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Short-Stay Sedentarism: The Local Battle over Migrant Workers’ Housing in The Netherlands

Social Sciences
This article investigates the housing precarity of EU migrant workers in the Dutch–German border region, focusing on the Venlo Greenport area. Drawing on documentary analysis, 28 interviews, field observations, and stakeholder engagement, it explores how
Tesseltje de Lange, Masja van Meeteren
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Walking With SAGE Clan Patrol: Practicing Empathy in the Indigenous Urban Landscape

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the work of a Blackfoot‐led, volunteer‐based outreach organization that patrols the urban core of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, providing support and connection to vulnerable community members. While settler colonialism maintains exclusionary racialized geographies which locate cities as spaces of “Whiteness” and reserves ...
Amy Cran, Patrick C. Wilson, Mark Brave Rock   +2 more
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Pursuing Green Growth: Some Conflicts and Necessary Conditions for a Pragmatic Environmental Policy [PDF]

This paper focusses narrowly on three areas of public policy concerning the environment deemed necessary for sustainable economic growth. It has relevance to Asian nations as they continue to demand for higher growth and at the same time keeping ...
Euston Quah
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Quantifying Siting Difficulty: A Case Study of U.S. Transmission Line Siting [PDF]

The worldwide demand for new energy infrastructures has been paralleled in recent years by the increasing difficulty of siting major facilities. Siting difficulty is the subject of widespread discussion, but because of the complexity of the problem ...
Fischbeck, Paul, Vajjhala, Shalini
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Controversial Facilities in Japan, 1955 - 1995

, 2007
The purpose of this study, Controversial Facilities in Japan, 1955 – 1995, is to understand the factors which lead decision-makers and authorities in Japan to select localities as host communities for often-unwanted and controversial facilities such as ...
Daniel P. Aldrich
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Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission legislative resource guide

, 2007
Ed. 3.0.; Title from PDF cover (viewed on Feb. 13, 2008).; "January 2007."; Harvested from the web on 2/13/08Introduction -- Why the state should invest in community capital projects -- How projects secure funding -- Commission role & responsibilities --
Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission.
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Influence of NIMBY Effect and Regional development on placing noxious facilities

, 2011
NIMBY je rozšířený akronym pro neochotu lidí mít ve své blízkosti zařízení, která by je mohla poškozovat. Obyvatelé, kteří se cítí takto poškozováni, očekávají, že dostanou za tuto škodu nějakou kompenzaci.
Bolehovský, Petr
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“Small and Smart Design, Large Paradigm”: Mechanism Innovation in Shenzhen’s Infrastructure Transition toward Openness and Sharing

Fengjing Yuanlin
ObjectiveAs Shenzhen transitions from an incremental, expansion-driven phase of urban development into a high-density, stock-oriented stage, the contradiction between the engineering nature of urban infrastructure and its public value has become ...
Liang SHAN, Siwei LIU, Yi ZHOU, Jia LU, Yingbo XIAO   +4 more
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The impacts of NIMBY facilities on community residents

, 2013
In this study, we try to focus on welfare economics\ue2s and public choice\ue2s view to explore the NIMBY characteristics and impact on community residents.
Liang, Tong-Shang
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Public housing and NIMBY: The effects of citizen participation in siting public housing facilities in Tulsa [PDF]

, 2001
Public housing has become akin to toxic waste facilities in the amount of citizen opposition generated to oppose the placement of these facilities in particular communities.
Peaden, Charles
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