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The city, the urban, the place

open access: yesGEOUSP: 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
openaire   +4 more sources

Urban Places as Aesthetic Phenomena: Framework for a Place-Based Ontology of Urban Lifeworld [PDF]

open access: yesTopoi, 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.
openaire   +3 more sources

The suburban question: grassroots politics and place making in Spanish suburbs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Manuel Castells spoke of the urban as a unit of collective consumption, yet much of the politics of collective consumption he documented was evident in the suburbs.
Phelps, Nicholas A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

African American male youth: An urban ethnography of race, space & place [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Improving Condition- and Environment-Invariant Place Recognition with Semantic Place Categorization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The place recognition problem comprises two distinct subproblems; recognizing a specific location in the world ("specific" or "ordinary" place recognition) and recognizing the type of place (place categorization). Both are important competencies for mobile robots and have each received significant attention in the robotics and computer vision community,
arxiv   +1 more source

Establishment and biological characterization of radioresistant colorectal cancer cell lines

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Under ionizing radiation exposure, radiation‐sensitive cancer cells exhibit oxidative stress and DNA damage, while radiation‐resistant cancer cells exhibit strong antioxidant properties and DNA damage repair. Radiotherapy resistance is a major cause of recurrence and metastasis in colorectal cancer (CRC).
Tian‐Yin Qu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Significant of teritorry to increase sense of place in behavioural settlements [PDF]

open access: yes, 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,   +4 more
core  

Global Trends in Risk Factors for Low Back Pain: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study Data From 1990 to 2021

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The increasing burden associated with low back pain (LBP) is a critical issue. This is a novel analysis of trends in risk factors for LBP aiming to identify risk factors that require further attention or consideration in global policies to reduce the burden of LBP.
Katharine E. Roberts   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Place recognition: An Overview of Vision Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Place recognition is one of the most fundamental topics in computer vision and robotics communities, where the task is to accurately and efficiently recognize the location of a given query image. Despite years of wisdom accumulated in this field, place recognition still remains an open problem due to the various ways in which the appearance of real ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Examining the Factors of Place Sameness: A Classroom Re-creation Task in a Virtual Environment [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Virtual re-creations of real-world places are attractive and becoming more popular. Attractiveness of re-created place is commonly determined by the degree of visual similarity to the original places. Even if the re-creation has poor similarity to the original, there are cases in which people recognize and allow the re-creation to have similarity as ...
arxiv  

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