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Insights on the spatial configuration of collective spaces within forming dynamics: the relation between infrastructure and urban transformation in Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The research seeks to produce insights on the spatial configuration of collective spaces where large scale infrastructure propels urban transformation.
Chiappini, María Cecilia   +2 more
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The prefigurative power of urban political agroecology: rethinking the urbanisms of agroecological transitions for food system transformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In recent years, urban contexts and urban-rural linkages have become central for scholars and activists engaged in agrarian questions, agroecological transitions and food system transformation. Grassroots experimentations in urban agroecology and farmers'
Dehaene, Michiel, Tornaghi, Chiara
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Recreational transformation of the herbaceous layer in an urban forest ecosystem of Central Podolia

open access: yesBiosystems Diversity, 2017
This article examines the impact of recreational activities on herbaceous cover of forests on the example of an urban environment in Central Podolia.
O. I. Blinkova
doaj   +1 more source

A methodology to model integrated smart city system from the information perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Rapid urban population growth challenges cities and sustainable urban development. Despite the effort deployed with conventional urban design, the current solutions are unable to significantly respond to existing challenges. The concept of smart city (SC)
Baker, Keith   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Defining and assessing the transformational nature of smart city governance: Insights from four European cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Smart cities are a new approach to urban development based on the extensive use of information and communication technologies and on the promotion of environmental sustainability, economic development and innovation.
Nesti, Giorgia
core   +1 more source

Work opportunities and frictions for rural child migrants in West African cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter looks at the participation of rural children and youth in the urban labour market and, specifically, focuses on the first years of their migration.
Thorsen, Dorte
core   +1 more source

Expansion and Evolution of a Typical Resource-Based Mining City in Transition Using the Google Earth Engine: A Case Study of Datong, China

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
China’s resource-based cities have made tremendous contributions to national and local economic growth and urban development over the last seven decades.
Minghui Xue   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Imagining Decent Work towards a Green Future in a Former Forest Village of the City of Istanbul

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
This paper addresses issues pertaining to the future of work and sustainability through the lens of a case study of ecological deterioration and how it destroys and creates green jobs in a forest village of Istanbul.
İklil Selçuk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Urban Transformation of Diverse Works: A Critical Framework that Uses Fieldnotes Regarding Çinçin Bağları [PDF]

open access: yesAnkara Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020
This article aims to re-frame an example of urban transformation through the consideration of the collective spatial narratives of second and third-generation urban migrants who are still living in Çinçin Bağları.
Gülşah AYKAÇ
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Transformation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of Social History, 1957
The gradual acceptance by politically influential people of the belief that deliberate control of town growth was both feasible and fruitful is a theme in the history of town planning which has many aspects. The transformation of nineteenth century cities by means of street improvement was one of these; and Mr.
openaire   +1 more source

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