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Cities and Migration: an Overview
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2021 Cities and migration is a topic which cannot be studied by one discipline, and which is enriched by a multi-level approach. It crosses, inside the area of migration studies, urban studies (geography, political science, and sociology), migration flows ...
Catherine Withol De Wenden
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Placing Urban Schools at the Forefront of the Revolution in Earth Science Education [PDF]
, 2004 NOTE: This is a large file, 5mb in size! Space-age technologies have revolutionized Earth science, but this revolution has yet to extend to Earth science education.
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The role of geography in school segregation in the free parental choice context of Dutch cities
Urban studies, 2019 School segregation and residential segregation are generally highly correlated. Cities in the Netherlands are considered to be moderately segregated residentially, while the educational landscape is choice-based but publicly funded. This article analyses
W. Boterman
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Island Studies Journal, 2018 The association between and among climate change, preparation, and perceptions on islands is becoming more commonplace―but what about on extraterritorial land governed from thousands of miles away?
Michael B. Schwebel
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023 This paper is an investigation into the joint influence of geomorphology and urban geography in urban geomorphology. The importance of the paper stems from the fact that the correctness or incorrectness of the choice in directing the expansion of cities
Kamaran Wali Mahmood +1 more
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Platinum City and the New South African Dream [PDF]
, 2012 Much has been written about the persistence of economic apartheid inscribed on the geography of South Africa’s cities. This has intensified fragmentation, producing spatial configurations that are at once reminiscent of the old order of segregation, and
Barnes +13 more
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The geographies of urban density [PDF]
Progress in Human Geography, 2016 As the world increasingly urbanizes, the imaginaries, conceptions and politics of urban density will become increasingly urgent for research, policy, practice and activism. Density is a keyword in the history of how the city has been conceived and understood, and is firmly back on the global urban agenda.
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Festivals and the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events
, 2022 This book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion. The ‘festivalisation’ of culture, politics and space in cities is often regarded as problematic, but this book examines the positive and negative ways that festivals affect cities by examining festive spaces ...
Smith, Andrew +2 more
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Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021 We show that cities with higher population density specialize in high-skill service jobs that can be done remotely. The urban and industry bias of remote work potential shaped the recent pandemic’s economic impact.
Lukas Althoff +3 more
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Retail spatial organisation and the physical city: bridging retail geography and urban morphology
BelgeoThe spatial organization of stores plays a crucial role in the production and development of the urban form while, at the same time, being strongly influenced from the physical constraints of the latter. Yet the connection between retail distribution and
Alessandro Araldi +2 more
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