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City Planning and Energy Efficiency: Towards an Integrated Urban Design and Planning Process

open access: yes, 2009
E. Barreiro   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
wiley   +1 more source

A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
wiley   +1 more source

Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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