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The Role of the Body in Pandemic Geographies of Encounter: Anti-Restriction Protesters Between Collective Action and Political Violence

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2023
This article looks at public anti-restriction protests by framing public space as a vital component of urban life. It argues that the body is rarely introduced as a scale of spatial analysis and usually plays a more prominent role in the subfields of ...
Sabine Knierbein, Richard Pfeifer
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Experimental study on disaster mechanism of completely weathered granite landslide induced by extreme rainfall

open access: yesGeoenvironmental Disasters, 2023
Background With the increased frequency of extreme weather, landslides induced by extremely heavy rainfall pose a major threat to human lives and property safety. In July 2020, a landslide occurred in the strongly weathered Laoshan Scenic Spot in Qingdao,
Honghua Liu   +7 more
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Street Art and Space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Various forms of street art, such as murals, anamorphic painting or urban interventions, become an important component of urban space. The paper examines examples of selected works of urban art in the context of space and its reception. These unexpected “
Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek   +1 more
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Development of urban underground space in coastal cities in China: A review

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, 2023
The development of urban underground space is a critical way to alleviate the lack of urban resources, and improve environmental conditions as well as residents' quality of life, which has important practical significance.
Peng Yu   +6 more
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Cities for the urban poor in Zimbabwe: urban space as a resource for sustainable development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Large areas of Zimbabwean cites still reflect colonial planning traditions designed to promote racial segregation, which no longer adequately meet the demands of urban areas which are doubling in size every 10-15 years. This paper looks at the political,
Brown, Alison
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Numerical Study on the Evolution of Mesoscopic Properties and Permeability in Sandstone Under Hydromechanical Coupling Conditions Involving Industrial Internet of Things

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2018
In an attempt to study microcracks development, coordination number, volumetric strain, and permeability evolution of sandstone, the hydromechanical coupling mesoscopic simulation was carried out using Particle Flow Code 2D software based on experimental
Yanyan Cai   +3 more
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A computation model for pile-soil stress ratio of geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported embankments based on soil consolidation settlement

open access: yesAlexandria Engineering Journal, 2021
The pile-soil stress ratio (PSSR) is the key to the design and construction of geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported (GRPS) embankments. However, the computation models for the PSSR which takes account of the effect of consolidation settlement of soil ...
Binli Li   +5 more
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From urban space to urban history—an introduction

open access: yes, 2020
While interest in urban space in the Roman world has boomed in recent decades, the debate has developed a strong emphasis on conceptual innovation, and this has limited the sensitivity of current discourse to historical change, so that debates about Roman urban space and Roman urban history have been developing without much interaction.
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Smart Urban Design Space [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Computer Science and Information Systems, 2019
The irreversible process of demographic change, especially in Germany, leads to numerous challenges. According to this, research has to face the task to integrate the constantly ageing population into the urban and public space in such a way that there are as few barriers as possible.
Philipp Skowron   +5 more
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Identification Method of Soil Liquefaction Based on Thixotropic-Induced Excess Pore Pressure Fluid Model

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Based on the thixotropic fluid theory, this paper presents a method for identifying soil liquefaction under earthquake with consideration of pore pressure thixotropy.
Jinjing Sun   +4 more
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