Results 31 to 40 of about 2,214,896 (169)
Rural to Urban Population Density Scaling of Crime and Property Transactions in English and Welsh Parliamentary Constituencies [PDF]
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
core +4 more sources
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments
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
openaire +3 more sources
Haptic vision, footwork, place-making: A peripatetic phenomenology of the mobile phone pedestrian [PDF]
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.
core +1 more source
Pleading as Information-Forcing [PDF]
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
core +1 more source
Giving urban policy its 'medical': assessing the place of health in area-based regeneration [PDF]
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
core +1 more source
When out-groups are perceived as out of place: urban disorder sensitivity and environmental distance. [PDF]
Jaśkiewicz M, Sobiecki J.
europepmc +1 more source
Random Walks Estimate Land Value
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.
core
Soil consumption by urbanisation: a case study in northern Sardinia (Italy) [PDF]
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
core
URBAN STREETS: REMAKING HUMAN-BASED PLACES
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.
openaire +2 more sources
Urban Design in Neighbourhood Commodification [PDF]
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
core

