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Viewpoint: Turning streets into housing
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2021 I argue that wide residential streets in US cities are both a contributor to homelessness and a potential strategy to provide more affordable housing. In residential neighborhoods, subdivision ordinances typically set binding standards for street width ...
Adam Millard-Ball
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From Center to periphery and vice versa: The politics of toponyms in the transitional capital [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008 This paper discusses the politics of street names in Belgrade since the beginning of 1990s until today. Given the central place of the capital city in the symbolic geography of the nation, subsequent cultural influences of the capitals' 'city text ...
Radović Srđan
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Journal of Urban Design, 2021 This paper explores the crisis in our traditional shopping streets driven by the rapid move to shopping online. The paper examines the nature of traditional shopping streets; why physical and local shopping is important; conceptualizes the distinguishing
M. Carmona
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Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Cities change and are transformed over time due to economic, social and political decisions, and this process can have either a positive or a negative effect on the visual aesthetic quality of the streets and avenues.
Ayşe Tekel
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The restorative potential of commercial streets
Landscape Research, 2021 With cities continuing to grow at rapid rates across the globe, daily exposure to traffic, noise, crowding, information overload and other stressors have exacerbated urban dwellers’ need for restoration.
P. Barros +3 more
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The Width and Value of Residential Streets
Journal of the American Planning Association, 2021 Problem, research strategy, and findings The width of street rights-of-way is normally determined by traffic engineering and urban design conventions, without considering the immense value of the underlying land.
A. Millard‐Ball
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From “streets for traffic” to “streets for people”: can street experiments transform urban mobility?
Transport reviews, 2020 Despite their growing application and worldwide diffusion, the transformative potential of experiments aimed at achieving “streets for people” rather than “streets for traffic” remains largely under researched.
L. Bertolini
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Smart Streets as a Cyber-Physical Social Platform: A Conceptual Framework
Sensors, 2023 Streets perform a number of important functions and have a wide range of activities performed in them. There is a small but growing focus on streets as a more generalisable, atomised, and therefore more manageable unit of development and analysis than ...
Theo Lynn, Charles Wood
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Reduction in oxidatively generated DNA damage following smoking cessation
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2011 Background Cigarette smoking is a known cause of cancer, and cancer may be in part due to effects of oxidative stress. However, whether smoking cessation reverses oxidatively induced DNA damage unclear.
Harold C. Box +8 more
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Safe Streets, Livable Streets [PDF]
Journal of the American Planning Association, 2005 Abstract Transportation safety is a highly contentious issue in the design of cities and communities. While urban designers, architects, and planners often encourage the use of aesthetic streetscape treatments to enhance the liability of urban streets, conventional transportation safety practice regards roadside features such as street trees as fixed ...
Eric Dumbaugh, J. L. Gattis
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