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Cities in transition face a unique set of challenges that came forth due to interplay of the legacy of socialist urban policies and transition to the market economy.
Oleksandr Shepotylo
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Homecare aides (HCAs) are professional non‐family caregivers, who support dependent individuals to live at home with dignity; yet in Spain they remain understudied and vulnerable, often facing precarious working conditions. We aimed to characterize HCAs’ employment, living conditions, health, and exposure to workplace violence and ...
Albert Navarro‐Giné +6 more
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What makes cities bigger and richer? New Evidence from 1990–2000 in the US [PDF]
This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 ...
Rafael González-Val
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Cities, social cohesion and the environment: towards a future research agenda [PDF]
, 2012 It will be argued in this paper that the problematic of social cohesion is also one of socio-ecological cohesion whereby the urbanisation of nature and its socio-environmentally enabling and disabling conditions are key processes.
Cook, Ian R. +3 more
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Major depression and suicide are critical public health concerns, particularly in underrepresented populations with unique genetic and sociocultural contexts. The Maya‐mestizo population presents the highest suicide rates in the country but remains understudied in psychiatric genetics. This study evaluated the association between three genetic
Marta Menjivar +3 more
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The Study of Urban Geography and City Planning
This reprint of The Study of Urban Geography and City Planning consolidates a current cross-section of research published in Urban Science on today’s uneven and incomplete urbanization. Bringing together fourteen peer-reviewed contributions, it advances dialogue between critical urban social geography and city science while foregrounding equity ...
Lois González, Rubén Camilo +2 more
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Aging nations and the future of cities [PDF]
We investigate whether an aging population may challenge the supremacy of large working-cities. To this end, we develop an economic geography model with two types of individuals (the elderly and workers) and two sectors (consumer services and ...
François Thisse, Carl Gaigné
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Shaping the Futures for Industrial Cities in Decay: Urban Planning and Memory Retrieval [PDF]
, 2010 The radical changes experienced by the world of work in the last decades have deeply transformed our regions. Cities that bloomed during the industrial age lay nowadays abandoned and useless suffering from serious problems of decay.
Fernández Águeda, Beatriz
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Urban Planning in Industrial Cities: the Reversibility of Decay [PDF]
, 2009 At the present time, most cities are trying to take an international position and become global cities. On the other hand of our ever dual society, we find the cities that once were the symbol of the industrial society and nowadays lay abandoned and ...
Fernández Águeda, Beatriz
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