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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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TRANSNATIONAL GENTRIFICATION IN NISEKO, JAPAN: A Model of Displacement Led by Linked Migration

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Transnational gentrification scholarship has provided insights into how transnational migration reshapes urban areas, yet its analytical lens has rarely extended to peripheral rural contexts outside Euro‐American settings, where distinct actors and mechanisms may emerge.
Ni Yan, Keisuke Sakamoto, Shizhen Huang, David Matarrita‐Cascante, Noriko Akita, Song Han, Zhengxu Zhou, Takahiro Yamazaki, Makoto Yokohari   +8 more
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The Relational Character of Canadian Nation‐Building Infrastructure in the 21st Century

Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Infrastructure development is central to Canada's nation‐building process. This article argues that the federal government has recalibrated its nation‐building mandate from unilateral state command to relational orchestration. Through thematic analysis of thirty‐eight policy documents related to three federal infrastructure plans (2007–2016 ...
Alaz Munzur, Katharina Koch
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Spatiotemporal evolution of urban livability amid China’s urban renewal: genetic algorithm projection pursuit and geographically weighted regression

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Against the backdrop of the concurrent advancement of rapid urbanization and large-scale urban renewal, enhancing urban livability has become an important issue in China’s urban development.
Ping Wang, Bin Guo, Wen Zhang, ZeLiang Sun   +3 more
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Honouring Hardship and Fun: Reflecting on Homeless Children's Experiences in Shelter

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In our research with children living in a homeless shelter with their families in Southern Ontario, Canada, we navigated discrepancies between the challenges and hardships in our participants' lives and the fun, positive nature of many of our day‐to‐day interactions with them.
Rebecca Raby, Christine Tardif‐Williams, Erika Alegria, Frederick Oppong, Luiza Mattos Jobim da Costa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing urban livability: Analyzing Tehran through equitable land use distribution

Journal of Urban Management
Urban livability, a concept integral to human settlements, lacks a universally agreed-upon definition. It encompasses various aspects influencing the attractiveness and quality of life in a city.
Kimia Ghasemi
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Poverty Over the Life Course: Evidence From Birth to Emerging Adulthood

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess if childhood poverty predicts poverty in emerging adulthood and identify the mechanisms. Background Early‐life poverty elevates the risk of adult economic disadvantage, but the specific pathways require clearer delineation.
Chien‐Chung Huang, Hui‐Fen Lin
wiley   +1 more source

Do Environmentalists Forgo Parenthood? A Life Course Perspective on Fertility Expectations and Behaviors in the UK

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess whether environmental concerns are associated with fertility expectations and behaviors across the reproductive life course. Background Whether individuals consider climate change in their reproductive decisions is an emerging area of research.
Katya Ivanova, Tobias Rüttenauer
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering Discourses, Disempowering Outcomes: How do Women Make Sense of Unequal Divisions of Housework in China?

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This research examines how women make sense of the persistent inequality in household responsibilities in China, which has in some cases intensified across cohorts. Background Despite women's high employment rates, household divisions remain deeply unequal in China, and surprisingly, men's housework has even decreased over the past ...
Junrong Sheng
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Livable City/Unequal City: The Politics of Policy-Making in a « Creative » Boomtown

Revue Interventions Économiques, 2008
There is a tendency in contemporary North American urban policy-making to uncritically connect specific ideals of urban ‘livability’ with efforts to cater to the whims of the so-called ‘Creative Class.’ The paper engages with this tendency through an ...
Eugene J. McCann
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