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URBAN STREETS: REMAKING HUMAN-BASED PLACES
Journal 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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The suburban question: grassroots politics and place making in Spanish suburbs [PDF]
, 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
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A place-based analysis of COVID-19 risk factors in Bangladesh urban slums: a secondary analysis of World Bank microdata [PDF]
, 2021 Shaikh Mehdi Hasan +5 more
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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
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Encouraging sustainable development in a coastal community: New Hanover County, North Carolina's exceptional design zoning district [PDF]
, 2010 While New Hanover County is the second smallest county in North Carolina, it is also the second most densely populated with approximately 850 people per square mile. Nestled between the Cape Fear River and Atlantic Ocean with surrounding barrier island
Ralston, Shawn
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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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“You Got To Know Us”: A Hopeful Model for Music Education in Urban Schools
, 2013 Urban schools, and the students and teachers within, are often characterized by a metanarrative of deficit and crisis, causing the complex realities of urban education to remain unclear behind a wall of assumptions and stereotypes. Within music education,
Clauhs, Matthew +4 more
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Culture and Urban Revitalization: A Harvest Document [PDF]
, 2007 Advocates have long argued that the economic benefits of the arts and culture provide a firm rationale for public support. Recent scholarship on the "creative class" and "creative economy" is simply the latest effort to link cultural expression to ...
Mark J. Stern, Susan C. Seifert
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Understanding Relationships between Health, Ethnicity, Place and the Role of Urban Green Space in Deprived Urban Communities [PDF]
, 2016 Jenny Roe +2 more
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