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Urban sprawl, the uncoordinated and spatially dispersed expansion of urban areas into surrounding rural lands, poses significant challenges to sustainable development, resulting in the loss of agricultural and forest lan...

Spatial expansion and increasing population of cities is turning them into neuralgic points of the food supply chain. Due to its structure and the speed of life processes, food is delivered to urban centres through con...

La localidad de Ingeniero White (Argentina) se ubica en el suroeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires. En los últimos cinco años se han registrado en el área numerosas situaciones sinópticas que involucraron altas velo...

Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs) are pivotal in addressing the escalating energy and environmental challenges of hot climates, where extreme cooling demands and reliance on fossil fuels intensify carbon footprints. T...

Urban microclimate are localized climatic conditions within urban areas that are shaped by the buildings, population density, land cover, and vegetation, and that differ significantly from surrounding rural contexts. The...

Surface water recycling is essential for addressing water scarcity in arid regions like Iran. This study assesses the feasibility of enhancing surface water reuse in Tehran’s urban infrastructure by focusing on the cit...

The article proposes the concept of the ‘school threshold’ as an urban space for social, cultural, and educational exchange, connecting schools with their surrounding communities. It argues that these spaces can huma...

O artigo tem como foco os pixadores na cidade de São Paulo. Trata-se de jovens que percorrem as ruas da cidade deixando inscrita em muros, prédios e viadutos a sua marca. Tal prática, porém, não é vista com bons ol...

Zgierz, a town located in the central part of the Łódź Province, has a unique urban complex in the form of a craftsmen’s town built from scratch in the first half of the 19th century. This was a result of a settleme...

This article examines how floodwater can become a driver of urban resilience in Addis Ababa. Focusing on the Upper Kebena River basin, the study analyzes how rapid urbanization, steep geomorphology, low- infiltration soi...

The integration of wind energy into power systems has intensified as a result of the urgency for global energy transition. This requires more accurate forecasting techniques that can capture the variability of the wind r...

After reading this issue of VLC#13.1, it becomes apparent that, little by little, the magazine is helping to build knowledge around a series of recurring themes of interest, such as the links between architecture and the...

The choice of building façade materiality and composition plays a significant role in indoor and outdoor thermal comfort as well as energy efficiency. However, the carbon footprint of most construction materials contrib...

En la provincia de Buenos Aires, cerca del 14% de las escuelas se encuentra en áreas rurales. Es frecuente que estas escuelas tengan que realizar ampliaciones en sus edificios que permitan absorber la creciente matrícu...

As a key element of human settlements and fundamental features in maps, buildings play a critical role in urban planning and environmental monitoring. Automatically extracting buildings from remote sensing images is of s...

IntroductionToday, the rapid acceleration of urbanization has made it necessary to reconsider the balance among energy consumption, environmental sustainability, and quality of life. Buildings, which account for a signif...

Buildings serve as a key indicator of human land use, and building change detection plays a crucial role in urban growth and shrinkage monitoring, land use planning, and urban development assessment and management. Curre...

After an earthquake, numerous buildings are destroyed, and the frequency of structural collapses increases significantly in regions lacking comprehensive geophysical surveys. Furthermore, the number of deaths increases d...

Los mapas de riesgo para la identificación y evaluación de los efectos que algunos eventos naturales pueden ocasionar a la sociedad, son una herramienta indispensable en la gestión del riesgo y pueden ser utilizados f...

From around 1866, Noordwijk aan Zee morphed from a small fishing village into a fashionable seaside resort. Although this transformation was set in train by a local hotelier, it was not fully realized until 1887, thanks ...

Depopulation consists of the decrease in the number of inhabitants of a region, and in Europe, is concentrated in rural areas. The state-of-the-art reveals that there has been extensive research across multiple disciplin...

Fil: Healey, Mark Alan. University of California, Berkeley; Estados Unidos. La iniciativa que se realiza con este libro surge de la voluntad de los autores, primero de Jorge Francisco Liernur y luego de Pablo Pschepiurca...