Predicting economies of scale in Brazilian municipal expenditure: Panel econometrics and interpretable machine learning
Environment and Planning B · Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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Aboveground biomass, carbon stock, and economic valuation of a tiny forest in a small Brazilian City
Urban Ecosystems
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Urban Climate
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The cost-of-living crisis and the freedom to move: mobility, participation and wellbeing under financial pressure
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Identification and characterization of unusual commuters using a 2-layer transformer model
Journal of Transport Geography
Detecting Human-Scale Built Environment Changes With Multimodal Large Language Models
Journal of the American Planning Association
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