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Cities Under Pressure: Evidence on Tourism Growth and Neighbourhood Change in Europe

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Across European cities, the rapid growth of tourism is reshaping urban life in increasingly contested ways. While the sector continues to support local economies, it is also increasingly associated with the sense that neighbourhoods are becoming less liveable for residents.
Mafalda Batalha
wiley   +1 more source

A framework for evaluating ecohydrological-based liveability in a rapidly urbanising region of Indonesia

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, Basant Maheshwari, Dharmappa Hagare   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

LIVEABLE AND HEALTHY CITY DESIGN [PDF]

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2018
The paper deals with the topics related to the healthy city. Liveability in public spaces is the main argument developed in a case study.
openaire   +4 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source