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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Plot-based urbanism and urban morphometrics : measuring the evolution of blocks, street fronts and plots in cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Generative urban design has been always conceived as a creation-centered process, i.e. a process mainly concerned with the creation phase of a spatial transformation. We argue that, though the way we create a space is important, how that space evolves in
Da Fontoura Costa, Luciano   +6 more
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Urban morphology and transformation the pattern of housing in the historical cities of Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Regardless of the historical and cultural collapse of today's contemporary architecture that arose in the aftermath of the advent of modernity, if we look at the process of the emergence of architecture before this era, we see that most architectural ...
NAHAS FARMANIYEH, Farzaneh   +1 more
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Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recycling urban vacant land inch by inch, row by row: neighbors reclaim neighborhoods [PDF]

open access: yes
Vacant, abandoned, and contaminated properties in urban areas can provide opportunities for neighborhood transformation- even new jobs. Examples in the Northeast show that sometimes all it takes to get the ball rolling is a group of visionary gardeners ...
Rosalind Greenstein   +1 more
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Portfolio Strategies, Relinquishment, The Urban School System of the Future, and Smart Districts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Today, there are many new proposals about governance of K-12 Education: The portfolio strategy emphasizes a system of continuous improvement for diverse, autonomous schools governed by performance contracts; devolution models include efforts to expand ...
Ashley Jochim   +2 more
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Enhancing Sustainability Label Effectiveness Through Logo Design Modification: An Analysis of the EU Green Leaf Logo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability labels can help support consumers select more socially and environmentally friendly options, thereby enhancing returns for conscientious producers and promoting the transition to a more sustainable food system. However, consumer confusion regarding labels' meaning undermines their effectiveness.
Monika Hartmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering Urban Palimpsest through Descriptive and Analytical Approaches to Urban Morphology—Understanding the Ottoman Urban Fabric of Bursa, Türkiye

open access: yesLand
This study examines the transformation of the urban fabric by analyzing changes in both structural and numerical parameters of spatial organization, with a particular emphasis on the hierarchical relationships between streets, blocks, and buildings.
Elif Sarihan, Éva Lovra
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Design in Neighbourhood Commodification [PDF]

open access: yes
The intention to promote local economic development through place marketing and urban design based interventions is linked to the commodification of the city, a trend emerging parallel to a new milieu for intercity competition. The aim with this paper is
adureira, Ana Mafalda
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The Functional Transformation Buildings in The Old City Semarang Based on The Urban Sustainable-Conservation Concepts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Conservation and Sustainability are inspiring the region of the Old City in Semarang. As the meanings of both words, the aim of conservation and sustainability in this region is addressed to secure long-term harmony between man and nature, to achieve ...
Setyowati, Erni
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