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Will Migration Worsen Urban Safety? Empirical Studies in Shanghai

open access: yes, 2015
Poverty, crime rates increase and decrease in social security are often considered as “Urban Disease” during the process of urbanization and large amount of migrants’ influx into cities.
Tan, Jing, Ren, Yuan
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A review of methane emissions source types, characteristics, rates, and mitigation effectiveness across U.S. and Canadian cities

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters
Cities are major aggregated sources of methane (CH _4 ) emissions and can therefore play a role in mitigating climate warming. However, diverse, spatially distributed sources make characterizing urban CH _4 emissions challenging.
Coleman Vollrath   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

What Value if Urban Design?

open access: yes, 2006
most urban design literature is assertively premised on value being added to urban environments that receive design attention. However hard evidence in support of this is rarely provided.
Holden, Gordon
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Planning for sustainable urban development [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
iv, 75 p., digital fileThe scope of urban policy for sustainable development depends on one's definition of sustainability. Formulating policy in the narrow sense of the term would involve seeking to minimize the environmental impacts of human ...
Alexander, Donald   +3 more
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Сорбционни свойства на урбанизирани, горски и Техногенни почви от Софийски район

open access: yesПочвознание, агрохимия и екология, 2013
Are tested sorption properties of soils from urban, semi-urban and mountainous parts of the Sofia Valley. And have taken samples of Technogenic Soils of metallurgical output of metallurgic plant “Kremikovtzi”.
ВАНЯ ДОЙЧИНОВА   +1 more
doaj  

The urban limit line : some issues : a background paper

open access: yes, 1990
25 leaves ...
Institute of Urban Studies
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Consonance in urban form : morphogenetic analysis of architectural elements within urban forms

open access: yes, 2009
"By understanding how places have evolved, we are better able to guide development and change in the urban fabric and avoid the incongruity created by so much of the modern environment" (MacCormac, R (1996), An anatomy of London, Built Environment, Dec ...
Sanders, Paul S.
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Prioritising Critical Factors for Local Economic Development in Urban Regeneration Strategies

open access: yes
Local economic development (LED) strategies at the district level—such as sub-city or neighbourhood initiatives—play a crucial role in fostering sustainable and inclusive urban growth.
Itsaso Gonzalez Ochoantesana   +11 more
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Urban Democracy and the Canadian Constitution [PDF]

open access: yes, 1970
Brief: 24pp., Digital file.A brief written for the Special Joint Comittee of the Senate and House of Commons on the Constitution of Canada on Urban Democracy and the Canadian ...
Institute of Urban Studies
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Tropical urban design in Australia

open access: yes, 2013
[Extract] At the expense of sounding clichéd, the tropics are 'different' to other places. Whether it is because of the heat, torrential rain or even cyclones, the tropical world presents a challenge and opportunity for urban designers. Many envy the '
Law, Lisa, Anderson, Allison
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