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The political governance of urban peripheries [PDF]
Environment 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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The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries and the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them. This multi-authored monograph examines African urban peripheries through a dual focus on the logics driving the transformation of ...
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, 2022 Urban Sprawl, and the fragmentation of the territory associated with it, are factors degrading the peri-urban areas in many European cities. The aim of this research is to investigate the role that Green Infrastructure (GI) and Nature-Based Solutions ...
Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi +2 more
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Conflicts in urban peripheries in Europe
Land 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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Techne, 2019 Stagni di Levante in Ostia is a reclaimed area with high risk of flooding: a flat territory where is an inhomogeneous fabric of single-family houses, a low-density horizontal landscape devoid of services and public green areas.
Manuela Raitano
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Linhas da paisagem pela cidade de Belo Horizonte: dicotomias, forças predatórias e resistência
e-cadernos ces, 2022 This is an essay that depicts the line of a mountain ridge as an element to contemplate the abyssal condition expressed in the landscape of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brazil’s Minas Gerais province.
Júlia Fonseca de Castro +1 more
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Spatial production of commerce and services in the urban peripheries: a case study in Salvador
GEOUSP: Espaço e Tempo, 2000 This article discusses the spatial production of both com m erce and services in the urban periphery, based on studies conducted in Salvador, Bahia. The form ation of "centralities" (concentration of both com m erce and services in sp ecific areas) and ...
Jânio Laurentino Santos, Angelo Serpa
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The Weekend Effect on Urban Bat Activity Suggests Fine Scale Human-Induced Bat Movements
Animals, 2020 In the urban environment, wildlife faces novel human disturbances in unique temporal patterns. The weekend effect describes that human activities on weekends trigger changes in the environment and impact wildlife negatively.
Han Li +16 more
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La maison des périphéries urbaines au Brésil : une institution du commun
Brésil(s), 2020 Based on ethnographic research in a « peripheral subdivision » of Rio de Janeiro, this article replaces the classic interpretation of the interplay between the street and the house with a public-private dichotomy, an approach focused on the « common ...
Thomas Cortado
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Political theatres in the urban periphery: Medellín and the Library-Parks Project [PDF]
, 2018 The Library-Parks of Medellín are pivotal in this city’s project of ‘urban and social upgrading’. They consist of a combination of cultural programmes and generous surrounding and indoor spaces for public use, built with the intention to produce a new ...
Capillé, Cauê, Cauê Capillé
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