Research on Improving Environmental Quality by Addressing Imbalances in Urban Development

Highlights in Science Engineering and Technology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 135, P. 136 - 142

Published: March 25, 2025

This article explores the connection between social issues caused by urban development imbalance and environmental problems in cities. By referencing magazines academic papers, study focuses on three major challenges resulting from as uneven population distribution, single-industry economies, disparities community development. It investigates relationships these factors their impact issues. Through case studies of Madison, Detroit, northeastern China, Pittsburgh, this examines among industries, education, environment. Additionally, it provides a detailed analysis industrial, agricultural, educational, energy patterns two cities different scales southern China Hangzhou Fu’an. Based analyses, paper identifies strengths both comparing developmental cities, concludes that at stages can address alleviate imbalances through policies, industrial transfers, remote agreements.

Language: Английский

Ecologically Regenerative Building Systems through Exergy Efficiency: Designing for Structural Order and Ecosystem Services

Land, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(9), P. 1375 - 1375

Published: Aug. 28, 2024

Regenerative design is being increasingly explored in urban environments to counteract and adapt the changing climate degradation of ecosystems. A critical success factor for implementation regenerative evaluation building systems relation ecological performance benefits. In biological ecosystems, availability high-quality energy, called exergy, structural order can be used as indicators efficiency on-going processes. Structural refers organization systematic arrangements biotic abiotic elements within an ecosystem based on available space interactions with goal form a functional system. Ecological processes use exergy generate services (ESs) upon which human survival that other living organisms depend. this article, ESs generation are proposed accumulation systems, respectively, evaluate what extent they ecologically regenerative. Based insight, strategies derived from functioning ecosystems describe how buildings could become habitats host living, non-living, hybrid optimized thermodynamic ESs. This research suggests when improve (an concept) implement generating similar facilitate more effectively consume resources and, this, destroy but also accumulate exergy.

Language: Английский

Understanding amenity and travel time preferences, and how this differs: towards the equitable translation of new urban imaginaries to practice

Planning Practice and Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 21

Published: Dec. 22, 2024

This paper aims to understand public preferences concerning the amenities people prefer easy access and how much time they would spend getting there. The empirical data draw from a national survey (1491 responses) in Aotearoa New Zealand. For amenity, we reveal citizens significantly local shops greenspace. active travel time, 20 minutes was an upper threshold, regardless of mode, beyond which are more likely drive or not travel. We also find that women those with limited mobility adapt behaviour most between day night, mainly due safety concerns.

Language: Английский