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No. 10: The Hungry Cities Food Purchases Matrix: A Measure of Urban Household Food Security and Food System Interactions [PDF]
, 2017 Recent theoretical work has suggested that urban food security is the result of food system interactions. This work highlights the challenge of assessing household-level food insecurity and relating it to the broader food system.
Crush, Jonathan, McCordic, Cameron
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Probing the position of the Jakarta metropolitan area in global inter-urban networks through the lens of manufacturing firms [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents an analysis of the position of the Jakarta metropolitan area (JMA) in global inter-urban networks. Our starting point is our aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the JMA’s connectivity in world city networks (WCNs).
Derudder, Ben +1 more
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LandIn light of the challenges confronting urban areas due to increasing populations and spatial constraints, urban green infrastructure is vital for fostering environmental balance, enhancing community well being, and promoting sustainable urban development.
Yingying Jiang, Sacha Menz
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Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016 This qualitative, comparative case study examined global civic education (GCE) in the Asian global cities of Hong Kong and Singapore. Guided by theories that position curriculum at the intersection of discourse, context, and personal meaning-making, we ...
Theresa Alviar-Martin, Mark Baildon
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Towards a More Equal City: Framing the Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]
, 2016 Cities are growing differently today than before. As much as 70 percent of people in emerging cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America is under-served.
Anjali Mahendra +2 more
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Who can afford a ‘livable’ place? The part of living global rankings leave out
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021 As global livability rankings gain press attention and powerful influence with policy makers, we need an expanded critical debate on their context and problems.
Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum
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Cities for global health [PDF]
BMJ, 2018 In the first of a new series of articles on the role of cities in health, Majid Ezzati and colleagues call for greater action to reduce health inequalities within ...
Ezzati, M +5 more
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Nature CommunicationsThe rapid growth of tropical cities and the rising challenges of climate change call for efficient, low-carbon energy systems. Solar photovoltaics could play a key role, but deployment in tropical climates is constrained by localized thunderstorms that ...
Jiazu Zhou +5 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2021 Global cities have developed ambitious cultural policies to attract a qualified workforce, expecting a range of artistic amenities addressed to their social class.
Christian Lamour, Nathalie Lorentz
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Borders and cosmopolitanism in the global city: “London River”
Journal of English Studies, 2018 This article explores the representation of borders and cosmopolitanism in the city of London in “London River”, a film about two parents looking for their children in global city after the 7th of July of 2005 terrorist attacks.
Ana Virginia López Fuentes
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