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Ng'ambo atlas : historic urban landscape of Zanzibar Town's 'other side' /

open access: yes, 2019
"Ng'ambo is the lesser known 'other side' of Zanzibar Town. During the British Protectorate the area was designated as the 'Native Quarters', today it is set to become the new city centre of Zanzibar's capital.
African Architecture Matters,author.   +3 more
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The presence and motivation of indigenous place names the streets of Dourados/MS

open access: yesArReDia, 2016
Given the significant presence of indigenous groups in the municipality of Dourados/MS, this research aimed to determine to what extent it is possible to find aspects of the indigenous culture in the street names of the urban area of the municipality ...
Denise Velasco, Marilze Tavares
doaj  

Labels of regional integration: The case of naming in polycentric urban regions

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports
A main challenge in the planning and management of polycentric urban regions (PUR) is achieving functional coherence between their main centers. In this study, we approach the region’s name as an implicit indicator of such integration and examine the ...
Wysocka-Niemiec Donata   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Invented Toponymy for Invented Lands. Placenames and Reclamation in the Emilia-Romagna Sector of the Po River Delta (Northern Italy), 1920s-1960s

open access: yes, 2021
Between the late 19th and the middle of the 20th centuries ca., the Emilia-Romagna Sector of the Po River Delta (Northern Italy) experienced huge reclamation projects, carried on through dewatering pumps, aiming at the drainage of the wetlands in order ...
Stefano Piastra
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Potential of deep learning segmentation for the extraction of archaeological features from historical map series. [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeol Prospect, 2021
Garcia-Molsosa A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Water, Toponymy, and the Image of the City in Graeco-Roman Egypt

open access: yes, 2011
The space of the Egyptian city during the Graeco-Roman era is a multilayered and polysemic reality, due to multiple cultural identities and a complex relationship between physical data and symbolic constructions.
Carruesco, Jesús
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Illuminated border: Spatiotemporal analysis of COVID-19 pressure in the Sino-Burma border from the perspective of nighttime light. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Appl Earth Obs Geoinf, 2022
Zhao F   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reasoning COVID-19: the use of spatial metaphor in times of a crisis. [PDF]

open access: yesHumanit Soc Sci Commun, 2022
Kremer D, Felgenhauer T.
europepmc   +1 more source

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