STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Children’s Active Commuting to School: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
Preventing Chronic Disease, 2008 IntroductionDriven largely by international declines in rates of walking and bicycling to school and the noted health benefits of physical activity for children, research on children’s active commuting to school has expanded rapidly during the past 5 ...
Kirsten K. Davison, PhD +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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Examination of Traffic Safety in Neighborhoods Associated With Active Commuting to School in Austin, Texas. [PDF]
J Phys Act HealthBurford KG +7 more
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Correlates of Active Commuting to School among Portuguese Adolescents: An Ecological Model Approach. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Loureiro N +4 more
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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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Incorporating active commuting into daily life: a narrative review of e-bikes' impact on health and urban air quality. [PDF]
Front Sports Act LivingSampieri A, Paoli A.
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CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Tracking and Trajectory Analysis of Active Commuting from Childhood to Midlife. [PDF]
Med Sci Sports ExercYang X +8 more
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