Regulations corroborate the importance of retrofitting existing building stocks or constructing
new energy-efficient districts. There is, thus, a need for modeling tools to evaluate energy …

Improved understanding of human-nature interactions is crucial to conservation science and
practice, but collecting relevant data remains challenging. Recently, social media have …

Parks and other green spaces are an important part of sustainable, healthy and socially
equal urban environment. Urban planning and green space management benefit from …

Many countries are facing an aging population crisis, triggering major concerns over how to
best provide services for older people. Parks are an important public service resource for …

Accurate and timely estimates of population characteristics are a critical input to social and
economic research and policy. In industrialized economies, novel sources of data are …

Big data is increasingly seen as a way of providing a more 'scientific'approach to the
understanding and management of cities. But most geographic analyses of geotagged …

The benefits that urban green resources bring to humanity have received increasing
attention, with the evidence from recent studies into public service provision—specifically …

This article reflects on the contributions of the late John Urry to sociology and to its spatial
turn especially by developing the new mobilities paradigm. The proposition of this …

Many fundamental notions in geographic and social science research still tend to be
conceptualized largely in static spatial terms, ignoring how our understanding of the issues …

The recent development of telecommunication networks is producing an unprecedented
wealth of information and, as a consequence, an increasing interest in analyzing such data …