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Planting for healthy air: Urban biodiversity enhances natural chemical environments
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Cities urgently need nature to improve public health, support biodiversity, and increase resilience to climate change. Yet not all green spaces offer the same benefits. In this study, we show that more diverse urban plantings create richer “chemical environments”; subtle, naturally scented atmospheres formed by plant emissions that can influence how ...
Aurora Ruggeri +5 more
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Practical Methodology for Developing Visions for Carbon‐Neutral Cities and Communities
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cities and communities play important roles in sustainable development and climate change mitigation. This study presents a novel framework for developing carbon‐neutral visions for cities and communities. We established five “principles,” investigated options encompassing four parameters (management, goal setting, actions, and quantification),
Kei Gomi +4 more
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Walkable Streetscapes: Incorporating Streetscapes into the Pedestrian Travel Paradigm
, 2022 Transportation research typically conceptualizes walkability based on access to key destinations and availability of traditional pedestrian infrastructures, such as sidewalks and crosswalks.
Harvey, Chester Wollaeger
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Imperfect streetscapes. Design climate-adaptive nature-based urban regeneration
Anuari d’Arquitectura i SocietatImperfection, uncertainty and adaptation are intrinsically intertwined concepts that reflect the complex nature of human existence in the Anthropocene. This contribution delves into the nexus of imperfection, uncertainty, and adaptation through the lens ...
Alessandro Raffa
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Journal of Water and Land Development, 2020 The paper aims to answer the following questions: What are the trends in streetscape design? And how can streetscape become more resilient to climate change in the coming years? Although the research questions of exploratory nature also challenge theoretical claims, this is a hypothetical study, designed to foster a discussion about the visions of the ...
Magdalena Wojnowska-Heciak +2 more
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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Green climate-adaptive streetscapes regeneration – The De Urbanisten Experience in Antwerp
AgathónThe contribution aims to explore the theme of complexity in relation to some of the current and urgent challenges of our time. Reflecting on trans-disciplinarity in architecture means venturing into uncertain territory: architecture employs hybrid ways ...
Marcello Corradi +4 more
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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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The Assessment of Streetscapes which Evoke the Sense of Being in a Hot Spring Locale : A Case Study of Streeetscapes in Obama Hot Spring Areas, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan [PDF]
, 2009 This research assesses streetscapes which evoke the sense of being in a hot spring locale. The main findings are as follows. 1) To develop the physical characteristic index to assess streetscapes which evoke the sense of being in a hot spring locale, two
渡邊, 貴史 +4 more
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Sustainable Streetscape Design Guideline based on Universal Design Principles
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 People access the streets to fulfill their daily demands regardless of their gender, age, and abilities. The streetscape is an urban public space which built to facilitate the basic needs of people as social beings. Universal design accommodates the wide
Harsritanto Bangun IR
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