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Urban studies, 2022 A vigorous debate has emerged in recent years over how to understand cities of the Global South. A pivotal issue in this debate is whether urbanisation processes in the South are so fundamentally different from historical and current urbanisation in the ...
Gregory F. Randolph, M. Storper
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Urban EcosystemsPlant species used in urban horticulture are frequently non-native despite evidence that urban areas are regular points of introduction, often leading to invasions and negative impacts on biodiversity. Many horticulturalists assert that non-native plants
Elena S. Tartaglia, Myla F. J. Aronson
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Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022 Unprecedented urban growth and extensive land use change especially in the Global South has placed increasing pressure on urban ecosystem services (UES).
Karen T. Lourdes +5 more
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Urban space diversity in Doha [PDF]
, 2012 Cities have always been highly differentiated places expressive of heterogeneity, a diversity of activities, entertainment, excitement, and pleasure. They have been and still are the melting pots for formulating and experimenting with new philosophies ...
Salama, Ashraf M.
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Governing sustainable transformations of urban social-ecological-technological systems
npj Urban Sustainability, 2022 Cities have grown rapidly—while they provide opportunities for many, they must also confront pervasive and rising inequality, unsustainable consumption, and growing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.
Elisabeth H. Krueger +5 more
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, 2021 In 2020, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research celebrated its 10th anniversary. COVID-19 and a renewed concern over racial injustice would dominate the year, and the institute pivoted its research and events in ...
Kinder Institute for Urban Research +1 more
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Ageing and population shrinking: implications for sustainability in the urban century
npj Urban Sustainability, 2021 Population ageing and shrinking are demographic phenomena with far-reaching implications for sustainability in the current context of extensive and rapid urbanization.
M. Jarzebski +16 more
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Simulating urban encroachment upon Natura2000 sites using the MOLAND model : supporting appropriate assessment [PDF]
, 2009 The urban fabric of the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years. This has lead to a decrease in environmental quality throughout the region and disturbance of protected areas.
Brennan, Michael +2 more
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Designing urban green spaces for climate adaptation: A critical review of research outputs
Urban Climate, 2022 Urban green spaces provide important contributions to enhance climate adaptation, and therefore research in this area has increased exponentially in the last decades.
M. Graça +3 more
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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 Urban tree cover is inequitable in many American cities, with low-income and non-white neighborhoods typi- cally having the least coverage. Some municipal and non-profit tree planting programs aim to address this inequity by targeting low-income ...
Elizabeth Riedman +5 more
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