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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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How Does Urban Sprawl Affect Public Health? Evidence from Panel Survey Data in Urbanizing China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Yan Y, Liu H, He C.
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Regional Statistics, 2012 The alienated atmosphere, the shallow relationships of the residential suburbs inhabited by the American middle classes and the spatial manifestations of the failure of the American dream and family model are spectacularly presented in Edward Albee’s dramas written in the 1960s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Everything in the Garden, or A Delicate ...
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Welfare Effects of Anti-Sprawl Policies in the Presence of Urban Decline
This paper extends first-best analysis of anti-sprawl policies, such as development taxes, and examines the welfare effects of development taxes in the presence of urban decline at the city core.
Franco, Sofia F. +2 more
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Urban sprawl and local fiscal burden: analysing the Spanish case
, 2017 Urban sprawl is rapidly occurring in many Spanish urban areas. The objective of this paper is to evaluate how the trend of building dispersion of new residential areas may be affecting the fiscal stability of local Spanish governments.
Varela-Candamio, Laura +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
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URBAN SPRAWL SHAPE DESCRIPTION
Malaysian Journal of Computing, 2014 Urban sprawl is the out-of-control growth of urban area as a result of improper urbanization plan. Literatures have characterized various forms of urban sprawl that includes low-density and leapfrog sprawl.
N. Laila A. Ghani +2 more
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Spatiotemporal effects of urban sprawl on habitat quality in the Pearl River Delta from 1990 to 2018. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Wu J, Li X, Luo Y, Zhang D.
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A Simple Theory of Smart Growth and Sprawl [PDF]
This paper considers the simultaneous determination of residential density and the supply of local versus remote retail services. Possible equilibrium development patterns either correspond closely to what anti-sprawl activists describe as smart growth ...
Matthew Allen Turner
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