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Is Time Travel Possible? Accidental Signs as Sociolinguistic “Wormholes”
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistics primarily focuses on deliberately staged public signs, while relatively less attention has been given to ephemeral and non‐deliberate signs in urban environments. This study investigates “ accidental signs,” which are hidden historical texts suddenly exposed by unpredictable events.
Ge SONG (宋歌)
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“Playing Tetris”: Domestic Infrastructures of Labor Participation in Spain's Transport Sector
ABSTRACT This article examines how women drivers in Malaga's private passenger transport sector sustain paid work while holding primary responsibility for domestic labor and care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2020 and 2021 with women taxi and platform‐based drivers (Uber and Cabify), it explores the everyday arrangements that ...
Belén Martínez Caparrós
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Sustainable Streetscape Design Guideline based on Universal Design Principles
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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ABSTRACT Members of the family Dipterocarpaceae are ecologically and economically important timber trees, many of which are threatened with extinction. Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi form critical symbiotic associations with this family; however, their diversity and composition in tropical urban environments remain inadequately documented.
Jun Qiang Karl Png +3 more
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IMPACT OF STREETSCAPING ON HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
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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The present research studies the complexity of urban facades, which is related to the visual diversity and correlation of the components of urban facades. It studies how the complexity of urban facades affects their desirability amongst citizens and what their preferences are when it comes to facade complexity.
Mehrdad Karimimoshaver +1 more
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Globally, cities are recognising a need to design for biodiversity and water together—though current approaches typically design for them independently. Our review of 39 Water and Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD & WSUD) software‐based tools identified obstacles to collaboration associated with integration and interoperability.
Fiona Hoegh‐Guldberg +4 more
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Promoting walking is crucial for sustainable development and fosters individual health and well-being. Therefore, comprehensive investigations of factors that make walking attractive are vital.
Lu Huang +3 more
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ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka +3 more
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Genomic Vulnerability of a Threatened Possum in a Biodiversity and Climate Change Hotspot
ABSTRACT Spatial variation in the magnitude and pace of climate change impacts means some species will be more affected than others. This includes those occurring within global biodiversity hotspots, regions with exceptional concentrations of endemic species that have often been shaped by long‐term climatic stability.
Grace I. Marsh +5 more
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