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Spatial Distribution of Urban Heritage and Landscape Approach to Urban Contextual Continuity: The Case of Suzhou

open access: yes, 2023
Suzhou, one of the most famous historical cities in China, has undergone significant urbanization over recent decades. These changes have caused a gradual separation of Suzhou’s urban heritage from its urban development and hindered the further ...
Jun Jiang   +3 more
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Heritage in Transformation: Physical and Non-Physical Dimensions of Changing Contexts

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2023
Urban heritage is at the core of the process of many changes observable in the cities today. The pace of urban change in heritage contexts, however, differs widely across the globe. In some areas, it goes slowly, in others it is astonishingly rapid.
Frank Eckardt, Aliaa AlSadaty
doaj   +1 more source

An analysis framework for studying Chinese urban heritage area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In the last decades, Chinese cities have experienced a dramatic development process, which caused many convergences urban phenomena, such as urban heritage space, gentrification, etc. A large number of similar spaces has led to a lack of vitality in some
Ting Zhang
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Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancement of Public Real-estate Assets and Cultural Heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The management of cultural heritage and public real-estate assets is one of the most crucial challenges concerning the sustainable use of these resources, involving dynamic methods to stimulate preservation, development, renewal, and transmission to ...

core   +2 more sources

Studying the Jin Dynasty’s Border Defensive Tactics from a “History-Space” Standpoint-Taking the Settlements of Northwest Road and Southwest Road as an Example

open access: yesBuildings
Settlements are the fundamental structural components of the Northwest and Southwest Routes, which were important defensive sectors of the Jin Dynasty’s Great Wall defense system. Under the Jurchen rule, these settlements function as special conduits for
Dan Xie, Yanbo Wang
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Defining the Attributes for Modernist Urban Heritage: The Case of ‘Kaunas 1919–1939: Architecture of Optimism’

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
The cultural heritage of modern architecture is a widely acknowledged phenomenon; however, unique urban landscapes that have witnessed a fundamental transformation in urban life in the 20th century are still underrepresented on the UNESCO World Heritage ...
Marija Drėmaitė
doaj   +1 more source

Widespread distribution of large silesaurids evidenced by a new record from the Middle Triassic of southwest Gondwana

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
The largest silesaurid known from South America is described here, demonstrating that silesaurids reached large body sizes in southwestern Gondwana. This discovery further underscores the widespread geographic distribution and temporal persistence of large silesaurids across Pangea, despite faunal turnovers and environmental events such as the Carnian ...
Rodrigo Temp Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Airborne sound insulation performance of lightweight double leaf walls with different stud types

open access: yesScientific Reports
Lightweight double leaf walls have been extensively employed in assembly and large-space buildings. Due to the complex and varied stud configurations in double leaf walls, accurately and efficiently predicting the sound transmission loss (STL) of such ...
Hequn Min, Bo Wang, Ting Qu
doaj   +1 more source

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