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Uncovering the potential of urban culture for creative placemaking [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Tourism Futures, 2020
Purpose – The authors provide a personal insight into how they see the potential of urban culture as a vehicle for creative placemaking. The purpose of this study is to highlight the opportunities for the tourism industry to embrace this global youth ...
Banoyi Zuma, Margo Rooijackers
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Presenting an evaluation model of quantitative and qualitative indicators of green space in Mashhad [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2023
Urban green spaces are essential for the well-being of the population. However, due to various factors, the distribution of green spaces among city neighborhoods in quantitative and qualitative dimensions is often skewed.
Hossein Aghajani, farnaz sarkari
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The Role of the Body in Pandemic Geographies of Encounter: Anti-Restriction Protesters Between Collective Action and Political Violence

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2023
This article looks at public anti-restriction protests by framing public space as a vital component of urban life. It argues that the body is rarely introduced as a scale of spatial analysis and usually plays a more prominent role in the subfields of ...
Sabine Knierbein, Richard Pfeifer
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A Citywide ‘Virus Testing': Chinese Government's Response to Preventing and Controlling the Second Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is a daunting challenge globally. China, as well as a handful of other countries, has, for the most part, contained it by implementing strict policies.
Liting Zhou   +4 more
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Exploring Architectural Shapes Based on Parametric Shape Grammars: A Case Study of the “Three Lanes and Seven Alleys” Historic District in Fuzhou City, China

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
With the development of information technology, the introduction of information technology into architectural modelling and façade design and the systematic definition of historic districts is a problem that the architectural industry continues to ...
Yu-Xuan Chen, Bo Shu, Hsiao-Tung Chang
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Charitable activities of the military in the second half of the XIX–early XX centuries (On the materials of Western Siberia) [PDF]

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2023
Based on the analysis of unpublished sources (documentation of military institutions, public organizations) and materials of the regional periodical press, the charitable activities of the military in the cities of Western Siberia in the second half of
O. V. Gefner
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Port-City Transition: Past and Emerging Socio-Spatial Imaginaries and Uses in Rotterdam’s Makers District

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2021
This article explores old and emerging socio-spatial imaginaries and uses of Rotterdam’s Makers District. The district comprises two urban harbors—Merwe Vierhavens and Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij—historically in use as bustling trade, storage ...
Maurice Jansen   +2 more
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Methodology Construction of Euro-American Sinology and Parallel Study of Comparative Literature

open access: yesContemporary Social Sciences, 2019
During the 1950s and 60s, the concept of parallel study of comparative literature was initiated by US scholars, yet they ignored the construction of methodology.
Liu Yunhua, Xu Qingtong
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Hotspots, Heat Vulnerability and Urban Heat Islands: An Interdisciplinary Review of Research Methodologies

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020
As a result of ongoing global warming, approximately 30% of the world's population lives in areas where the temperature reaches the death risk threshold at least 20 days a year. The distribution of heat and vulnerability, however, varies in a city; where
Changchang Wang, Hsiao-Tung Chang
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Urban cultural vanguards why culture matters for urban success

open access: yesJournal of Urban Management, 2022
This paper addresses the multifaceted relationships between culture and urban performance. It seeks to identify and examine evidence-based characteristics of urban success (or socio-economic performance) that are related to the cultural profile (‘urban cultural value’) of a city.
Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp
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