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Urban Visual Characteristics and Livability of Heritage Areas: A Case of Erbil’s Qaysari Bazaar
Sulaimani Journal for Engineering SciencesImproving visual characteristics in heritage areas enhances residents’ comfort, social engagement and overall urban livability. This study investigates how urban visual characteristics influence the perceived livability of the heritage area surrounding ...
Renas Jamal Ahmed , Hawar Himdad Jamal
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Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893–1921) includes the skeletal remains of immigrants, migrants, and lifelong New York City residents. The collection's formation was coeval with the formalization of physical anthropology, and the collection was made to serve research aims centered on race and origin.
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith
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Choices for the future: The Willamette Valley [PDF]
Prepared for by the Willamette Valley Livability Forum.
The Willamette Valley Livability Forum
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Frontiers in Public HealthYan'an City is a typical squeezed city in China and faces the challenge of limited living space. The adoption of the “Mountain Excavation and City Construction (MECC)” program was poised to elevate the city's livability.
Lei Liu +4 more
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Cultivating inclusive remote workplaces: A serial mediation analysis of employee outcomes
European Management Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transformation of traditional workplace arrangements has introduced unique challenges for fostering inclusion and retaining organizational identification among remote workers. This study examines how inclusion climate influences employee outcomes in remote work settings ‐ a context that has become increasingly prevalent yet remains ...
Andri Georgiadou +3 more
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Heuristic approaches to urban livability [PDF]
, 2009 It is argued that although complexity theory might be useful for simulating various urban processes, it is probably incapable of throwing much light on such a mysterious concept as urban livability.
Wyatt, Ray
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Defrosting humanism: Losing my ethical worldview in the wake of October 7th and Israel's retaliation
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract This auto‐ethnographic analysis describes the loss of my ethical worldview and my attempts to regain it following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli retaliation. On October 7th, I was unable to feel compassion for the people of Gaza or to take action against the Israeli retaliation, aspects that I used to see as ...
Yael Assor
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A Quantitative Assessment of Livability Principles for Neighborhood-Level Analysis [PDF]
, 2014 The Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which includes the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), Housing Urban Development (HUD), an the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has established six principles of livability.
Ford, Kelsey Elizabeth
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Livability and access to urban goods in Melbourne [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter argues that livability indices, although often taking account of overall levels of social inequality, have usually ignored the distribution of the urban goods that underpin the concept of livability—public safety, health and education ...
MacDonald, HI, Heather MacDonald
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Global Ecology and ConservationBiological invasions pose significant threats to ecosystem structure and function, disrupt ecosystem services, cause high economic losses, and negatively impact human well-being.
Hua Cheng +6 more
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