AI Maps Exactly How Far Urban Lakes Cool City Streets
A machine learning study of 25 lakes in Da Nang, Vietnam, quantifies urban lake cooling with SHAP interpretability, finding the ...
Tag: urban planning
Satellite images reveal Ghana’s Garden City is losing its green soul
A decade of satellite imagery and surveys shows Greater Kumasi lost nearly a third of its natural areas while most ...
Rethinking Urban Greenery: A New Playbook for Fighting Deadly Air Pollution in Crowded Cities
A systematic review of 139 studies reclassifies urban green infrastructure into ten functional types, offering high-density cities a mechanism-based playbook ...
Noise Is Not Just Annoying: Landmark Review Reveals Its Heavy Socioeconomic Toll
A systematic review of 58 studies finds that environmental noise—dominated by transportation sources—is tied to economic losses, psychological distress, sleep ...
AI-Powered 4D City Maps Predict Which Buildings Will Fall and What Materials They Will Release
Researchers in Japan used a Weibull survival model and four-dimensional GIS data to forecast building-level demolition probabilities and construction material ...
Simulations Reveal the Hidden Traffic Threat to Brazil’s Newest Innovation District
Microsimulation of Brazil's HIDS-UNICAMP innovation district shows through traffic, not the district itself, could overwhelm its planned roads, and that ...
New GeoAI Framework Helps Cities Forecast and Map Future Traffic Congestion
NYU Tandon researchers have built a locally hosted GeoAI framework that combines LSTM traffic forecasting, hexagonal spatial mapping and a ...
Green Parks Can Displace the Poor—Unless Housing Rules Stop It
A comparative study of green regeneration in Malmö and Rotterdam shows that binding equity indicators and integrated social-housing governance, not ...
Scientists Map Flood Danger in Hamedan by Merging River Simulations with Urban Priority Rankings
A new study integrates HEC-RAS hydraulic simulation, GIS mapping and expert-based AHP weighting to identify flood-vulnerable critical urban centers in ...
Tsunami-planning platform passes real-world test with Chilean city officials
A tsunami resilience decision-support platform tested by 72 Chilean municipal officials scored above usability benchmarks and generated 45 concrete planning ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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