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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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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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Економічна та соціальна географіяThis article examines urban activism and tactical urbanism as key elements of participatory urban planning within the framework of integrated urban development.
Nataliia PROVOTAR, Nadiia OHIICHUK
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Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities
Moussons, 2013 This article interrogates the link between urbanity and “precarity of place” for non-citizen populations, relying on evidence drawn from the transnational homeland activities of Burmese migrants in two global cities (Bangkok and Tokyo).
Susan Banki
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Educação & Realidade, 2018 This article examines the geographies of youth political activism in Chile. It makes the argument that a historical spatial identity of public education, as the engine of working-class and middle-class mobility, intersecting both with contexts of social ...
Ivette Hernandez Santibañez
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The Urban Sun Belt: An Overview
, 2020 This paper focuses on the 22 metropolitan statistical areas in the Sun Belt with a population of 1 million people or more. Together, they accounted for almost half of all population growth in the entire United States between 2010 and 2016.
Hazle, Shelly G. +3 more
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Platformization of Urban Life [PDF]
, 2022 The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility.
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Revitalizing an Urban Void Based on Participatory Planning with Tactical Urbanism Approach (Case Study: Sobhani Square, Shiraz) [PDF]
منظرThere are several spaces in cities that are never used, although citizens are allowed to be in them. It seems that these spaces are invisible and do not exist.
Mozhgan Ansari +16 more
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Framing Urban Movements, Contesting Global Capitalism and Liberal Democracy
, 2019 This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north ...
Martinez, Miguel,
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