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A smart city for all citizens: an exploration of children’s participation in Norway’s smartest city
International Planning Studies, 2023 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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Sustainable Development, Volume 30, Issue 6, Page 1573-1590, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Careers are fundamental in progressing gender and income equality as key objectives of sustainable development. However, transgender persons often face unique challenges that prevent them from advancing in the world of work. This article elaborates upon the case of “Trans for Career Thailand,” an advocacy group established during the COVID‐19 ...
Enrico Fontana, Prapassorn Siriwichai
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Transgressive urbanism: Borderlands and urban informality of american cities along the Pan-American Highway [PDF]
Igra Ustvarjalnosti, 2013 This study explores the ways in which political boundaries can be trespassed in order to develop subaltern forms of urbanism and edge conditions, mainly to the comparative study of border cities in the Americas, predominantly ruled by informal economies,
Cristian Suau
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FaceLift: A transparent deep learning framework to beautify urban scenes [PDF]
, 2020 In the area of computer vision, deep learning techniques have recently been used to predict whether urban scenes are likely to be considered beautiful: it turns out that these techniques are able to make accurate predictions. Yet they fall short when it comes to generating actionable insights for urban design.
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Igra Ustvarjalnosti, 2016 This paper summarises a study carried out as part of a master’s thesis that, among other things, tried to identify the reasons for the critical situation in rural areas in Slovenia as the consequence of indeterminate spatial planning, while recognising ...
Marija Prašin Kolbezen +1 more
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medRxiv, 2023 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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Designing the Knowledge Labs for Sustainable Built Environment in the Western Balkans [PDF]
Igra Ustvarjalnosti, 2018 By applying standard research approach and methodology, this paper describes several key educational and research actions undertaken through the Erasmus+ EU project “Creating the Network of Knowledge Labs for Sustainable and Resilient Environments ...
Saja Kosanović +2 more
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What is progressive city building? Global expertise and local entanglements in Latin America
Urban Geography, 2022 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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The integration of “building information modeling” (BIM) in sustainable architecture and construction education: case study in Pristina University [PDF]
Igra Ustvarjalnosti, 2017 After a comparative review of articles published for used types of “Building Information Modeling” (BIM) software, this study provides a wider understanding and critical reflection on integration and synthesis of BIM developments into Kosovo education ...
Violeta Nushi, Arta Basha-Jakupi
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Sketch Beautification: Learning Part Beautification and Structure Refinement for Sketches of Man-made Objects [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We present a novel freehand sketch beautification method, which takes as input a freely drawn sketch of a man-made object and automatically beautifies it both geometrically and structurally. Beautifying a sketch is challenging because of its highly abstract and heavily diverse drawing manner. Existing methods are usually confined to the distribution of
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