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Wie Städte dem Umland Paroli bieten können
Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2008 The growing attractiveness of residential locations in urban areas compared with peripheral areas is strongly discussed. Nevertheless, migrations from cities to surrounding areas continue both in growing and shrinking cities.
Brigitte Adam +2 more
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Comparing Two Residential Suburban Areas in the Costa Blanca, Spain
Articulo – revue de sciences humaines, 2016 The Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante (Spain) represents an emblematic example of suburban development around Mediterranean medium-sized cities, with the existence of a wide range of residential settlements devoted both to the native population and foreign-born groups. Condominiums, gated communities and single-family housing have few facilities
Serrano-Estrada, Leticia +2 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Price inflation has outbalanced the income of residents and buyers in major post-industrial city-regions, and real estate has become an important driver of these inequalities.
Renaud Le Goix +4 more
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Peripheral Rural Areas around Poznań and Their Value Measured with Economic Indicators
Barometr Regionalny, 2015 In the era of consumption — appropriation of rural areas located in the metropolitan region of Poznań it seems reasonable to estimate their material value.
Aleksandra Godek, Marek Pietrucki
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The suburban residential trajectories
, 2017 L’habitat pavillonnaire est une forme urbaine privilégiée par les ménages français depuis plusieurs décennies. Pourtant, les trajectoires résidentielles des pavillonnaires sont diversifiées et concernent une population qui n’en est pas moins hétérogène.
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Is land‐use deregulation enough to deliver housing?: The case of institutional frictions in India
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply in the presence of additional institutional frictions, such as ill‐defined property rights. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put limits on individual ownership of private vacant land in the largest cities, were repealed during the 2000s.
Arnab Dutta +2 more
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