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African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2004
The development of the African American community in Atlanta is a fruitful subject for the study of race in America. Racial policy and practice in response to emancipation and the failures of reconstuction were evolving in Atlanta during the late ...
Carole Merritt
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Are the Suburbs Unconstitutional? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
It is hard not to conclude that American local land use law has been a persistent and squalid failure. Once proud cities now stagger--decayed, honeycombed with dangerous, surreal moonscapes of physical and human devastation, and surrounded by insipid ...
Byrne, J. Peter
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Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2010
Through this online exhibit, artist collective John Q maps discursive memorials at public sites in Atlanta's queer histories.
Wesley Chenault, Andy Ditzler, Joey Orr
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Inner-suburban neighbourhoods, activist research and the social space of the commercial street [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper tracks the transition of “creative city” planning from the gentrified downtown to the disinvested inner-suburbs. It attends particularly to contradictory notions of community mobilized by proponents of inner-suburban revitalization and by ...
Kamizaki, Kuni   +2 more
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A Survey of Air-to-Ground Propagation Channel Modeling for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

open access: yes, 2018
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, ease of availability, and ease of operability.
Aboudebra A.   +101 more
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Urban football narratives and the colonial process in Lourenço Marques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Support for Portuguese football teams, in Mozambique as well as in other former Portuguese colonies, could be interpreted either as a sign of the importance of a cultural colonial heritage in Africa or as a symbol of a perverse and neo-colonial ...
Alegi Peter.   +20 more
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Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2010
Jamillah Karim explores gendered mosque spaces and interactions between Atlanta's African American and South Asian Muslims.
Jamillah Karim
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Interchange nodes between suburban and urban public transport: A case study of the Czech Republic

open access: yesActa geographica Slovenica, 2016
This paper presents a methodology for localizing theoretical interchange nodes used for interchange between suburban and urban public transport in thirteen regional capitals in the Czech Republic. This methodology is based on the use of current timetables and simulation of more than 2,500 public transport connections between selected surrounding ...
openaire   +5 more sources

A spatial signature of sprawl: or the proportion and distribution of linear networkcircuits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper sets out to investigate whether the frequency distribution ofthe linear network circuits within a graph-based representation of aroad transportation system can be helpful in identifying sprawl and, inparticular, whether a 'spatial signature of
Dalton, Nick, Dalton, Ruth
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Urbanization effects on carabid diversity in boreal forests

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2003
Carabid abundance, species richness and diversity were compared along an urban-rural gradient in Helsinki, Finland. Increased urbanization was found to result in significant reductions in species richness, though the reductions in abundance and diversity
Stephen J. VENN   +2 more
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