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The state-led approach to industrial heritage in China’s mega-events: capital accumulation, urban regeneration, and heritage preservation [PDF]

Built Heritage
This paper employs a comparative analysis to investigate the state-led use of industrial heritage in major Chinese mega-events, delving into the three cases of the Guangzhou Asian Games, the Shanghai Expo, and the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Mengke Zhang
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Quantifying the Effects of Different Containment Policies on Urban NO₂ Decline: Evidence from Remote Sensing and Ground-Station Data

Remote Sensing, 2023
Cities exposed their vulnerabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unprecedented policies restricted human activities but left a unique opportunity to quantify anthropogenic effects on urban air pollution. This study aimed to explore the underlying urban
Jing Kang, Bailing Zhang, Junyi Zhang, Anrong Dang   +3 more
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INITIATING SMART PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN LAGOS: SETTING THE TONE FOR AFRICAN CITIES

Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation, 2021
After several initiatives in public transportation primarily anchored by both the private and public sector which were short-lived, the informal sector comprising two-wheeler motor cycles, the “danfoes” and “molues” being operated by the (National Union
Desmond AMIEGBEBHOR, Boluwatife POPOOLA
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Extending the concept of city for delineating large urban regions (LUR) for the cities of the world

Cybergeo, 2020
Cities’ delineation remains a hot topic of debate in a time where comparisons between cities are becoming increasingly based on different issues that address various scales of interventions and thus different concepts of cities.
Céline Rozenblat
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Cities Hosting Holy Shrines: the Impact of Pilgrimage on Urban Form

Iconarp International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 2017
This paper explores pilgrimage in the context of historic holy cities which contain at least one religious complex through which the ritual of pilgrimage takes place.
Hossein Maroufi, Elisabetta Rosina
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Shanghai Rising: Health Improvements as Measured by Avoidable Mortality since 2000 [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015
Over the past two decades, Shanghai, the largest megacity in China, has been coping with unprecedented growth of its economy and population while overcoming previous underinvestment in the health system by the central and local governments.
Michael K. Gusmano , Victor G. Rodwin, Chunfang Wang, Daniel Weisz, Li Luo, Fu Hua   +5 more
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Olympic legacy and cultural tourism: Exploring the facets of Athens' Olympic heritage [PDF]

, 2013
This study examines the effects of the Olympic Games on Athens’ cultural tourism and the city’s potential to leverage the Olympic legacy in synergy with its rich heritage in order to enhance its tourism product during the post-Games period.
Alexiou C., Ashworth G.J., Asprogerakas E., Boniface B.G., Brown G., Burbank M.J., Chalip L., Creswell J.W., Denzin N.K., Derrett R., Gammon S., Georgios Boustras, Gold J.R., Gold M.M., Gold M.M., Irish Tourist Board, Kalogeropoulou H., Kitroeff A., Kostof S., Koutoulas D., MacAloon J.J., Mangan J.A., Miles M., Milionis S., Nikolaos Boukas, Papageorgiou-Venetas A., Ritchie J.R.B., Roche M., Sykianaki C., Traganou J., Travlou P., Tyler N., Vassilios Ziakas, Weed M., Yin R.K., Zentelis P., Zografos G.   +36 more
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Governance of the London 2012 Olympic Games legacy [PDF]

, 2011
© The Author(s) 2011. This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.This study addresses the governance of the London 2012 Olympics legacy.
Girginov, V
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Pars pro toto—Remote Sensing Data for the Reconstruction of a Rounded Chalcolithic Site from NE Romania: The Case of Ripiceni–Holm Settlement (Cucuteni Culture)

Remote Sensing, 2020
Prehistoric sites in NE Romania are facing major threats more than ever, both from natural and human-induced hazards. One of the main reasons are the climate change determined natural disasters, but human-induced activities should also not be neglected ...
Andrei Asăndulesei, Felix Adrian Tencariu, Ionut Cristi Nicu   +2 more
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Mind the gap? The persistence of pathological discourses in urban regeneration policy [PDF]

, 2010
Urban regeneration policy has historically framed policy problems using a discourse that pathologises areas and spatial communities. Since 2001 in England, and 2002 in Scotland a structural change in policy has occurred where citywide partnerships are ...
Atkinson R., Bailey N., Carley M., Clarke J., Dabinett G., Etzioni A., Fairclough N., Fairclough N., Fairclough N., Fischer F., Fischer F., Foucault M., Furbey R. A., Gill A. M., Hastings A., Imrie R., Johnstone C., Kearns A., Kochis B., Levitas R., Levitas R., McCrone D., Peter Matthews, Putnam R., Said E., van Dijk T. A., Watt P., Whitehead M., Yanow D.   +28 more
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