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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Diet Cost and Affordability in Queensland: A Two-Year Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Earle R, Kenney T, Uhlmann K, Lewis M, Malone N, O'Flaherty M, Nalatu S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
wiley   +1 more source

A data-driven framework for measuring multimodal transport success in smart cities: the case of Dubai. [PDF]

Sci Rep
El Jallad AY, Alozn M, Ahmed V, Alzaatreh A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy, Jennifer Blake, Meghna Nair, Pamela Stephens   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contextual conditions define maximum energy-use threshold in low-carbon controlled environment agriculture for agri-food transformation. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Ng S, Hinrichsen O, Viswanathan S.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling and algorithms of highway transportation network in urban agglomerations. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wang S, Wang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
wiley   +1 more source

Rural first-mile pickup and last-mile delivery: A bus-assisted heterogeneous-drone model. [PDF]

PLoS One
Jin S, Wang L, Gong Y, Hu J.
europepmc   +1 more source