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Towns and Cities URBAN GEOGRAPHY. By Griffith Taylor.
New Zealand Geographer, 1949L. Pownall
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The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities
Regional studies, 2021This research investigates the economic geography of urban technology, or ‘urban tech’, start-up enterprises. Comprised of ride-hailing, co-living, co-working, smart cities and other urban-oriented activities, urban tech is a suite of innovations that ...
Patrick Adler, R. Florida
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Geography’s blind spot: the age-old urban question
Urban Geography, 2020Aging is one of the most significant social transformations of the twenty-first century. Older populations dramatically shape cities and urbanization, yet remain largely overlooked within geography.
J. Finlay, B. Finn
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Urban geography: city structures
Progress in Human Geography, 1977Three types of work characterize the study of city structures, according to my earlier paper on this topic (Johnston, 1977). Two of them (neoclassical-functional description and the behavioural approach) are well-established and work continues to be produced along conventional lines (Herbert and Johnston, 1976a; 1976b); the third (institutional ...
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Urban geography II: Materially important cities
Progress in Human Geography, 2022This report reviews recent literature that provides a new understanding of the material formation of urban space in the context of carbon/post-carbon urbanism. First, it discusses the concept of extractivist urbanization, which links the excavation of terrestrial materials to a wider agenda of data mining.
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Urban Landscape and Geography of the City in Islamic Traditions
The Arab World Geographer, 2021Historically, the city as a geographical location and a symbol of stability as well as the meeting place of different races has occupied a paramount position in the writings of Arab geographers and travelers. This paper explores the geography of the Arab-Islamic city from different perspectives in order to underline the various elements underpinning ...
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Papers in applied geography, 2023
Rapid population expansion and urbanization have created enormous difficulties in maintaining the urban quality of life (UQoL) in Indian cities. Quantifying the UQoL is a complex task, due to its multidimensionality.
Subham Roy +3 more
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Rapid population expansion and urbanization have created enormous difficulties in maintaining the urban quality of life (UQoL) in Indian cities. Quantifying the UQoL is a complex task, due to its multidimensionality.
Subham Roy +3 more
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The American City: An Urban Geography
The Geographical Journal, 1967T. W. Freeman, R. E. Murphy
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Moving cities: rethinking the materialities of urban geographies
Progress in Human Geography, 2004In this paper we offer a discussion of the ‘materiality’ of the urban. This discussion is offered in the context of recent calls in various areas of the discipline for the necessity of ‘rematerializing’ human geography. While we agree with the spirit of these calls, if human geography (and, within that, urban geography) is going to return to the ...
Latham, A., McCormack, D.
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