ABSTRACT: One of the biggest challenges in urban research is to obtain spatial data with high enough spatial and temporal resolution. New tools based on mobile devices, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Web services allow the creations of platforms for collecting georeferenced information to study the complexity and dynamism of urban environments with a resolution, cost and frequency hardly reachable […]
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Assessing sustainable urban densification using geographic information systems
ABSTRACT: Facing the expansive growth of cities and the wasteful consumption of resources, cities must be measured in its immense complexity, and its parts and layers must be observed so as to assess its ability to support such pressures. Cities should look at themselves and define how far away they are from a sustainable model, which means a greater […]