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A smart city for all citizens: an exploration of children’s participation in Norway’s smartest city
In recent years, a 'participatory turn' has emerged as a remedy to counter top-down and techno-centric smart city development approaches. While this shift in smart city policies and strategies offers promise, it also presents challenges.
Johana Evelyn Montalvan Castilla+1 more
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The central area of a municipal centre: A study on the indicators of the built environment in small settlements [PDF]
Municipal centres differentiate by size, function, population density and population structure, access to employment and role (SPRS, 2004). Today in Slovenia, there are 119 small settlements with central significance, which are also municipal centres. In
Mia Crnič+2 more
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Introduction Field trials and modelling studies suggest that elimination of dengue transmission may be possible through widespread release of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the insect bacterium Wolbachia pipientis (wMel strain), in conjunction ...
Melanie Bannister-Tyrrell+7 more
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What is progressive city building? Global expertise and local entanglements in Latin America
Latin American cities have emerged at the cutting edge of urban planning best practices circulated by multilateral agencies, transnational NGOs, and a cadre of celebrity architects and urbanists.
Jacob H. Lederman, Ryan Anders Whitney
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Communication of the Built Environment
How do we react to different ways of communicating built environment? How do podcasts (sounds), documentaries (images) and social media communicate ideas and concepts often reaching diverse audiences? Drawing on examples of how different knowledge can be
Boštjan Bugarič
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Open Source Urbanism – Adapting Principles and Criteria of Open Source Software To Urbanism [PDF]
The idea of open source, stemming from software development is being applied in various fields, including urbanism, as the concept of Open Source Urbanism (OSU).
Rrona Berisha, Matevž Juvančič
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The Social and Spatial Aspect of Public Spaces - Through the Analysis of Ali Madanipour’s Works [PDF]
After the final decline of functionalism in the 1960s, the debate regarding public spaces returned to theoretical discussions and practical work in the field of urban planning and design.
Rrona Berisha, Ilka Čerpes
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Problems caused by urbanization, such as inadequate water content in the urban foundation, ecological imbalance in the soil and the heat island effect, have become issues that people pay a great amount of attention to.
Z. Zeng, B. Li
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THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF BEAUTIFULNESS AND GREENING OF THE CITY TERRITORY
Being places of population concentration and various types of activities - industry, construction, energy, automobile fleet, cities are sources of air, surface and underground water, and soil pollution.
Mariia Byvalina
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Sustainability Approaches to Urban Planning: Re-Cycling Urbanism [PDF]
While the growth of global urban centres is primarily attributable to population growth, Slovenian towns are stagnating due to suburbanization. The urban centres have failed to timely adapt to new forms of living, climate change and excessive energy ...
Jernej Červek
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