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The critical role of citizen science in digital transformation in urban health

open access: yesJournal of Health Equity
Citizen science, as a ground-up approach, is gaining increasing interest in multiple disciplines such as public health, environmental sustainability, urban planning, and policy-making.
Yuan Lai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Re-branding Colombia through Urban Transformation and Rural Regional Marketing

open access: yesInternational Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2019
Colombia is now projecting a new, positive image to the world after over­coming a past characterised by politically inspired guerrilla warfare and violent conflict with narco-trafficking cartels which had ravaged the country for decades.
Norberto Muñiz Martínez
doaj   +1 more source

Quality of life in neighbourhoods undergoing renewal: Evidence from Mashhad, Iran

open access: yesUrbani Izziv, 2020
Urban decay is one of the most critical challenges in urban development, whereby old urban districts fall into decrepitude and face serious social, economic, and physical problems.
Navid Forouhar, Amir Forouhar
doaj   +1 more source

A Statistical Evaluation of Housing Preference in Istanbul Urban Transformation

open access: yesJournal of Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies, 2020
With its rapidly growing population in the last 50 years, Istanbul is one of the cities where skewed urbanization has developed widely. The fact that crooked urbanization is an important threat that causes loss of life and property in disasters such as ...
İ̇smail Yılmaz
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation and influencing factors of green transformation in three major urban agglomerations in China

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science
Since the 21st century, the world has increasingly focused on the issue of sustainable development, and the green transformation issues have become a new hot topic worldwide.
Xueguang Ma, Zhihan Lin
doaj   +1 more source

Fostering Social Sustainability: Inclusive Communities through Prefabricated Housing

open access: yesBuildings
Over the last decade, many major cities have experienced a housing crisis to keep pace with patterns of urban population growth. Housing continues to face many challenges such as land use, regulatory issues, and environmental issues. In recent years, new
Parisa Ziaesaeidi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seeking Urban Transformation

open access: yes, 2020
Seeking Urban Transformation. Alternative Urban Futures in Zimbabwe tells the stories of ordinary peoples struggles to remake urban centres. It interrogates and highlights the principle conditions in which urban transformation takes place. The main catalysts of the transformation are social movements and planning institutions.
openaire   +1 more source

Climate Change – “The Measure of All Things”: The Missing Map of Climate Narratives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Environmental Education
This study conducts a historical analysis tracing the evolution of climate change narratives from the late 1960s to the present. The analysis produces a comprehensive map of these narratives and identifies three key shortcomings that still need to be ...
Zarina Kulaeva
doaj   +1 more source

China’s ongoing rural to urban transformation benefits the population but is not evenly spread

open access: yesCommunications Earth & Environment
China prioritizes a coordinated and sustainable shift from rural to urban areas, termed rural-urban transformation. This involves land, population, and industry urbanization.
Xin Chen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rurbanity: a concept for the interdisciplinary study of rural-urban transformation. [PDF]

open access: yesSustain Sci, 2023
Hoffmann EM   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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