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Cities and population health. [PDF]
, 2005 A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007 and cities are exerting growing influence on the health of both urban and non-urban residents. Although there long has been substantial interest in the associations between city living
Freudenberg, Nicholas +2 more
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Les petites villes : pôles commerciaux en déclin ou centralités d’avenir ?
Territoire en Mouvement, 2017 Facing a double commercial modernization process and geographical reorganization (metropolization and functional mutations), small towns are experiencing significant disruptions with their retail activities. Taking the example of east-central France, the
Milhan Chaze
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La vie nocturne d’une grande ville de province française : Nancy
Cybergeo, 1999 The night activities in Nancy are very limited and mostly reduced to «leisure activities», the evolution of which is linked to technical factors such as lighting control, to geographical factors such as the lighting distribution in the urban space or the
Étienne Auphan
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The effect of rural-to-urban migration on renal function in an Indian population: cross-sectional data from the Hyderabad arm of the Indian Migration Study. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Urban migration is associated with an increased risk of hypertension, obesity and diabetes in Indian migrants. This study assessed the relationship between internal migration and renal function in the Hyderabad arm of the Indian Migration ...
Bailey, Phillippa K +7 more
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The virtualization of urban functions
Netcom, 2001 Info-telematic technology is producing a new urban dimension : the digital city. Information represents by now the new good for urban economy : the city produces, elaborates and transfers information. Many of the functional Urban processes are progressively organizing themselves on such model.
LA ROCCA, ROSA ANNA, Fistola R.
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From colonial port to socialist metropolis : imperialist legacies and the making of 'New Dalian' [PDF]
, 2011 This article explores the transformation of the city of Dalian from a colonial export port to an industrialized core city of the Japanese wartime empire and finally a model production city of the People's Republic of China.
Hess, Christian A.
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 Urban parks have important impacts on urban ecosystems and in disaster prevention. They also have diverse social functions that are important to the living conditions and spatial structures of cities. Identifying and classifying the different types of urban parks are important for analyzing the sustainable development and the greening progress in ...
Su Cao +3 more
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Modeling Urban Growth and Form with Spatial Entropy
, 2020 Entropy is one of physical bases for fractal dimension definition, and the generalized fractal dimension was defined by Renyi entropy. Using fractal dimension, we can describe urban growth and form and characterize spatial complexity. A number of fractal
Chen, Yanguang
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Cybergeo, 2010 The proposed principle for understanding the urban fabric is based on considering the town as a set of complex objects, taking a systemic approach. The town system used to study the urban fabric over large time spans is composed of three sub-systems ...
Xavier Rodier, Laure Saligny
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The right to functioning urban infrastructure – A review
Town and Regional Planning, 2021 A major objective of local government in South Africa, as defined in the Constitution, is to ensure the provision of services to communities in a sustainable manner. However, neglect of infrastructure continues to hamper access to service delivery, affecting all citizens and the economy.
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