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Between 2015 and 2020, the city centre of Brussels witnessed the creation of its first major pedestrian zone, one of the largest urban projects in recent decades. Has the Brussels city centre finally done away with the car hegemony? Can the city centre be extended to become the centre of the Brussels metropolis where everyone can find his or her own place? This book presents scientific background to the issue and brings together in words and images the research carried out over the past four years by the Brussels Centre Observatory.

Regional & area planning --- pedestrianization --- city centre --- sustainability --- urban development --- pedestrianization --- city centre --- sustainability --- urban development

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Between 2015 and 2020, the city centre of Brussels witnessed the creation of its first major pedestrian zone, one of the largest urban projects in recent decades. Has the Brussels city centre finally done away with the car hegemony? Can the city centre be extended to become the centre of the Brussels metropolis where everyone can find his or her own place? This book presents scientific background to the issue and brings together in words and images the research carried out over the past four years by the Brussels Centre Observatory.

Regional & area planning --- pedestrianization --- city centre --- sustainability --- urban development

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The adverse effects of flood disasters in urban areas have been increasing in severity and extent over the past years. The amount of loss resulting from these events is also increasing exponentially, particularly in highly urbanised urban areas, where the effects of intensive land use and climate change are particularly extreme—all despite that our scientific knowledge, technical competence, and computational capacity to develop highly sophisticated and accurate forecasting and simulation models are higher than ever, as is our capacity to map and analyse flood-related data. In order to tackle this global issue, it is fundamental to keep on promoting and developing fundamental and applied research that allows the better targeting of interventions to improve resilience, reduce vulnerability, and enhance recovery as well as assisting decision-makers in delivering more effective flood risk-reduction policies. This book aims to contribute to this goal by providing a space in which to share and discuss recent studies and state-of- the-art methodologies focused on the assessment and mitigation of flood risk in urban areas. It includes nine high-quality chapters authored by eminent scholars who had the tremendous generosity to join me in this editorial project. The range of topics covered by these nine studies is extraordinarily vast, reflecting the complexity of the current challenges associated with the topic.

History of engineering & technology --- integrated operation --- urban stream --- urban drainage facility --- revised resilience index --- flood --- 3Di --- loss assessment --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- risk map --- climate change --- urban flood risk --- flood damage --- urban disaster --- land use --- flood risk susceptibility --- FRS-GWR modeling --- built-up growth prediction --- Thailand --- Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) --- HEC-RAS --- 2D modeling --- flood hazard --- urban and peri-urban area --- flood risk assessment --- flood evacuation --- evacuation modelling --- behavioral design --- urban built environment at risk --- human motion in floodwaters --- remote sensing --- flood extent mapping --- Can Tho City --- Google Earth engine --- uncertainty --- support vector machine regression (SVR) --- urban flood --- risk management --- Historic City Centre of Guimarães --- pluvial flood --- indirect impacts --- risk assessment --- graph analysis --- flood mitigation --- Mexico City --- n/a --- Historic City Centre of Guimarães

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This Special Issue on ‘Sustainability and Visitor Management in Tourist Historic Cities’ explores new trends and methods that contribute to sustainable practices for tourism planning and management in historic cities. Thanks to the differentiated approaches adopted by the authors, the Special Issue reflects on the environmental, physical, cultural, and social effects that tourism activity provokes in tourist historic cities. Considering the present debate on tourism in historic cities, there is a special focus on resident perceptions and the social problems and conflicts associated with various tourist activities that have emerged in recent years. New methodologies and sources to measure tourism impacts are also addressed in this book, especially the use of big data technology, another relevant topic. Papers include one literature review and six case studies in the historic cities of Seville and Toledo (Spain), Venice and Matera (Italy), and Porto (Portugal) and Popayán (Colombia). This Special Issue provides practical tools and policy recommendations to measure tourism impacts and promote sustainable management in tourist historic cities.

Research & information: general --- tourism development --- residents’ opinions --- residents’ perceptions --- tourism impacts --- historic city --- cultural tourism --- Toledo --- “big events” --- experiential tourism --- Matera “European Capital of Culture 2019” --- vulnerability --- right to the city --- tourism rents --- Seville --- tourist movement --- GPS --- NFC --- tourist card --- questionarie --- tourism destination --- big data --- tourism sustainability --- official statistics --- indicators --- urban tourism --- culture-led regeneration --- cultural capital --- sustainability --- Porto city centre --- overtourism --- Venice --- social impacts --- residents’ perception --- tourism development --- residents’ opinions --- residents’ perceptions --- tourism impacts --- historic city --- cultural tourism --- Toledo --- “big events” --- experiential tourism --- Matera “European Capital of Culture 2019” --- vulnerability --- right to the city --- tourism rents --- Seville --- tourist movement --- GPS --- NFC --- tourist card --- questionarie --- tourism destination --- big data --- tourism sustainability --- official statistics --- indicators --- urban tourism --- culture-led regeneration --- cultural capital --- sustainability --- Porto city centre --- overtourism --- Venice --- social impacts --- residents’ perception

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The adverse effects of flood disasters in urban areas have been increasing in severity and extent over the past years. The amount of loss resulting from these events is also increasing exponentially, particularly in highly urbanised urban areas, where the effects of intensive land use and climate change are particularly extreme—all despite that our scientific knowledge, technical competence, and computational capacity to develop highly sophisticated and accurate forecasting and simulation models are higher than ever, as is our capacity to map and analyse flood-related data. In order to tackle this global issue, it is fundamental to keep on promoting and developing fundamental and applied research that allows the better targeting of interventions to improve resilience, reduce vulnerability, and enhance recovery as well as assisting decision-makers in delivering more effective flood risk-reduction policies. This book aims to contribute to this goal by providing a space in which to share and discuss recent studies and state-of- the-art methodologies focused on the assessment and mitigation of flood risk in urban areas. It includes nine high-quality chapters authored by eminent scholars who had the tremendous generosity to join me in this editorial project. The range of topics covered by these nine studies is extraordinarily vast, reflecting the complexity of the current challenges associated with the topic.

History of engineering & technology --- integrated operation --- urban stream --- urban drainage facility --- revised resilience index --- flood --- 3Di --- loss assessment --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- risk map --- climate change --- urban flood risk --- flood damage --- urban disaster --- land use --- flood risk susceptibility --- FRS-GWR modeling --- built-up growth prediction --- Thailand --- Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) --- HEC-RAS --- 2D modeling --- flood hazard --- urban and peri-urban area --- flood risk assessment --- flood evacuation --- evacuation modelling --- behavioral design --- urban built environment at risk --- human motion in floodwaters --- remote sensing --- flood extent mapping --- Can Tho City --- Google Earth engine --- uncertainty --- support vector machine regression (SVR) --- urban flood --- risk management --- Historic City Centre of Guimarães --- pluvial flood --- indirect impacts --- risk assessment --- graph analysis --- flood mitigation --- Mexico City --- integrated operation --- urban stream --- urban drainage facility --- revised resilience index --- flood --- 3Di --- loss assessment --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- risk map --- climate change --- urban flood risk --- flood damage --- urban disaster --- land use --- flood risk susceptibility --- FRS-GWR modeling --- built-up growth prediction --- Thailand --- Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) --- HEC-RAS --- 2D modeling --- flood hazard --- urban and peri-urban area --- flood risk assessment --- flood evacuation --- evacuation modelling --- behavioral design --- urban built environment at risk --- human motion in floodwaters --- remote sensing --- flood extent mapping --- Can Tho City --- Google Earth engine --- uncertainty --- support vector machine regression (SVR) --- urban flood --- risk management --- Historic City Centre of Guimarães --- pluvial flood --- indirect impacts --- risk assessment --- graph analysis --- flood mitigation --- Mexico City