Brian McGrath, Steward T. A. Pickett,
We introduce the term metacity as a conceptual framework that can be shared by ecologists and designers and applied across the wide variety of urban habitats found around the world. While the term metacity was introduced by UN-HABITAT to designate hyper ... infrastructure, present in all cities today. This new metacity has the potential to integrate new activist forms ... authors over the past seven years [1,2]. Metacity theory is drawn from both an architectural analysis ... lessons from our experiences for realizing an integrated metacity approach to achieving social sustainability and ecological resilience ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2011 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Challenges
Brian McGrath, Somporn Sangawongse, Danai Thaikatoo, Martina Barcelloni Corte,
... a lens to theorize the architecture of the “metacity”, a new urban form and new form of ... ecology and life worlds of particular localities. The metacity appears in Chiang Mai within the interstices of ... essay begins with theorizing the form of the metacity, continues with a description of the Chiang Mai ... the need to create a new form of metacity urban practice. A metacity design practice would re-conceptualize urban theories and ...
Tópico(s): Urban Planning and Governance
2017 - Cogitatio | Urban Planning
Steward T. A. Pickett, Brian McGrath, Mary L. Cadenasso,
The chapter builds a metacity framework and details its features and utility. We start by outlining the general strategy for dealing with spatial complexity on ... work with urban structure and change in the metacity: processes, choices, and outcomes. The relationship of these ... We end with a fuller description of the metacity as a synthetic tool, relating it to key ... with a sense of the excitement that the metacity concept brings to the linkage of ecology, social ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
2012 - Springer International Publishing | Future city
Evanthia Faliagka, Eleni Christopoulou, Dimitrios Ringas, Christina Politi, Nikos Kostis, Dimitris Leonardos, Christos Tranoris, Christos Antonopoulos, Spyros Denazis, Nikolaos Voros,
... of smart mobility exploiting digital twins within the METACITIES initiative. We have worked on this issue due ... in this paper is part of the project METACITIES, an Excellence Hub that spans a large geographical ... The approach of the Greek innovation ecosystem of METACITIES involves leveraging digital twin technology to create intelligent ... more expensive scale. The final outcome is the METACITIES Architecture for smart mobility, which will be part ... capable of evolving a smart city into a metacity.
Tópico(s): IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
2024 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sensors
Liang Yan, Wenxiao Jia, Shuqing Zhao,
... Beijing was quantified as a case study of metacities using four metrics: Land surface temperature (LST), cooling ... denser human activities and higher LST in this metacity. Vegetation density is always the dominant driver for ... heating threatens human health and well-being in metacities, our findings may provide solutions for the mitigation ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
Weiqi Zhou, Steward T. A. Pickett, Timon McPhearson,
... a project or study may advance sustainability. The metacity concept, a spatially scalable representation of mosaic change ... extensive, spatially heterogeneous, and dynamic urban regions. The metacity concept helps avoid static and isolated plans and ...
Tópico(s): Urban Green Space and Health
2021 - Nature Portfolio | npj Urban Sustainability
Philippe Guéguen, Diego Mercerat, Juan Carlos Singaucho, Coralie Aubert, Juan Gabriel Barros, Luis Fabián Bonilla, Mutiara Puspahati Cripstyani, Isabelle Douste‐Bacqué, Philippe Langlaude, Stéphane Mercier, Daniel Pacheco, Michel Pernoud, Mathieu Perrault, Ildut Pondaven, David Wolyniec,
... without consideration of the immediate urban environment. The METACity‐Quito experiment was designed to take accurate measurements ...
Tópico(s): Earthquake Detection and Analysis
2019 - Seismological Society of America | Seismological Research Letters
John Scott Younger, David Parry, Harun Lubis, Andrew McLernon, David John Wignall, Danni Hasan, Gordon G. Benton,
... 30 years, putting Greater Jakarta firmly in the metacity category. As elsewhere, Jakarta is grappling with all ... part paper examines the growth of the future metacity by tracing the historical background from which the ...
Tópico(s): Socioeconomic Development in Asia
2015 - | Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer
... 9 The Megacity/Metecity Chapter 10 Illustrated Megacity/Metacity Conclusion Urban Ecologies and Urban Design Future Scenarios ...
Tópico(s): Architecture and Cultural Influences
2012 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Steward T. A. Pickett, Christopher G. Boone, Brian McGrath, Mary L. Cadenasso, Daniel L. Childers, Laura A. Ogden, Melissa R. McHale, J. Morgan Grove,
... dynamics and choices involved in sustainable transformations, a “metacity” framework is presented, embracing ecological processes in cities ...
Tópico(s): Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
2013 - Elsevier BV | Cities
Steward T. A. Pickett, Brian McGrath, Mary L. Cadenasso, Alexander J. Felson,
... or patch ecology, the novel idea of the metacity, an assessment of ecological and design models, and ...
Tópico(s): Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Building Research & Information
... accompanied by the accelerated growth of megacities and metacities. There is also significant increase in the number ...
Tópico(s): Water Resources and Sustainability
2018 - | Disaster risk reduction
Stéphane Brûlé, Stéfan Enoch, Sébastien Guenneau,
... as above surface resonators in megastructures such as metacities. But this perspective of future should not make ...
Tópico(s): Photonic Crystals and Applications
2019 - De Gruyter | Nanophotonics
Fei‐Yue Wang, Rui Qin, Xiao Wang, Bin Hu,
Welcome to the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS) of 2022. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to our associate editors, reviewers, authors, and readers for your great support and effort devoted to IEEE TCSS. Happy New Year to you all, and cheers to health, happiness, and high-producing in 2022!
Tópico(s): Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
2022 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
... megastructural patch system and its reformulation as a metacity framework for a system of micro-codes and ...
Tópico(s): Urban and Rural Development Challenges
2012 - Springer International Publishing | Future city

The Technologies of information and communication in all instances of our daily life change the way we live and think. Urban, ubiquitous, locative, multimedia and interconnected computing generates a large amount of data, resulting in an abundance of information about almost everything in our world. In order to redesign our urban life, it is considered the development of more accessible interfaces made in locative applications (geoapps), optimizing queries to society and making participation more ...
Tópico(s): Smart Cities and Technologies
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Rui Qin, Juanjuan Li, Fei‐Yue Wang,
Tópico(s): Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
2024 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems
... Smart Master Planning" for all metropolises, megacities and metacities
Tópico(s): Urbanization and City Planning
2022 - Springer Nature | Advances in 21st century human settlements
... to the concepts of patch dynamics and the metacity. By reconceiving planetary urbanism as an oceanic rather ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
2020 - University of Prince Edward Island | Island Studies Journal
The Dutch group MVRDV first used the term "Metacity" in 2000 to describe a city that was ... various systems of flows and stasis. MVRDV's Metacity was a data cube containing information about all ... data envisioned by the Dutch architectural group. The metacity of information contained three other contemporary urban models. ... new global, United Nations scale. In part the metacity incorporates the widely distributed, mega-scale characteristics of ... clearer in terms of global climate change. The metacity also includes elements of the fragmented metropolis model ...
Tópico(s): Smart Cities and Technologies
2014 - | SxI Springer per l'Innovazione
John Scott Younger, David Parry, Harun Lubis, Andrew McLernon, David John Wignall, Danni Hasan, Gordon G. Benton,
... 30 years, putting Greater Jakarta firmly in the metacity category. As elsewhere, Jakarta is grappling with all ... the future development of Jakarta as a sustainable metacity.
Tópico(s): Water resources management and optimization
2015 - | Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer
Lin Wu, Guogui Yang, Ying Qin, Baokang Zhao, Xue Ouyang, Huan Zhou,
... paper, we propose and implement an edge emulator, MetaCity, which is able to effectively enforce edge computing policies and construct realistic application scenarios. MetaCity can leverage geographical data to establish an emulation ... devices based on the actual urban road network. MetaCity can also provide an extensible network QoS monitoring ... QoS monitoring in an emulated environment. In addition, MetaCity provides a user-friendly web-based graphical user ... validate the functionality, scalability, and emulation accuracy of MetaCity.
Tópico(s): Software-Defined Networks and 5G
2023 - Springer Science+Business Media | Communications in computer and information science
Yunke Zhang, Yu-Ming Lin, Guanjie Zheng, Yü Liu, Nicholas Sukiennik, Fengli Xu, Yongjun Xu, Feng Lu, Qi Wang, Yuan Lai, Li Tian, Nan Li, Dongping Fang, Fei Wang, Tao Zhou, Yong Li, Yufeng Zheng, Zhiqiang Wu, Huadong Guo,
Tópico(s): Impact of Light on Environment and Health
2025 - Elsevier BV | The Innovation
Tópico(s): Urban Planning and Governance
2016 - SAGE Publishing | Urbanisation
This study aims to analyze voter-municipality and virtual political communication within the scope of the BLD 4.0 project of the Ankara municipality, which is the first Turkish municipality to join the Metaverse world and to examine the voters' perceptions about the Metaverse world. The study evaluates the comments submitted to the official social media accounts of the Ankara municipality, which has declared it will participate in the Metaverse world. The results of the analysis conducted, the importance ...
Tópico(s): Communication and COVID-19 Impact
2023 - IGI Global | Advances in human and social aspects of technology book series
... One moves through the spaces of MVRDV's Metacity/Datatown videos and video installations not unlike the ... control one's movements. The main wo rk, Metacity/Datatoum (1998-2001), is a four-screen surround ...
Tópico(s): Architecture and Computational Design
2002 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Comparative technology transfer and society
... the source code of MWM,including KWIN and METACITY,it optimizes and customizes the WM.
Tópico(s): Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
2008 - East China Computer Technology Research Institute | Jisuanji gongcheng
Young‐Jean Choi, Changmo Kim, Chan‐Su Ryu,
... million (megacity) and more than 25 so-called metacities with populations over 10 million (Brinkhoff, 2010). The ...
Tópico(s): Knowledge Management and Technology
2011 - | Journal of the Chosun Natural Science
... Castex, Jean-Charles Depaule et Philippe Panerai et Metacity/Dat...
Tópico(s): Architecture, Modernity, and Design
2014 - OpenEdition Journals | Critique d’art
Sergio Gabriel Ceballos Pérez,
... 10 years, say the ZMVM will become a metacity with Metropolitan Area of Pachuca, Toluca, Puebla and ...
Tópico(s): Latin American Urban Studies
2017 - Science Publishing Group | Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning