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Vernacular urbanism in Central Asia
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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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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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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Between rhyme and routes: rap as a political and affective language of the peripheries in urban ethnography [PDF]
: This article considers the use of rap as a political and affective language of the peripheries in the construction of ethnographic listening in precarized urban contexts.
Carlos Eduardo Pereira Viana
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Anthropophagic Projections for Intercultural Science Teaching on the Urban Margins of Latin America
From the interpretive perspective of the concept of culture (Geertz) and the different postcolonial developments of cultural analysis (Bhabha; Hall; Garcia-Canclini), put in dialogue with the concept of the arts of doing (Certeau), discussions and a ...
Javier Giovanny Sánchez Molano +1 more
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El significado de los espacios de actividad económica en la estructura urbana de las ciudades medias españolas [PDF]
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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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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Constructing atomically coupled W–O–Ru interfacial units on RuO2 triggers a dynamic strain evolution during the oxygen evolution reaction. An initial tensile strain secures structural stability, while a self‐adjusting transition to interfacial compression optimizes catalytic activity.
Yi Guan +7 more
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Marginalized Living and Disabling Spaces: A Bio-Cognitive Perspective
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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Low‐level ambient benzene exposure is associated with increased risks of multiple brain disorders in urban adults. Genetic susceptibility modifies these associations, while plasma proteomics points to potential biological pathways linking benzene exposure to adverse brain health.
Jianhui Guo +10 more
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