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An evolutionary theory for interpreting urban scaling laws
Cybergeo, 2006 We try here to illustrate the relevance of an evolutionary theory of urban systems for explaining their hierarchical properties. The largest cities became larger because they were successful in adopting many successive innovations.
Denise Pumain +3 more
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Cybergeo, 2006 Functional rehabilitation corresponds to intentional evolution of the functions of the building chosen by public actors so as to be revalorized and considered as tangible heritage.
Guillemette Pincent
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Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2023 A major transformation in contemporary cities is the evolution of the urban core. This paper investigated the issues associated with the surge of shopping malls as an alternative public space and how they may be classified as an “urban core” of ...
Don Johnson Lontoc +2 more
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Historic Urbanscapes For Tomorrow, Two Italian Cases: Genoa And Bologna [PDF]
, 2015 The following pages reflect on the possible updated “structural” function of the historic parts of contemporary cities through the examples provided by two medium-sized Italian cities – Genoa and Bologna – characterized by the presence of an important ...
Bonfantini, G. Bertrando
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Epinephelus rankini Whitley, 1945, a valid species of grouper (Teleostei, Perciformes, Epinephelidae) from Western Australia and southeast Indonesia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The grouper Epinephelus rankini, described from the waters off Western Australia, has long been regarded as a junior synonym of Epinephelus multinotatus.
Xiaoying Cao +4 more
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The dimensionality of the urban functional system [PDF]
Demography, 1977 Abstract This paper suggests that the formulation and testing of hypotheses relating the functional role of cities in a society to other urban structure and process variables might be facilitated by substituting a continuous variable approach to the functional system for the prevailing discrete typologies.
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Urban streets functionality as a tool for urban pollution management
Science of The Total Environment, 2013 Pollution derived from traffic can be considered one of the major problems of modern cities. Although considerable efforts have been devoted to gathering information about pollution and its control, little attention has been paid to the analysis of relationships between pollution distribution and town planning.
Rey Gozalo, Guillermo +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In high-density cities around the world, alleys are common but neglected spaces that are perceived as unsafe. While cities have invested resources in environmental interventions to improve safety in urban allies, it is not clear how these interventions ...
Bin Jiang +5 more
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Urban ‘tourism exploration space’: the example of Łódź [PDF]
, 2009 The author refers to the concept of ‘tourism space’ published earlier, and confronts this notion with a definition of ‘urban space’, bearing in mind that both these ‘spaces’ are subspaces of general ‘geographical space’.
Liszewski, Stanisław
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Urbanicity and cognitive functioning in later life
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2023 AbstractIntroductionPrior research has shown disparities in cognitive functioning across the rural–urban continuum. We examine individual‐ and contextual‐level factors to understand how and why urbanicity shapes cognitive functioning across older adulthood.MethodsUsing a nationally representative sample from 1996 to 2016 waves of the Health and ...
Elizabeth Lawrence +2 more
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