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, 2023 In 2050’s, the population of people above the age of 85 years will be seven times more than today. The city should be arranged with great care and sensitivity.
Gökgür, Pelin
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Urban forests as a strategy for transforming towards healthy cities
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2023 Urban forests provide multiple ecosystem services for city dwellers, amongst which improving public health via mitigating mental stresses and providing attractive spaces for diverse physical activities has attracted increasing attention from scholars and
Shan Yin, Wendy Y. Chen, Chunjiang Liu
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Urban agriculture — A necessary pathway towards urban resilience and global sustainability?
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need to question the desired degree of food self-sufficiency through urban agriculture.
J. Langemeyer +3 more
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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2020 Highlights • We investigated the change in visitation of urban green spaces (UGS) during COVID-19 pandemic.• Social isolation reduced extent, type and distance of visited UGS on the basis of legal restrictions.• Reasons for visiting UGS changed from non ...
F. Ugolini +13 more
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Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it
Urban Geography, 2022 Social infrastructure is an emerging research frontier in urban geography and urban studies. This editorial introduction provides a concise introduction to the term. It briefly sets out the intellectual provenance of the concept of social infrastructure,
A. Latham, Jack Layton
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More urbanization, more polarization: evidence from two decades of urban expansion in China
npj Urban SustainabilityThis article examines whether the patterns of urbanization in China over the past twenty years have resulted in a more balanced or increasingly polarized city size distribution.
Yi'na Hu +4 more
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Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements
Journal of urban health, 2020 The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent ...
Jason Corburn +17 more
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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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npj Urban SustainabilityA growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk management (FRM). However, whether NbS for FRM (NbS-FRM) achieves both social and ecological co-benefits remains largely unknown.
Kejing Zhou +9 more
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Urban water infrastructure: A critical review on climate change impacts and adaptation strategies
Urban ClimateUrban water infrastructure (UWI) plays a critical role in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) by providing safe drinking water, sanitation, and wastewater management, and contributing to sustainable cities.
A. Ferdowsi +4 more
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