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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

Aesthetic Energy of an Ordinary Place [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper discusses the transformation of not a very representative part of the city, important however for the community that resides there. The author keeps track of how a seemingly rather ineffective change, which is the creation of a mural, affects ...
Kazimierska-Jerzyk, Wioletta
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Ultrasound in Women's Health: Mechanisms, Applications, and Emerging Opportunities

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
As healthcare moves toward decentralization, ultrasound technologies are evolving from strictly imaging tools in clinical settings into versatile diagnostic and therapeutic platforms, with growing roles addressing women's health needs. This review highlights how ultrasound's underlying physical mechanisms can be harnessed to reduce disparities in women'
Sarah B. Ornellas   +7 more
wiley   +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

Perspective on Aqueous Batteries: Historical Milestones and Modern Revival

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review retraces the development of aqueous batteries from classical Zn‐MnO2 chemistry to modern Zn and Ni systems, correlating voltage, capacity, and electrolyte formulation with practical performance. By mapping historical success and failure onto current and future research directions, it identifies guiding principles that steer the design of ...
Fangwang Ming   +5 more
wiley   +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

LAND TRANSFORMATION: A THREAT ON BANGALORE’S ECOLOGY - A CHALLENGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT [PDF]

open access: yes
Land constitutes the most important character for sustainable development in a region. Rapid urbanization has become an area of crucial concern against the bonanza of urban ecology.
Ashok D. HANJAGI, Priya NARAYANAN
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The architectural and environmental retrofitting of public social housing as a resource for contemporary cities. The redesign of building envelopes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The current focus on the transformation of Western cities puts forward, in a shared and far-reaching manner, ‘degrowth’ as an opportunity to renew and update the perspective of sustainability, not only from an environmental point of view, but from a ...
Bianchi, Roberto, Paris, Spartaco
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