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Urban Ecosystems, 2013
Estimating the relative importance of vegetation on residential land (gardens, yards, and street-trees) and vegetation on non-residential land (parks and other large green spaces) is important so that competing options for urban conservation planning can be prioritized. We used data from an urban breeding-bird monitoring program to compare the relative
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Estimating the relative importance of vegetation on residential land (gardens, yards, and street-trees) and vegetation on non-residential land (parks and other large green spaces) is important so that competing options for urban conservation planning can be prioritized. We used data from an urban breeding-bird monitoring program to compare the relative
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Some Effects of Suburban Residential Development on Local Finances
1957Recent population trends have transformed many rural farming communities into residential suburbs. The changing pattern of land use has had important effects on farmland values and on farm property taxes. It has also placed a strain on the financial resources of local government. Especially where local units are small and lack economic diversification,
Stocker, Frederick D. +1 more
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Residentialism. A Suburban Archipelago
2021Oggi la campagna può essere vista alternativamente come un mito nostalgico, un habitat distopico, o un santuario dove proteggersi da guerre, cambiamenti climatici o pandemie. Dalla retorica del villaggio globale alla recente riscoperta dei valori intrinseci del quartiere, la vita suburbana soddisfa il desiderio di un nuovo ambiente per sperimentare ...
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Debordering and rebordering in the residential borderlands of suburban Guangzhou
Urban Geography, 2018Gated communities and enclave urbanism in China have recently drawn considerable attention of researchers and policy makers.
Kaihuai Liao +2 more
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Differential belongings: socio-cultural distinctions in suburban residential areas
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2014This paper explores suburban middle-class residents’ narratives about housing choice, everyday life and belonging in residential areas of Greater Copenhagen, Denmark, to understand how residential processes of social differentiation are constituted.
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An Examination of Residential Preferences in the Suburban Era
Sociological Focus, 1988Abstract It has been suggested that suburban “minicities” now provide the services necessary for working wives and mothers to balance the multiple demands on their time, leading women to prefer suburban over central city neighborhoods. Data from the 1983 national Annual Housing Survey verify that women prefer suburban neighborhoods, but fail to support
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Traditional accounts often have underestimated complexities involved in suburbanization process by assuming direct, linear causality to explain the suburban patterns of metropolitan development. Yet, an explicit explanation that encompasses the complexities of the multitude of flux of causal relationships and feedbacks and incorporates demographic and ...
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Traditional accounts often have underestimated complexities involved in suburbanization process by assuming direct, linear causality to explain the suburban patterns of metropolitan development. Yet, an explicit explanation that encompasses the complexities of the multitude of flux of causal relationships and feedbacks and incorporates demographic and ...
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Urban growth boundary policy and residential suburbanization: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Habitat International, 2004Abstract The process of suburbanization of Riyadh, a city of 4.5 million inhabitants, offers a unique situation in which the urban morphology of the city can be examined in light of socio-political and economic conditions. Central government ordinances helped create ‘dysfunctional’ sprawl by mandating big lots and overly wide streets.
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Childhood Nature Experiences Across Residential Settings: Rural, Suburban, and Urban
2015Much concern has been raised over the past decade that children are not engaging in outdoor play as frequently as in past generations. Little is known, however, about the specific interactions that children have with natural environments and the variability in nature-related free play and recreation among children.
Kristi S. Lekies, Jed D. Brensinger
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Role of parks in residential district by physical activity on suburban residential area
Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2023Kaoru Matsuo +3 more
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