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ABSTRACT The Riyadh Metro represents a significant project in Saudi Arabia, designed to transform urban transportation and reduce traffic congestion within the city. With six metro lines and 85 stations, the network is expected to serve millions of passengers daily, necessitating innovative digitally driven maintenance approaches to ensure reliable ...
Tawfeeq Shawly, Ahmed A. Alsheikhy
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Smart city construction and urban livability: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
As global urbanization speeds up, smart city construction has become crucial for improving urban management and elevating residents’ life quality. Its impact on urban livability is now a key issue in urban planning and public policy.
Ke-Liang Wang +4 more
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Urban Visual Characteristics and Livability of Heritage Areas: A Case of Erbil’s Qaysari Bazaar
Improving visual characteristics in heritage areas enhances residents’ comfort, social engagement and overall urban livability. This study investigates how urban visual characteristics influence the perceived livability of the heritage area surrounding ...
Renas Jamal Ahmed , Hawar Himdad Jamal
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Investigating the Feasibility of Urumia Urban Areas Livability using RALSPI Model [PDF]
Livability approach is defined as the healthy, safe, suitable and economically accessible urban system that brings about high life quality and is considered as a subset of sustainable development.
Farzaneh Sasanpour +2 more
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Abstract Business schools are often criticized for reproducing growth‐oriented norms, but alternative pedagogies remain difficult to normalize. Drawing on Butler's theory of subversive performativity, this study examines how art‐based pedagogy enables academics to challenge growth logics in business schools by transforming their identities over time ...
Sylvain Bureau +3 more
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Public Green Infrastructure Contributes to City Livability: A Systematic Quantitative Review
Consistent with the Land Urbanism and Green Infrastructure theme of this special issue of Land, the primary goal of this review is to provide a plain language overview of recent literature that reports on the psychological, physiological, general well ...
Jackie Parker, Greg D. Simpson
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US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis
Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
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Evaluation and measurement of urban viability and factors affecting it (case study of Bojnourd city) [PDF]
Today, urban livability is the key concept in urban planning. At present, the concept of sustainable development and livability is one of the new concepts in developed countries.
Mohammad Saghebi +2 more
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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Abstract This article develops the concept of differentiated infrastructural citizenship (DIC) to explain how infrastructural citizenship is materially mediated, socially differentiated, and unevenly exercised in a rapidly urbanizing small city. It advances scholarship on infrastructural citizenship and everyday claims‐making as political participation
Nidhi Subramanyam
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