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The global urban transition increasingly positions cities as important influencers in determining sustainability …
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, through SDGs, the subnational level directly, thus making the case for an SDG on cities. Such an SDG should, by the same logic … connected cities” is considered useful, when accompanied by tangible and communicable indicators. …
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Sustainability (s) metrics and sociodemographic measurements (n = 10) for 50 populous U.S. cities. E, H, S indices combined from two … integration across the E, H, and S indices. Rank order of high performing cities was highly dependent on the E, H and S indices … with low performing cities. Our analyses demonstrate how publically available environmental, health, sustainability and …
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Suburban households living in spacious detached houses and owing multiple cars are often seen as main culprits for negative greenhouse consequences of urban sprawl. Consequently, the effects of sprawl have been mostly studied from the viewpoints of emissions from home energy consumption and...
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“Make cities more sustainable” is an omnipresent slogan in architecture and urban planning. This article is a … community, therefore avoiding sustainability becoming a euphemism for “doing good”. By definition, it can be concluded, cities … cities should be unsustainable in order to become efficient, seen from a global perspective including the hinterland. …
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In many countries, policymakers have used urban densification strategies in an effort to create more sustainable cities …
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