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Urban geography and scaling of contemporary Indian cities. [PDF]

J R Soc Interface, 2019
This paper attempts to create a first comprehensive analysis of the integrated characteristics of contemporary Indian cities, using scaling and geographical analysis over a set of diverse indicators.
Sahasranaman A, Bettencourt LMA.
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Urban Geography Evolving: Toward an Evolutionary Urban Geography

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2014
Despite growing interest in the application of evolutionary concepts to research questions in human geography, the literature is largely characterised by metaphors or analogies that are disconnected from a broader evolutionary theoretical framework. This
Weaver Russell C.
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Urban geography and complexity

Dela, 2004
The contemporary approach of complex systems raises common questions that could be handled by a transdisciplinary theory. We demonstrate how the main concepts of urban geography could be integrated in such a theory ofcomplexity.
Denise Pumain
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A Probabilistic Embedding Clustering Method for Urban Structure Detection [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
Urban structure detection is a basic task in urban geography. Clustering is a core technology to detect the patterns of urban spatial structure, urban functional region, and so on. In big data era, diverse urban sensing datasets recording information like human behaviour and human social activity, suffer from complexity in high dimension and high noise.
H. Li, L. Gao, L. Zhao, M. Deng, X. Lin, X. Lin, Y. Zhang   +6 more
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Multilevel comparison of large urban systems [PDF]

, 2015
For the first time the systems of cities in seven countries or regions among the largest in the world (China, India, Brazil, Europe, the Former Soviet Union (FSU), the United States and South Africa) are made comparable through the building of spatio-temporal standardised statistical databases.
Baffi, Solène, Bretagnolle, Anne, Cottineau, Clémentine, Cura, Robin, Delisle, François, Ignazzi, Antonio, Lizzi, Liliane, Pumain, Denise, Swerts, Elfie, Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, Céline   +9 more
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The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach [PDF]

, 2005
The network metaphor in the analysis of urban and territorial cases has a long tradition especially in transportation/land-use planning and economic geography. More recently, urban design has brought its contribution by means of the "space syntax" methodology. All these approaches, though under different terms like accessibility, proximity, integration,
Alexander C, Anthonisse J M, Barabási A L, Batty M, Batty M, Batty M, Batty M, Batty M, Dagum C, Dalton N, Dalton N, Descartes R, Desyllas J, Erdös P, Hall E T, Hillier B, Hillier B, Jacobs A, Jacobs J, Jiang B, Larson R, Latora V, Le Corbusier, Nakao K, Newman P, Penn A, Ravasz E, Salheen M, Scott J, Thomson R C, Weaver W, Wilson G A   +31 more
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Development of creative tourism with emphasis on tourism attractions (Case Study: Isfahan City) [PDF]

نشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2022
IntroductionIn 2016, almost 55% of the world’s population were living in cities which is anticipated to amount to 66% by 2050. As the population grows, competition between cities as tourism destinations also grows (Boivin & Tanguay, 2019:67).
M. Taghvaei, Sheida Janali poor, Marjan Shafiei   +2 more
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Spatial Modeling of Factors Affecting Building Density: A Case Study of Hamedan City [PDF]

برنامه ریزی فضایی, 2022
The process of growth and development of Iranian cities indicates that the unbalanced and uncoordinated growth of the city with the lack of planning and inappropriate design has led to the creation of a heterogeneous structure in the cities.
amer nikpour, Behnaz Mohammadyari,, Mohammad Soleymani   +2 more
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Evaluation and Analysis of Components Affecting the Environmental Quality of Newly Established Urban Neighborhoods (Case Study: Manzaria and Boram Pahneh Neighborhoods of Shahrekord) [PDF]

جغرافیا و آمایش شهری منطقه‌ای, 2023
The uncontrolled development of cities in recent years has led to a lack of attention to the quality of the human environment and design for human societies, resulting in scattered urban growth and the formation of new neighborhoods in many Third World ...
Masoome Nazari, Rasoul Ghorbani, Hassan Mahmoudzadeh   +2 more
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Making the city through participatory video: implications for urban geography

Urban Geography, 2021
Participatory video-making represents a significant opportunity within urban geography. Reflecting on two participatory video-making processes in Seville, Spain, this article examines, firstly, the epistemological opportunities contained within a ...
C. Yap
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