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Contested densification: Sustainability, place and expectations at the urban fringe

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
The discourse of sustainability-by-density is dominant in urban policies and climate-friendly urbanism today. Yet, with current failures and disparities in the regulation of dense development and land speculation, the effects of such policies are not ...
Sophie L. Van Neste, Jean-Philippe Royer
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Habiter la nature en métropole : une hybridation ville-campagne par le jardin

open access: yesDéveloppement Durable et Territoires, 2021
The city is undergoing major changes and sees the specialization of the urban spaces through metropolization. In this context, the place of urban peripheries is reconfigured and reinvented through the prism of new spatial relationships, new links between
Camille Robert-Boeuf, Julien Essers
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When Modern Housing Built Optimistic Suburbia: A Comparative Analysis Between Lisbon and Luanda

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2022
Throughout the 1960s, the urban peripheries in several Portuguese colonial cities embarked on a profound process of transformation. With different urban histories and distant geographical contexts, Lisbon and Luanda were united by urban planning and ...
Inês Rodrigues
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Conflicts in urban peripheries in Europe

open access: yesLand Use Policy, 2023
Urbanization is a global trend which is taking place at the costs of agricultural, forest, and other natural or semi-natural areas. As a result of urbanization, transitioning zones in urban peripheries located between urban and rural areas have a mixed character from a spatial, ecological, socio-demographic, and economic point of view.
Kleemann, Janina   +2 more
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Ordinary Spaces and Public Life in the City of Fragments

open access: yesIn_Bo, 2013
The Urban Design Studio held in the fall 2012 within the International Curriculum in Architectural Design at the University of Florence coped with the design of peripheries.
Giulio Giovannoni
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What’s the Value of a House: Wait, Struggle, and Improvement in a Militia-Controlled(?) Area in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022
This paper discusses valuation regimes of houses in a militia area in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken during the construction of a highway between 2012 and 2016, we propose considering removal processes as sociological objects ...
Marcella Araujo, Daniela Petti
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Trasgressive, ribelli e perdute: frammenti di periferie reali e immaginarie nella narrativa urbana turco-tedesca contemporanea

open access: yesGeography Notebooks, 2022
This paper focuses on the representation of German urban peripheries in Turkish-German contemporary urban fiction. Through the analysis and comparison of two novels written by contemporary German novelists with Turkish origins – Der die Träume hört (2019)
Sara Giovansana
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THE ROLE OF TOURISM IN THE REGENERATION OF PERIPHERAL NEIGHBOURHOODS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ALCÂNTARA (LISBON) AND BAGNOLI (NAPLES) [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2023
The urban geography of tourism destinations is always changing. These changes are part of a process of polarization in which some neighborhoods become increasingly popular, while others start to decline.
Luis Miguel BRITO, Luca ZARRILLI
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Assemblages of Living Together: Residential Cohabitation in Peri-urban Areas of Chengdu and Hyderabad

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2021
At a time when China and India are urbanizing rapidly, the transformation of the urban peripheries has brought into close proximity social groups who previously had little or no contact with each other.
Liubing Xie
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De las luchas urbanas a las grandes inversiones. La nueva urbanidad periférica en Bogotá

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2012
The article explores the recent transformations of the urban peripheries of Bogotá. The increasing complexit of these lead us to consider the emergence of a new model of peripheral urbanity.
Alice Beuf
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