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Pandemics, cities and Public Health [PDF]
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2020 Public Health and urban planning, which were once strongly connected, now go separately and are practically united only in sanitation policies. New and old health threats brought by urbanization and highlighted by the current pandemic emphasized the ...
Nelson Gouveia, Claudio Kanai
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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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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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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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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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Design with nature and eco-city design
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2020 Designing with Nature is an approach linking design and ecology, which focuses on living with nature, caring for nature, and aiming for a sustainable society.
Yegang Wu +12 more
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Bring Nature Back to the City; Keep Invasive Species Out [PDF]
Journal of Urban Research, 2022 Cities are the drivers of economic growth but pollute the environment and deplete natural resources. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) offer many answers to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Ahmed O. El-kholei, Mohammad S. Abido
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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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Gated communities in Lviv: Between social demand and spatial limitation [PDF]
Spatium, 2022 The article considers the phenomenon of the positive perception of gated communities in Lviv, with an emphasis on historical aspects of urban planning.
Idak Yuliya, Frankiv Roman
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Evaluation of building arrangement on natural ventilation potential in ideal building arrays
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023 Nowadays, the process of urbanization is accelerating, and the density of buildings is increasing rapidly. Natural ventlation is an energy-saving way of building ventilation and to solve the issue of building overheating. The buildings are all considered
Zhong Yawen +6 more
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