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Urban heat island, urban climate maps and urban development policies and action plans
Environmental Technology and Innovation, 2019This paper aims at drawing attention to the deficiencies of urban heat island (UHI) mitigation strategies and urban climate maps (UCMs) towards practical implementations and efficient interventions in urban development policies and action plans (UDP/AP).
Mojtaba Parsaee +3 more
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Review of heat wave studies and related urban policies in South Asia
, 2021The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that the frequency of heat waves (HWs) is likely to increase over most land areas in the twenty-first century.
Rajashree Kotharkar, Aveek Ghosh
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, 2020
In recent times, African governments have been adopting explicit National Urban Policies (NUPs). The adoption of NUPs is a sharp contrast to the past when some governments were ambivalent to it.
Elmond Bandauko +2 more
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In recent times, African governments have been adopting explicit National Urban Policies (NUPs). The adoption of NUPs is a sharp contrast to the past when some governments were ambivalent to it.
Elmond Bandauko +2 more
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, 2020
Urban policy is an increasingly important policy domain in international and national agendas, intended to cope with the complexity of urban problems.
C. Navarro-Yáñez +1 more
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Urban policy is an increasingly important policy domain in international and national agendas, intended to cope with the complexity of urban problems.
C. Navarro-Yáñez +1 more
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Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2019
Creating healthy, liveable cities is a common policy aspiration globally. However, little research has explored the capacity of urban policies to deliver this aspiration, or levels of policy implementation.
M. Lowe +6 more
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Creating healthy, liveable cities is a common policy aspiration globally. However, little research has explored the capacity of urban policies to deliver this aspiration, or levels of policy implementation.
M. Lowe +6 more
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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2020
Throughout the world, cities seek to ease transport-related problems of congestion, air pollution, noise, and traffic injuries.
S. Gössling
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Throughout the world, cities seek to ease transport-related problems of congestion, air pollution, noise, and traffic injuries.
S. Gössling
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Anything new in town? The local effects of urban regeneration policies in Italy
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021The paper estimates the local effects of urban regeneration policies by using evidence from interventions that took place in small and medium-sized cities in the Centre and North of Italy over the period 2008-12.
Giuseppe Albanese +2 more
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Urban Systems of Accumulation: Half a Century of Chilean Neoliberal Urban Policies
Antipode, 2019We analyse a half-century of Chilean urban reforms to explain the introduction of a system of urban accumulation by dispossession of public resources and opportunities.
Pablo Navarrete-Hernández, F. Toro
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International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2018
Urban land-use change is affected by urban planning and government decision-making. Previous urban simulation methods focused only on planning constraints that prevent urban growth from developing in specific regions.
Xun Liang +4 more
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Urban land-use change is affected by urban planning and government decision-making. Previous urban simulation methods focused only on planning constraints that prevent urban growth from developing in specific regions.
Xun Liang +4 more
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Urban Knowledge and Urban Policy
2013As we have seen in contemporary societies, particularly in relation to the ‘knowledge-based society and economy’, the role and position of knowledge has acquired increasingly strong and positive connotations; this is an indication that reflection and careful preparation is important before action takes place (although one might argue that this has ...
Andersen, Hans Thor, Atkinson, Robert
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