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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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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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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 Semi-Peripherality Discourse and Water Infrastructure in St. Petersburg/Leningrad (1864-1927)
Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 The article deals with the discourse of semi-peripherality, which had a significant impact on the urban culture of St. Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad generally and on the construction of urban infrastructure, such as the sewerage system, in particular ...
Olga Malinova-Tziafeta
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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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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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