The consensus on the requirements of specific policies that address the ongoing population
loss of cities in certain regions is growing. To design policies that can cope with this issue, a …

The phenomenon of urban shrinkage occurs not only in large and medium cities, but also in
small towns. Small town shrinkage comprises the core element of China's urban shrinkage …

Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPUA) can play a fundamental role in producing
Ecosystem Services (ES) ES at the local level improving sustainability of urban/rural …

This paper presents a spatiotemporal analysis to simulate and project urban sprinkling with
coupled cellular automata (CA) and multinomial logistic regression (MLR) model. Our case …

Small town shrinkage has become a global social and economic phenomenon. County
towns, which are characterized by large numbers, diverse types, important functions and …

The evaluation of city sustainability considering economic, social, and environmental
subsystems is a fundamental field in urban planning. It directly affects the quality of urban …

For the past ten years, the growth debate has been urban-centric, at least in Germany, while
rural areas have been largely associated with depopulation. Despite their importance, small …

The research on technologies and methodologies for (accurate, real-time, spontaneous,
three-dimensional…) facial expression recognition is ongoing and has been fostered in the …

This study analyzes the spatial and temporal characteristics of urban land use structure of
more than 18,000 small towns in China by using the National Urban Land Use Survey Data …

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) reaffirmed the most urgent
need to build actions to accelerate the restoration of policies to arrest and reverse the loss of …