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The impact of community care services on the preference for ageing in place in urban China.
Health and Social Care in the community, 2020 This paper examines the relationship between community care services and ageing in place in urban China. Using data from the 2010 Sample Survey on Aged Population in Urban/Rural China, and within the framework of a revised version of Andersen's model ...
Junshan Zhou, A. Walker
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The Prediction of Preference for Familiar Urban Places [PDF]
Environment and Behavior, 1976 The experience of the urban environment was studied in terms of how it is categorized, what people's preferences are, and the extent to which complexity and familiarity can account for these preferences. College students rated urban scenes on these three variables under three methods of scene presentation: Slides, Label (name and location), and ...
Herzog, Thomas +2 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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The city, the urban, the place
GEOUSP: Espaço e Tempo (Online), 2006 Na Mesa Redonda "A Cidade, o Urbano, o Lugar", realizada no Encontro Internacional "O Mundo do Cidadão. Um Cidadão do Mundo" em homenagem ao professor Milton Santos, propus rever a utilização historicamente dada pelos autores que trabalharam com esses três conceitos que estão entre os mais importantes dentre os utilizados na geografia (embora não sejam
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Urban Places as Aesthetic Phenomena: Framework for a Place-Based Ontology of Urban Lifeworld [PDF]
Topoi, 2019 AbstractUrban places are of central significance for cities both as built structures and as centers of everyday life. Due to the emergence of various design-led place-making policies and practices, “urban place” has largely become a marketed and branded product.
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Sustainability, 2019 Drawing on literature from environmental psychology and urban planning, this study evaluates the relationships between environmental satisfaction, residential satisfaction, and place attachment in the context of both rural and urban areas in China.
N. Chen +3 more
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Sustainability Science, 2018 Experimentation as a means of governance for sustainability transitions has been advocated for years by transition scholars and geography scholars. We propose that examining the impact of experimentation requires an understanding of its embeddedness in ...
N. Frantzeskaki +2 more
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Wellbeing in Urban Greenery: The Role of Naturalness and Place Identity
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The aim was to investigate effects of urban greenery (high vs. low naturalness) on place identity and wellbeing, and the links between place identity and wellbeing.
I. Knez +3 more
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On the Integration of Place and Urban Morphology
, 2021 This paper offers an initial discussion on the nexus of place conceptualization and urban morphology. An attempt is made to work out how taking into account the concept of place, which is difficult to grasp formally but essential for us as humans, would change the study of urban form. This is done from three different perspectives: the understanding of
Slivinskaya, Liudmila, Westerholt, René
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Sustainable urban place-shaping [PDF]
Journal of Urban Design, 2015 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:...
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