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Riverine Women after Resettlement

open access: yesSpool, 2021
The construction of Belo Monte Hydropower dam has resettled riverine communities from their homes to the outskirts of the city of Altamira, kilometres away and disconnected from the river.
Satya Maia Patchineelam
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Using Different Methods of Nanofabrication as a New Way to Activate Supplementary Cementitious Materials; a Review [PDF]

open access: yesCivil Engineering Infrastructures Journal, 2017
Reducing the consumption of cement with simultaneous utilizing waste materials as cement replacement is preferred for reasons of environmental protection.
Azadeh Askarinejad
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Urban Growth and Housing Supply [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
Cities are physical structures, but the modern literature on urban economic development rarely acknowledges that fact. The elasticity of housing supply helps determine the extent to which increases in productivity will create bigger cities or just higher paid workers and more expensive homes.
Edward L. Glaeser   +2 more
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Aging and urban house prices [PDF]

open access: yesRegional Science and Urban Economics, 2015
This paper investigates the long-run relationships between the size and age composition of a city’s population and the price of local housing. For estimation purposes, we combine city-level demographic information with hous-ing price data for 87 cities in Germany over the period 1995-2012.
Hiller, Norbert, Lerbs, Oliver W.
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COVID Impact on Usage of Public Spaces in Brasilia, Brazil

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2023
COVID 19 has proved to be a challenging time worldwide. For the last three years, academics have researched its impacts through different lenses and perspectives in many significant fields. In the urban academic realm, there has been a growing debate on
Carla Costa
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Housing’s values: Housing as an ethical urbanism

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning F, 2023
Housing’s values are a key topic of public and policy debate, with discussions including the social value of housing in the form of human rights or care, rising property values, value-capture in infrastructure development, Indigenous values of land, and the value of housing for social reproduction.
Dallas Rogers, Cameron McAuliffe
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Efficiency of participation in planning

open access: yesAlexandria Engineering Journal, 2011
The participatory planning became recently the main pier that leads changes and development in cities. The communicative turn in spatial planning reflects the changes of local economies and society towards open, globally reaching relationships, and ...
Ghada Farouk Hassan   +2 more
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Urban house transformation: From traditional to contemporary urban house: Part one: Development of the traditional urban family house [PDF]

open access: yesSAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal, 2009
The principal aim of this research is maladjustment of the traditional family house space concept to the requirements of the contemporary city and to the needs of an urban emancipated citizen. New patterns of every-day life seek their sanctuary in new living models, striving to re-evaluate the current patterns and determine spatial and social frame for
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Inside an Urban House - A Cross Sectional Study on Urban Housing Standards

open access: yesJOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, 2023
Introduction: Poor housing can increase the risk to people due to structurally deficient housing, poor construction or maintenance, can increase the chances of fall and risk of injuries. Indoor environment refers to the quality of air inside the dwelling.
Ramees M Sali, Pradeep T S
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Urbanism, Housing, and the City

open access: yes, 2017
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
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