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Access to Housing in Urban China [PDF]
AbstractLike income inequality, housing inequality in urban China is strongly affected by state policies that give preferential treatment to insiders. In this case, the key policies are related to their residence status, which involves not only their migration history but also their legal position.
Yiping Fang, Zhanxin Zhang
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Closing the Gap: Territorial Cohesion through Polycentric Development
This article discusses and analyses national polycentric development policies aiming at cohesion. Due to its insertion in the 1999 European Spatial Development Perspective ‘polycentricity’ has become an important concept in discussions on Europe’s ...
Evert Meijers +2 more
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The Evaluation and Improvement of Fire Safety for Existing Buildings: A Development of Codes System [PDF]
Fires in buildings are always a treat to people's lives and properties. Fire safety codes and regulations have been developed nationally, therefore, to attain a reasonable level of fire safety in buildings.
Saeed Bakhtiary +2 more
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This article seeks to reflect on the current legal framework for urban land regularization, Federal Law No. 13,465/2017, and to explore the challenges of Brazil’s Federal District, the country's capital, to implement this recent Law. Questions about the
Denise de Campos Gouvêa +1 more
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Legal land tenure programmes: security and precarity of the poor in Urban India
This essay discusses the veracity of legal tenure granted to informal settlers on public land in the context of top-down neo-liberal policies superimposed on an already existing regime of urban regulations and welfare measures.
Banashree Banerjee
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Policy Impact Analysis of Housing Policies Using Housing Cycles
In Korea, there is a big difference in the rise and fall of apartment prices by region, so it is expected that there will be differences in regional economic indexes.
Doo Won Bang, HyuckShin Kwon
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Housing sales in urban Beijing [PDF]
In the housing market, new properties sometimes experience delays before they are sold. Such delays reflect the preferences of buyers in respect of the homes’ characteristics. Therefore, it is important for managerial purposes to identify the causes of housing sales delays.
Carlos Pestana Barros +2 more
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Thermal bridges in building envelopes can cause significant heat loss and heat gain. In this study, the developed thermal bridge breaker was applied to an interior insulation finishing system in residential buildings to minimize the thermal bridges in ...
Mi-Yeon Kim +3 more
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Daily Mobility Patterns: Reducing or Reproducing Inequalities and Segregation?
Theory states that residential segregation may have a strong impact on people’s life opportunities. It is unclear, however, to what extent the residential environment is a good representation of overall exposure to different people and environments ...
Lina Hedman +3 more
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Assessment and Analysis of Citizens’ Perceptions of Visual Corridors in Tehran City
Today, in many cities, urban facades are typically forming according to the high-level codes, while citizens’ expectations and preferences are different from them.
Elham Zabetian Targhi, Vida Razi
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