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Growth of Urban Forms in Informal Settlements: A Study of Streetscapes in Mlalakuwa Neighborhood, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Journal of Art, Architecture and Built Environment
This paper examines the streetscapes as an urban form in the Mlalakuwa informal settlement in the Kinondoni district of Dar es Salaam. It investigates how the various spatial organisations manifest themselves through the multiple streets.
Jacob Lutta, Yves Schoonjans
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Configuración espacial de espacios colectivos dentro de dinámicas formativas. La relación entre la infraestructura y la transformación urbana en el caso de Plaza de las Glorias Catalanas

ARQUISUR Revista, 2016
La investigación pretende producir conocimiento sobre las confguraciones espaciales de los espacios colectivos donde la infraestructura de gran escala impulsa transformaciones urbanas.
Mg. Arq. María Cecilia Chiappini, Dr. Mg. Arq. Kris Scheerlinck, Dr. Mg. Arq. Yves Schoonjans   +2 more
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From One Disaster to Another: Environmental Memory, Automobility, Suburbanisation and the Canterbury Earthquakes 2010–2011

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2026.
Broadly taking up Amitav Ghosh's (2016) comment that when it comes to climate change ‘we seem to learn nothing; our historical imagination is very limited’, this article argues that disregarding environmental memory, and past knowledge to plan a more resilient future, the Canterbury Earthquakes 2010–2011 continued and enabled suburbanisation and an ...
Katie Pickles
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Sensing streetscapes

, 2021
Voor u ligt het booklet Sensing Streetscapes: perspectieven op verdichting. Het bundelt de interviews van elf ontwerpbureaus, drie gemeentelijke senior stedenbouwers, de voormalige rijksadviseur, vijf mondiale academische pioniers van de neuro-architectuur en een verkenning naar negen bijzondere Chinese woningbouwprojecten.
Suurenbroek, Frank, Spanjar, Gideon, Schramkó, Sába, de Bildt, Lyske Gais   +3 more
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How Do Weather and Time of Day Affect Street Impression? [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Recent advancements in machine learning have enabled the modeling of people's perceptions of urban streets using large-scale image datasets such as Google Street View.
K. Harada, T. Oki
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Enriching streetscape habitat for urban insects: A before–after‐control‐impact study in Melbourne, Australia

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 9, September 2026.
We demonstrate that habitat gardens on residential road verges can support a higher abundance and species richness of insects than a traditional lawn verge. As road verges comprise a substantial proportion of urban green space, converting lawn verges into habitat gardens represents a scalable and practical strategy for enhancing insect biodiversity in ...
Philippa L. Bell, Georgia E. Garrard, Kirsten M. Parris   +2 more
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Towards Enhancing Nature‐Based Solutions in Flood Risk Management in Australia: A Review of Their Barriers, Enablers, and Future Perspectives

Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 19, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Flooding remains one of the most frequent and destructive natural hazards globally, causing major economic and social losses each year. In response to increasing climate extremes, Nature‐based Solutions (NbS) have emerged as a sustainable and multifunctional approach to flood risk management (FRM), integrating ecological, social, and ...
Bao T. H. Nguyen, Peter S. P. Wong, Alireza Ahankoob   +2 more
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Exploring the Streetscape Perceptions from the Perspective of Salient Landscape Element Combination: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach for Optimizing Visual Quality of Streetscapes

Land
Understanding how people perceive urban streetscapes is essential for enhancing the visual quality of the urban environment and optimizing street space design.
Wanyue Suo, Jing Zhao
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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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Hyperdominance of Exotic Invasive Trees in Street Afforestation of Semi‐Arid Brazilian Cities

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
Cities of the Brazilian semi‐arid region are dominated by non‐native species. Fifty percent of urban afforestation is composed of the invasive species Azadirachta indica. The urbanization gradient does not affect the richness of non‐native species. Cities farther away from the Brazilian coast are mostly biodiversity‐unfriendly.
Arleu B. Viana‐Junior, João Carlos Pena, Fernanda Kalina Da Silva Monteiro, Joselice da Silva da Pereira, Rafaella Santana‐Santos, D' Ávilla Ruama Fernandes Lopes Gomes, Sérgio de Farias de Lopes, Maria Avany Bezerra‐Gusmão, Camile Avelino, Bráulio Almeida Santos   +9 more
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