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Urban policies and the creation of healthy urban environments: A review of government housing and transport policy documents in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Bates, G   +11 more
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An urban take on sustainable development policies and corresponding positioning strategies

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability, 2023
Cities have emerged as policy actors of global relevance in sustainable development, and their strengthened position challenges the primacy of national states in this area. To account for this shift and for potential emerging contestations between cities
Stefan Wittwer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Barriers to and Potential for Sustainable Transitions in Urban–Rural Systems through Participatory Causal Loop Diagramming of the Food–Energy–Water Nexus

open access: yesLand, 2023
Understanding Food–Energy–Water (FEW) systems is crucial in order to plan for a resilient and sustainable future of interdependent urban–rural regions. While research tends to focus on urban transitions, the topic remains understudied relative to urban ...
Moira Zellner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transit-oriented development and historic preservation across the United States: A geospatial analysis

open access: yesTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021
The article examines the spatial relationship between the location of fixed-transit stations in proximity to historic districts and buildings across the United States.
John L. Renne, David Listokin
doaj   +1 more source

The Policy Challenges of Urban Flooding, Managed Retreat, and Social Equity

open access: yes, 2021
Temple University. College of Liberal ArtsSociologyPPL Policy Briefs provide concise summaries of policy-relevant academic research for policy makers and the public. This brief examines the rising challenges of urban flooding in US cities and how federal
Loughran, Kevin, Elliott, James R.
core   +1 more source

TRANSPLANTASI HUKUM DI NEGARA-NEGARA ASIA: SUATU PERBANDINGAN

open access: yesIndonesia Law Reform Journal, 2021
This research discusses legal transplants in Asian countries. Legal transplantation (legal transplantation) is a theory that began to be widely used by some comparative and socio-legal law scholars in the mid-1970s.
Syahriza Alkohir Anggoro
doaj   +1 more source

Mind the gap? The persistence of pathological discourses in urban regeneration policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Urban regeneration policy has historically framed policy problems using a discourse that pathologises areas and spatial communities. Since 2001 in England, and 2002 in Scotland a structural change in policy has occurred where citywide partnerships are ...
Matthews, Peter, Peter Matthews
core   +1 more source

Environmental economic geography: Recent advances and innovative development

open access: yesGeography and Sustainability, 2022
Modern environmental problems are the result of human-environment interaction in the process of industrialization. The relationship between economic development and environmental quality is an important aspect of understanding human-environment ...
Canfei He, Shuqi He, Enyi Mu, Jian Peng
doaj   +1 more source

Sustaining mobile produce vending in NYC: Evaluating the future of Green Carts

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
Consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables is essential for preventing diet-related chronic dis­eases, yet many low-income residents have inade­quate diets because their communities face persis­tent barriers to supplying healthy food.
Katherine Fraser   +6 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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

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