Sustainable Urban Place-shaping [PDF]
Journal of Urban Design, 2016 Urban areas, where for example 90% of the UK’s population lives, represent complex interconnected systems in which any intervention, no matter how small, impacts on the sustainability of the whole:...
Carmona, MP
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Municipality Day(s): a new tradition in the calendar of municipal festivals
Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne, 2022 An important function within the overall way of life of current rural as well as urban communities is carried out by cultural-social events and festivals organised at the place of residence of the actors and potential participants. One of those which do
Zuzana Beňušková
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El Cerro de la Ermita de La Encarnación (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia): santuario y territorio en el mundo ibérico del Sureste peninsular / The Cerro de la Ermita of La Encarnación (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia): cult place and territory in the Iron Age Iberian Southeast [PDF]
Panta rei, 2017 As part of the landscape cult places developed an essential territorial role in the Mediterranean Protohistoric societies, including the Iberian communities.
Leticia López-Modejar
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Ruang-Space: Jurnal Lingkungan Binaan, 2016 Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (World Health Organization-WHO) di dalam laporannya di tahun 2014 mencatat bahwa di tahun 2012 penyakit kanker telah menjadi penyebab kematian dari 8.2 juta orang.
Gusti Ayu Made Suartika
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(De-)activating the growth machine for redevelopment: the case of Liede urban village in Guangzhou [PDF]
, 2017 This research investigates the mechanism of urban village redevelopment in south China. Through a revised typology of place entrepreneurs based on the growth machine thesis and a case study of Liede village in central Guangzhou, it illustrates how land ...
Guo, Youliang +3 more
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Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms [PDF]
Urban Studies, 2021 This article introduces the special issue on placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms. It argues that place provides a vital framework for considering a more decentred and transversal representation of such activisms, creating potential for the consideration of smaller and more peripheral locations and alternative visions of the more familiar and iconic cities ...
Alison L Bain, Julie A Podmore
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Loud and Trendy: Crowdsourcing Impressions of Social Ambiance in Popular Indoor Urban Places [PDF]
, 2015 New research cutting across architecture, urban studies, and psychology is contextualizing the understanding of urban spaces according to the perceptions of their inhabitants. One fundamental construct that relates place and experience is ambiance, which
Gatica-Perez, Daniel, Santani, Darshan
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African American male youth: An urban ethnography of race, space & place [PDF]
, 2013 Student migration within U.S. urban school districts is now a central feature of policies that promote school choice to access a quality education. Policymakers also support the value of diversity in public schools, even as educational policies and legal
Quiroz, Pamela Anne
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Urban Place Names: Introduction [PDF]
Urban Science, 2020 Urban place names are multidimensional phenomena [...]
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Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth:explaining divergent trajectories in Africa [PDF]
, 2013 Why are urban plans, land use regulations and construction codes implemented effectively in some African states but not others? This constitutes an increasingly urgent development concern with major implications for the environment and the urban poor ...
Goodfellow, Tom
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