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Designing cities for everyday nature. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract The motivations for incorporating nature into the design of cities have never been more compelling. Creating experiences with nature that occur every day (everyday nature) in cities could help reverse the fate of many threatened species and connect people with nature and living cultural traditions.
Visintin C, Garrard GE, Weisser WW, Baracco M, Hobbs RJ, Bekessy SA.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Vivienda Rural Indígena: La identidad territorial Pewenche y la respuesta de las políticas habitacionales a las necesidades de su habitar. Comuna de Alto Biobío, Chile.

Urbe, 2021
El Estado chileno ha desarrollado programas habitacionales destinados a dotar de viviendas a sectores de bajos ingresos en zonas rurales. Si bien estas soluciones constituyen un avance en las condiciones de vida de las familias, persisten aspectos por ...
Ana Maria Hidalgo Munoz, Maria Isabel Lopez Meza   +1 more
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Transformaciones en el paisaje patrimonial urbano agrario. El caso de los Huertos Familiares de Talcahuano, Chile

Urbe, 2021
Entre fines del siglo XX y las primeras décadas del siglo XXI, parte del espacio periurbano de la comuna de Talcahuano en la Región del Bío-Bío, Chile, ha experimentado un cambio dramático, desde un paisaje de huertos familiares a un paisaje ocupado por ...
Monserrat Belén Palma Hurtado, María Isabel López Meza   +1 more
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Behavior of a new laterally top-loaded post-grouted micropile in highly porous lateritic soil

Dyna, 2023
The use of micropiles has been increasing in recent years, mostly for horizontally loaded cases. Given the little information about this foundation type under lateral top-loading, especially in high-porosity and collapsible soils, a total of four ...
Yuri Barbosa, Murilo Heryaldo Pinheiro Tarozzo, Paulo José Rocha de Albuquerque, David de Carvalho   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social justice and migrant children: Exploring the design and implementation of education policies for migrant children in China

Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 9, Page 1941-1955, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Drawn from 14 educational policy documents and 26 interviews with educators of internal migrant children in China, this paper examines the design and implementation of educational policy for Chinese internal migrant children in the past three decades through the theoretical lens of social justice.
Yao Wang, Peter Sercombe
wiley   +1 more source

Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam

Review of Policy Research, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 1004-1025, November 2023., 2023
Abstract This article analyzes and compares the climate policy and transformation pathways of the forerunner cities Turku (Finland), Groningen (The Netherlands), Rostock, and Potsdam (both located in Germany). Our study combines an international comparison of cities located in three different countries with a national comparison of two German cities ...
Kristine Kern, Sam Grönholm, Wolfgang Haupt, Luca Hopman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

De‐peripheralization and rural land capitalization: An empirical study of a public–private partnership in Zhaoqing, China

Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 7, Page 1596-1611, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Classical urban geography theories determine the distribution of population, production and economic activities on geospatial features. Under this assumption, peripheral regions are rarely prosperous. Depopulation, weak industrial and employment structure and inefficient and fragmented land use form a negative feedback loop. Within the context
Yu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature

People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 3, Page 897-910, June 2023., 2023
Abstract As humanity has become increasingly urban, a growing number of people have been deprived of access to nature and the benefits it provides. This is especially true for marginalized groups, who often live in neighbourhoods where nature has been so diminished and degraded that it provides fewer types, and much lower levels of benefits.
Kelley E. Langhans, Alejandra Echeverri, S. Caroline Daws, Sydney N. Moss, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, J. Nicholas Hendershot, Lingling Liu, Lisa Mandle, Oliver Nguyen, Suzanne X. Ou, Roy P. Remme, Rafael J. P. Schmitt, Adrian Vogl, Gretchen C. Daily   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Border Effects on firm's productivity: The role of peripherality and territorial capital

Papers in Regional Science, Volume 102, Issue 3, Page 483-506, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Border effects have long been studied and are a central element of EU regional policies. While most literature takes a macroeconomic approach, this paper adopts a microeconomic one, studying the impact on firm productivity in border areas. The empirical analysis, on Italian land borders, employs a novel two‐phases double‐matching design, which
Federico Fantechi, Ugo Fratesi
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluación de las cualidades multisensoriales del espacio urbano: un enfoque metodológico y sistema de notación para el registro y diseño de la experiencia multisensorial en el espacio urbano

PsyEcology: Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2010
Los espacios urbanos son una experiencia para todos los sentidos, pero con demasiada frecuencia el interés de académicos y diseñadores se centra únicamente en los aspectos visuales o auditivos de los lugares. ¿Quéimplica adoptar un enfoque más holístico del papel de los sentidos en nuestra experiencia del espacio urbano?
Lucas, Raymond, Romice, Ombretta
openaire   +2 more sources