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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating TOD performance through node-place model: evidence from bus stop areas in Windhoek, Namibia. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Cui N, Yang H, Mwetuhafifa NM.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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Optimization of urban and rural electric bus scheduling considering mobile battery pack deployment. [PDF]

PLoS One
Chen S, Chang A, Cong Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Construction of the Node-place-Jobs-housing model: Analysis of employment-residential ratio in subway station areas of Shenzhen, China's highest construction density zone. [PDF]

PLoS One
Liu F, Zhang J, Geng H, Zhu Y, Zhu Y, Zhou J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
wiley   +1 more source

Exposures in Indoor Air Affecting Health

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indoor air quality (IAQ) is influenced by a wide range of chemical, biological and physical agents that can negatively impact physical, immunological and mental health. Adverse health effects depend on the type and concentration of pollutants, duration of exposure, and individual susceptibility.
Maria Hartiala, Varpu Elenius, Alicia Aguado Pesquera, Silas Androulakis, Isabella Annesi‐Maesano, Artur Badyda, Sicco Brandsma, Ioanna Chatziprodromidou, Goran Gajski, Judith Garcia‐Aymerich, Chiara Giorio, Timo Hugg, Jouni J. K. Jaakkola, Sarah Koch, Pim E. G. Leonards, Angeliki Matrali, Lisa Melymuk, Natalie Mueller, Adam Muszyński, Jet Opbroek, Inês Paciência, Spyros N. Pandis, Sofya Pozdniakova, Aino K. Rantala, Sandra Rodríguez Sufuentes, Linda Schenk, Eva Sugeng, Adrià Sunyer‐Caldú, Apostolos Vantarakis, Alexander Zherebker, Ernesto Alfaro‐Moreno, Pernilla Bohlin Nizzetto, José Fermoso Dominguez, Stylianos Karatzas, Francesco Mureddu, Heidi Salonen, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Tuomas Jartti, the IDEAL Consortium   +38 more
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“Everything Is Just Done Away With Now”: Contentious Practices of Scalar Brokerage Motivated by Narratives of Welfare Nostalgia in Postcolonial Rotterdam

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
wiley   +1 more source