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Urbanization and Urban Transport in India: The Search for a Policy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 Cities play a vital role in generating economic growth and prosperity. The sustainable development of cities largely depends upon their physical, social and institutional infrastructure. In this context, the importance of transport infrastructure is paramount. To facilitate this, what is required is a sound urban transport policy.
Padam, Sudarsanam, Singh, Sanjay Kumar
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Active aging and urban policies: the space as an instrument for an inclusive and sustainable city
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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Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Urban Landscape Change in the City of Bucharest, Romania
Remote Sensing, 2021 The paper investigates the urban landscape changes for the last 50 years in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. Bucharest shows a complex structural transformation driven by the socialist urban policy, followed by an intensive real-estate market ...
Constantin Nistor +5 more
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The shadow of the “Great Earthquake” on a sustainable Bucharest. Shared responsibilities and disaster risk management [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2020 Bucharest is located in Romania’s most active seismic area. In the past, the city has been significantly affected by a few earthquakes, including the 1977 one, which was one of the strongest and caused the most significant number of human victims and ...
Bogdan Suditu +3 more
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Nature, 2016 Cities are complex environments. Planning interventions that borrow principles from theoretical physics could help to improve peoples' lives.
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Urban adaptation, strategies and projects. The gap between policies and their implementation
Agathón, 2019 The increasing impacts of climate change are pushing cities to take paths towards adaptation and resilience. The adaptation, due to its systemic nature, is multi-scalar: at the urban scale (macro-level) it is implemented through plans and strategies; on ...
Guido Emilio Rossi
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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.
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Métropoles, 2018 At a time when metropolitan policies seem to follow a course more and more convergent, we analyse forty years of urban policy in the city that has long been considered a specific model : Barcelona.
Mariona Tomàs, Emmanuel Négrier
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Looking at public spaces in contemporary Rome: an anthropological perspective on the study of cities
Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2013 Through the presentation of two case studies this paper aims to engage the theoretical debate on the persistence of public space in the contemporary city, and focuses the attention on the way people practice these spaces and on the policies which are ...
Monica Postiglione
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Métropoles, 2010 The objective of the article is to understand how a political capacity can emerge in a city characterised by an ancient process of industrialisation and, more recently, by an economic and demographic decline. The central thesis of the article is inspired
Vincent Béal +2 more
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