{"title":"Developing computable sustainable urbanization science: interdisciplinary perspective.","authors":"Mingxing Chen, Liangkan Chen, Yang Li, Yue Xian","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00048-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00048-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this era of drastic global change, the Anthropocene, carbon neutrality and sustainable development have become common twenty-first century human challenges and goals. Large-scale urbanization is indicative of human activities and provides an important impetus for environmental changes; therefore, cities have become an important stage in which to promote a more sustainable future development of human society. However, current researchers study urbanization issues based on the perspectives and tools of their respective disciplines; therefore, a holistic and comprehensive understanding of urbanization is lacking due to the insufficient integration of multidisciplinary study perspectives. We explored the construction of interdisciplinary computable sustainable urbanization and introduces a conceptual framework for interdisciplinary urbanization, as scientific computing supports and integrates the natural sciences and humanities to simulate urban evolution and further observe, explain, and optimize human and environment interactions in urban areas. We advocated for the establishment of major international research programs and organizations in the field of sustainable urbanization, and the cultivation of talented young professionals with broad-ranging interdisciplinary interests. Expectantly, we hope a livable planet in the Anthropocene era could be created by developing sustainable urbanization and achieving carbon neutrality.</p>","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9207868/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40400977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An integrated cognitive framework for understanding modern cities.","authors":"Renzhong Guo, Wuyang Hong, Biao He, Weixi Wang, Xiaoming Li, Minmin Li, Lin Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00065-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00065-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Modern urban development urgently requires a new management concept and operational mechanism to encourage the exploration of frameworks for cognizing and studying urban characteristics. In the present study, modern cities are first understood from the perspective of their basic theoretical evolution. Each modern city is seen as a complex system of organic life forms. Urban information science propels modern urban research in the direction of rationality. This paper also presents the new characteristics of modern cities (and how they have changed) in relation to external structure and internal functions. It examines the generation of urban problems and governance adaptability. On this basis, this paper proposes a cognitive model for studying modern cities, integrating basic theoretical, methodological support, and governance systems. It discusses the basic rationale and core idea for constructing each of these three systems. The research aims to guide and implement modern urban construction and sustainable development in a more effective way.</p>","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":"36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9542450/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33543049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hamidreza Asgari, Rajesh Gupta, Ibukun Titiloye, Xia Jin
{"title":"Challenges, perceptions, and future preferences for post-secondary online education given experiences in the COVID-19 outbreak.","authors":"Hamidreza Asgari, Rajesh Gupta, Ibukun Titiloye, Xia Jin","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00058-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00058-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To gain a better understanding of online education status during and after the pandemic outbreak, this paper analyzed the data from a recent survey conducted in the state of Florida in May 2020. In particular, we focused on college students' perception of productivity changes, benefits, challenges, and their overall preference for the future of online education. Our initial exploratory analysis showed that in most cases, students were not fully satisfied with the quality of the online education, and the majority of them suffered a plummet in their productivities. Despite the challenges, around 61% believed that they would prefer more frequent participation in online programs in the future (compared to the normal conditions before the pandemic). A structural equation model was developed to identify and assess the factors that contribute to their productivity and future preferences. The results showed that lack of sufficient communication with other students/ instructor as well as lack of required technology infrastructure significantly reduced students' productivity. On the other hand, productivity was positively affected by perceived benefits such as flexibility and better time management. In addition, productivity played a mediating role for a number of socio-economic, demographic, and attitudinal attributes: including gender, income, technology attitudes, and home environment conflicts. Accordingly, females, high income groups, and those with home environment conflicts experienced lower productivity, which indirectly discouraged their preference for future online education. As expected, a latent pro-online education attitude increased both the productivity and the future online-education preference. Last but not the least, Gen-Xers were more likely to adopt online-education in the post pandemic conditions compared to their peers.</p>","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":"29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9424064/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40348808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The projected impacts of smart decline on urban runoff contamination levels.","authors":"Rui Zhu, Galen Newman","doi":"10.1007/s43762-021-00002-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43762-021-00002-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There has been mounting interest about how the repurposing of vacant land (VL) through green infrastructure (the most common smart decline strategy) can reduce stormwater runoff and improve runoff quality, especially in legacy cities characterized by excessive industrial land uses and VL amounts. This research examines the long-term impacts of smart decline on both stormwater amounts and pollutants loads through integrating land use prediction models with green infrastructure performance models. Using the City of St. Louis, Missouri, USA as the study area, we simulate 2025 land use change using the Conversion of Land Use and its Effects (CLUE-S) and Markov Chain urban land use prediction models and assess these change's probable impacts on urban contamination levels under different smart decline scenarios using the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) performance model. The four different scenarios are: (1) a baseline scenario, (2) a 10% vacant land re-greening (VLRG) scenario, (3) a 20% VLRG scenario, and (4) a 30% VLRG scenario. The results of this study illustrate that smart decline VLRG strategies can have both direct and indirect impacts on urban stormwater runoff and their inherent contamination levels. Direct impacts on urban contamination include the reduction of stormwater runoff and non-point source (NPS) pollutants. In the 30% VLRG scenario, the annual runoff volume decreases by 11%, both physical, chemical, and bacterial pollutants are reduced by an average of 19%, compared to the baseline scenario. Indirect impacts include reduction of the possibility of illegal dumping on VL through mitigation and prevention of future vacancies.</p>","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8653986/pdf/nihms-1752045.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39710322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the urban life pattern of young people from delivery data","authors":"Yining Qiu, Jiale Ding, Meng-Xue Wang, Linshu Hu, Feng Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s43762-021-00027-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-021-00027-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44042965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of urban land-use change on cold-air path occurrence and spatial distribution","authors":"Laura Grunwald, Stephan Weber","doi":"10.1007/s43762-021-00026-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-021-00026-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48471464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latent factor analysis and measurement on sustainable urban livability in Siliguri Municipal Corporation, West Bengal through EFA and CFA model","authors":"Amit Adhikari, T. Roy","doi":"10.1007/s43762-021-00023-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-021-00023-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41804302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A morphological history of urban centers in Qingdao","authors":"Haofeng Wang, Xiaojun Rao","doi":"10.1007/s43762-021-00021-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-021-00021-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47167728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An iterative local search based hybrid algorithm for the service area problem","authors":"Yunfeng Kong","doi":"10.1007/s43762-021-00018-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-021-00018-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s43762-021-00018-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45661659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}