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Policy: Urban physics [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2016
Cities are complex environments. Planning interventions that borrow principles from theoretical physics could help to improve peoples' lives.
openaire   +2 more sources

Linking urban rhythms to emotions: the inevitable emergence of emotions in the covid-19 daily life’s arrhythmia

open access: yesFuori Luogo, 2021
The paper aims in highlighting that situations of pandemics and social disasters, such as the recent Covid-19 emergency, have an impact on daily urban rhythms and spatial practices and, as a result, a series of emotions emerge which, in the future, we ...
Olga Tzatzadaki
doaj   +1 more source

Urbanization, Inequality, and Poverty in the People’s Republic of China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People’s Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban–rural inequality, and poverty, and provides ...
Zhang, Yuan
core   +2 more sources

African Cities and the Development Conundrum

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2018
Africa is urbanising faster than any other continent. The stupendous pace of urbanisation challenges the usual image of Africa as a rural continent.
Till Förster, Carole Ammann
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of Urban Transportation Policies in India: A Review and Analysis

open access: yesTransportation in Developing Economies, 2021
India’s rising population and vehicular ownership have led to problems such as traffic congestion, pollution, and road accidents. The transportation sector is a crucial player in the country’s economy, but at the same time, it is also a significant ...
A. Verma, V. Harsha, G. Subramanian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Incremental Dependencies: Politics and Ethics of Claim-making at the Fringes of Windhoek, Namibia

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2018
On the basis of a case study of informal residents’ claims over land, housing and basic amenities in Windhoek, Namibia, this chapter seeks to contribute to debates on the broad sociopolitical implications of claim-making dynamics between residents and ...
Lalli Metsola
doaj   +1 more source

The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to Intra-Urban Heat: A Study of 108 US Urban Areas

open access: yesClimate, 2020
The increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of heat waves due to human-caused climate change puts historically underserved populations in a heightened state of precarity, as studies observe that vulnerable communities—especially those within urban ...
J. Hoffman, V. Shandas, N. Pendleton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Urban Landscape Change in the City of Bucharest, Romania

open access: yesRemote 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Re-conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2018
This paper works to address what I consider the enduring ‘Africa problem’ in global urban theory. I engage and critique selected relevant urban thought from the Globalization and World Cities research group, from Henri Lefebvre and from the new wave of ...
Garth Myers
doaj   +1 more source

Urban adaptation, strategies and projects. The gap between policies and their implementation

open access: yesAgathón, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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