Sustainable Cities and Society

Evaluating the spatial distribution and the intensity of urban heat island using remote sensing, case study of Isfahan city in Iran

Quantifying the seasonal contribution of coupling urban land use types on Urban Heat Island using Land Contribution Index: A case study in Wuhan, China

Government championed strategies to overcome the barriers to public building energy efficiency retrofit projects

Artificial Neural Network based Smart and Energy Efficient Street Lighting System: A Case Study for Residential area in Hosur

Low carbon effects of urban underground space

Design-based natural ventilation evaluation in early stage for high performance buildings

A prototype decision support system for green roof type selection: A cybernetic fuzzy ANP method

Urbanization and income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Optimal design and cost allocation of a distributed energy resource (DER) system with district energy networks: A case study of an isolated island in the South China Sea

Method based on life cycle assessment and TOPSIS to integrate environmental award criteria into green public procurement

Life-Cycle cost-benefit analysis of Bridge deck de-icing using geothermal heat pump system: A case study of North Texas

Electrical and thermal energy in private hospitals: Consumption indicators focused on healthcare activity

LES for pedestrian level wind around an idealized building array—Assessment of sensitivity to influencing parameters

Public preferences towards bicycle sharing system in developing countries: The case of Mashhad, Iran

Developing a framework for improvement of building thermal performance modeling under urban microclimate interactions

Water conservation through rainwater harvesting using different building forms in different climatic regions

Academic research institutes-construction enterprises linkages for the development of urban green building: Selecting management of green building technologies innovation partner

Evaluation of city sustainability using the deviation maximization method

Resilience-based infrastructure planning and asset management: Study of dual and singular water distribution infrastructure performance using a simulation approach

Changes in mountainous runoff in three inland river basins in the arid Hexi Corridor, China, and its influencing factors

The impact of green infrastructure on human health and well-being: The example of the Huckleberry Trail and the Heritage Community Park and Natural Area in Blacksburg, Virginia

CFD assessment on particulate matter filters performance in urban areas

Evaluating urban heat island intensity and its associated determinants of towns and cities continuum in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomerations

A daytime optimal stochastic energy management for EV commercial parking lots by using approximate dynamic programming and hybrid big bang big crunch algorithm

Direct and indirect impact assessment in off-site construction—A case study in China

Identification of sustainable criteria for decision-making on roof stacking construction method

Chance-constrained CAES and DRP scheduling to maximize wind power harvesting in congested transmission systems considering operational flexibility

Modeling urban expansion in the transnational area of Changbai Mountain: A scenario analysis based on the zoned Land Use Scenario Dynamics-urban model

Impacts of different weather conditions and landuse change on runoff variations in the Beiluo River Watershed, China

Optimal Scheduling of Hydrogen Storage under Economic and Environmental Priorities in the Presence of Renewable Units and Demand Response

Pedestrian exposure to PM2.5, BC and UFP of adults and teens: A case study in Xi’an, China

Insights on critical parameters and conditions for personalized ventilation

A new outlier detection method based on OPTICS

A stepwise approach integrating feature selection, regression techniques and cluster analysis to identify primary retrofit interventions on large stocks of buildings

Economical and outdoor thermal comfort analysis of greening in multistory residential areas in Xi’an

Quantitative contribution of climate change and human activities to runoff changes in the Bahe River watershed of the Qinling Mountains, China

Frequency superimposed robust coordinated control in a hybrid microgrid

Coupled analysis on land use, landscape pattern and nonpoint source pollution loads in Shitoukoumen Reservoir watershed, China

Tempering potential-based evaluation of the courtyard microclimate as a combined function of aspect ratio and outdoor temperature

Detecting urban fire high-risk regions using colocation pattern measures

Study on heat transfer performance of metro tunnel capillary heat exchanger

Simulating pedestrians’ spatio-temporal distribution in underground spaces

Mixed-use neighborhoods layout patterns: Impact on solar access and resilience

A regional spatial environmental multimedia modeling (RSEMM) approach for assessing the risk of antibiotics in river basin system – a China case study

Analysis of thermal energy saving potentials through adjusting user behavior in hotel buildings of the Yangtze River region

Development of sustainable landscape design guidelines for a green business park using virtual reality

Has the level of green development in the northwestern provinces of China truly improved? A case study of Shaanxi