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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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A Core-Periphery Model of Urban Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence using Chinese City-Level Data, 1990-2006 [PDF]

The core-periphery (CP) model of urban systems lacks evidence from real data for the nonlinear relationship between distance to core and market potential. China remains in the process of industrialization and globalization, thereby making it suitable for
Ming Lu, Zhao Chen, Zheng Xu
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

STUDY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT BY APPLYING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES (FALLUJA CITY AS A CASE STUDY) [PDF]

, 2008
Khamis N. Sayle
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Determinants of City Growth in Brazil [PDF]

In this paper, we examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. We consider a model of a city, which combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures.
Daniel da Mata, H.G. Wang, J. Vernon Henderson, Somik V. Lall, U. Deichmann   +4 more
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Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system offers international insights into the causes of segregation owing to it being one of the most segregated in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, its long history of school ...
Michael G. Sciffer, Laura B. Perry, Andrew McConney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Four Days in Detroit: a Dutch urban geography field trip to the Motor City [PDF]

, 2013
Brian Doucet
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Individual animal geographies for the more-than-human city: Storying synanthropy and cynanthropy with urban coyotes [PDF]

, 2021
Lauren Van Patter
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Classical models of urban population density. The case of Barcelona Metropolitan Area [PDF]

In this paper, we study the classical functional forms density-distance and its relation with the suburbanization for the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.
Joan Carles Martori, Jordi Suriñach-Caralt   +1 more
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Incomplete Cities: Critical Urban Geography and the Reimagining of City Planning

Urban Science
Everything reminded Kiku of the human body diagram that hung in the school science classroom [...]
Luis Alfonso Escudero-Gómez, Rubén C. Lois-González   +1 more
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