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Information Dynamics in Urban Crime
Entropy, 2018 Information production in both space and time has been highlighted as one of the elements that shapes the footprint of complexity in natural and socio-technical systems. However, information production in urban crime has barely been studied. This work copes with this problem by using multifractal analysis to characterize the spatial information scaling
Miguel Melgarejo, Nelson Obregon
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L'Espace Politique, 2016 Formality and informality, Global North and Global South as well as globalization from above and globalization on below are enduring dichotomies informing greatly our representations of cities.
Sandrine Berroir +5 more
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Heliyon, 2022 Motorcycle taxi drivers (MTDs) are classified as self-employed informal workers. The interplay between formality and informality is examined in this article from labor and capital perspectives on formalization approaches.
Kritsada Theerakosonphong +1 more
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Urban information systems in Turkey
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer, 2009 Geographical information system (GIS) projects were initiated during the 1980s in Turkey. The numbers of those projects increased both in public and private sectors during the 1990s, encouraged by the rapid developments in technology. One of the types of institutions most eager to use GIS technology is municipalities in the country. The administrators
Durduran, S. Savas +2 more
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Informality as a strategy to formalize: Finding housing in Bamako, Mali
Anuac, 2017 Informality can be a gateway to formality. The growing urban population of Bamako believed that peri-urban land not yet deeded offered potential for future ownership.
Dolores Koenig
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, & PolicyE-waste management in the Global South relies heavily on the informal sector. The associated workforce, vast in number, faces exposure to harmful substances and often represents society’s most vulnerable segments.
Nicolás Labra Cataldo +2 more
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Living in the Intra-Urban Confines of Lima: A Precariousness of Geopolitical Origin
Revista INVI, 2021 Confines, defined as spaces of blurry boundaries and powers interpenetration, are most traditionally studied in geopolitics contexts at the national level.
Alexis Sierra, Victor Gheno
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L’informalité comme une ressource urbaine ? Le cas des favelas de Rio de Janeiro
EchoGéo, 2017 This article analyzes the role played by urban informality in the process of the configuration and access to urban resources. In the case of the favelas of Rio, informality may allow access to special areas of the city, which is not possible through the ...
Rafael Soares Gonçalves
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Systematic Review of Informal Urban Economies [PDF]
, 2021 Mpendulo Harold Thulare +2 more
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WorldBy 2050, it is estimated that approximately 200 million people will be displaced due to the impacts of climate change. Vulnerability to climate change is shaped not only by environmental factors but fundamentally by systemic power relations and ...
Susana Herrero Olarte +1 more
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