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A study of the LoRa signal propagation in forest, urban, and suburban environments [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Telecommunications, 2020
Sensing is an activity of paramount importance for smart cities. The coverage of large areas based on reduced infrastructure and low energy consumption is desirable. In this context, Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) plays an important role. In this paper, we investigate LoRa, a low-power technology offering large coverage, but low transmission rates.
Ana Elisa Ferreira   +5 more
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Music in Memphis

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2004
The Mid-South city built on a Mississippi River bluff, Memphis sits at the confluence of extraordinary musical streams: Anglo-Celtic upcountry song styles, fiddle bands, and gospel harmonies mingled with Delta blues, African American congregational and ...
Allen Tullos
doaj   +1 more source

Romanian Suburban Housing : Home Improvement through Owner-building [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The new suburban housing developments in post-socialist cities have been ubiquitous icons of socioeconomic and physical change. This paper examines suburban owner-built housing as a long-term strategy of home improvement in Romania. It analyses residents’
Soaita, Adriana Mihaela
core   +1 more source

Love and Death at Second-Line

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2004
A killing over street turf during a jazz funeral raises the conundrum of New Orleans: how to keep valuable traditions alive while losing the legacies of violence.
Nick Spitzer
doaj   +1 more source

Daffin Park

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2006
In this 1999 video, children meet near a fountain in Savannah's Daffin Park.
Steve Bransford
doaj   +1 more source

Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
core   +1 more source

Land Conversion for Suburban Housing: A Study of Urbanisation Around Warsaw and Olsztyn, Poland [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
In Poland of the 1990s, urban demand for housing land around city agglomerations increased rapidly. The decreasing profitability of agricultural production also caused farmers to become interested in the sale of agricultural land for nonagricultural purposes, and new land legislation granted them the right to sell their land.
Wasilewski, Adam, Krukowski, Krzysztof
openaire   +4 more sources

Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2007
Photographer David Wharton's forays into mid-South cities reveal intersections of old and new. As his images look through things (fences, barriers) that are close to the camera and toward things that are farther away, he offers a rough analogue, though ...
David Wharton
doaj   +1 more source

The sustainable suburban high street: a review of themes and approaches [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Whether suburbs are regarded as a distinctive feature of the contemporary urban landscape or as symptomatic of ‘sprawl’ the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in suburbia has done little to displace the dominant image of the suburb as a primarily ...
Griffiths, S.   +8 more
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Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Lawrence Powell rediscovers Lyle Saxon, editor of the WPA Guide to New Orleans, and finds his urban scene startlingly recognizable.
Lawrence N. Powell
doaj   +1 more source

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