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Urban Gardening: A Valuable Activity But…
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2013 Urban gardening has a high popularity among civic politicians as well as certain vocal advocates. However, there is no basis to expect that this food-supply concept could ever deliver fresher food and/or lower cost foods to most people living within the contemporary structure of a modern urbanized society.
Alan Hallsworth, Alfred Wong
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Asthma and Physical Activity in Urban Children
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2021 Abstract Objectives Asthma and obesity disproportionately affect urban minority children. Avoidance of physical activity contributes to obesity, and urban children with asthma are at risk for lower levels of physical activity.
Daphne Koinis-Mitchell +7 more
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De l’activisme urbain en Égypte : émergence et stratégies depuis la révolution de 2011
EchoGéo, 2013 We are witnessing, since the 2011 revolution, a powerful growth of urban activism in Egypt, characterized by the increasing number of complaints about living conditions in urban areas and expressed wills to improve them, especially in Cairo.
Roman Stadnicki
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Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018 Recreational queries from users looking for ideas of what to do or see and where to go are very common in desktop, mobile and, increasingly, contextual search scenarios. Such queries typically contain what, where, when components as the user seeks future activities, whether in real-time or future trip planning. Often, the user will have
Stewart Whiting +3 more
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Urbanization and physical activity in the global Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology study
Scientific Reports, 2022 Abstract Urbanization may influence physical activity (PA) levels, although little evidence is available for low- and middle- income countries where urbanization is occurring fastest. We evaluated associations between urbanization and total PA, as well as work-, leisure-, home-, and transport-specific PA, for 138,206 adults living in ...
Kwadwo Boakye +30 more
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The Spatial Analysis of Urban Riots in Post-Islamic Revolutionary Iran [PDF]
برنامهریزی توسعه شهری و منطقهایUrban riots are violent, sudden, and economically willing-based protests that are usually based on occupying urban spaces as the main context of demonstrations.
Pegah Kheirollahi, Hamid Dehghani
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Urban activism in Central and Eastern Europe: A theoretical framework [PDF]
Slovenský Národopis, 2015 The study brings an overview of selected transdisciplinary theoretical approaches to the study of urban movements and activism placed within the framework of civil society and social movements, focused on the region of Central and Eastern Europe, and ...
Alexandra Bitušíková
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An Active City Approach for Urban Development [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health, 2014 With an increasing percentage of the global population living in cities and the concurrent decrease in physical activity in daily life, public health issues for urban development have arisen. This study responds to that trend by presenting an approach to measure city-wide physical activity levels.
Frank, Daumann +3 more
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Ways to Activate Urban Transport to Achieve Urban Sustainability
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2021 Abstract The past few decades have witnessed a significant increase in the number of cars at the expense of public transport, as a result of the economic development in cities, which was accompanied by the possibility of buying a private car on the one hand and the expansion and spread of the city on the other hand.
Ihsan Abbas Jasim +2 more
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Zimbabwe's unemployed youth: On waithustlinghood, struggle for survival and political activism
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 This paper examines the extent to which Zimbabwe's economic crisis compelled its citizens, particularly the youth, to engage in urban informality in order to make a living.
Inocent Moyo
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