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Developing child-friendly cities: Young children’s participation in urban planning
Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2023 This article is based on a collaborative project between a municipality and a research team, aiming to investigate participatory methods that promote young children’s interest and participation in, and access to express their views in connection with ...
Terese Wilhelmsen +4 more
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Modifying urban planning to promote child health: A scoping review of reviews [PDF]
Health Promotion PerspectivesBackground: Children’s health is shaped by their physical, natural, and socioeconomic environments. The objective of this study is to identify structural urban planning measures that can positively or negatively impact children’s health. Specifically, we
Louise Wallerich +2 more
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Atmosphere, 2021 City centers have to cope with an increasing amount of air pollution. The supply of fresh air is crucial yet difficult to ensure, especially under stable conditions of the atmospheric boundary layer.
Jonathan Lukas Biehl +2 more
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Housing-Based Urban Planning? Sir Patrick Geddes’ Modern Masterplan for Tel Aviv, 1925
Urban Planning, 2019 This article studies Sir Patrick Geddes’ housing-based urban planning, pointing to a less-explored aspect of his groundbreaking work, while proposing ways to rethink the history and theory of modern urban planning towards a “housing builds cities ...
Yael Allweil, Noa Zemer
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Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 As global urbanization accelerates, cities have become increasingly complex and hybridized, and host to novel urban landscape forms such as informal greenspaces or novel ecosystems that support ruderal and spontaneous vegetation.
Christopher Kennedy
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Mental map of the city: elements of visual argumentation and creativity in modern city planning
Creativity Studies, 2018 Lewis Mumford in The City in History (first edition in 1961) emphasises that the structure of modern cities is partially responsible for many social problems seen in Western society.
Borbála Jász
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Cultural Infrastructure and the Planning of Future Cities [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Culture is an important aspect of human civilization. Preserving and giving value to the cultural heritage of a region can pave the way for local as well as regional development. This includes tangible, intangible and the natural heritage of cities.
Sindhu S, Reshmi M K
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Why do zoos attract crows? A comparative study from Europe and Asia
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Crows have successfully colonized many cities, and urban zoos have been important in this process. To evaluate why zoos attract crows, we quantified crow numbers and behavior in three zoos in Europe (Debrecen, Edinburgh, Vienna) and one in Asia (Sapporo).
László Kövér +6 more
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Transformasi Makna dan Fungsi Ruang di RPTRA Kalijodo dalam Pergulatan Citra Kota Jakarta
RUAS, 2019 Kalijodo has a long history in terms of gambling, prostitution, human trafficking and other illicit activities. Although it is a green belt area, the location had always being filled with semipermanent buildings.
Eka Permanasari, Thomas Lientino
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How urban food gardening fits into city planning
TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022 The international planning agenda is opening its attention to the integration of food systems in urban planning and, consequently, to Urban Agriculture (UA).
Anna Forte +2 more
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