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Regenerating Urban Spaces under Place-specific Social Contexts: a Commentary on Green Infrastructures for Landscape Conservation [PDF]

, 2017
This study investigates the issue of green infrastructures in contemporary cities, adopting a strategic vision for increasingly complex metropolitan regions.
Bianconi, Fabio, Clemente, Matteo, Filippucci, Marco, Salvati, Luca   +3 more
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Significant of teritorry to increase sense of place in behavioural settlements [PDF]

, 2009
Cities have transformed collecting public places into private spaces. While in the past, public places as an urban place had a specific identity for themselves.
Adi Irfan,, Hero Farkisch,, M. Fauzi M. Zain,, Mastor Surat,, Vahid Ahmadi,   +4 more
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Voices from Urban Africa: The Impact of Urban Growth on Children [PDF]

, 2012
Urban poverty -- and its impact on children -- is often overlooked and misunderstood. More than half of the world's population now lives in cities. Each year the number of urban residents increases by nearly 60 million.1 By 2050, it is projected that two
Anne Stotler, Carol Miller, Jennifer Shindeldecker   +2 more
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Creating sustainable cities one building at a time: towards an integrated urban design framework [PDF]

, 2017
One of the tenets of urban sustainability is that more compact urban forms that are more densely occupied are more efficient in their overall use of space and of energy.
Emmanuel, Rohinton, Futcher, Julie, Korolija, Ivan, Mills, Gerald   +3 more
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The Appropriation of Space [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper, I study some aspects of urban environment using the concept of non-place intro- duced by Marc Augé in 1995. I first define the concepts of space, place and non-place.
Bruchansky, Christophe
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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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Urban geography: urban growth machine [PDF]

, 2009
Urban growth machine is an influential thesis of urban politics that suggests the objective of growth unites otherwise pluralistic interests in relation to a city.
Rodgers, Scott
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Trusted Urban Places

Adaptive Behavior
We draw on insights from ecological psychology, explorative architecture, and psychiatry to provide an analysis of basic trust in relation to urban places. We use the term basic trust to refer to the attitude of certainty we express when we act in skilled, often unreflective, habitual ways in the living environment.
David Habets, Erik Rietveld, Julian Kiverstein, Damiaan Denys   +3 more
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Constellations of identity: place-ma(r)king beyond heritage [PDF]

, 2007
This paper will critically consider the different ways in which history and belonging have been treated in artworks situated in the Citadel development in Ayr on the West coast of Scotland. It will focus upon one artwork, Constellation by Stephen Hurrel,
Aldous T, Anderson B, Atkinson D, Bennington G, Bourriaud N, Boyer C M, Butler J, Casey E, Castells E, CHA, CHA with Hurrel S, de Certeau M, Evans G, Geertz C, Hayden D, Hewison R, Kester G, Kester G, Kwon M, Lacy S, Lippard L R, Lynch K, McDowell L, Nora P, Osbourne B, Philo C, Robins K, Rose G, Sack R, Samuel R, Seiwood S, The Readers Digest Association, Turnbridge J E, Young I M   +33 more
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Urban agriculture and sustainable urban landscape. An applied research on two case studies (Madagascar and Senegal) [PDF]

, 2010
In developing countries, like in Madagascar and Senegal facing high rates of urbanisation, urban agriculture is progressively taken into account in urban planning.
Aubry, Christine, Ba, Awa, Dabat, Marie-Hélène, Ramamonjisoa, Josélyne   +3 more
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