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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]
, 2013 The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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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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Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world
Urban studies, 2021 This paper examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic, fiscal, social and political fallout on cities and metropolitan regions.
R. Florida +2 more
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Determinants of urban sprawl in European cities [PDF]
, 2013 This paper provides empirical evidence that helps to answer several key questions relating to the extent of urban sprawl in Europe. Building on the monocentric city model, this study uses existing data sources to derive a set of panel data for 282 ...
G. Garrod +8 more
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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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Shadow care infrastructures: Sustaining life in post-welfare cities
Progress in Human Geography, 2022 Economic restructuring and welfare reform are driving new forms of urban poverty in the global north. Shadow care infrastructures is a new frame for conceptualising the complex and interconnected practices through which marginalised people seek survival ...
Emma R. Power +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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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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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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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang +3 more
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