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Testing a global city hypothesis : an assessment of polarization across US cities [PDF]
, 2012 Social polarization is perhaps most evident within the world's large cities where we can easily observe stark contrasts between wealth and poverty. A world city theoretical perspective has emerged that associates large cities importance in a global ...
Derudder, Ben +5 more
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Collective Impact Partnerships: The Data to Action Hourglass Model
Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 2022 Models are needed to guide positive health care and social transformation using real-world data, particularly in an era of data-driven science and accountability.
Karen Monsen +6 more
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A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 [PDF]
, 2013 Urban population now exceeds rural population globally, and 60–80% of global energy consumption by households, businesses, transportation, and industry occurs in urban areas.
Friedl, Mark A +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Latino fathers may play important roles in adolescents’ physical activity and screen time. However, informant discrepancies regarding paternal activity parenting practices may challenge studies supporting evidence-based applications.
Youjie Zhang +6 more
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, 2013 Towns and cities existed throughout Africa’s past. However since the late twentieth century Africans are witnessing a historically unprecedented transition from living mainly in rural areas to residing in cities.
Meier Zu Selhausen, Felix
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City Festivals and Festival Cities [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter discusses the role of city festivals in shaping and re-imagining urban space. There has been increased interest in festivals among decision-makers and marketers as vehicles for cultural profiling, regeneration, and social inclusion. The chapter views space as inseparable from economic and social structures and practices which govern urban ...
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Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities—Applications, Barriers, and Future Directions: A Review
Smart CitiesAs urbanization continues to pose new challenges for cities around the world, the concept of smart cities is a promising solution, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a central role in this transformation. This paper presents a literature review of
R. Wolniak, Kinga Stecuła
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Techne, 2022 «Today, 600 million people in Africa do not have access to electricity and 900 million lack access to clean cooking facilities» (IEA, 2019). With this premise, the paper will explain the research agenda of the African Off-grid Housing project on how to ...
Paolo Cascone +4 more
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From Smart Cities To Playable Cities. Towards Playful Intelligence In The Urban Environment [PDF]
, 2018 In the last decade, we have seen the rise of urban play as a tool for community building, and city-making and Western society is actively focusing on play/playfulness and intelligent systems as a way to approach complex challenges and emergent situations.
Perna, Valerio
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Pathways of change : shifting connectivities in the world city network, 2000-08 [PDF]
, 2010 This is an empirical paper that measures and interprets changes in intercity relations at the global scale in the period 2000-08. It draws on the network model devised by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research group to measure global ...
Bassens, David +10 more
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