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Les périurbains et leurs espaces publics : enquête sur les franges nord de la métropole parisienne
Peri urban areas are often viewed as spaces without city life due to a lack of public space. However, a lot of recent studies show that these areas are increasingly diverse and tend to become spaces of social practices.
Antoine Fleury
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Public Space as a Public Good: Some Reflections on Public Space to Enjoy Solitude
This paper explores the public space as a public good. Public space is understood as a ‘void’ in the urban continuum that has unlimited access for the city dwellers. We study the public space as a physical, material space, as imaginative material space and as a formative part of the public domain in order to answer the following question: what are the ...
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Abstract The establishment of guidelines and curriculum standards for medical physics residency training is a critical component of setting expectations and competencies for the profession. Since the last publication of these standards, residency training has become integrated into the eligibility criteria for most medical physics certification bodies.
Jonathon A. Nye+16 more
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This chapter describes a sonorous production of Islamic communitarian privacy in the public spaces of Kenya's major coastal city. As a palpable alternative to a liberal-democratic social imaginary, this communitarian privacy bears a powerful resonance ...
Andrew Eisenberg
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Les rives lacustres comme espaces publics : essai de cartographie. L’exemple du lac d’Annecy
As outdoor activities develop, public spaces are transformed and extend beyond cities, blurring the limits between public and private spaces. This paper relies on a case study of Lake Annecy (Haute-Savoie, France) and analyzes public space at the ...
Alice Nikolli
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Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods1
This article assesses the sources and consequences of public disorder. Based on the videotaping and systematic rating of more than 23,000 street segments in Chicago, highly reliable scales of social and physical disorder for 196 neighborhoods are ...
R. Sampson, S. Raudenbush
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Abstract Purpose This study aims to develop a CycleGAN based denoising model to enhance the quality of low‐dose PET (LDPET) images, making them as close as possible to standard‐dose PET (SDPET) images. Methods Using a Philips Vereos PET/CT system, whole‐body PET images of fluorine‐18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18F‐FDG) were acquired from 37 patients to ...
Yang Liu, ZhiWu Sun, HaoJia Liu
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Pioneers, subcultures and cooperatives: The grassroots augmentation of urban places [PDF]
About the book: There have been numerous possible scenarios depicted on the impact of the internet on urban spaces. Considering ubiquitous/pervasive computing, mobile, wireless connectivity and the acceptance of the Internet as a non extraordinary part ...
Gaved, Mark, Mulholland, Paul
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Theory of Place in Public Space
Place as a theory fails to clearly articulate linkages between meaning and physical settings for chosen activities in public space. In addressing these issues, the meaning of user behaviour in public space is described by affective and cognitive images of the physical setting; a theoretical conceptualisation of individual experiences which include ...
Mark Del Aguila+2 more
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The Improvement of the Comfort of Public Spaces as a Local Initiative in Coping with Climate Change
Being the vital element of successful cities, public spaces play an important role in achieving sustainable development goals and in coping with climate change. The new urban agenda considers public spaces indispensable for sustaining the productivity of
M. Vukmirović+2 more
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