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The suburbanisation of poverty in British cities, 2004-16: extent, processes and nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper tracks changes in relative centralisation and relative concentration of poverty for the 25 largest British cities, analysing change for poor and non-poor groups separately, and examining parallel changes in spatial segregation.
Bailey, Nick, Minton, Jon
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The Social Equity of Spatial Compactness Varies by Context: Evidence From Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This paper examines the relationship between urban compactness and social equity across three UK cities. Using a multidimensional compactness framework and multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR), it analyses how demographic characteristics relate to spatial compactness at a fine scale.
Tianrui Sun, Cristian Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Dynamics and Networking in Coastal Cities -The case of tourism [PDF]

open access: yes
Traditionally coastal cities had a role as trading ports or gates of entry connecting the hinterland other parts of the world or the country, and acting as points of departure or arrival for goods and people.
Dimitrios Economou, Maria Vrassida
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Ten Strategies to Promote Climate Resilience and Sustainability of Global Forests

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 17, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
Ten integrated strategies show how forests worldwide can withstand climate threats, protect biodiversity, and sustain human livelihoods through smarter conservation, diverse planting, community‐led action, adaptive management, and innovative governance, securing our future in a rapidly changing climate.
Lanhui Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economization of spatial planning. The case of Poland’s Spatial Development Concept [PDF]

open access: yes
At the regional (subnational) level spatial planning has remained firm mainly in its land use aspects. Despite of pretty advanced legislation in Poland requiring each self-government region to prepare spatial planning outlines based on regional-socio ...
Jacek Zaucha
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Work–Residence Mismatch Drives Air Pollution Disparities Across Urban–Rural China

open access: yesEarth's Future, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract Across the globe, spatial mismatches between work and residence reshape human mobility and influence regional air quality, yet their effects across urban–rural systems remain poorly quantified. China's ongoing urbanization and rural revitalization underscore the urgent need to understand these dynamics. Here, using multi‐source geospatial data,
Xin Chen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chapter 13: Transition 12: From urban sprawl to polycentric metropolitan regions: forms of functioning and forms of governance

open access: yes, 2021
IntroductionAs Edward Soja points out, ‘The urban, the metropolitan, and the subnational-regional scales seem to be blending together’. Exchanges of goods, people and ideas between cities have intensified on a vast scale since the industrial revolution, and especially since the second half of the twentieth century, driven by a decline in transportation
openaire   +2 more sources

Practice Without Theory? The Wonder of Bethpage Black

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 3, Page 581-594, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Bethpage State Park's Black Course offers a rare historical case of administrative capacity emerging under conditions of uncertainty, fiscal constraint, and urgent public purpose during the Great Depression. Built with relief labor and without the benefit of fully developed public administration or budgeting doctrines, the project required ...
Odd J. Stalebrink
wiley   +1 more source

Metropolitan Regions as a Changing Policy Concept in a Comparative Perspective

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2017
In Europe, metropolitan policies emerge in a multi-scalar system of supranational, national and regional scales. Besides national policies on metropolitan issues, more and more European policies address metropolitan regions.
Carola Fricke
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