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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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Evaluating urban freight transport policies within complex urban environments [PDF]
, 2018 Urban Freight Transport (UFT) entails significant advantages for the economic growth of cities, but can also hamper population quality of life, obstructing vehicles and people movements while exacerbating environmental problems.
Benedito Benet, Ernest +3 more
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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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The Effects of Urban Policies on the Development of Urban Areas
, 2016 For more than a decade, the European Union recognizes soil as a common good and considers it as a finite resource of inestimable value. The European Union defines it as the “upper layer of earth’s crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water,
Federico Amato +4 more
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Smart innovative cities: The impact of Smart City policies on urban innovation
Technological forecasting & social change, 2019 Smart City policies have attracted relevant attention and funding over the last few years. While the time seems now ripe to conclude that such policies have a positive impact on urban economic growth, the picture is much less clear when looking at the ...
Andrea Caragliu, Chiara F. Del Bo
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And, 2021 Le questioni che pone l’Agenda 2030 sono orientate sulle tematiche di sostenibilità e resilienza, delineando prospettive e strategie d’azione da intraprendere per un impegno condiviso della società civile nella dimensione allargata della città e dei ...
Nicola Martinelli +2 more
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Développement Durable et Territoires, 2019 The use of indicators transforms the design and the implementation of evaluative practices at the heart of territorial policies. Evaluation is increasingly focusing on the measurement of impacts.
Anne Le Roy, Fiona Ottaviani
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IEEE Access, 2020 With the rapid expansion in the number of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) available and the development of modern technologies, the commercial applications of UAVs in urban areas, such as urban remote sensing (RS), express services, urban road traffic ...
Chenchen Xu +4 more
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