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A climate‐sensitive tropical urbanism under extreme heat†

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
Tropical urban dwellers face twin climate challenges that impinge on their quality of life: climate overheating and the urban heat island (UHI). The latter superimposed on the former to lead to high levels of thermal discomfort, carbon and energy consequences.
Rohinton Emmanuel
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Phenomenology of liveability and place-making in the Fine Arts campuses

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
This study proposes a methodological approach to the phenomenology of liveability and place-making in Fine Arts campuses, focusing on spatial comprehension and perception within campuses.
İrem Can İğci, Hikmet Selim Ökem
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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.
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Theme Park Regionalization: A Comparison of Two Critical Cases

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract The growth ambitions of theme parks and zoos in recent years have sparked academic and policy attention regarding whether such amusement facilities should be viewed not just as isolated leisure objects, but also as contributors to regional economic development.
Patrick Witte, Martijn van den Hurk
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by advancing the concept of state entrepreneurialism through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. We define strategic embeddedness as the institutional integration of market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals and tactical ...
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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Interstellar Migration, the Population ‘Problem’ and the Climate Emergency

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Hartnell
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Digital Disease Ecologies: Encounter, Datafication and the Digital Geographies of One Health

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Through the case of Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App (SARPA), a digital snake translocation and snakebite prevention mobile phone application in Kerala, India, this paper extends recent geographical ‘digital ecologies’ scholarship's concern for the digitisation of more‐than‐human worlds to digital health technology and disease ...
George Kirkham
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Penalising Presence in Public Space: Control through Exclusion of the ‘Difficult’ and ‘Undesirable

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2017
Over the last two decades and across a number of jurisdictions, new measures enshrined in criminal law and administrative codes have empowered authorities to exclude unwelcome groups and individuals from public spaces.
Craig Johnstone
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Petropower in Law‐Enforcement Advertising at Super Bowl LIX

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This paper examines a recruitment commercial from the Super Bowl on 9 February 2025 in terms of its spectacularisation of petroleum's abiding yet volatile influence. The minute‐long piece on behalf of federal law enforcement indicates how the workings of power in the United States of America are entangled with the ubiquity of oil ...
Daniel A. Finch‐Race, Pancho Lewis
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