migration, urbanization and industrial growth were considered, when designing the water supply schemes, the actual rate of increase in migration, urbanization and industrial growth are usually very much higher than the predicted levels. …”
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Anti-social behaviour, behavioural expectations and an urban aesthetic by Andrew Millie

“…In this article, the meaning of ASB is explored as a contested concept. The focus is on urban spaces, where it is argued that understandings of ASB are very much dependent on people’s behavioural expectations for a particular space and time. …”
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Enabling safe practices in wastewater-irrigated urban agriculture by David Galibourg, Rebecca Scott, Katherine V. Gough, Philip Amoah

“…The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that farmers, vegetable traders, street food vendors, and consumers adopt safe hygiene and food safety practices to protect occupational and public health. However, very few of these stakeholders are willing to adopt behaviours for which they perceive high costs and little if any, benefits. …”
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A vulnerability assessment of urban emergency in schools of Shanghai by Jie Yin, Yameng Jing, Dapeng Yu, Mingwu Ye, Yuhan Yang, Banggu Liao

“…In this case, appropriate adaptations need to be particularly targeted for specific hot-spot areas (e.g., new urbanized zones) and crunch times (e.g., rush hours).…”
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Incorporating productive use into water systems in urban Nigeria by Joachim I. Ezeji, Ian K. Smout

“…The aim is to identify how supply sustainability for these activities could be maximized as a veritable tool vital in the fight against poverty. …”
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Gender involvement in community waste management, urban Nigeria by A.O. Coker, A.O. Olowookere, M.K.C. Sridhar

“…Although women constitute a very important proportion of the world’s population, the link between women and the state of the environment has only recently begun to be recognized. …”
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Speed, speed variation and crash relationships for urban arterials by Xuesong Wang, Qingya Zhou, Mohammed Quddus, Tianxiang Fan, Shou'en Fang

“…There is, however, a dearth of research on this subject for the case of urban arterials in general, and in the context of developing nations. …”
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Developing monitoring indicators for urban micro contracts in South Asia by M. Sohail, D.W.J. Miles, Andrew Cotton

“…This paper draws upon recent research in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to develop a ‘benchmarking framework’ to study the time and cost performance of 162 small-scale contracts for urban infrastructure. The study found that costs were normally very close to target, but project duration generally far exceeded the target. …”
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The Japan National Stadium: Between architectural bigness and urban smallness by Aya Jazaierly, Andrea Canclini

“…The critique against ZHA’s project involved Japanese architects led by Fumihiko Maki; it stemmed from the urban consequences such an architectural object would have, bringing the protagonists into conflict at the very intersection of their nature as architects and urban planners. …”
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Health indicators in double burdened urban Maya children and mothers by Hannah J. Wilson

“…Stunted girls had the lowest activity energy expenditures. Conclusions These urban Maya tend to have access to basic sanitation and services and are at a very high risk for NR-NCDs with the co-existence of chronic under-nutrition (stunting) and overweight/ obesity. …”
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Lessons from scaling up urban sanitation development in Indonesia and Mozambique by Isabel C. Blackett, Peter M. Hawkins, M. Listyasari, Odete Muximpua

“…Indonesia and Mozambique are very different in terms of geography, culture, income, population and the type of sanitation used – and other aspects of development. …”
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Macroinvertebrate diversity in urban and rural ponds: implications for freshwater biodiversity conservation by Matthew J. Hill, David Ryves, James C. White, Paul Wood

“…Floodplain ponds were found to support taxonomically distinct communities compared to arable and urban ponds. A total of 13 macroinvertebrate taxa with a national conservation designation were recorded across the study area and 12 ponds (11 floodplain and 1 arable pond) supported assemblages of high or very high conservation value. …”
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Surfing the landscape of barriers and incentives to sustainability assessment in an urban development context by Cletus Moobela, Andrew Price, Abigail Bristow

“…Assessment of urban sustainability can be considered as a means to an end as it is often intended to guide decision-making in a way that contributes to sustainable urban development. …”
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Chronic overheating in low carbon urban developments in a temperate climate by Rob McLeod, Michael Swainson

“…Numerous studies have reported on overheating in urban contexts the majority of which have focused on the influences of external factors, such as: heat waves and climatic change. …”
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Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities by Robert Wilby, R Kasei, Katherine V. Gough, EF Amankwaa, M Abarike, NJ Anderson, SNA Codjoe, Paula Griffiths, C Kaba, K Abdullah, Sam Kayaga, Tom Matthews, P Mensah, C Murphy, PWK Yankson

“…Using dummy regression analysis, we find that tree shade reduces the number of very hot days (>40 °C) and nights (>30 °C) by about 12 and 15 days per year, respectively. …”
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The role of agglomeration economies for SME transnationalisation: Bypassing the global urban service nexus? by Michiel Van Meeteren

“…Advanced producer services played a very modest role in this regard: the global urban service nexus emphasized by world cities research is often circumvented. …”
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Visual Merchandising on Narborough Road by Johnny Xu

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Evaluating the institutional sustainability of an urban water utility: a conceptual framework and research directions by Sam Kayaga, Josses Mugabi, William Kingdom

“…This paper examines IS for urban water utilities, and how its progress could be tracked. …”
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Mives multicriteria assessment of urban-pavement conditions: application to a case study in Barcelona by Pablo Pujadas, Sergio Pialarissi-Cavalaro, Antonio Aguado

“…© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group There are very few methods that can be used for the assessment of pavement conditions. …”
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Roles and institutional arrangements for economic regulation of urban water services in sub-Saharan Africa by Dennis D. Mwanza

“…It is not a panacea to the enormous problems of urban water services but can play a very effective role. …”
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Improving the road works planning process - a case study of an urban English local authority by Rizwana S. Hussain, Kirti Ruikar, Marcus Enoch, Nigel T. Brien, David J. Gartside

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Memorialising Madiba in South Africa: the role of graphic heritage and toponymy in two contrasting urban places by Robert G. Harland, Yolandi Burger, Alison Barnes, Everardt Andre Burger

“…We position graphic heritage as an empirical research tool and as a form of critical inquiry that reveals very much (Sandton) and very little (Mamelodi) about the former president and rebel leader. …”
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Alternate water supply arrangements in peri-urban localities: awami (people’s) tanks in Orangi township, Karachi by Noman Ahmed, M. Sohail

“…As a consequence of this inadequacy, communities suffer from the poor level of service. Peri urban locations, especially low-income settlements have very limited access to municipal water supply. …”
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Socioeconomic status and biological factors on the nutritional health of an urban community of Cape Verdean children residing in Portugal by Ana Lucia Vieira Peixoto Andre

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Window Display on Narborough Road by Johnny Xu

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Daylight simulation for sustainable urban office building design in Dhaka, Bangladesh: decision-making for internal blind configurations by Md. Ashikur Rahman Joarder, Zebun Nasreen Ahmed, Andrew D.F. Price, Monjur Mourshed

“…This paper also demonstrates a case of decision-making between two most popular configurations (vertical and horizontal) of internal blinds used in urban offices of Dhaka. …”
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Forecasting low cost housing demand in urban area in Malaysia using a modified back-propagation algorithm by Nazri M. Nawi, Norhamreeza A. Hamid, Noor Y.B. Zainun, Ismail A. Rahman, Mahroo Eftekhari

“…The proposed algorithm can forecast low-cost housing demand very well with 6.62% of MAPE value.…”
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Intergenerational factors that shape the nutritional status of urban Maya households in Merida, Mexico. A 3-generations study. by Hugo Azcorra

“…Mothers and grandmothers showed very low average heights and high levels of abdominal obesity. …”
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Showcase Cinema de Lux in Highcross by Johnny Xu

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Computerized model to forecast low-cost housing demand in urban area in Malaysia using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) by Noor Y.B. Zainun

“…The forecasted proportions of urban population to total population in Malaysia are steadily increasing from 26% in 1965 to 70% in 2020. …”
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Maternal short stature does not predict their children's fatness indicators in a nutritional dual-burden sample of urban Mexican Maya by Hannah J. Wilson, Federico Dickinson, Paula Griffiths, Barry Bogin, Matthew Hobbs, Maria Ines Varela Silva

“…The research was performed in the south of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, a low socioeconomic urban area in an upper middle income country. The Maya mothers were very short, with a mean stature of 147 cm. …”
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Designing water supply and sanitation projects to meet demand in rural and peri-urban communities - Book 3: Ensuring the participation of the poor by Paul Deverill, Simon Bibby, Alison Wedgwood, Ian K. Smout

“…They demonstrate how water supply and sanitation projects in rural and peri-urban areas can be designed to meet user demand. …”
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Nutritional interventions for preventing stunting in children (Birth to 59 months) living in urban slums in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) by Sophie Goudet, Barry Bogin, Nyovani J. Madise, Paula Griffiths

“…Authors’ conclusions All the nutritional interventions reviewed had the potential to decrease stunting, based on evidence from outside of slum contexts; however, there was no evidence of an effect of the interventions included in this review (very low-to moderate-certainty evidence). Challenges linked to urban slum programming (high mobility, lack of social services, and high loss of follow-up) should be taken into account when nutrition-specific interventions are proposed to address LBW and stunting in such environments. …”
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UK smart cities present and future: An analysis of British smart cities through current and emerging technologies and practices [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] by William Brown, Melanie King, Yee Goh

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Comparative approaches to gentrification: lessons from the rural by Martin Phillips, Darren Smith

“…The study of urban gentrification has, after some delay, come to engage with these debates, which can be seen to pose a major challenge to the very concept of gentrification. …”
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Implications of urban development for water demand, wastewater generation and reuse in water-stressed cities: case studies from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by Daniel J. Van Rooijen

“…Urban water balance modelling and scenario development are very suitable tools for local planners and decision makers to adopt and apply in their respective cities.…”
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Graphic heritage and the making of place by Alison Barnes, Robert G. Harland

“…Each of these sites utilize everyday urban “graphic heritage” – shop front design, colors, typefaces and symbols – in the making of place. …”
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Dynamic scheduling model for the construction industry by Amer Fahmy, Tarek Hassan, Hesham Bassioni, R McCaffer

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The required conditions and success criteria for container-based sanitation viability and the potential for implementation in Kathmandu, Nepal by Richard N. Dewhurst

“…A consequence of these factors is the emergence of large, unplanned and disorganised high-density urban and peri-urban settlements, where the availability of adequate sanitation facilities is intolerably low, and the space required to provide improved facilities is in exceptionally short supply. …”
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A proposed method for generating high resolution current and future climate data for Passivhaus design by Rob McLeod, Christina Hopfe, Yacine Rezgui

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Multilevel logistic regression modelling for crash mapping in metropolitan areas by Marianna Imprialou, Mohammed Quddus, D.E. Pitfield

“…The spatial nature of traffic crashes makes crash locations one of the most important and informative attributes of crash databases. It is however very likely that recorded crash locations in terms of easting and northing coordinates, distances from junctions, addresses, road names and types are inaccurately reported. …”
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