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This paper briefly introduces the background and achievements of the sponge city construction in Shenzhen, China, and summarizes the experience and lessons in the construction of sponge city and discusses the innovation achievements of the sponge city in Shenzhen, combining the policy documents and engineering cases. The organizational innovation mainly comprises the formation of leading teams of municipal and district sponge city construction work, establishment of sponge city construction technology alliance and setting up academician workstation; the management innovation includes the policy making and establishment of technology standards; and the technological innovation mainly discusses the innovation of sponge city facility and mixing soil. Considering the application scope of the sponge city facilities, this paper introduces the innovative sponge city facilities, which are suitable for building district, urban road, metro depot and urban renewal projects. The case studies include: ① sponge city facilities of the civil engineering experimental building in Shenzhen University; ② sponge city facilities on the Dengliang Road in Nanshan District; ③ sponge city facilities of the Changzhen Depot of Shenzhen Metro Line 6 in Guangming District; ④ sponge city facilities of comprehensive renovation project in Jiazitang Village, Guangming District.

Green Technology design approach is a new solution that must be applicable to preserve a nature and reduce the pollution. There are so much innovation could be used to in the development of the park to reduce the electricity use, eco-friendly and livable for the community. This paper aims to exemplify an effort by a group of students, through multi-professional inputs, in designing for a city facility that can add more towards a livable city. The results of the approach are multidisciplinary design that includes the idea from multi-professional in making a livable park for community surroundings Tasik Biru Kundang, Kuang, Selangor, Malaysia. Keywords: Green technology; Livability; Multi professional; Design approach eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

Semarang Coastal has a high level of vulnerability to inundation, river flooding and tidal flooding. To solve the problems, a region has an adaptive capacity to the phenomena encountered. The aims of study to map the level of vulnerability and adaptive capacity of the region in facing the phenomenon and provide an alternative strategy in facing the impact of inundation in coastal areas. Based on capacity index and vulnerability index in 2015, most urban villages are located in quadrant 3 (58 villages), in quadrant 1 (36 villages) and quadrant 4 (5 villages). the results showed that most of villages located at coastal areas had a high vulnerability with low adaptive capacity. Considering spatial planning (RTRW) for 2030, population density changes, Semarang City Facility health facilities Plan in 2030, and the open areas as defined in the Semarang 2011-2030 spatial plan (RTRW) a major shift towards the quadrant 2 was observed, suggesting an increased capacity to encountered inundation susceptibility.

Railway became a major transportation means for distribution and people approximately a century and a half after it was first constructed in 1825 from England. In addition, the construction of railway station back then has physically occupied the city partially in a linear fashion and variously influenced the urban space.The importance of the railway station in the city was mentioned in the Building News in 1872, that the “Railway termini and hotels are to the nineteenth century what monasteries and cathedrals were to the thirteenth century.” After 130 years, Ferrarini(2005) explained that while factories are isolated in the suburb area, railway station is one of the most industrial structures located in the center of the city supporting the city function as a complex facility. Furthermore, he referred to the railway station the possibility as a city facility among the typical facilities being decided by the function as a school, museum, library, City Hall or factory.From recent projects, such as Japan's Tokyo Station Restoration project, Paris’ Gare du Nord and the surrounding area regenerating project, New York's High Line project, and Busan's Integrated Regeneration of the old harbor project, railway station, since the nineteenth century's industrial revolution, is not only functioning as the daily use, but also the accelerator in regenerating the old city with its historical background.Thus, this study applies recent cases occurred in geographically various locations such as Tokyo Station, Paris Gare du Nord, the High line Project, and Busan Station. Through the railway stations appearing in each instances, the urban application plan will be analyzed in a social-scientific way and discuss how railway station is not simply a temporary traffic facility for transporting, but a recyclable industrial heritage and a possibility as a urban space with enjoyment of the city scenery.

A Total Knee Replacement (TKR) Pathway (adapted from the Credit Valley Hospital, Canada) is in place at the Apollo Health city facility since 2011. We re-visited the pathway design and the priority grid that led to its adaptation. We analyzed the data with the aim to analyze repetitive and unique trends and evaluate the performance of the pathway. Even with the increased volume the patient satisfaction rose from 56% at the time of pathway implementation to 77% at the end of the evaluation period of 45 months. The Average Length of Stay reduced by 27% from 7.94 to 5.78 days (the difference between the initial and final recorded values), in the same evaluation time period. The methodology of evaluation of the pathway was adapted from the Leuven Clinical Pathway Compass 5 way approach. 9

Analyzing smart city data can reveal various important facts related to cities, thus smart city initiatives have attracted much attentions of computer science researchers as well as data scientists. Analyzing smart city data in a real-time manner is an important scenario of smart city data analysis. Real-time analysis can alert emergent situations (e.g., traffic accidents, squalls), recommend useful information (e.g., usable facilities on time, routes for destinations), and so forth. In this paper, we develop a real-time analytical system based on StreamOLAP (an OLAP system for streaming data) for smart city data analysis which enables OLAP-style analytics over streaming data, and apply the analytical system for real-world smart city data (namely, city facility utilization data). The application realizes that our system is feasible to analyse smart city data in a real-time manner.

This study drew the reason of the limitation in low-carbon city plan from a absence of `social sustainability` and supplemented its limitation by suggesting the new concept of city facility called Green Media. It clarified the concept of Green Media, and analyzed its effect on low-carbon city plan based on the analysis of related cases inside and outside the country. This study made an important step forward in introducing the new concept to complement social sustainability, analyzing its effect, and suggesting the applicable details.

Green Technology design practice is a new solution that must be applicable to preserve a nature and reduce the pollution. There are so much innovation could be use to in the development of the park to reduce the electricity use, eco-friendly and liveable for the community. This paper aims to exemplify an effort by a group of students, through multi-professional inputs, in designing for a city facility that can add more towards a liveable city for Tasik Biru Kundang, Kuang Selangor, Malaysia. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Centre for EnvironmentBehaviour Studies (cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

"HAT THE DIVER. Okay, diver on gas. Give rig final check. Diver ready. Put diver in the water." These are the sounds of researchers at work in the US Navy Experimental Diving Unit, Panama City, Fla. Under water is just one of a variety of environments in which men and women of the nation's armed services do their work. As a result, the military physicians who care for them are involved in some unusual forms of environmental medicine. Particularly fascinating is the medical care associated with the US Navy's underwater mission. To prepare its physicians for one aspect of this mission— diving—the Navy conducts two 9-week courses annually in diving medicine at the Panama City facility. The course is conducted in cooperation with the Naval Undersea Medical Institute, New London, Conn. And Back With the Diver... Over the loudspeaker at the Experimental Diving Unit comes the bubbling sound of gases