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Housing as the Fifth Pillar of the Welfare State: Why Spain Needs Structural Reform
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Spain's ongoing housing crisis reflects the cumulative effects of fragmented governance, underinvestment and financialisation. Despite recent reforms, structural challenges persist, threatening affordability and social inclusion. This article diagnoses the roots of Spain's housing failures, explores pathways for systemic reform and argues that
Montserrat Pareja‐Eastaway
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BuildingsThe rise in outdoor temperatures and heatwaves highlights the limitations of buildings in adapting to warming conditions, even in temperate climates.
Ainhoa Arriazu-Ramos +4 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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EnergiesData scarcity limits robust assessment of urban overheating and its implications for building energy use, especially in complex-terrain cities such as those in mountain environments.
Mario Alves da Silva +3 more
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Thermal respite for pedestrians in overheated urban environments
, 2020 The sedentary lifestyle prevalent in most developed countries can have serious impacts on health, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. In response, public health campaigns routinely exhort communities to spend more time engaged in outdoor activities. However, in warm-to-hot climate zones where the rate of urbanisation is
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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Assessment and Mitigation Strategies to Counteract Overheating in Urban Historical Areas in Rome [PDF]
Climate, 2018 As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life. The study presents an assessment of the existing thermal comfort and usage of San Silvestro Square in Rome during the summer, and performs the simulation ...
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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City and Environment InteractionsUrban greening enhances summer thermal comfort in cities; however, vegetation requires watering and reduces solar gains on buildings, potentially increasing energy consumption for heating.
Robin Monnier +6 more
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How vegetation mitigates urban overheating
, 2023 This work focuses on the role of vegetation in the city from a thermal point of view, aiming to understand how plants can moderate urban overheating. First, the main experimental studies and models describing the effects of vegetation on urban heat island mitigation are reviewed. We then focus on two physical phenomena that emerge from the literature -
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