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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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, 2023 This study explored the overall visual elements of arcade buildings and streetscapes from the perspective of tourists and then evaluated their influence on the identity and emotion of places.
Junling Zhou +4 more
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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson +2 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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Measurement and modeling of diffuse ultraviolet radiation: A review
Photochemistry and Photobiology, EarlyView.Solar UV radiation consists of direct and diffuse UV components. The diffuse component contributes to the exposure received by humans and to the risk of skin cancer and sun‐related eye disorders. This review aims to determine future research directions for the measurement and modeling of diffuse solar UV radiation.
Alfio V. Parisi +7 more
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Identifying and Measuring Urban Design Qualities Related to Walkability [PDF]
, 2005 In active living research, measures used to characterize the built environment have been mostly gross qualities such as neighborhood density and park access.
Ewing, Reid, Clemente, Otto
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Street trees and crime: What characteristics of trees and streetscapes matter
, 2021 The extent to which street trees affect crime is moderated by many characteristics of tree structure, streetscapes, and tree management. To effectively utilize urban greening interventions as crime preventing programs, it is necessary to distinguish tree-
Lin, Jian, Huang, Bo, Wang, Qiang
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Land, 2022 Over approximately 100 years, the Australian capital, Canberra, has evolved in association with the predominant values, vision and cultural relationships of people to the area.
A. Jasmyn J. Lynch
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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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Streetscapes and Street Livability: Advancing Sustainable and Human-Centered Urban Environments
SustainabilityStreet livability is widely recognized as a fundamental indicator of urban livability. Despite growing global agendas advocating human-centered, sustainable, and smart cities, the microscale implementation of streetscape interventions remains limited and
W. Metwally
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