This paper focuses on the relationship between remotely-sensed urban site characteristics
(USCs) and land surface temperature (LST). Particular emphasis is put on an extensive …

Various studies in the field of urban planning and design have given recommendations for"
good urban forms," suggesting that specific spatial characteristics inform the quality of an …

Building stock is an extremely cost-intensive and long-lived component of the settlement
structure. Considering its importance, the information available on building stock and its …

Although densification of urban areas is being proposed as a sustainable urbanisation
strategy, frameworks for detailed large-scale analysis of densification potentials and their …

This paper presents a proposal for a generic urban structure type (UST) scheme. Initially
developed in the context of urban ecology, the UST approach is increasingly popular in the …

Small-scale data on dwellings and population density are required for precise geospatial
urban modelling. Further, knowledge of building usage is necessary to model socio …

Having had the most rapid urbanization in the world since the 1990s, mega-cities in East
Asia featured highly compact and atomized modernist architecture. With densely built …

Urban structure types (UST) are an initial interest and basic instrument for monitoring,
controlling and modeling tasks of urban planners and decision makers during ongoing …

Building models are a valuable information source for urban studies and in particular for
analyses of urban mass concentrations (UMCS). Most commonly, light detection and …

In Europe, heating of houses and commercial areas is one of the major contributors to
greenhouse gas emissions. When considering the drastic impact of an increasing emission …