Moderating Urbanization and Managing Growth: How Can Colombo Prevent the Emerging Chaos? [PDF]
This paper examines urbanization trends, the growth of Colombo and its present state of development. It looks at the approaches to the planned interventions in the city and demonstrates how a uni-directional urban development has had a detrimental ...
Dayaratne, Ranjith
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Overweight and obesity among Indigenous children: individual and social determinants [PDF]
Factors influencing obesity are not confined to the health portfolio, argues this paper. Instead the factors occur across portfolios including housing, education, employment, social welfare and community development.
Anne-Marie Boxall +2 more
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Urban/ Regional Co-Operation in Greece: Athens, a Capital City under the Shadow of the State [PDF]
The main purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the difficulty of urban/ regional co-operation in Greece focusing on the overshadowing of its capital Athens by the state.
Alex Deffner +2 more
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Urbanisation and Migration: An Analysis of Trends, Patterns and Policies in Asia [PDF]
The present paper overviews urbanisation and migration process in Asian countries at macro level since 1950s, including the projections made till 2030.
Kundu, Amitabh
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Integrating SolVES and social media analytics to quantify social value spatial patterns and driving mechanisms in mega-scale green spaces. [PDF]
PLoS OneFan H, An R, Teng Z, Wang Y.
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Analyzing Mega-mobility Systems in Smart Cities: A Macro-Micro Integration with Feedback Paradigm Empowered by Artificial Intelligence. [PDF]
Research (Wash D C)Wang Z +10 more
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Public Bicycles: How the Concept of Human-Oriented “Mobility Sharing” Technology Can Influence Travel Behaviour Norms and Reshape Design Education [PDF]
Although at the moment an excess of 500 public bicycle schemes of variable sizes operate in almost 50 countries worldwide, the impact of their use on travel behaviour and modal change have neither been studied extensively nor have been understood ...
Nikitas, Alexandros +2 more
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The nonlinear relationship between urban design form and energy efficiency. [PDF]
Sci RepLyu S, Yan F.
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High Prevalence of Active HDV Infection Among HBsAg-Positive Patients in Urban and Rural Areas in Gabon: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study. [PDF]
Health Sci RepBivigou-Mboumba B +13 more
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Burden of Obesity in India: Need for Policy Changes to Attain Highest Possible Level of Health and Well-Being. [PDF]
Clin ObesKalra S +11 more
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