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SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data‐driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing markets shape asset inequalities and middle‐class formation in South Africa.
Julien Migozzi
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Roof gardening in cities : suggestions for Ankara [PDF]

, 1997
Ankara : The Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design and Institute of Fine Arts, Bilkent Univ., 1997.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1997.Includes bibliographical references leaves 104-106.This study examines a way of ...
Köylü, Pınar
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

Green space in compact cities: the benefits and values of urban ecosystem services in planning [PDF]

, 2014
This paper presents a literature review on urban green space benefits and values and discusses green space qualities that are important in providing ecosystem services for sustainability of compact cities. Green spaces and elements provide many functions,
Jansson, Märit
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Hurricane‐induced risk contagion in commercial real estate: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how hurricane‐induced destruction affects the prices of nearby undamaged commercial real estate properties, using Hurricane Sandy as a natural experiment. Using Real Capital Analytics transaction records spatially merged with Federal Emergency Management Agency building‐level damage data, we empirically employ a difference ...
Lu Fang, Lingxiao Li, David Scofield, Abdullah Yavas   +3 more
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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
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Constructing living buildings: a review of relevant technologies for a novel application of biohybrid robotics [PDF]

, 2019
Biohybrid robotics takes an engineering approach to the expansion and exploitation of biological behaviours for application to automated tasks. Here, we identify the construction of living buildings and infrastructure as a high-potential application ...
Bar-Yam Y, Bonabeau E, Calkins M, Chaudhuri P, Ching FDK, Daas M, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Danks SG, Ednie-Brown P, Elsayed S, Erlandson W, Gandy M, Gibaldi J, Gramazio F, Gunther N, Heiko Hamann, Hughes TJR, Joachim M, Johnson D, Jørgensen RN, Kalberer M, Kalberer M, Kasper Stoy, Katola K, Kirsch K, Ludwig F, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Mostafa Wahby, Nagaraja H, Payam Zahadat, Phil Ayres, Proksch G, Pérez G, Rafał Krela, Rafiei MH, Reames R, Reames R, Russell S, Schaeffer J, Schmitz V, Schweitzer F, Sebastian von Mammen, Slavid R, Soorati MD, Thomas Schmickl, Thouand G, Tomasz Skrzypczak, Wahby M, Warnes J, Wojciech Kwiatkowski, Wooldridge M, Yu Y   +52 more
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EAACI Guidelines on the Importance of Green Space in Urban Environments for Allergy and Asthma Prevention

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The allergy and asthma epidemic in urban societies following World War II is mostly caused by changes in the environment, diet and lifestyle. Disconnection of urban populations from the wider environment has reduced the protective factors building up immunological resilience.
Tari Haahtela, Liam O'Mahony, Claudia Traidl‐Hoffmann, Mubeccel Akdis, Ozlem Ceylan, Panagiotis Chaslaridis, Athanasios Damialis, Stefano Del Giacco, Antti Lauerma, Kari C. Nadeau, Inês Paciência, Isabella Pali‐Schöll, Oscar Palomares, Harald Renz, Jurgen Schwarze, Marilyn Urrutia‐Pereira, Carina Venter, Donata Vercelli, Tonya Winders, Cezmi A. Akdis, Marek Jutel, Ioana Agache   +21 more
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Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
wiley   +1 more source

Habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats across land‐cover types on an Afrotropical oceanic island

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Using acoustic surveys, we investigated habitat use and diel activity patterns of insectivorous bats across the main land‐use types of the endemic‐rich Príncipe Island, in Central West Africa. We sampled bat activity at 48 sites spanning old‐growth forests, secondary regrowth forests, shaded cocoa plantations, and horticultural areas.
Ana Filipa Palmeirim, Ana Catarina Araújo‐Fernandes, Ana Sofia Castro‐Fernandes, Patrícia Guedes, Yodiney dos Santos, João C. Alves, Vanessa Mata, Natalie Yoh, Ricardo Rocha   +8 more
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