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Liveable City from an Economic Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Landscape Planning, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide an overall image of what a liveable city is. Starting from the theoretical aspects presented in the first part of this work, and ending up with the practical ones, an attempt was made to provide an answer to the ...
Daniela Antonescu
doaj  

Seeing Sustainability: Aesthetic Public Pedagogy and the Formation of Ecological Citizenship

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Ecological citizenship education has specified responsibility, agency, justice and participation, but it has not fully explained how citizens are formed through visual culture beyond formal education. This conceptual article develops aesthetic public pedagogy as a specific mode of public pedagogy: the contested process through which publicly ...
Yang Zhi, Yi Zhang
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Beyond Connection: Paradoxes of Psychedelic Resonance in Late Modernity

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the enduring suspicion that psychedelic experiences are antithetical to the structural dynamic of modern societies through Hartmut Rosa's concepts of ‘resonance’ and ‘social acceleration’. Rosa's theoretical framework is particularly generative for studying the social meaning of contemporary psychedelia because it enables a
Mateo Sanchez Petrement
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From Housing to Infrastructure of Racialisation: The Politics of Caste in Smart Housing Interventions in India

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper conceptualises housing as an infrastructure of racialisation in smart cities. With smart urbanism becoming central to urban governance, housing is emerging as a new geography of technological interventions in India. I argue that these interventions are central to the reproduction of unequal power relations and difference in everyday
Syeda Jenifa Zahan
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Recentering Resource‐Based Livelihoods: Prosperity Beyond Extractivism and Pastoralism

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This research note, informed by qualitative fieldwork with resource harvesters in Nova Scotia, explores the effect of economic change and ecological crisis, the outcomes of rural development strategies, and demographic shifts that have shaped the province's rural areas in recent years.
Evan Curley
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The Impacts of Perceived Safety and Service Quality on Perceived Accessibility by Public Transport in Melbourne

Land
In recent years, accessibility to services and activities using sustainable transport modes has become an important goal for land use and transport planning policies. Traditional approaches rely on objective measures, such as travel time, distance, costs,
Hing-Wah Chau, Melissa Chan, Elmira Jamei, Katrin Lättman   +3 more
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The impact of public drop‐off boxes and autonomous delivery robots in last‐mile delivery

International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 3825-3854, November 2026.
Abstract The growing concern over emissions from last‐mile logistics is motivating the development of innovative delivery models aimed at reducing environmental impact and traffic congestion. To this end, we propose a last‐mile delivery scheme based on both public drop‐off boxes and autonomous delivery robots.
Gianpaolo Ghiani, Emanuela Guerriero, Emanuele Manni, Deborah Pareo   +3 more
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Home at the Margins: Police Violence, Evictions, and the Resistance to Belonging in São Paulo's ‘Cracolândia’

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT In São Paulo's Cracolândia—one of the world's largest open‐air drug scenes—urban transformation operates not through direct expulsion but through the systematic erosion of territorial bonds. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic research with unhoused crack users, NGO workers, and state officials, this article examines how interactions with
Flávio Eiró, Giordano Magri
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The liveable house

صفه, 1992
In this article the writer, a young architect, presents the desirable house of a muslim after revealing his dissatisfaction from the present styles of bulidings in the different Islamic states.
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Towards an integrated approach to evaluating biodiversity‐ and water‐sensitive urban design: A review of popular software tools

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 7, Issue 4, October–December 2026.
Globally, cities are recognising a need to design for biodiversity and water together—though current approaches typically design for them independently. Our review of 39 Water and Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD & WSUD) software‐based tools identified obstacles to collaboration associated with integration and interoperability.
Fiona Hoegh‐Guldberg, Casey Visintin, Holly Kirk, Yung En Chee, Sarah A. Bekessy   +4 more
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