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Island city formation and urban island studies

Area, 2015
Regional, national and global cities are disproportionately located on small islands and archipelagos. The ‘spatial turn’ within island and urban geography increasingly privileges abstract notions of space, yet the prevalence of big cities on small islands suggests that sensitivity to place‐specific spatial factors is necessary if we are to understand ...
Adam Grydehøj
openaire   +2 more sources

Regional and urban heat island studies in megacities: A systematic analysis of research methodology

Indoor and Built Environment, 2022
The paper provides a systematic review of satellite-based regional and urban heat island (RHI and UHI) studies in cities and their challenges, from 2010 to the present based on visualizing scientific landscapes (VOS) viewer analysis and Scopus and ...
M. A. Degefu   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

This shoal which is not one: Island studies, performance studies, and Africans who fly

, 2020
This essay explores variant stories surrounding the 1803 ‘Igbo Landing’ on St. Simons Island, Georgia, in which a group of enslaved Africans mutinied against their captors and ran aground upon a shoal. Following Tiffany Lethabo King and other scholars of
R. Schneider
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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