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Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2018 In the process of suburbanization of large growing cities, transit passengers have an undeniable role to play in terms of local traffic, car use, and petrol consumption.
Zhao Pengjun, Li Shengxiao
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Land Use Policy and Racial Segregation
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land use policies, though seemingly race‐neutral, can inadvertently contribute to racial segregation. Our study focuses on examining the impact of minimum lot size regulations on the likelihood of ethnic minorities integrating into a community, which reveals compelling evidence suggesting that black households exhibit a preference for smaller ...
Ling Huang
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The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social SciencesThe recent expansion in Black suburbanization is the most substantial shift in Black American residential patterns since the Great Migration. It has left Blacks more sorted between urban and suburban neighborhoods across metropolitan areas.
Reuel Rogers
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Die Innere Stadt als Wohnstandort der „jungen Alten“?
Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2015 Is the inner city an attractive place for the “young elderly” to live? During decades suburbanization was the dominant pattern of city development in Germany.
A. Rabe, U. Hohn
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Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose This study examines Howard University College of Dentistry's (HUCD) contributions to dental education, focusing on its role in strengthening workforce representation, expanding access to care in dental health professional shortage areas (DHPSAs) and medically underserved areas (MUAs), and addressing persistent oral health disparities ...
Marzia Mustamand +15 more
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Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form.
Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew E. Kahn
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Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2015 In this study, Bucharest, the capital city of Romania was selected as a case study. Based on time series of Landsat TM imagery and statistical data, an analysis on urban growth from 1984 to 2010 was performed, using an integrated approach of remote ...
Bogdan Mihai +2 more
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Urban, suburban or rural? Understanding preferences for the residential environment [PDF]
Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2020 There are two ongoing trends that lead to changing preferences for the built environment. One concerns a demographic transition into more but smaller, and older, households.
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Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract We aimed to evaluate the mental health benefits and possible mechanisms of objective and subjective treescape exposures whilst also accounting for relationships with residential area greenspace in general. Independent variables were objective measures of residential neighbourhood tree cover density and woody linear features, and a subjective ...
Ian Alcock +5 more
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Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2011 Issues of intense suburbanization and urban sprawl have been the most discussed threads in the recent debate on urban development in Poland. Meanwhile, in numerous cities of Western Europe signs of inner-city revival have been observed and ...
Maja Grabkowska
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