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Avoid, adapt or exploit: Re-visiting bird responses to urbanization using a novel landscape approach

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Urbanization threatens global biodiversity, yet numerous species persist in cities, highlighting opportunities for habitat restoration and conservation.
Jacinta E. Humphrey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Residents’ Satisfaction on Re-urbanization after Earthquake Disaster in Düzce, Turkey

open access: yesJournal of Applied Sciences, 2006
The aim of this study was to research the effects of this diversity on urban developments in terms of people's satisfaction and highlight the developments in the future. Since Düzce was the most seriously damaged city after the earthquakes, it has been a good example for the study.
Guniz Akinci kes   +7 more
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Toward a New Cycle: Short-Term Population Dynamics, Gentrification, and Re-Urbanization of Milan (Italy) [PDF]

open access: yesSustainability, 2018
After sequential cycles of urbanization and suburbanization, European cities underwent a (more or less intense) re-urbanization wave. The present study analyzes short-term population dynamics in the core of a large metropolitan region (Milan, northern Italy), providing evidence of spatially-heterogeneous re-urbanization characterized by spatially ...
Carlucci, Margherita   +2 more
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Urbanization and ‘‘Re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt: Al-Jamʿiyyāt al-Islamiyya and the Muslim Brotherhood

open access: yesIslamic Inquiries, 2022
This essay elucidates the background against which al-jamʿiyyāt al-islamiyya al-ahliyya [Islamic private associations] emerged in the Egyptian cities and embarked on ‘‘re-Islamizing’’ the urban public space throughout the interwar period.
Panos Kourgiotis
doaj   +1 more source

Urbanizaçao e violência: Reflexões a partir do livro e do filme Cidade de Deus

open access: yesRevista Geographia, 2010
A partir do filme e do livro Cidade de Deus o autor discute a relação entre urbanização e violência, buscando esclarecer os fundamentos violentos da formação social brasileira e da (re)produção capitalista do espaço.
Sérgio Martins
doaj   +1 more source

Protecting and Scaffolding: How Parents Facilitate Children's Activities in Public Space in Urban China

open access: yesECNU Review of Education, 2022
Purpose During the past decades, China has seen a rapid urbanization that has (re)shaped not only its city landscape but also (re)created public space where children live, play, and learn.
Xin Luo (落鑫)
doaj   +1 more source

Concurring urbanizations? Understanding the simultaneity of sub- and re-urbanization trends with the help of migration figures in Berlin [PDF]

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science, 2017
Most classical models of urban development conceptualize suburbanization and reurbanization as opposing processes of in-and out-migration. The article at hand starts from the understanding that this linear interpretation of migration figures falls short of the mark.
Hierse, Lin   +3 more
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Toward a New Urban Cycle? A Closer Look to Sprawl, Demographic Transitions and the Environment in Europe

open access: yesLand, 2021
Urban growth is a largely debated issue in social science. Specific forms of metropolitan expansion—including sprawl—involve multiple and fascinating research dimensions, making mixed (quali-quantitative) analysis of this phenomenon particularly complex ...
Daniela Smiraglia   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

City of Man, City of God: The Re‐Urbanization of American Evangelicals [PDF]

open access: yesCity & Society, 2011
AbstractIn post‐World War II America, U.S. Evangelicalism became a religion deeply entrenched with suburbanization and commercial sprawl. This article examines the growing phenomenon of middle‐class white Evangelicals who are returning to the city. Since September 2008 I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork with nearly 100 Evangelicals in the post ...
openaire   +1 more source

Re‐urbanizing London Docklands: Gentrification, Suburbanization or New Urbanism? [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2007
AbstractThis article is based on a study of Docklands in London, which was undertaken as part of a larger study of gentrification in inner London. Using interview and survey data, the article compares Docklands with the gentrification that has taken place elsewhere in inner London.
openaire   +2 more sources

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