Over the last couple of decades, urban areas around the world have been engaged in
increasing initiatives, practices and experiments with a view to achieving social, economic …

In recent years, urban agriculture (UA) projects have bloomed throughout the world, finding
large applications also in the developed economies of the so-called Global North. As …

As a response to the challenge of rapid pace of urbanization and lack of reliable data for
environmental and urban planning, especially in the developing countries, this paper …

Understanding how urban compactness is linked to ecosystem services is crucial for
sustainable spatial planning and allows decision–makers to better assess the strengths and …

Rapid urbanization has been accompanied by a series of environmental and energy-related
issues. It is essential to better understanding the coupling relation between energy …

Since the 1990 s, transit-oriented development (TOD) has been globally recognized as an
approach to mitigate urban sprawl. However, few studies have explored the role of TOD in …

China's high-speed economic growth has been characterized by rapid urbanization and a
series of environmental issues. This study investigates the urbanization and eco …

Ambitious eco-city initiatives of the 21st century are commonly branded as carbon-neutral,
low-carbon, smart-eco, sustainable, ubiquitous-eco and zero-carbon emphasising their …

The debate over metropolitan sprawl and its costs has been ongoing since the early 1970s
in the US To inform the debate, this study uses principal component analysis (PCA) and …

China's unprecedented urbanization has resulted in accelerating urban sprawl, which is
threatening the country's eco-environmental quality and socioeconomic sustainability. In this …