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Constructing a city liveability index and evaluating the spatial pattern of liveability of Guwahati city

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Геологія. Географія. Екологія
Introduction: Urbanization is a global phenomenon on the rise in recent decades. In this context, the concept of liveability has emerged as a fundamental instrument for assessing living standards in urban areas.
Anwesha Mahanta, Parijat Borgohain
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Learning about the liveability of cities from young migrants using the combinatorial Hodge theory approach

npj Urban Sustainability
In declining and ageing societies, local communities face the ‘risk of eventual extinction.’ In Japan, a population equivalent to that of an entire city is lost every year, representing one of the most severe cases of population decline. Thus, attracting
Takaaki Aoki, Kohei Nagamachi, Tetsuya Shimane   +2 more
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CONCEPTUALIZING THE LIVEABLE AFRICAN CITY

Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation, 2013
This paper attempts to conceptualize the liveable African City using indices of liveability as advanced by Africans. The concepts of City Liveability and the City as a living system are used as the theoretical underpinnings to the study.
Taibat Lawanson, Taofiki Salau, Omoayena Yadua   +2 more
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care ...
Steven Roberts, Elsie Foeken, Karla Elliott, Riikka Prattes   +3 more
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Third-Generation Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

Social Sciences, 2019
This paper advances crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) theory and practice by introducing a holistic and integrated crime prevention theory called Third-Generation CPTED.
Mateja Mihinjac, Gregory Saville
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source

Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?

Area, EarlyView.
Abstract Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio‐spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic ...
Sarah Marie Hall
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Increasing the role of local initiatives in creating liveable cities: Bodrum local habitat [PDF]

, 1998
'Liveability' which describes the characteristics of a 'good community', was proposed by the Turkish delegation during the preparation works of Habitat II Conference, as complementary to the principle of sustainability.
Ozlem Dundar
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