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Active aging and urban policies: the space as an instrument for an inclusive and sustainable city [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 Aging is one of the most important challenges of our times. As stated by United Nations’ report on 1983, “Policies to meet the challenge of a growing, healthier and more active seniors population -based on the view of the ageing of society as an ...
Letizia Carrera
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‘Arriving At’ Urban Policies: The Topological Spaces of Urban Policy Mobility [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015 AbstractSpatial vocabularies are stretched to their limits by the complexities of policy mobilities. Using the example of city‐wide strategic policymaking in Johannesburg, this essay argues for an enrichment of our vocabularies for appreciating how wider circuits of urban policy shape localized policy outcomes.
J. Robinson
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Government, political actors and governance in urban policies in Brazil and São Paulo: concepts for a future research agenda [PDF]
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2013 Public policies are produced by connections between several actors, within institutional environments and crossing organizational boundaries, but detailed analyses of the environments in which politics occur are relatively rare in Brazil.
Eduardo Marques
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The sustainable semantic foundations of the traditional neighborhoods in the desert cities [PDF]
International Journal of Human Capital in Urban Management, 2022 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In cities with a hot and harsh climate, defining space and territory in a sustainable and environmentally manner in urban management and human capital is critical. Cultural values and climatic adaptation played a prominent role
S. Maroofi, M. Valibeigi, A. Shaneh
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Land, 2021 Since the 1990s, the EU has promoted urban integrated programmes in vulnerable urban areas, combining top-down and bottom-up approaches to select the target areas.
Manuel Fernández-García +2 more
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Journal of Urban Affairs, 2023 Urban environments are key health determinants and play a critical role in improving health outcomes and equity. However, urban policies in the United Kingdom (UK) and globally frequently fail to produce healthy towns and cities.
G. Bates +3 more
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Land, 2021 Policy integration is a substantive and innovative strategy, used to address complex problems that go beyond the scope of sectoral policies, and require a joint and integrated response.
María José Dorado-Rubín +2 more
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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2022 African urban areas and cities are primarily seen as vulnerable to climate change. Apparent attempts to get required policies have led to the widespread proliferation of overlapping and duplications of policies.
Abubakari Ahmed +3 more
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Sustainability, 2021 How can urban policies and planning approaches help in achieving a safer mobility and carbon reduction in the transport sector? The attention of planners and policy makers towards the promotion of sustainability and reduction of environmental impacts has
M. Tiboni +5 more
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Sanctuary Cities in Europe? A Policy Survey of Urban Policies in Support of Irregular Migrants
British Journal of Political Science, 2021 Irregular migrants tend to live in dense urban settings. Cities therefore formulate various policies in support of irregular migrants. Given the US phenomenon of sanctuary cities, the study of these policies has been rather US-centric so far. This letter
David Kaufmann +3 more
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