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Shopping centers, sociabilidade e conflitos socioespaciais urbanos

open access: yesConfins, 2022
Shopping malls are important equipment that influence the redefinition of centralities and the spatial logic of sociability and contemporary urban conflicts.
João Victor Sanches Patrício   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biocompatible (Nano)Composites Based on Poly(ε‐Caprolactone)/Siloxene

open access: yesPolymer Engineering &Science, EarlyView.
Bio‐inert and biocompatible pCLO/siloxene (nano)composites with enhanced mechanical properties. ABSTRACT The work focuses on the synthesis of the siloxene nanofiller and its subsequent use in the preparation of poly(ε‐caprolactone)/siloxene (nano)composites via in situ polymerization and melt blending.
Lucie Reinšteinová   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

GAME THEORY AND MARKOV CHAIN ANALYSIS OF THE DISPLACEMENT OF SHOPPING MALL VISITORS IN SURAKARTA CITY

open access: yesBarekeng
The era of globalization has led to changes in social patterns and lifestyles. With these changes, shopping malls were built to fulfill the community’s needs.
Nabiella Zahra Rizkita   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resonance and Psychic Affirmation: A Comparison of Hartmut Rosa's and Daniel Haybron's Conceptions of Human Happiness

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Emotional Response and Aesthetic Perception of Shopping Mall Facade Color on Entry Decisions—Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region of China

open access: yesBuildings
Color is one of the essential visual aesthetic design elements for shopping mall building facades, dramatically influencing customers’ aesthetic perceptions, emotions, and behavioral responses.
Zhenxing Zhu, Yiran Liu, Yuewu Chen
doaj   +1 more source

FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Shopping Mall Customers’ Experience through Criteria of Attractiveness in Tier-II and Tier-III Cities of India: An Exploratory Study

open access: yesAmerican Business Review, 2020
The present research attempts to develop a theoretical framework for the assessment of shopping mall customer experience dimensions. It further classifies the variables associated with retail experiences that may attract customers in Tier-II and Tier ...
Ashish Gupta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

ENTANGLED PUBLIC ESSENTIALS: Female Perspectives on Public Toilets in Portugal and How to Propel Change

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Women living in more affluent urban contexts have poor access to sanitary infrastructures owing to a lack of female public toilets. Existing toilets are often poorly maintained, and their design does not suit women’s daily needs. In this essay I use a mixed‐methods approach that combines the analysis of documents and secondary sources with the
Bruna Coelho
wiley   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

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