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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.With urbanization reducing the amount of available wildlife habitat, and outdoor recreation increasing the human activity within wildlife habitats, it is important to understand the effects of human activity on animal behavior. This study examined how the reduction in human presence in urban parks in Gainesville, Florida, affected the temporal ...
Maya Fives, Matthew Hallett
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Almost regardless of the welfare system and market context, the changing housing landscapes in Western countries show a number of similar trends. Households are confronted with decreasing access to homeownership and social renting, and increased reliance on private renting in combination with growing housing shortages and housing affordability
Marietta Haffner, Kath Hulse
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Governments, Home Ownership and Low‐Cost Home Ownership Initiatives
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Widening the spectrum of households who can enter home ownership has been a long‐established policy in the UK. This article explores low‐cost home ownership initiatives from the late 1970s onwards and in the context of home ownership more generally. Over the decades, government support for home ownership has shifted from making tax concessions
Peter Williams
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Causes of sprawl: A portrait from space [PDF]
We study the extent to which US urban development is sprawling and consider what determines differences in sprawl across space. Using remote-sensing data to track the evolution of land use on a grid of 8.7 billion 30x30 metre cells, we measure sprawl as ...
Diego Puga +3 more
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URBAN SPRAWL POLA PERTUMBUHAN GRADUAL SEBUAH KOTA [PDF]
, 2011 Merebaknya pertumbuhan urban sprawl pada decade belakangan ini, di hamper seluruh kota besar maupun kota kecil, baik di Negara maju maupun di Negara berkembang, oleh banyak pakar perencana dan perancangan kota dituding sebagai salah satu penyebab ...
Setioko , Bambang
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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
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Curbing Excess Sprawl with Congestion Tolls and Urban Boundaries [PDF]
Using an urban land use model in which jobs and residences are spatially dispersed and mixed, we treat the general equilibrium of land, labor and product markets and the trade-off between labor supply, commuting and discretionary travel. We show that the
Alex Anas, Hyok-Joo Rhee
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Labour's Planning Reform: A View from London
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the English planning reform agenda of the Labour government elected in 2024. It frames London's outer boroughs as a critical lens through which to assess it. Drawing on the findings of the cross‐party Suburban Taskforce (2020–2022), the article has particular regard to the proposed reconfiguration of planning committees ...
Dimitrios Panayotopoulos‐Tsiros +2 more
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The correlation between urban sprawl and the local economy in Poland
Urbani Izziv, 2016 The literature has assessed urban sprawl as a negative phenomenon because of the costs it generates. However, various studies have examined the impact of urban sprawl based on only one parameter, such as public expenditures or fuel consumption, instead ...
Piotr LITYŃSKI
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The use of high resolution digital surface models for change detection and viewshed analysis in the area around the pyramids of Giza, Egypt [PDF]
, 2013 One of the biggest threats to cultural heritage is related to their rapidly changing and developing surroundings. The Giza pyramid plateau is a prime example of this phenomenon, as it is threatened by the enormous urban expansion of Cairo over the last ...
De Laet, Véronique +4 more
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