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CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN URBAN PERIPHERIES [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2021 AbstractRecent years have seen a rising interest in peri‐urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city‐regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms ...
Paula Meth +3 more
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Land, 2022 Urban land leasing is a land monetization strategy that was introduced in 1991 by the contemporary regime. Since then, urban center slum demolitions and their replacement by high-end commercial buildings and urban peripheral low-cost residential ...
Amanuel Weldegebriel +3 more
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Analyzing Segregation of Informal Residents in Latin American Cities’ Periphery Using Remote Sensing
Revista Cartográfica, 2022 The urban pattern has changed significantly in Latin American cities over the last decades. Since the 1980s, urban policies have increased the periphery land value, promoting suburbanization that restricted spaces for informal settlers.
Sonia Morales
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South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2021 The paper proposes a reading of the urban periphery from a labor-centered perspective, according to which its relational geography is indexed to the mobility of marginalized migrant workers and labor processes.
Pratik Mishra
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Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística, 2020 Resumen La insostenibilidad constituye un tema de reflexión obligada en los momentos actuales que vive el planeta, en donde los grandes desafíos a enfrentar están marcados por el cambio climático, el crecimiento poblacional y la urbanización acelerada ...
José Jorge Peralta Arias
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Peripheral: Resilient Hydrological Infrastructures
Infrastructures, 2023 This article addresses the issue of developing designs of resilient hydrological infrastructures for cities facing sea level rise in the Anthropocene. It undertakes short case studies of differently scaled cities, three in the Global North and three in ...
Ulrik Ekman
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Land, 2020 The ejido is an institution of communal land tenure and governance administered by the Mexican government. This paper assesses the current visual appearance of landscapes and implicit land use in ejidal lands on the periphery of Guadalajara, Mexico ...
Leonardo Barleta +3 more
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Changing Societies & Personalities, 2022 The case of urban development in the Russian periphery is often overlooked in the scholarly efforts to theorize the center-periphery dynamics characteristic of the post-socialist contexts, not least in the case of Russia.
Vera Smirnova, Ekaterina Adrianova
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The Peripheral Turn in Global Urban Studies: Theory, Evidence, Sites
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2021 The field of global urban studies has witnessed a “peripheral” turn since the 1990s, first led by the Los Angeles School of urban geographers, with a more diverse group of urban scholars who study the global South following.
Xuefei Ren
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Examining Shifts in Spatial Population Concentration Indices across Iran's First to Fifth Development Plans (1989-2015) [PDF]
برنامهریزی توسعه شهری و منطقهای, 2023 The objective of this research paper is to analyze the trends observed in spatial population concentration indices within the context of regional and urban balance policies during Iran's first to fifth development plans spanning the period of 1989 to ...
Mahmoud Moshfegh
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