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Editorial for Special Issue on Biomimetic Adaptive Buildings. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Imani N, Vale B, Clements-Croome D.
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Intelligent Detection Method of Defects in High-Rise Building Facades Using Infrared Thermography. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Liu D, Jin Y, Yang Y, Xiao Z, Zhao Z, Gao C, Zhang D.   +6 more
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Assessing green walls' effects on outdoor human thermal exposure in temperate climate cities. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Lehnert M, Kremser J, Janků Z, Květoňová V, Geletič J.   +4 more
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VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu, Jonathan Cinnamon, Agnieszka Leszczynski   +2 more
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Experimental Evaluation of a Concealed Anchoring System for Large-Format Thin Ceramic Panels Under Wind Loading in Ventilated Façades. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Roviras Miñana J, Sarrablo Moreno V, Casariego Vales P.   +2 more
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
wiley   +1 more source

High-resolution urban-scale impact of retro-reflective façade materials on building thermal load. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Bizjak M, Mongus D, Lukač N, Yuan J.
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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