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The urban matrix matters: Quantifying the effects of surrounding urban vegetation on natural habitat remnants in Santiago de Chile
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Urbanization destroys and fragments natural habitats, resulting in a system of natural remnants embedded in an urban matrix. Urban natural remnants (UNRs) can provide multiple ecosystem services for ...
Spatiotemporal analysis of the atmospheric and surface urban heat islands of the Metropolitan Area of Toluca, Mexico
(Springer, 2017)
The dynamic of consolidation of urban areas inLatin America has allowed that almost 80% of the popula-tion concentrates in cities; this has produced changes in landcovers and modified regional climate, propitiating ...
Agent-based simulation approach to urban dynamics modeling
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, 2012)
This article presents a general agent-based simulation approach that captures agents’ decision-making processes and dynamic relationships that determine urban shape. The article shows how to simulate urban growth patterns ...
Spatio-Temporal Changes in Structure for a Mediterranean Urban Forest: Santiago, Chile 2002 to 2014
(MDPI, 2016)
There is little information on how urban forest ecosystems in South America and Mediterranean climates change across both space and time. This study statistically and spatially analyzed the spatio-temporal dynamics of ...
Consequences of adaptive behaviour for the structure and dynamics of food webs
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2010-09-13)
Species coexistence within ecosystems and the stability of patterns of temporal changes
in population sizes are central topics in ecological theory. In the last decade, adaptive
behaviour has been proposed as a mechanism ...
Urban mobility analysis with mobile network data: a visual analytics approach
(IEEE, 2018-05)
Urban planning and intelligent transportation management are facing key challenges in today's ever more urbanized world. Providing the right tools to city planners is crucial to cope with these challenges. Data collected ...
Resistance to garbage and dynamics of territorialization through the use of exposed writing
(Universidad del Bío Bío, Chile, 2020)
This text presents an empirical characterization of a resistance dynamic to the presence of garbage in the public space and the contamination currently seen in a peri-central neighborhood of Santiago de Chile. The focus ...
Urban transformations in the culture of Santiago’s barrios
(Emerald, 2019-12)
Within Santiago, Chile’s capital city, Barrio is a fundamental urban concept: an identity of place that defines a social space more than the territorial boundary of a designated area. Nearly 30 years of sustained, economic ...
Los barrios Ejército y República: ¿hacia la consolidación de un barrio universitario?
(Universidad Diego Portales, 2005)
The area began its urbanization towards 1830. Once consolidated, towards the middle of the thirties, the migration of its original residents began and the large residences were abandoned. Different circumstances facilitated ...