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Segregation measures and spatial autocorrelation - Location patterns of immigrant minorities in the Barcelona Region [PDF]
Given the important growth of immigrants in Spain it would be interesting to study its distribution throughout the urban area. Statistics suggest different large traditional indices allowing to quantify the segregation of minority population groups ...
Joan Carles Martori +2 more
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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Online survey as a tool in participatory urban governance - The Polish experience
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2011 Sustainable urban governance needs to be participatory. Municipal decision-making processes have to be responsive, transparent and inclusive, they should also actively promote citizen involvement.
Damurski Łukasz
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HJ Cole + associados – planejamento e empreendimentos (1970-1980)
Urbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2013 O artigo comenta a trajetória profissional de Harry James Cole a partir de seu escritório de projetos, o H.J. Cole + Associados, onde desenvolveu nos anos 1970 uma série de trabalhos urbanísticos.
Maria Cecilia Lucchese
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
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Human capital in the German urban system – Patterns of concentration and specialisation
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2010 In the knowledge economy human capital plays a crucial role in various economic processes and thus also in spatial development. But human capital is an economic resource that is distributed unequally in space. Some regions show a higher density of human
Anna Growe
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Urbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2015 Santiago de León de Caracas siempre ha sido una ciudad de riesgos. Fundada, en 1567, en un valle fértil pero de topografía abrupta, sometido a la acción sismogénica del sistema de fallas de San Sebastián, Caracas ha padecido a lo largo de cinco siglos de
Alejandra Leal Guzmán, Florinda Amaya
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Urban sustainable development and the challenge of French metropolitan strategies. GSPE Working Paper 11/04/2008 [PDF]
, 2008 This article focuses on some salient issues of urban sustainable development in France, specifically with regard to six urban agglomerations: Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Toulouse.
Hamman, Philippe.
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Testing a global city hypothesis : an assessment of polarization across US cities [PDF]
, 2012 Social polarization is perhaps most evident within the world's large cities where we can easily observe stark contrasts between wealth and poverty. A world city theoretical perspective has emerged that associates large cities importance in a global ...
Derudder, Ben +5 more
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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