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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
wiley   +1 more source

Urban environment, health, and equity: A population-based study of symptoms and annoyances related to air pollution, traffic noise, and greenness. [PDF]

Environ Epidemiol
Eiffener E, Pyko A, Axelsson Ö, Murekatete R, Merritt AS, Georgelis A, Gruzieva O, Lõhmus M, Andersson N, Eneroth K, Ögren M, Pretto M, Dorbolò L, Ljungman P, Bergström A, Eriksson C.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Emergence of power laws in hierarchical dynamics on multi-level graphs. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Rondini T, Berselli G, Degli Esposti M, Bazzani A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

Transportation control and epidemic containment: empirical evidence from China's Wuhan lockdown. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Zhang M, Zhang Y, Yu F, Wen Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Estimated health burden of environmental noise exceeds that of ambient air pollution in Ireland. [PDF]

Discov Public Health
Faulkner JP, Murphy E.
europepmc   +1 more source

UNPACKING THE SUSTAINABILITY FIX: Governance Mechanisms in Urban Redevelopment Across Central and Eastern Europe

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainability is mobilized as a governance strategy in large‐scale urban redevelopment. Focusing on the RIVUS Mall project in Cluj‐Napoca, alongside comparative cases from Bratislava and Gdańsk, it traces how environmental objectives are translated into institutional practices, planning rationales, and financial ...
MIHAI IACOB
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial heterogeneity of the nonlinear impact of built environment on suburban railway commuting willingness: Taking Guiyang Loop Line Railway as an example. [PDF]

PLoS One
Chen R, Zhao H.
europepmc   +1 more source