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Voices and challenges of marginalized and vulnerable groups in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: building on a spectrum of community-based participatory research approaches. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health, 2023
Urbanization is rapidly increasing across Africa, including in Nairobi, Kenya. Many people, recent migrants and long-term residents, live within dense and dynamic urban informal settlements.
Karuga R   +13 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Informal Marginalities in Constantine: Factors of Emergence and Trials for Restriction

open access: yesProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2020
The urban territory of Constantine witnesses frequently an increased duality regarding territorial redefinition, displaying largely two forms of urban territoriality: one is produced within a legal framework (urban planning), the other is produced by ...
Besma Bouteche, Youcef Lazri
doaj   +1 more source

Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-town India (Book review)

open access: yes, 2023
Review of: Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-town India, Nimmagadda Bhargav (2023)Full ...
Backhaus, Bridget
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Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city examines how urban health and wellbeing are shaped by migration, mobility, racism, sanitation and gender. Adopting a global focus, spanning Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the essays in

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Just Urban Design

open access: yes, 2022
Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.

core   +1 more source

Cosa significa abitare in periferia?

open access: yesEtnoAntropologia, 2018
Over the last fifteen years, if we focus on the northern outskirts of Bologna and study the settlement patterns of the foreign citizens in order to read the territory, the dialectic South / North seems to take on more importance than the duality center /
Giuseppe Scandurra
doaj   +4 more sources

Urban AI Guide

open access: yes, 2023
The URBAN AI GUIDE aids city leaders and urban technologists (academic, public, private, and community-focused) in better understanding how artificial intelligence operates in urban contexts.
Narvaez Zertuche, Laura   +2 more
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The Urban Sun Belt: An Overview

open access: yes, 2020
This paper focuses on the 22 metropolitan statistical areas in the Sun Belt with a population of 1 million people or more. Together, they accounted for almost half of all population growth in the entire United States between 2010 and 2016.
Hazle, Shelly G.   +3 more
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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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The flexible urban grid: adaptation, expansion and evolution in Philadelphia's city block morphology

open access: yes, 2023
This study examines the evolution of Philadelphia’s city block morphology between 1683, when the city was planned by William Penn, and 1900, when urban expansion abandoned the grid. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative assessment.
Brent Ryan   +3 more
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