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Promoting urban health and spatial resilience as contributions towards spatial justice
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2023 Spatial justice has different dimensions and is to a large extent determined by its specific political-administrative context, which guides its development on the local level. In view of the varying living conditions in urban environments I would like to
Sabine Baumgart
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Evidence-informed urban health and sustainability governance in two Chinese cities
Buildings & Cities, 2021 Sustainable development is best supported by intersectoral policies informed by a range of evidence and knowledge types (e.g. scientific and lay).
Helen Pineo +9 more
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Social Sciences, 2018 Few studies have examined the impact of housing discrimination on health. This study explores potential pathways linking housing discrimination and health using concept mapping, a mixed-method approach.
Roshanak Mehdipanah +3 more
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A Decade of Air Quality in Bogotá: A Descriptive Analysis
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 In this work we apply a rigorous and reproducible data analytics process for validation and analysis of the historical data from Bogotá (Colombia) air quality monitoring network since 1998.
Ivan Mura +5 more
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Urban Science, 2021 Public health and city planning are highly interconnected; however, the nexus between the urban state of buildings and sidewalks and corresponding public and urban health issues is lacking in Greece. In a case study in Athens, Greece, we evaluated unsafe
Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis +1 more
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Urban form and COVID-19 cases and deaths in Greater London: an urban morphometric approach [PDF]
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Oct.
2022, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic generated a considerable debate in relation to urban density. This is an old debate, originated in mid 19th century's England with the emergence of public health and urban planning disciplines. While popularly linked, evidence suggests that such relationship cannot be generally assumed.
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Health Implications of Diverse Visions of Urban Spaces: Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide
Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 In the past 200 years, urban spaces have been imagined as neatly laid out, well-planned, sanitised and civilised places of dense human habitation with regulated economic activity, where political power, financial capital, the frontiers of knowledge and ...
Ritu Priya +4 more
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Global Health Action, 2011 This article is a review of the PhD thesis undertaken by Joanna Vearey that explores local government responses to the urban health challenges of migration, informal settlements, and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Joanna Vearey
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Prediction of Transportation Index for Urban Patterns in Small and Medium-sized Indian Cities using Hybrid RidgeGAN Model [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023, Vol. 13, 2023 The rapid urbanization trend in most developing countries including India is creating a plethora of civic concerns such as loss of green space, degradation of environmental health, clean water availability, air pollution, traffic congestion leading to delays in vehicular transportation, etc.
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018 Since 1950, the global urban population grew from 746 million to almost 4 billion and is expected to reach 6.4 billion by mid-century. Almost 90% of this increase will take place in Asia and Africa and disproportionately in urban slums.
Alayne M. Adams +11 more
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