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Scale and sense of place among urban dwellers
Ecosphere, 2019 . Place connections are core to being human: Every person lives in, and thus has direct experience of, at least one place and likely of numerous places throughout a lifetime.
N. Ardoin +4 more
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Kaitiakitanga, place and the urban restoration agenda
, 2019 Indigenous relationships with the environment are embedded in narratives and cultural practices. In New Zealand, Maori have maintained their relationship to the environment through a practical philosophy of environmental guardianship known as ...
Erana Walker +4 more
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Urban Place and Health Equity: Critical Issues and Practices
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2017 Urban places and health equity are two of the most challenging concepts for 21st century environmental health. More people live in cities than at any other time in human history and health inequities are increasing.
Jason Corburn
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2016 Very little is known about how differences in use and perceptions of urban green space impact on the general health of black and minority ethnic (BME) groups.
Jenny Roe +2 more
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Place and city: Operationalizing sense of place and social capital in the urban context
Trans. GIS, 2017 The academic interest in social concepts in city contexts, such as sense of place and social capital, has been growing in the last decades. We present a systematic literature review that confirms the strong relationship between sense of place and social ...
Albert Acedo, M. Painho, Sven Casteleyn
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No Place, New Places: Death and its Rituals in Urban Asia
Urban Studies, 2011 In many land-scarce Asian cities, planning agencies have sought to reduce space for the dead to release land for the living, encouraging conversion from burial to cremation over several decades. This has caused secular principles privileging efficient land use to conflict with symbolic values invested in burial spaces.
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Nature CitiesWhat makes a place ‘urban’? Here we develop the conceptual case for a simple geo-demographic approach to defining and measuring ‘urbanness’. Through a critical engagement with classic treatises on cities and urbanism, we argue that urbanness is a function of population concentration, which generates the essentially urban experience of living surrounded
Sean Fox, Levi John Wolf
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Heritage, urban regeneration and place-making
, 2017 The focus of this special issue is upon how urban heritage is used as a mechanism to achieve urban regeneration, very broadly conceived.
J. Pendlebury, H. Porfyriou
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Local place identity: A comparison between residents of rural and urban communities
, 2021 D. Belanche, L. Casaló, M. Rubio
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