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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

Framework development of continuous non-linear Diophantine fuzzy sets and its application to renewable energy source selection. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Khan A, Khan S, Rahimzai AA, Abdullah S.
europepmc   +1 more source

EVICT, NEGLECT, OR INVEST? Community Power and the Politics of Urban Informality Governance in Jakarta

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
wiley   +1 more source

Towards socially robust policy modelling: scoping review of public involvement in computational policy modelling. [PDF]

Health Res Policy Syst
Stewart E, Dewison N, Gedeon E, Hill-O'Connor C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
wiley   +1 more source

Data set for the generation of strategies in the selection of renewable energies in Colombia: Evaluation of AHP and FAHP from regional potentials towards a sustainable future. [PDF]

Data Brief
Christian Manuel MR, Daina AB, Itzjak VM, Juan PP.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

q-Rung orthopair fuzzy 2-tuple linguistic WASPAS algorithm for patients' prioritization based on prioritized Maclaurin symmetric mean aggregation operators. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Abbas F, Ali J, Mashwani WK, Gündüz N, Syam MI.   +4 more
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“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition “Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing” held at the London School of Economics on October 13th, 2022. It discusses the history of the “Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology” led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and ...
Monika Krause
wiley   +1 more source

Neural network aided fractional-order second-order sliding mode controller for frequency stabilization of wind integrated nonlinear power system. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Patel V, Kumar A, Giri VK, Patel V.
europepmc   +1 more source