Reclaiming public space: The economic, environmental, and social impacts of Bogotá's transformation [PDF]
, 2004 Over the course of a few short years, the city of Bogotá (Colombia) has dramatically transformed the quality of its public space. This session presents primary and secondary data documenting the economic, environmental, and social benefits of improved ...
Montezuma, Ricardo, Wright, Lloyd
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Environment InternationalEstrogen, being an essential class of sex hormone, is an important target of endocrine disruption chemicals. It is well known that environmental disruptors could activate or inhibit estrogen receptors, acting as agonists or antagonists, and thus affect ...
Liu Liu +7 more
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Bi-Directional Links Between Population Growth and the Environment: Evidence From India [PDF]
This paper presents an empirical study of population growth and environmental change using cross-sectional district-level data from South, Central and West India. Environmental change is measured using a satellite-based "greenness" index.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, Innes, Robert
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Importanţa analizei de mediu în realizarea unui proiect urban durabil. Arealul Berzei – Plevnei – Ştirbei Vodă [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2013 The present need for a sustainable urban development is leading to a complex approach in urban planning. The objective today is not only to assure the economical development of a city, but to do so while taking into account aspects such as environmental ...
Radu Matei Cocheci
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Awareness and the demand for environmental quality: Drinking water in urban India [PDF]
The demand for environmental quality is often presumed to be low in developingcountries due to poverty. Less attention has been paid to the possibility that lack of awareness about the adverse health effects of environmental pollution could also keep the
E.Somanathan +2 more
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The recurrence of health in urban planning: towards an integration of environmental health aspects [PDF]
, 2012 While urban planning and health were initially interlinked, in the twentieth century planning practice slowly moved away from its public health origins. In recent years however there is a growing interest in the health effects of our spatial organization.
Allaert, Georges, Verbeek, Thomas
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Building envelope design as a contribution for improvement of urban spaces and social housing environmental quality [PDF]
, 2008 The design of building envelope and the definition of its elements, can influence both the quality of the external spaces perception and the living standard referred to internal building spaces. This improvement depends by the planning of some component
ARBIZZANI, Eugenio +3 more
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The Role of Urban Morphology Design on Enhancing Physical Activities and Public Health [PDF]
Along with environmental pollutions, urban planning has been connected to public health. The research indicates that the quality of built environments plays an important role in reducing mental disorders and overall health. The structure and shape of the
Aram, Farshid +6 more
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Derivation of robust predictor variables for modelling urban shrinkage and its effects at different scales [PDF]
Currently, we observe diverging processes of growth and shrinkage in European Cities. Whereas in the 80ies and 90ies partially accelerated through the crash of the socialist system mostly urban growth and suburban development occurred in European Cities,
Dagmar Haase
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Jurnal Pembangunan dan Alam LestariUrbanization significantly transforms cities, introducing challenges affecting environmental sustainability and residents' quality of life. In urban riverbank settlements such as Kotalama, Malang City, these issues are compounded by inadequate planning ...
Erland Raziqin Fatahillah +4 more
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