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An Investigation On The Liveability Of Urban Settlement. Case Study: Mandy Villa, Segambut, Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 Urban areas are the main centres of growth in every country. However, urban areas face challenges such as environmental destruction, social deprivation, insecurity, health problem, and accessibility issue.
Hoon Leh Oliver Ling +3 more
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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2019 Background Designing healthy, liveable cities is a global priority. Current liveability indices are aggregated at the city-level, do not reflect spatial variation within cities, and are often not aligned to policy or health.
Carl Higgs +4 more
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Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2023 North African cities have been undergoing major transformation over the past two decades following protracted instability, civic uprising, and conflicts, changing their perception from havens to territories of displacements with social, psychological ...
Khairi Abdulla, Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
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Land, 2021 Can sustainability and liveability be simultaneously pursued at the neighbourhood level? Adopting neighbourhood satisfaction as a proxy to indicate liveability at the neighbourhood scale, this paper investigated how the residential subjective perception ...
Qi Zhang +2 more
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Časopis Socìalʹno-Ekonomìčnoï Geografìï. Часопис соціально-економічної географії, 2018 Sustainability has been a pressing, complex, and challenging agenda for urbanists. Its focus turns on wider issues of envi-ronment and societies thus broadening the concept defined in the Brundtland report.
Harsha Munasinghe
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Housing adaptability: new research, emerging practices and challenges
Buildings & Cities, 2022 Highlights The underlying issues of why housing adaptability is important today are introduced, together with the drivers and barriers to uptake. This editorial explains the different kinds of adaptability (environmental, spatial, social and multi-use(r))
Sofie Pelsmakers, Elanor Warwick
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Comparative review of liveability indices: trends and insights
Budownictwo i ArchitekturaThe concept of liveability emerged and thrived over two decades, with over thirty global and regional measurable indices developed by various organisations and agencies.
Meenakshi Pappu, Nina Lazar
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Ex‐Ante Assessment of Farm Resilience to Institutional Shocks: A Modeling Approach
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the agent‐based model SWISSland, we simulate farm‐level responses and interactions under two institutional shocks: tariff reductions and direct payment reductions. Using a framework we developed, we assess resilience capacities, resilience attributes, and the provision of private and public goods, following the shock.
Nadja El Benni, Gabriele Mack
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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2018 We surveyed households within Cirebon Metropolitan Region (CMR) in Indonesia to assess ecohydrological changes and their impacts on urban and peri-urban liveability.
Titih Titisari Danielaini +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong +7 more
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