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“Emancipatory Circuits of Knowledge” for Urban Equality: Experiences From Havana, Freetown, and Asia
Urban Planning, 2022 Feminist, Southern, and decolonial thinkers have long argued that epistemological questions about how knowledge is produced and whose knowledge is valued and actioned are crucial in addressing inequalities, and a key challenge for planning.
Stephanie Butcher +8 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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A produção da habitação e a diferenciação do espaço no arranjo populacional de Ribeirão Preto – SP
ConfinsThe objective of this research is to analyse and understand the operation of housing policies promoted by the State in conjunction with housing producing agents in small cities, in particular those located in the Immediate Geographic Region of Ribeirão ...
Everaldo Santos Melazzo +1 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Divergence of Canadian and American Cities
American and British Studies Annual, 2008 The article outlines the evolution of Urban Geography approaches to the cities and elaborates the idea of the cities as multi spatial “bodies”. Further on it compares the development of Canadian and American cities and points out the main differences ...
Pavel Sedláček
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Urban park soundscape in distinct sociocultural and geographical contexts
Noise Mapping, 2016 The importance of soundscape in urban public parks has galvanised researchers concerned with improving the sound environment in cities. Existing literature reveals, however, a relative paucity of studies on soundscape in particular sociocultural and ...
Lobo Soares Antonio Carlos +1 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020 Platform urbanism understood as the impact of digital platforms on the materiality, daily lives and governance of cities is, we argue in this paper, a powerful form of actually existing smart urbanism.
Ola Söderström, Anne-Cécile Mermet
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African American male youth: An urban ethnography of race, space & place [PDF]
, 2013 Student migration within U.S. urban school districts is now a central feature of policies that promote school choice to access a quality education. Policymakers also support the value of diversity in public schools, even as educational policies and legal
Quiroz, Pamela Anne
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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