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Non-monotonic effects and spatial spillovers of urban green space on chronic infectious disease dynamics in China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zheng X, Wang Y, Wang B, Zhang D.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
wiley   +1 more source

Calling for a more coherent policy response to driving harm. [PDF]

Health Promot Int
Gray K, Ennis G, Fell G.
europepmc   +1 more source

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
wiley   +1 more source

The urban infection susceptibility index and its application in cities of China. [PDF]

Biosaf Health
Yan W, Huang J, Lian X, Li H, Gao S, Hu S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spanning Policy Silos in Urban Development and Environmental Management: When Global Cities Are Coastal Cities Too [PDF]

, 2009
Boschken, Herman L
core   +1 more source

THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT, ERANDI BARROSO OLMEDO, FRITZ‐JULIUS GRAFE   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Cycling Lab: A citizen science protocol for assessing and reducing exposure to environmental stressors among bike commuters. [PDF]

MethodsX
Rubio MA, Novak R, Tratnik JS, Kontić D, Bučar G, Kocman D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source