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Characterisation and typology of urban wetlands in Ghana: Implications for the governance of urban commons in secondary cities in Africa

Urban Governance, 2021
Urban wetlands continue to provide essential ecosystem services to the urban populace and are largely seen as urban commons that need to be managed properly for continuous wise use of wetlands.
E.D. Kuusaana, A. Ahmed, B.B. Campion, A. Dongzagla   +3 more
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Conceptualizing local development practitioners: creators, coordinators or inside lobbyists?

Urban Governance, 2021
Local development practitioners in local government administration play a significant role in the governance of local development. This category of public officials – development officers, managers, strategists, secretaries, etc.
Albin Algotson, Petra Svensson
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Resilience, Fragility, and Robustness: Cities and COVID-19

Urban Governance, 2021
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on cities around the world. In this paper, we analyse city fragility and resilience through the lens of the social compact framework.
Michael Hunter
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Stakeholder networks and inclusive public participation mechanisms in the public budgeting process

Urban Governance, 2021
The local government budget process involves a variety of stakeholders. As part of this process, local governments may use public participation mechanisms, ranging from neighborhood meetings to citizen committees, to engage stakeholder groups and ...
Brad Johnson, Peter A. Jones, Vincent Reitano   +2 more
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Do smart cities perform better in governing the COVID-19 crisis? Empirical evidence from Indonesian cities

Urban Governance, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the world due to its pronounced mortality rate, rapid worldwide spread, and profound socioeconomic effects across all societies.
Arif Budy Pratama, Hina Amber, Yauheniya Shershunovich, André Bueno Rezende de Castro   +3 more
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Energy planning for metropolitan context: potential and perspectives of sustainable energy action plans (seaps) of three italian big cities [PDF]

, 2016
Energy retrofitting of existing building stock and new expansion of urban settlements entail a new relationship between consumption and production sites.
Berghi, Saverio
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Building new cities in the Global South: Neoliberal planning and its adverse consequences

Urban Governance, 2023
Mushrooming new city developments have occurred in many developing countries in the past two decades, which generate profound socio-economic, environmental, and politico-institutional consequences.
Xing Su
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Municipal Property Acquisition Patterns in a Shrinking City: Evidence for the Persistence of an Urban Growth Paradigm in Buffalo, NY [PDF]

, 2015
The purpose of this article is to examine municipal property acquisition patterns in shrinking cities. We use data from the City of Buffalo’s municipal property auction records to analyze the spatial distribution of properties offered for sale in its ...
Patterson, Kelly L, Silverman, Robert Mark, Yin, Li   +2 more
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Environmental urban and socioeconomic risk factors for respiratory diseases a systematic review with quantitative weighting analysis

Discover Public Health
Background Rapid urbanization, environmental degradation, and socioeconomic inequalities are reshaping exposure patterns and vulnerability profiles for respiratory diseases worldwide.
Jihane Erraji, Adil Zabadi
doaj   +1 more source

Spatio-temporal data fusion techniques for modeling digital twin City

Geo-spatial Information Science
The digital twin city technique maps the massive city environmental and social data on a three-dimensional virtual model. It presents the operational status of physical world and supports intelligent city governance.
Yuejin Li, Shengpeng Chen, Kai Hwang, Xiaoqiang Ji, Zhen Lei, Yi Zhu, Feng Ye, Mengjun Liu   +7 more
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