Context The sustainability of urban areas is essential to the sustainability of regions, nations,
and the world as a whole. Urban sustainability indicators (USIs) can play an important role in …

Essential for society to function, the production and consumption of food, energy, and water
(FEW) are deeply intertwined, leading to calls for a nexus approach to understand and …

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that
preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our …

The interconnection of urbanization trends and environmental pressures, are due to the
rising demand for resource consumption, waste production and greenhouses gas …

Energy–water nexus plays a prominent role in developing sustainable roadmap for cities.
The energy-related water and water-demanded energy have been mostly treated as two …

The IoT and big data technologies have become essential to the functioning of both smart
cities and sustainable cities, and thus, urban operational functioning and planning are …

Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban
policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social–ecological …

This paper considers the limits and potential of 'urban metabolism'to conceptualize city
processes. Three 'ecologies' of urban metabolism have emerged. Each privileges a …

This study examines the distributional equity of urban tree canopy (UTC) cover for Baltimore,
MD, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, CA, and …

Energy consumption has always been a central issue for sustainable urban assessment and
planning. Different forms of energy analysis can provide various insights for energy policy …