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Analysis of Anthropogenic Disturbances of Green Spaces along an Urban–Rural Gradient of the City of Bujumbura (Burundi)

open access: yesLand, 2023
Bujumbura city has diversified but unevenly distributed green spaces. The typology and anthropogenic disturbances of these green spaces are still unknown.
Henri Kabanyegeye   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Agriculture Oriented towards Self-Supply, Social and Commercial Purpose: A Typology

open access: yesLand, 2016
Urban agriculture, a dynamic multifunctional phenomenon, affects the spatial diversification of urban land use, its valorization and its governance. Literature acknowledges its contribution to the development of sustainable cities.
Thomas Krikser   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transactional sex risk across a typology of rural and urban female sex workers in Indonesia: a mixed methods study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
Context-specific typologies of female sex workers (FSWs) are essential for the design of HIV intervention programming. This study develops a novel FSW typology for the analysis of transactional sex risk in rural and urban settings in Indonesia.
Dewi Ismajani Puradiredja   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bus rapid transit system : a study of sustainable land-use transformation, urban density and economic impacts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has shown significant growth in recent years, particularly in developing countries because of its cost-effectiveness. However, empirical evidence on land-use and economic impacts of BRT is limited.
Basheer, Muhammad   +2 more
core   +1 more source

What characterises well‐connected schools? Exploring centrality in inter‐organisational school networks

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Within the educational literature, inter‐organisational school networks are commonly considered instruments for administration, management, and school improvement, but are rarely scrutinised as objects of study themselves. Conversely, in organisational studies, this perspective is given more prominence.
Ignacio Wyman, Paul Wilfred Armstrong
wiley   +1 more source

A typology of Urban Agriculture

open access: yes, 2022
Urban Agriculture (UA) is a highly dynamic phenomenon, which is evolving constantly through space and time. Whilst previous typologies emphasised the distinctions between urban gardening and urban farming, the increasingly complex nature of the discipline has meant that these typologies no longer reflect the full diversity of Urban Agriculture.
Müller, D., Veen, E.J., Jansma, J.E.
openaire   +2 more sources

Enabling urban climate resilience through integrated optimization of urban design

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities
Rapid urbanization and climate change pose significant challenges to achieving sustainable and climate-adaptive urban development. This study develops an integrated evaluation framework that combines multi-indicator assessment, network analysis, and ...
Wenhan Feng   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Design Space of Immersive Urban Analytics

open access: yes, 2017
Recent years have witnessed the rapid development and wide adoption of immersive head-mounted devices, such as HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift, and Microsoft HoloLens.
Chen, Wei   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

A Typology of the Iranian Cities with Emphasis on the Urban Centres More Than 100000 Populations during the Last Forty Years (1966-2006) [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2013
This research tries to typify the urban centers which experienced a more unbalanced growth in the recent 40 years. The main approach of the present paper is analytical-genetic and is based on the data which have been collected from the statistical center
Rahim Bardianamoradnejad   +1 more
doaj  

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