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Housing-Based Urban Planning? Sir Patrick Geddes’ Modern Masterplan for Tel Aviv, 1925

open access: yesUrban 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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Mental map of the city: elements of visual argumentation and creativity in modern city planning

open access: yesCreativity 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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Developing child-friendly cities: Young children’s participation in urban planning

open access: yesJournal 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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Transformasi Makna dan Fungsi Ruang di RPTRA Kalijodo dalam Pergulatan Citra Kota Jakarta

open access: yesRUAS, 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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Ventilation of a Mid-Size City under Stable Boundary Layer Conditions: A Simulation Using the LES Model PALM

open access: yesAtmosphere, 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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Renewable Energy as an Underutilised Resource in Cities: Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ and Lessons for Post-Brexit Cities in the United Kingdom

open access: yesResources, 2018
Renewable energy remains an underutilised resource within urban environments. This study examines the ongoing German Energiewende (energy transition) as an example of renewable energy being treated as a necessary resource for urban development.
Mohammed Adil Sait   +3 more
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Ruderal Resilience: Applying a Ruderal Lens to Advance Multispecies Urbanism and Social-Ecological Systems Theory

open access: yesFrontiers 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]

open access: yesE3S 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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Human-Oriented Scene-Based City Building: Construction Pathway for Beijing’s Garden Scene from the Perspective of the Theory of Scenes

open access: yesFengjing Yuanlin
ObjectiveThis research aims to explore the systematic application pathway of the theory of scenes in the construction of Beijing Garden City. Addressing current deficiencies in Beijing’s green space development, such as insufficient integration of ...
Lingjun MENG   +3 more
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Assessing environmental barriers by means of the Swedish craig hospital inventory of environmental factors among people post-stroke

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020
Background When occupational therapists address environmental barriers to occupational engagement, some barriers might not be possible to reduce for single individuals, because decisions have to be taken at community or societal level, for example ...
Gunilla Carlsson   +2 more
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