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Buildings as accidental habitat: Where animals nest, sleep and forage
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Animals have long inhabited human buildings alongside us, but our understanding comes from isolated studies, such as reports of a possum in the roof or a bat in our walls. What we lack is the building's perspective: which building features actually serve as habitat and for whom?
Bethany M. Kiss +6 more
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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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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Urbanisation poses a major threat to biodiversity, yet residential gardens offer opportunities to provide key habitats for urban wildlife. Understanding both the perceived feasibility of implementing further improvements to gardens for biodiversity and the barriers that constrain engagement is essential for designing effective conservation ...
Kelly Hitchcock +6 more
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Residential suburbanization processes in the hinterland of Prague
, 2015 Diplomová práce se zabývá procesem rezidenční suburbanizace v zázemí hlavního města Prahy, které představuje dlouhodobě území s nejintenzivnějším rozvojem suburbanizace v celé České republice.
Jahůdková, Karolína
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Modes d’habiter urbains et ruraux : entre continuité et rupture
Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2011 The metropolization process marked the advent of a postmodern society in which the growing polarization of agglomerations on local space would lead to a levelling of lifestyles.
Samuel Carpentier
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Integrating Image Segmentation and Deep Learning to Improve Radio Frequency Propagation Models
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper proposes a multi‐sensor approach to improve radio frequency (RF) propagation models, which play a key role in the rapidly expanding field of connected vehicle technology. Focusing on the 1‐ to 20‐GHz frequency range, which is critical for both satellite‐to‐vehicle and base station‐to‐vehicle communications, our study introduces a ...
Jonathan Israel +2 more
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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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White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980 [PDF]
Between 1940 and 1980, the homeownership rate among metropolitan African-American households increased by 27 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of this increase occurred in central cities.
Leah Platt Boustan, Robert A. Margo
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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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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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