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The Study of Urbanization.

The Economic History Review, 1966
Philip M. Hauser, Leo F. Schnore
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Urban Studies

Urban Education, 1979
Urban studies: a framework drawn from a theory of urban experience.
Terry L. Cooper, Richard Sundeen
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The Study on Urban Climate of Lanzhou

2006 IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2006
Based on the meteorological data sequence of Lanzhou city and circumjacent regions, and experimental data in urban area, data of climate factors were analyzed. The results are as follows: Temperature variation is divided into three stages in near 70 years; the early 1950's and the early 1980's are the jump points of Lanzhou urban climate during this ...
Nai-Ang Wang, Guodong Li, Hongyi Cheng, Gang Li   +3 more
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The study of urban form in the Netherlands

Urban Morphology, 2016
The study of urban form in the Netherlands has been heavily influenced by the Modern Movement and characterized by strong disciplinary specialization. On the one hand there is the distinction between art and engineering and on the other the search for instrumental universal rationality.
MARZOT, Nicola, Roberto Cavallo, Susanne Komossa   +2 more
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A study of urban bicycling accidents

The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1988
This study was undertaken because of the large num ber of bicycle accident victims treated in our emergency room. Its aim was to assess the type, frequency, and mechanism of occurrence of bicycle accidents as well as characterization of the type of injuries sustained and the expense incurred by such accidents.
J J, Tucci, J E, Barone
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Rethinking Urban Studies Today

Sociological Bulletin, 2018
The article engages with the literature that has emerged since the 1990s in urban studies in India and in this context, discusses the nature of India’s urban modernity. It suggests that scholars in India participate and engage with the global discussion on urban studies by removing themselves from the epistemic confusions of colonial episteme and of ...
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Biometeorological studies on urban climate

International Journal of Biometeorology, 1997
Urban-biometeorology, i.e., biometeorological study on the urban climate is regarded as both old and/or new science. Studies on two topics are reviewed: the thermal or chemical impact of urban climate on human health, and the relation between urban climate and vegetation.
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Hip‐hop and Urban Studies

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2014
AbstractHow can urban studies research engage fruitfully with hip‐hop? This contribution responds to the essays byDavidBeer andMartinLamotte on ‘street music’, urban ethnography and ghettoized communities. It discusses how a social science engagement with hip‐hop texts might differ from cultural studies approaches, and how the study of hip‐hop culture ...
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Tracer Study In an Urban Valley

Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 1968
Results of a series of nighttime tracer experiments conducted during the Autumn of 1966 in the industrialized valley of Johnstown, Pa., are discussed. Quite atypical meteorology and dispersion occur within a classical drainage flow framework. An urban heat island effect is observed creating uniform temperature and wind structures within a layer of air ...
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Urban Theory: Feminist Urban Studies and the Urban Gender Revolution

2017
Besides offering the theoretical frame for the rest of the book, this chapter is to investigate the use of urban theory in contemporary genderfication efforts. It is especially concerned with the current popularity of Jane Jacobs’s views on the urban and planning in Amsterdam as a case.
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