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Using deep learning and Google Street View to estimate the demographic makeup of neighborhoods across the United States Open
Significance We show that socioeconomic attributes such as income, race, education, and voting patterns can be inferred from cars detected in Google Street View images using deep learning. Our model works by discovering associations betwee…
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Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France Open
This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in François Hollande's campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing ex…
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Effect of people on placemaking and affective atmospheres in city streets Open
Monitoring the changes in people’s presences in public spcaes can play a vital role in enhancing placemaking research. This study investigated Herrengasse Street in Graz, Austria, and Oxford Street in London, the UK, using a systematic rev…
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A Precinct Too Far: Turnout and Voting Costs Open
I study the effects of voting costs—specifically, distance to polling location—using geographic discontinuities. Opposite sides of boundaries between voting precincts are observationally identical, except for their assigned polling locatio…
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WGV: An Australian Urban Precinct Case Study to Demonstrate the 1.5 °C Agenda Including Multiple SDGs Open
The WGV project is an infill residential development in a middle suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its urban planning innovation is in its attempt to demonstrate net zero carbon as well as other sustainability goals set by urban planning…
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Algorithmic Hotness: Young Women’s “Promotion” and “Reconnaissance” Work via Social Media Body Images Open
This article examines how the circulation of images on mobile and algorithmic social media platforms is gendered. We draw on data from a research project that examines the interplay between promotion, drinking culture, and social media. In…
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Analyzing the Impact of Urban Planning and Building Typologies in Urban Heat Island Mitigation Open
Urban and building typologies have a serious impact on the urban climate and determine at large the magnitude of the urban overheating and urban heat island intensity. The present study aims to analyze the impact of various city typologies…
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Social Return on Investment Analysis of the Health Precinct Community Hub for Chronic Conditions Open
Local governments and Health Boards are seeking to develop integrated services to promote well-being. Social participation and physical activity are key in promoting well-being for older people. The Health Precinct is a community hub in No…
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The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling Open
The adverse impacts of urban heat and global climate change are leading policymakers to consider green and blue infrastructure (GBI) for heat mitigation benefits. Though many models exist to evaluate the cooling impacts of GBI, their compl…
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Local demographic changes and US presidential voting, 2012 to 2016 Open
Immigration and demographic change have become highly salient in American politics, partly because of the 2016 campaign of Donald Trump. Previous research indicates that local influxes of immigrants or unfamiliar ethnic groups can generate…
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On the relation between visual quality and landscape characteristics: a case study application to the waterfront linear parks in Shenyang, China Open
In recent years, Chinese cities have begun to pay attention to their rivers, and a large number of waterfront linear parks have been built in the riverside areas, so that the public can easily enjoy their landscape and entertainment functi…
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Effectiveness of ABC Waters Design Features for Runoff Quantity Control in Urban Singapore Open
Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters (ABC Waters) design features—natural systems consisting of plants and soil that detain and treat rainwater runoff—comprise a major part of Sustainable urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) in Singapore. Although it …
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Building Performance Evaluation of a New Hospital Building in the UK: Balancing Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Performance Open
Hospitals are controlled yet complex ecosystems which provide a therapeutic environment that promotes healing, wellbeing and work efficiency for patients and staff. As these buildings accommodate the sick and vulnerable, occupant wellbeing…
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Urban Planning by Experiment at Precinct Scale: Embracing Complexity, Ambiguity, and Multiplicity Open
Urban living labs have emerged as spatially embedded arenas for governing urban transformation, where heterogenous actor configurations experiment with new practices, institutions, and infrastructures. This article observes a nascent shift…
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EXPLORATION OF OPEN DATA IN SOUTHEAST ASIA TO GENERATE 3D BUILDING MODELS Open
This article investigates the current status of generating 3D building models across 11 countries in Southeast Asia from publicly available data, primarily volunteered geoinformation (OpenStreetMap). The following countries are analysed: B…
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Human-centered Development of Underground work Spaces Open
Underground space is being diversified for more and more functions, including industrial, commercial, transport, educational, and recreational uses. Mixed-use complexes and multi-functional hubs are also being developed underground. As mor…
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Place vs. Node Transit: Planning Policies Revisited Open
A core contemporary planning approach is the promotion of transit-oriented developments (TODs) and in recent times cities have committed substantial financial investment to encourage sustainable precincts around public transport. Evaluatio…
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When Boundaries Collide Open
Scholars have long merged election and census geography to correlate census demographics and election results to infer political behavior (Ogburn and Goltra 1919; Gosnell and Gill 1935; Key 1949). Increasing accessibility of geospatially d…
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Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate the Demographic Makeup of the US Open
The United States spends more than $1B each year on initiatives such as the American Community Survey (ACS), a labor-intensive door-to-door study that measures statistics relating to race, gender, education, occupation, unemployment, and o…
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Partisan Dislocation: A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering Open
We introduce a fine-grained measure of the extent to which electoral districts combine and split local communities of co-partisans in unnatural ways. Our indicator—which we term Partisan Dislocation —is a measure of the difference between …
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Towards Integrating Heterogeneous Data: A Spatial DBMS Solution from a CRC-LCL Project in Australia Open
Over recent decades, more and more cities worldwide have created semantic 3D city models of their built environments based on standards across multiple domains. 3D city models, which are often employed for a large range of tasks, go far be…
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Understanding the Street Layout of Melbourne’s Chinatown as an Urban Heritage Precinct in a Grid System Using Space Syntax Methods and Field Observation Open
Melbourne’s Chinatown is the oldest in Australia. A large amount of research on this unique ethnic enclave has been conducted to elucidate its formation history, heritage significance, cultural influence and architectural features. However…
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Does More Choice Lead to Reduced Racially Polarized Voting? Assessing the Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting in Mayoral Elections Open
Politics in American cities is largely driven by racial group cleavages, and voting in urban elections is polarized along racial lines. Several cities have implemented a relatively new reform to urban elections called ranked-choice voting …
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A Teotihuacan complex at the Classic Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala Open
Lidar reveals the presence of a precinct at the Classic Maya city of Tikal that probably reproduces the Ciudadela and Temple of the Feathered Serpent at the imperial capital of Teotihuacan.
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Was Aztec and Mixtec turquoise mined in the American Southwest? Open
Isotopes indicate that Aztec and Mixtec turquoise comes from Mesoamerica, not the Southwest U.S. as previously thought.
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Exploring Carbon Neutral Potential in Urban Densification: A Precinct Perspective and Scenario Analysis Open
Decarbonising the urban built environment for reaching carbon neutrality is high on the agenda for many cities undergoing rapid expansion and densification. As an important urban form, precincts have been increasingly focused on as the con…
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A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero Precinct Open
Data governance is an emerging field of study concerned with how a range of actors can successfully manage data assets according to rules of engagement, decision rights, and accountabilities. Urban studies scholarship has continued to demo…
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Developing Heat Mitigation Strategies in the Urban Environment of Sydney, Australia Open
Heat island effects raise the ambient air temperature in metropolitan areas by 4–5 degrees Celsius and can reach 10 degrees Celsius at their maximum. This phenomenon magnifies cities’ energy difficulties while reducing comfort. Mitigation …
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Dense, mixed-use, walkable urban precinct to support sustainable transport or vice versa? A model for consideration from Perth, Western Australia Open
Within the majority of the literature on sustainable transport, it is accepted as ideal to arrange new urban growth in close proximity to major public transit services. While the literature on this subject of transit-oriented developments …
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Quality Assurance of Health Wearables Data: Participatory Workshop on Barriers, Solutions, and Expectations Open
Background The ubiquity of health wearables and the consequent production of patient-generated health data (PGHD) are rapidly escalating. However, the utilization of PGHD in routine clinical practices is still low because of data quality i…