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Smart city construction and urban livability: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
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, Yuan-Jie Qiao, Ru-Yu Xu, Yun-He Cheng, Zhuang Miao   +4 more
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Livability-oriented urban built environment: What kind of built environment can increase the housing prices?

Journal of Urban Management
The creation of a dense, convenient, and diverse built environment is a strategic approach for fostering urban development. However, few studies have considered the relationship between a compact built environment and livability.
Jinyu Huang, Yang Wang, Kangmin Wu, Xiaoli Yue, Hong'ou Zhang   +4 more
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Challenging Business Schools Through Subversive Performativity: The Potential of Art‐based Pedagogies

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
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, Laëtitia Gabay‐Mariani, Justine Buriller, Fiammetta Cascioli Karivalis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Feasibility of Urumia Urban Areas Livability using RALSPI Model [PDF]

تحقیقات کاربردی علوم جغرافیایی, 2018
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, Sara Alizadeh, Hourieh Aarabi Moghadam   +2 more
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Visual Characteristics and Livability of Heritage Areas: A Case of Erbil’s Qaysari Bazaar

Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences
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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DIFFERENTIATED INFRASTRUCTURAL CITIZENSHIP: Claims‐Making and the Limits to Transformative Urbanization in a Fast‐Growing Small City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Defiant pride: Origins and consequences of ethnic voting

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do voters often remain loyal to ethnic parties despite receiving little in terms of material welfare? I develop a theory focused on the role of dignity concerns in explaining within‐group variation in ethnic party loyalty. Group members who face discrimination from state agencies dominated by outgroups respond with defiant pride, which ...
Mashail Malik
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Livability Assessment in South Korea: Incorporating Climate Change Vulnerability

Urban Science
This study aims to develop an urban livability assessment index that incorporates climate change vulnerability and to apply this index to urban areas in South Korea, thereby analyzing the impact of climate change on living environments and quality of ...
Sunmin Jun, Juchul Jung
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Public Green Infrastructure Contributes to City Livability: A Systematic Quantitative Review

Land, 2018
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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