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Knocking Off the Street: The Subversive Writings of Hong Kong's Grassroots Kings
City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how two grassroots street artists in Hong Kong, the King of Kowloon (Tsang Tsou‐choi) and the Plumber King (Yim Chiu‐tong), intervene in the city's everyday visual order. Moving beyond celebratory collective memory narratives and easy analogies to graffiti, it frames their works as subversive urban practices that rework ...
Shizheng Liang, Zihong Zhang
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THE RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF ROAD ENVIRONMENT IN THE BLOCK OF CITY BASED ON 3-D STREETSCAPE DATA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 This paper focus on the problem of the street environment of block unit, based on making clear the acquisition mode and characteristics of 3D streetscape data，the paper designs the assessment model of regional block unit based on 3D streetscape data. The
L. Guan +5 more
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New Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 5, Page 2933-2945, June 2026.Summary Roots are responsible for soil water uptake, yet little is known about how variation in fine‐root traits relates to whole‐tree water movement, particularly during periods of drought. By combining a 3‐yr dataset monitoring sap flow rates with measures of fine‐root biomass, length, and morphology across 10 tree species, we addressed hypotheses ...
Newton Tran +9 more
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Virtual audits of streetscapes by crowdworkers
Health & Place, 2019 Audits have been used to provide objective ratings of neighborhood environments. Physical audits, however, are time- and resource-intensive. This study examines the efficiency and reliability of virtual auditing using Google Street View and crowdsourcing to conduct walkability audits of streets in Japan. Overall, 830 street segments were physically and
Hanibuchi, Tomoya +2 more
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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt +7 more
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BuildingsStreetscapes in old urban areas are not only an important carrier to show regional economies and city style, but also closely correlate to urban residents’ everyday life and the hustle and bustle in which they live.
Keran Li, Yan Lin
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 527-544, May 2026.Abstract Integrating urban land use policies with food systems is becoming a widespread global strategy to build resilient socio‐ecological systems and address the challenges of climate change and rapid urbanization. Yet varying degrees of integration have raised questions about its efficacy and hindered broader adoption.
Lijun Summerhayes, Douglas Baker
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Detached from their homeland: the Latter-day Saints of Chihuahua, Mexico [PDF]
, 2004 Over the past few decades, the homeland concept has received an ever-increasing amount of attention by cultural geographers. While the debate surrounding the necessity and applicability of the concept continues, it is more than apparent that no other ...
Smith, Jeffrey S., White, Benjamin N.
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 509-526, May 2026.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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IMPACT OF STREETSCAPING ON HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH, 2018 This research is subjected to the study of the impact of street scape on human psychology. The study mainly focuses on the importance of the design of sidewalks on the street so that it can’t become the space for the criminal activities as described by the journalist jane Jacobs.
Kavya Trivedi +2 more
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