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World cities and global commodity chains: an introduction [PDF]
, 2010 The purpose of this special anniversary issue is to assess the possible cross-fertilization between two prominent analytical frameworks: the World City Network framework, in which researchers have studied the emergence of a globalized urban system for ...
Alderson +49 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
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Демографија, 2014 The aim of this paper is the presentation of the Urban Audit project, which has existed in Europe for more than a decade. As the collection of comparable statistics for many European cities, Urban Audit is an important source of information about the ...
Zora Živanović
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Decline and approaches to revitalization in small cities: the case of Saga, Japan
Dela, 2004 The study of urban geography has primarily focused on large cities, but geographic trends affecting smaller urban areas also merit the attention of researchers. The local economies of smaller municipalities in Japan, for example, have been more seriously
Munetoshi Yamashita
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, 2014 Food insecurity is increasingly ‘bimodal’, encompassing issues of quantity and quality, under- and overconsumption, in developed and developing countries alike. At a time when most of the world's population lives in cities, food security has also assumed
R. Sonnino
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"Trade and the structure of cities" [PDF]
Our purpose is to investigate how the interplay between trade, commuting and communication costs shapes the economy at both the interregional and intra-urban levels. Specifically, we study how economic integration affects the internal structure of cities
Carl Gaigne +3 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Using intersectionality as a critical theoretical framework and analytical tool, this study investigated the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men (SMM). Twenty‐two Black SMM were interviewed about their HIV/AIDS‐related information practices.
Megan Threats
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Review: Environment as an Issue in a Russian Town, American Metropolis: The New Suburban Reality, Regional Convergence in the European Union: Facts, Prospects and Policies, Geographies of Labour Market Inequality, Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City, Regional Economic Development: Analysis and Planning Strategy, the Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the 21st Century, Understanding Third World Politics: Theories of Political Change and Development [PDF]
, 2003 Jonathan D. Oldfield +8 more
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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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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 +4 more
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