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Urban Structures

2021
Cities are more sustainable when their urban structures are designed to work within the natural environment. Cities have increasingly adopted policies that either mandate or create incentives for buildings to be “green” and for infrastructure to have low impact.
Gail Hansen, Joseli Macedo
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Urbanity: Influences of Urbanness, Structure, and Culture

Social Science Research, 2001
Abstract Our objective is to explore the adequacy of traditional structural explanations for the often-documented association between size of place and urbanity traits and to raise the possibility that cultural factors, too often neglected in urban sociology, play an important role in this relationship.
Charles R. Tittle, Harold G. Grasmick
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Urban Sustainability and Territorial Structure

2001
The vast number of sustain ability indicators which has emerged from recent experience does not take the form of a systematic framework which is methodologically coherent and universally shared in all its aspects. Nevertheless, the aims which are periodically expressed in the cases examined show significant convergence towards environmental issues and,
MAGNANI, CARLO, PELZEL T.
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Urban Structure and Urban Growth

Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 1960
Abstract Urban structure is construed here as the result of a community effort to overcome distance between residents and required facilities. The elements of structure are identified, the mutual influences of urban structure and urban growth are considered, and there is an effort made to demonstrate the dynamic inter dependency of various urban ...
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States of Urban Spatial Structure [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1979
A spatial-equilibrium model of a local public economy is developed in four settings. Each setting is distinguished by two factors: whether the city is ‘open’ or ‘closed’, and the method used to determine the urban fringe. The four settings are contrasted by use of a numerical illustration.
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Urban growth and urban social structure

1995
There are few historical accounts that summarize the general processes of urbanization in Latin America or that provide histories of particular Latin American cities for the entire period since 1930. A valuable account of the early (1940s and 1950s) urbanization processes is Philip Hauser (ed.), Urbanization in Latin America (New York, 1961), which ...
Orlandina De Oliveira, Bryan Roberts
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Urban Stream Restoration Structures

2006
Urban stream restoration is important for improving habitat quality and aquatic ecosystems, which are subject to continuous degradation due to urbanisation and its consequences. Different structures can be used to control the changes and the dynamics of streams with environmentally friendly solutions.
PAGLIARA, STEFANO, CHIAVACCINI P.
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FROM URBAN STRUCTURE TO URBAN LANDSCAPE

Urban Geography, 1988
(1988). FROM URBAN STRUCTURE TO URBAN LANDSCAPE. Urban Geography: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 98-105.
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Urban networks and their on urban structure

2021
SUMMARY The basic purpose of the thesis is to critically study the significance of the urban networks in relation with the city and to demonstrate their influence on the urban structure. It is important to examine how these networks lay on the complex city fabric and how do they intersect, determining the paths and the interaction of the citizens ...
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The structural and economic implications of urbanization∗

Development Southern Africa, 1988
"This study surveys the policy issues associated with urbanization following the abolition of the pass laws [in South Africa]. The demographic background is briefly sketched. Using neo-classical analysis as a starting point, particular attention is paid to the present inefficiencies of city form associated with segregation. It is argued that current
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