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Universal Basic Income and Inclusive Capitalism: Consequences for Sustainability
(MDPI, 2019-08-19)
Over the past forty years, income growth for the middle and lower classes has stagnated, while the economy (and with it, economic inequality) has grown significantly. Early automation, the decline of labor unions, changes ...
The Most Frequently Cited Topics in Urban Planning Scholarship
(MDPI, 2020-01-17)
Analyses of faculty citation activity usually focus on counts as a function of author characteristics, such as rank, gender, previous citation levels, and other factors influencing productivity and career path. Citation ...
Contemporary Spatial Publicness: Its New Characteristics and Democratic Possibilities
(MDPI, 2019-08-29)
In this study, we explore the recognition of publicness as understood by everyday users of public space. By analyzing news articles in South Korea selected from 1 January 2010, to 31 December 2018, this study examines a ...
Green Affordable Housing: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Zoning Incentives
(MDPI, 2019-11-08)
In the year 2017, about 89% of the total energy consumed in the US was produced using non-renewable energy sources, and about 43% of tenant households were cost burdened. Local governments are in a unique position to ...
The Value of Green Infrastructure on Vacant and Residential Land in Roanoke, Virginia
(MDPI, 2016-03-23)
Using the City of Roanoke, Virginia as a study site, this paper quantifies the forest structure, ecosystem services and values of vacant and residential land. Single family residential land had more trees (1,683,000) than ...
Exploring the Role of Cultural Boundary Spanners at Complex Boundaries in Global Virtual AEC Networks
(2015)
As the architecture, engineering and construction industry continues to globalize, project work is more often executed by geographically distributed, technologically mediated teams of knowledge specialists organized into ...
flEECe, an energy use and occupant behavior dataset for net-zero energy affordable senior residential buildings
(2019-11-26)
The behaviors of building occupants have continued to perplex scholars for years in our attempts to develop models for energy efficient housing. Building simulations, project delivery approaches, policies, and more have ...
Assessing systems thinking: A tool to measure complex reasoning through ill-structured problems
(2018-06)
An increasingly important aim of higher education is to develop graduates capable of addressing complex, interdependent problems. Systems thinking is a critical interdisciplinary skill that describes the cognitive flexibility ...
Community Social Polarization and Change: Evidence from Three Recent Studies
(MDPI, 2020-05-29)
This review article analyzes three major recent books (written by Robert Wuthnow, Arlie R. Hochschild, and James and Deborah Fallows, respectively) concerning ongoing political, economic and social change in United ...
Urban Residential Building Energy Consumption by End-Use in Malawi
(MDPI, 2020-02-18)
Buildings account for about 40% of the global energy consumption and this energy demand is projected to continue growing over the next few decades. Residential buildings are responsible for over 60% of this consumption ...