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From Plot to Block: Participatory Land Use for Climate‐Resilient Detached Housing in Finland
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how urban planning in Finland is adapting to climate change, focusing on the practical challenges planners face in single‐family housing areas. It draws on participatory workshops with municipal planners in Pori and Joensuu, where three planning tools—green factor metrics, impermeable surface limits, and the 3–30‐300 ...
Hossam Hewidy
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recycling rates in South African townships remain critically low, undermining progress towards sustainable development and the transition to a circular economy. This study applies the theory of interpersonal behaviour (TIP) to examine how recycling habits mediate the relationship between key drivers—past behaviour, environmental concern ...
Thomas Dobbelstein, K. Mercy Makhitha
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African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
Southern Spaces, 2006 One of the most striking developments in recent southern history has been the pace and scale of African American suburbanization. Delving into the history of black organizations, civic politics, race-based policies, class economics and neighborhood ...
Andrew Wiese
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Ethnic Dimensions of Suburbanisation in Estonia [PDF]
Large scale suburbanisation is a relatively recent phenomenon in East Central Europe and responsible for major socio-spatial changes in metropolitan areas. Little is known about the ethnic dimensions of this process.
van Ham, Maarten +3 more
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the causal impact of federal homeless‐assistance grants on reported homelessness and shelter capacity across 370 Continuums of Care in 2019. We exploit cross‐sectional variation in pre‐1940 housing shares, used in Community Development Block Grant formula allocations, as an instrument for combined CoC and Emergency ...
Luke Maddock, Anita Alves Pena
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On the Fringe of Neoliberalism: residential development in outer suburban Sydney
Australian Geographer, 2008 Although there is widespread consensus in human geography that neoliberalism is achieved through the intersection of multiple scales and states, there has been growing emphasis in recent years on the hybrid qualities of neoliberalist-styles of governance.
Cook, NL., Ruming, K
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Inequality and the Measurement of Residential Segregation by Income In American Neighborhoods [PDF]
American metropolitan areas have experienced rising residential segregation by income since 1970. One potential explanation for this change is growing income inequality.
Tara Watson
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.As human‐modified landscape and climate changes proliferate, maintaining biodiversity and understanding the function and quality of available habitat is imperative. As anurans (frogs/toads) such as Pseudacris crucifer, can be an indicator species of habitat quality and ecosystem productivity, studying the anuran community in a mixed‐land use region ...
Brian C. Kron, Karen V. Root
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Revitalization possibilities of post-industrial and warehouse areas on the example of Warsaw’s Żerań [PDF]
Archives of Civil EngineeringSuburbanization and urban sprawl, alongside the concept of creating compact cities, highlight the need to repurpose undeveloped, degraded spaces, such as post-industrial and warehouse areas.
Maciej Izdebski +2 more
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The Inversion of the Land Gradient in the Inner City of Haifa, Israel [PDF]
While suburbanization and decentralization are familiar concepts in urban economics, there is a possibility that land gradients will not simply flatten over time, but actually invert themselves. This would mean that the traditional CBD or downtown ceases
Steven E. Plaut, Pnina O. Plaut
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