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Rural to Urban Population Density Scaling of Crime and Property Transactions in English and Welsh Parliamentary Constituencies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most rural to heavily urban ...
Hanley, QS, Lewis, D, Ribeiro, HV
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Ageing in Place in Urban Environments

open access: yes, 2023
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other. Both have been identified as dominant demographic trends of the twenty-first century.
Tine Buffel, Chris Phillipson
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Haptic vision, footwork, place-making: A peripatetic phenomenology of the mobile phone pedestrian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper we aim to develop a post-phenomenology of walking through an analysis of the relation between pedestrian mobility and the use of mobile devices, and then apply this analysis to users of third and fourth generation location-aware touch ...
Richardson, I., Wilken, R.
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Pleading as Information-Forcing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study has been conducted in the context of the master program in Outdoor Environmental Education and Outdoor Life, of Linköping University. It aspires to investigate a specific part of outdoor environments: the schoolyards.
Reinert, Alex
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Giving urban policy its 'medical': assessing the place of health in area-based regeneration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
How does regeneration affect health and how have successive urban policy evaluations sought to measure such impacts? This article draws on a systematic review of national-level evaluation documentation relating to government-funded, area-based ...
Atkinson, R.   +3 more
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Random Walks Estimate Land Value

open access: yes, 2010
Expected urban population doubling calls for a compelling theory of the city. Random walks and diffusions defined on spatial city graphs spot hidden areas of geographical isolation in the urban landscape going downhill.
Blanchard, Ph., Volchenkov, D.
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Soil consumption by urbanisation: a case study in northern Sardinia (Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The aim of this short communication is to present a case study of competition between urbanisation, environment and agriculture for the Alghero municipality, a coastal Mediterranean area where a high urban growth has taken place during the last 50 ...
D'Angelo, Massimo   +3 more
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URBAN STREETS: REMAKING HUMAN-BASED PLACES

open access: yesJournal of Urban Research, 2023
Over the past few decades, due to the emerging compactness of cities considering the increase in population, and consequently the increasing demand for fast mobility, many streets have lost their human dimension. They have been transformed into fast roads, giving priority to vehicles, and reducing the rights of pedestrians.
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Urban Design in Neighbourhood Commodification [PDF]

open access: yes
The intention to promote local economic development through place marketing and urban design based interventions is linked to the commodification of the city, a trend emerging parallel to a new milieu for intercity competition. The aim with this paper is
adureira, Ana Mafalda
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