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Imagining the Nation in the 21st Century
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how our imagining of the nation has evolved from the 1600s to this day. Reviewing the well‐known analysis of Benedict Anderson, this paper carries the argument further, investigating how our imagining of our national communities has changed alongside sociopolitical, economic and technological transformations.
Anna Triandafyllidou
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Restoration in drylands is challenging because of harsh climates, requiring creative methods and organisms like biocrusts for restoration of degraded lands. Biocrusts are thin, coherent soil surface layers prevalent in drylands, engineered, and inhabited by communities of organisms including mosses, lichens, and cyanobacteria ...
Madeline Mayorga +7 more
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Financial costs of urban sprawl : a case study of housing development in Penang State / Shahriza Osman [PDF]
, 2017 Penang State experienced rapid urban development for the past three decades. Urban sprawl is a global phenomenon and is characterised by increase in population growth in urban areas, migration, change in built-up areas and spatial form.
Osman, Shahriza
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Urban Sprawl and Sustainable Urban Policies. A Review of the Cases of Lima, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile [PDF]
, 2019 In recent decades, urban processes have experienced deep transformations. One of them has been the growing importance of urban sprawl. This article reviews its main features and the policies related to the paradigm of sustainability in three Latin ...
Asián-Chaves, Rosario +1 more
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Scents of care: Multispecies relations in Pakistan's heatwave
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how odour, intensified by heat, shapes the sensory aspects of social and multispecies relations in Pakistan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kasur's tanneries and Lahore's animal shelters during a period of record‐breaking heat, it analyses how smell structures inclusion and exclusion, mediates encounters with humans
Muhammad A. Kavesh
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How to reverse urban sprawl: The smart blue-green city
Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka RegionalnaThe phenomenon of urban sprawl is relatively widespread. At its root are a number of factors that have caused people to leave cities and settle relatively close to them.
Dorota Michalak, Paulina Szyja
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Are we growing smart?: new vision for urban development in Asia and the Pacific [PDF]
The present paper explores the implications of smart growth principles for Asia-Pacific urbanization, and discusses how to use such principles for development in this region over the coming decades.
Hyunsun Choi
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Several theories have been proposed to explain the family changes that have occurred in Europe since the mid‐1960s. It is often assumed that as these changes occurred simultaneously; they have a common origin and represent the same demographic shift.
Adrita Banerjee +4 more
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Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by advancing the concept of state entrepreneurialism through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. We define strategic embeddedness as the institutional integration of market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals and tactical ...
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World's Scientific Elites
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. In contrast, the Global South remains largely absent, with the notable exception of Beijing's dramatic rise.
Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose +2 more
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