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, 2021 This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting
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, 1993 general view, Learning Cube project; table and benches for small groups ...
Urban Farm
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Using Focus Groups in Applied Urban Research
, 2021 This chapter explores the many ways that focus groups are employed in applied urban research. Applied urban research underpins and directly influences urban practices to resolve urban issues.
Laurel Johnson, Johnson, Laurel
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, 2023 This book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and
Rodgers, Christopher +8 more
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Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2023 Based on the fieldwork done with two support groups for people who had contact with a “violent death”, this article examines the different dimensions and characteristics of these individuals’ lives that shapes what we call grief.
Vittorio Talone
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Perceptions about prenatal care: views of urban vulnerable groups
BMC Public Health, 2002 Background In the United States, infant mortality rates remain more than twice as high for African Americans as compared to other racial groups. Lack of adherence to prenatal care schedules in vulnerable, hard to reach, urban, poor women is associated ...
Hatcher Barbara +9 more
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Towards inclusive and sustainable transformation in Shenzhen: Urban redevelopment, displacement patterns of migrants and policy implications [PDF]
, 2018 Sustainable urban transformation is a socially inclusive process in which urban residents, including the most marginalized groups, have a representative voice in planning and redevelopment. Nevertheless, the redevelopment of ‘villages in the city’ (ViCs)
Lin, Yanliu +12 more
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Comparative Analysis of the Anthropometric Parameters Among the Ethnic Groups of Karachi
Annals of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Karachi Medical & Dental College, 2020 Objective: Objectives of this study were to determine the average height, weight, BMI, BSA and LBM among the different ethnic groups that exist in population of Karachi and to determine whether these anthropometric parameters vary significantly among ...
Mahrukh Kamran +5 more
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Peasants’ Land Rights Claims Over Plantation Companies’ Sites in Central Java, Indonesia (1998-2014)
Indonesia Law Review, 2016 This article reveals the opening of political and legal opportunities for the landless peasants of Central Java at the end of the 1990s to reclaim their lands that were confiscated during the end of the 1950s through a nationalization program to take ...
Siti Rakhma Mary Herwati +1 more
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Group Segregation and Urban Violence
American Journal of Political Science, 2013 How does segregation shape intergroup violence in contested urban spaces? Should nominal rivals be kept separate or instead more closely integrated? We develop an empirically grounded agent‐based model to understand the sources and patterns of violence in urban areas, employing Jerusalem as a demonstration case and seeding our model with microlevel ...
Ravi Bhavnani +4 more
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