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Urban Planning, 2021 In Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, high population growth rates, decades of rural-urban migration, and rampant land and real-estate speculation have contributed to the rapid urbanization of peri-urban land and the engulfing of pre-existing rural ...
Helena Cermeño
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Lefebvre’s thought in contemporary urban sociology [PDF]
Sociologija, 2013 This paper presents the impact of Henri Lefebvre’s thought in contemporary urban sociology. In the first chapter, the reader can find brief descriptions of two most relevant Lefebvre’s concepts linked to his comprehension of space: production of space,
Grbin Miloje
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Sustainable Urban Development for Heat Adaptation of Small and Medium Sized Communities
Land, 2022 Due to climate change, urban populations will be affected by worsening heat stress. The use of blue–green infrastructure can be an effective countermeasure for urban planners.
Niels Wollschläger +2 more
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Knowledge Practices Within and Beyond Sharing and Commoning Urban Initiatives
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 In the context of neoliberal cities, with growing levels of housing commodification and space competition, sharing and commoning urban initiatives within the larger framework of urban social movements are shaping tactics of contestation.
Helena Cermeño +2 more
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Talking about the 'rotten fruits' of Rio 2016:framing mega-event legacies [PDF]
, 2021 Legacy has become a watchword of hosting mega-events in recent years, used to justify massive spending and far-reaching urban transformations. However, academic studies of legacy outcomes suggest there is only limited evidence for the efficacy of using ...
Talbot, Adam
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Unveiling connectivity patterns of categories in complex systems: an application to human needs in urban places [PDF]
, 2016 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of mathematical sociology on 06/09/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0022250X.2016.1219855We present a methodology based on weighted ...
Papachristou, Ioanna Anna +1 more
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EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2014 French urban sociology developed in conjunction with French urban policy since the 1960s. By the time these policies were approaching the urban as a whole, sociology was doing the same.
Grégory Busquet
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Thinking past Henri Lefebvre : introducing “the theory of ground rent and rural sociology" [PDF]
, 2015 This introduction to the translation of Henri Lefebvre's 1956 essay “The theory of ground rent and rural Sociology” moves through three stages. First, it suggests that Anglophone appropriations of Lefebvre have tended to focus too much on his urban ...
Ballard +74 more
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Making Sense of Family Deaths in Urban Senegal: Diversities, Contexts, and Comparisons [PDF]
, 2018 Despite calls for cross-cultural research, Minority world perspectives still dominate death and bereavement studies, emphasizing individualized emotions and neglecting contextual diversities.
Ba M. +23 more
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The role of local formal and informal institutions in microfirms' development : evidence from Poland [PDF]
, 2018 Microfirms play a significant role in the Central/Eastern European economies, comprising 86% of the total amount of active firms. Development of microfirms is influenced by the local entrepreneurial environment.
Godlewska, Małgorzata +1 more
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