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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
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In-migration to suburban towns of Shanghai, 1980 - 87 [PDF]
, 1989 The thesis studies the town-oriented migration and the socio-economic development of towns in the suburbs of Shanghai during 1980 - 87. Since the Chinese government started the economic reforms in 1978, an impressive nationwide rural-urban migration has ...
Jiang, Liang
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Enterprise richness as an important characteristic of South African towns
South African Journal of Science, 2014 Towards the end of the 20th century there were almost 500 small towns of fewer than 50 000 persons in South Africa, accommodating about one tenth of the country’s population.
Daan F. Toerien, Maitland T. Seaman
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines informal supporters' experiences and views of NDIS behaviour support practitioners, including engagement, information needed to support selection, and perceptions of practitioners' knowledge, skill, and practice. It reports data from a cross‐sectional online survey of 123 informal support providers of participants receiving
Alinka Fisher +7 more
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Implementing complete streets in small towns and rural communities: case study: Millsboro, Delaware
, 2020 Faghri, ArdeshirThere is growing momentum across the United Stated to implement complete streets in every corner of the country. Federal agencies have promoted the practice for decades and over the last 15 years, the term complete streets has been ...
Calloway, Diane M.
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Why small towns are shrinking: The spatial heterogeneity of small towns shrinkage and the impact of it from the perspective of rural-urban interaction in China. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Han Y, Deng Y, Ni R.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social inequity is increasing in Australia, often manifesting in entrenched locational disadvantage that requires place‐based responses grounded in local strengths, knowledge and participation. While community music programmes have demonstrated a range of positive social outcomes, their potential contribution to place‐based efforts addressing ...
Brydie‐Leigh Bartleet +6 more
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Sustainable water supplies and sustainable small towns
, 2006 Many small towns in Australia have fragile water supplies, and have been subject to extensive water restrictions that have impacted quality of life, inward investment and sometimes town viability. The small size of these towns and an often outdated water
Lowe, Julian, McRae-Williams, Pamela
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An exercise in gracious living: the north east new towns 1947-1988 [PDF]
, 2007 This thesis examines the history of the North East new towns and how local, regional and national policies and events have impacted upon their respective trajectories. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first is concerned with the social, economic
Boyes, David
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