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Suburbanization in Multi-ethnic Area – Conflicts and Local Strategies

open access: yesModern Geográfia
The effects of suburbanization can be examined from several aspects, but beyond the individual decisions that initiated it, the real estate market aspects, or the transformation of land use, the effects on local communities and their reactions are rarely
Balizs, Dániel, Somogyi, Kitti
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The impact of residential suburbanization on changes in the morphology of villages in the suburban area of Wrocław, Poland

open access: yesEnvironmental & Socio-economic Studies, 2020
Residential suburbanization is one of the most spontaneous processes occurring in the surroundings of large cities in Central and Eastern Europe. In the case of Wrocław, the first phase of suburbanization began as early as the second half of the 19th ...
Szmytkie Robert
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How do suburban residents organize their daily lives? A behavioural time–space analysis in Beijing, China

open access: yesUrban, Planning and Transport Research, 2022
Rapid suburbanization in China is dramatically reshaping the daily life of urban residents. In China, long-distance commuting, traffic congestion, spatial mismatch and the low quality of life resulting from residential suburbanization are causing ...
Hongbo Chai   +3 more
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Social determinants of mental health of women living in slum: a systematic review [PDF]

open access: yesObstetrics & Gynecology Science, 2021
Objective With the rise of urbanization globally, the problem of living in slums has become a problem for the civil society. As a vulnerable segment, women make up half of the population in these regions; therefore, women’s mental health has always been ...
Fatemeh Abdi   +4 more
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Urban Sprawl in Poland (2016–2021): Drivers, Wildcards, and Spatial Externalities

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
The COVID-19 lockdown in 2020–2021 and the refugee crisis in 2021–2022 were two new and unexpected social and political events in Poland in recent years.
Piotr A. Werner   +2 more
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La dynamique spatiale des activités logistiques dans les aires urbaines françaises

open access: yesCybergeo, 2016
The number and intensity of freight flows has increased over the last decades, in a context of fast integration of the world economy and deep transformation of production and distribution systems.
David Guerrero, Laurent Proulhac
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Let it Sprawl: Post-Socialist Policies Enabling Suburbanization

open access: yesArchitektúra & Urbanizmus, 2023
Suburbanization processes in the hinterland of Bratislava represent one of the most significant socio-spatial transformations in the post-socialist history of Slovakia.
Pavel Šuška, Martin Šveda
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Suburbanization

open access: yes, 2009
Suburbia varies widely both between countries and within them. In some countries suburbanization represents the forcing out of the powerless from the center; in others it is a retreat from the center that allows the privileged to perpetuate their ...
A. Mace, Mace, A.
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Interrelated aspects of residential suburbanization and collective quality of life: A case study in Czech suburbs

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2017
Most people moving to suburban municipalities seek to enhance their quality of life. However, residential suburbanization may contribute to spatial separation of the population and adversely affect the collective quality of life.
Jaroslav Biolek   +3 more
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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