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Vernacular urbanism in Central Asia

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2023
The article gives the definitions of such concepts as vernacular city, vernacular urbanism and vernacular approach in the study of the origin and development of the historic city.
Ольга Воличенко
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El significado de los espacios de actividad económica en la estructura urbana de las ciudades medias españolas [PDF]

open access: yesCiudades, 2019
The industrial estates have recently modified their traditional urban functionality linked mainly to production. Thus, they have become spaces of economic activity in which manufacturing is losing weight in favour of other uses (mainly commercial and ...
Gonzalo Andrés López
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Habitar ante la cotidianidad de la contaminación del agua: contestaciones a las actividades extractivas en las periferias urbanas de Ecuador

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2020
Lago Agrio was formed as a city around the first oil station in the Amazon, while Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas became urbanized around a thriving commercial activity, in the interstices of large-scale cattle ranching.
Gustavo Durán   +2 more
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Deindustrialization, Tertiarization and Suburbanization in Central and Eastern Europe. Lessons Learned from Bucharest City, Romania

open access: yesLand, 2023
This paper intends to delve deeply into the current understanding of the ways in which the transition from a central-based economy to an economy relying on free competition has led to changes in the big urban centers, bringing about a change in the ...
Radu Săgeată   +4 more
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In Defense of a Peripheral Epistemology: Exploring “Decolonial Cognitive Triggers” for Epistemic Disobedience in Urban Peripheries

open access: yesSocial Sciences
This paper presents an approach to decolonial thinking and epistemological disobedience through what we call “decolonial cognitive triggers”. It is based on the struggles of urban peripheral communities in Brazil and explores eight triggers in the making
Fernando Lannes Fernandes   +2 more
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Mobilités et discontinuités périurbaines

open access: yesEspace populations sociétés, 2005
The usual urban structures are currently modified by centrifugal flows During the last thirty years, the greater mobility of population and the increase in commuting have led to deep structural changes in the urban peripheries. A new urban scheme arises
Sylvie Letniowska-Swiat
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Banlieue narratives: voicing the French urban periphery [PDF]

open access: yesRomance Studies, 2018
In the wake of the severe urban unrest that hit France in the 2000s, the banlieues have become the centre of sustained public attention as well as a narrative effervescence.
openaire   +2 more sources

Grands ensembles, cités ouvrières, logement social : patrimoines habités, patrimoines contestés

open access: yesEchoGéo, 2015
Metropolitan growth, de-industrialization, urban sprawl, renovation, gentrification, impoverishment and tourism development are among the many urban and social changes that affect suburbs and peripheries of French towns and cities.
Elizabeth Auclair, Anne Hertzog
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The political governance of urban peripheries [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2015
The paper introduces the challenges of this theme issue with regards to the dilemmas of political governance in upcoming urban peripheries. While becoming more and more topical in processes of urban transition and ongoing rescaling, urban peripheries struggle with the gap between the potential of new centrality and the consolidated sociopolitical ...
Salet, W., Savini, F.
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Marginalized Living and Disabling Spaces: A Bio-Cognitive Perspective

open access: yesLand
This paper advances a novel bio-cognitive framework for understanding how urban peripheries function as disabling environments that systematically undermine human flourishing.
Giulia Candeloro   +5 more
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