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Emerging Chinese Cities: Implications for Global Urban Studies

open access: yes, 2016
Chinese cities are emerging in multiple senses: They have created new physical spaces to accommodate the fast urbanization of the country but have also developed new properties and characteristics along with urban transformation.
Fulong Wu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A review of nature-based solutions for urban water management in European circular cities: a critical assessment based on case studies and literature

open access: yesBlue-Green Systems, 2020
Nature-based solutions (NBS) can protect, manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems. They are a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to address societal challenges and some natural hazards effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing ...
Hasan Volkan Oral   +20 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A portrait of Italian ‘Family houses’: diversified heritage in a redefined territorial and demographic context

open access: yesCity, Territory and Architecture, 2020
The ‘family house’ has played a major role within the urbanisation processes that have been transforming the Italian landscape since the 1960s. It is a common feature of the widespread settlements that are part of what has been labelled the ‘diffuse city’
Federico Zanfi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Issues Vol. 1, No. 9 (July, 1972) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1972
Newslette
Institute of Urban Studies
core  

Contribution for an urban geomorphoheritage assessment method. Proposal from three geomorphosites in Rome (Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Urban geomorphology has important implications in spatial planning of human activities, and it also has a geotouristic potential due to the relationship between cultural and geomorphological heritage.
DEL MONTE, Maurizio   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Joint Control of Radiated and Surface Waves via Space‐Time Coding Metasurfaces

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A unified space‐time coding metasurface platform enables simultaneous control of radiated and surface‐confined waves across multiple harmonics. Demonstrated functionalities include multi‐frequency beam shaping; surface‐wave excitation, and hybrid multiplexing.
Zihao Dai   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the 'Exclusionary City': North-east Migrants in Neo-liberal Delhi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Scholars have noted the ways in which Delhi’s transformation into a global city has enclosed urban spaces excluding the urban poor, labourers and migrants.
Duncan McDuie-Ra
core   +1 more source

Doing global urban studies

open access: yes, 2016
By way of rejoinder to commentaries by members of the invisible college of postcolonial urbanism, we further develop issues of praxis regarding engaged pluralism and plead for its usefulness. Engaged pluralism when doing global urban studies depends on a
Michiel van Meeteren   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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