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Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth:explaining divergent trajectories in Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Twin-tunnelling-induced changes to clay stiffness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
With urban tunnel construction growing worldwide, the ability to accurately predict the ground and structural response to tunnelling and the associated risks is now more important than ever before. Engineers are expected to consider all aspects of tunnel
Divall, S.
core   +1 more source

No Place for Urban Art

open access: yesStreet Art & Urban Creativity, 2016
The following is an attempt to situate Urban Art within the philosophical tradition with and against Plato’s exclusion of the mimetic artist from the well-ordered city-state. It takes into account modern as well as postmodern literature on the concept of art and the city in order to rehabilitate a place for art within the city limits without ...
Christos Voutichtis, Jonas Aaron Rehm
openaire   +1 more source

Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking activity and place attachment dimensions in enhancing the sense of place [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Sense of place definition includes the point where the physical form, activity and meaning are intertwined in the people experience of a place. In urban design and place quality research, much has been discussed on the influence of the physical form ...
Dola, Kamariah, Ujang, Norsidah
core  

Health Care Use Among Patients Presenting to Emergency Department for Gout Flares in Ontario, Canada: A Population‐based Health Systems Analysis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective We characterized emergency department (ED) gout visits and identified patient characteristics and health services patterns contributing to ED presentations. Methods We conducted a population‐based study of ED gout visits in Ontario, Canada between 2014 and 2023.
Timothy S.H. Kwok   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Localization of Olympos and Korykos in Eastern Lycia

open access: yesGephyra, 2004
The Localization of Olympos and Korykos in Eastern Lycia On the basis of a prolonged study of the Stadiasmus of Patara and an in-depth inspection of the remnants of a hitherto largely unknown Hellenistic city on Mount Musa Dağı, the author presents a ...
Mustafa Adak
doaj  

Conzenian Tradition in Polish Urban Historical Morphology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The scientific heritage of M. R. G. Conzen, who is considered one of the most outstanding historical geographers and urban morphologists in the world, has made a huge impact on the contemporary urban historic morphology. Nowadays it would be very hard to
Kulesza, Mariusz
core   +2 more sources

Place and City: Toward Urban Intelligence [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018
Place, as a concept, is subject to a lively, ongoing discussion involving different disciplines. However, most of these discussions approach the issue without a geographic perspective, which is the natural habitat of a place. This study contributes to this discourse through the exploratory examination of urban intelligence utilizing the geographical ...
Albert Acedo   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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