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Financializing Africa’s urban peripheries: the rise of housing microfinance [PDF]
Urban Geography, 2023 Housing microfinance is transforming Africa's urban peripheries. While many actors, factors, and processes are driving the financialization of peripheral urban Africa, social enterprises and fintech (financial technology) play a key role in making these ...
Andreas Scheba
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Prometheus in the Periphery? The Extent, Drivers, and Nature of Innovation in the Urban Peripheries of Chinese Cities [PDF]
Annals of the American Association of GeographersDespite recent correctives to established views on the urban rather than suburban location of innovatory processes, we still know very little about the extent, drivers, and nature of concentrations of innovation in urban peripheries.
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The Verticalization of Manama's Urban Periphery
Open House International, 2013This paper explores the various roots and characteristics of current high-rise clusters emerging in new city districts along the coast of Manama and the resulting challenges to urban planning. Like many other Gulf cities Bahrain's capital Manama has witnessed rapid urban growth since local real-estate markets were liberalized in 2003.
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Nationalist Urbanisms on the National Peripheries
Social Change, 2023Nations have been imagined from urban centres of power, and nation-building in post-colonial states has been one of the most important forces powering developmental urbanisms. While dominant nationalist urbanisms transforming the core of the national space have garnered scholarly attention, the prevailing view in literature empties peripheries of ...
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Urbanizing villages: informal morphologies in Shenzhen’s urban periphery
Journal of Urban Design, 2018The phenomenon of urban villages in China has received much scholarly attention in recent years, mostly about their socio-economic aspects and its role in accommodating rural migrants.
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Urban Periphery Landscape: Dichotomization of Urban and Rural Dimensions
2016This chapter focuses on the urban periphery landscape—urban fringe and suburban rural areas—in which both urban development and rural conservation should be considered. In Asian countries, urban periphery areas are often threatened by urban sprawl, land abandonment, or disordered land uses.
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Relocating Centers of Urban Activity in the Urban Periphery?
disP - The Planning Review, 2014Willem Salet +2 more
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