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Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
Southern Spaces, 2020 Brian Riedel explores the role of cruising in queer territorialization and place claiming in Houston, Texas, in the twentieth century. Juxtaposing digital maps of queer businesses with an archive of cruising narratives, Riedel shows that while mapping ...
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Not all sprawl - Evolution of employment centers in Los Angeles, 1980 - 2000 [PDF]
Are contemporary metropolitan regions becoming more dispersed? The collective set of urban models tells us two stories. The first is that changes in the structure of the economy, ever faster and cheaper information and communications technologies, and ...
Genevieve Giuliano, Christian Redfearn
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, 2019 Urban waterfront research has concentrated primarily on the redevelopment of the core areas of major portcities; yet just as cargo handling activities have extended from their traditional core urban port locations into themetropolitan hinterland, urban ...
Hall, Peter V., Airas, Annika
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Food access issues on the suburban/urban interface: a case study for Longmont, CO
, 2011 Traditional literature on food deserts focuses on rural and urban areas, often blaming suburban areas for supermarket abandonment while simultaneously praising suburban areas for their rich food environments. This research shows that despite a dense concentration of supermarkets and other food outlets in the suburban area of Longmont, Colorado, a ...
Phillips, Megan Elizabeth, author +3 more
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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu +4 more
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The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Southern Spaces, 2012 In this presentation from February 15, 2012 at Emory University, Darren E. Grem examines the connections between evangelicalism and capitalism at the Chick-Fil-A chain of restaurants.
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Towards urban un-sustainability in Europe? An indicator-based analysis [PDF]
In this article we analyse the relationship between urban land use development and population density in fifteen European urban areas. In the last 20 years the extent of built-up areas in Europe has increased by 20%, exceeding clearly the 6% rate of ...
Jose I. Barredo +3 more
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This paper examines the retrofitting and redevelopment of suburban office parks, and in particular, the planning, design, and policy issues and challenges associated with this redevelopment.
Jansen, Hendrik, Ryan, Brent D.
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Increasing urban flash flood risk attributable to both climate and development
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.A new event impact attribution methodology that combines convection‐permitting climate model data with flood inundation modelling was used for a five‐hour flash‐flooding event in the suburbs of Leeds in 2014. The results show increased urban flood extent due to both climate change (+16%) and increased urbanisation (+29%).
Daniel F. Cotterill +5 more
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Suburban urban patterns : the future form of suburban growth corridors [PDF]
, 1987 Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.Bibliography: leaves [69]-[72].by Stephanie A.
Rolley, Stephanie
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