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The Impact of a Commune’s Planning Tactics on the Landscape of Suburban Areas

open access: yesReal Estate Management and Valuation, 2016
The article aims to present selected transformations of landscape that follow changes in land use designated by suburban municipalities. Currently, under the pressure of suburbanization, suburban rural municipalities are gradually being transformed into ...
Zysk Elzbieta, Źrobek-Różańska Alina
doaj   +1 more source

Les petites villes dans la périurbanisation

open access: yesTerritoire en Mouvement, 2016
Based on statistical analysis, household semi-structured interviews and exploratory talks with land-use practitioners, this article questions the effects of suburbanization on small towns.
Séverine Bonnin-Oliveira
doaj   +1 more source

Clinician Practices in Determining Expected Body Weights Across Eating Disorders: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Eating disorder (ED) treatment often involves establishing expected body weights (EBWs). While individualised approaches are commonly used, whether and how EBWs are set across EDs, clinician perspectives on different approaches, and clinician training in this practice remain poorly understood.
Agatha A. Laboe   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated Planning of Public Passenger Transport between the City and the Region: The Case of Ljubljana

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2012
This article draws attention to the connection between transport planning and the settlement pattern and consequently the need for comprehensive planning of both the settlement and transport system.
David Bole   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does China's City-Size Distribution Present a Flat Distribution Trend? A Socioeconomic and Spatial Size Analysis From DMSP-OLS Nighttime Light Data

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021
Inconsistent measurements of city-size and a lack of time-series information on urban socioeconomic development have hindered determining whether China's city-size distribution (CD) follows a Pareto distribution according to multiple perspectives.
Kaifang Shi, Yizhen Wu, Shirao Liu
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Maturity, resilience & lifecycles in suburban residential areas

open access: yes, 2016
Most of the suburban residential areas in Germany have been built during the second half of the 20th century. Growing interest among practitioners and scientists is thus paid to the future development of maturing settlement areas characterized by old housing stock and aging inhabitants.
openaire   +2 more sources

Information Shocks, Legal Liability and Physician Decisions

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Physician adoption of new information about a medical procedure can affect patient outcomes. Medical malpractice law may influence physician use of such information. We analyze how physician reactions to information shocks regarding vaginal births after cesarean sections (VBACs) in the 1990s were mediated by tort reform and the standard used ...
David Mushinski, Sammy Zahran
wiley   +1 more source

Precarious suburbanism. Middle Class families in suburban Catalonia

open access: yesRevista de Antropología Social, 2017
In Catalonia, urban sprawl and the creation of residential areas of single-family houses separated from the inner city, the morphologically equivalent of the Anglo-Saxon suburb, has remained largely unexplored by the social sciences, especially from a ...
Mikel Aramburu
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Urbanization and Seasonality Increase Introduced Plant Consumption by the World's Southernmost Parrot 城市化与季节性增加了全球最南端鹦鹉对引入植物的取食

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, EarlyView.
Urbanization may alter bird foraging. Austral Parakeets (Enicognathus ferrugineus) in Patagonia rely on introduced plants in urban areas, especially in winter, despite preferring natives in the wild. This seasonal reliance on introduced species highlights urbanization trade‐offs and underscores the need to manage green areas with native plants to ...
Rocío Bahía   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergence of Gated Communities in Russia: Causes and Consequences

open access: yesL'Espace Politique, 2012
The article focuses on the urban residential segregation in Russian cities under modern conditions. The author shows the evolution of gated communities in Russia.
Maria Zotova
doaj   +1 more source

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