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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
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Redai diliAfter decades of rapid urban expansion, China's urban development has transitioned to focus on the quality improvement of existing spaces. Urban renewal is now a strategic measure crucial for advancing high-level territorial spatial planning and ...
Guo Yan +4 more
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Managing the evolution of a urban system. The UNESCO site of Crespi d’Adda
Techne, 2016 The workers’ village of Crespi d’Adda, registered in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995, consists of a large industrial complex of approximately 90,000 square metres, abandoned in 2004 and made up of around a hundred residential buildings which were ...
Maria Paola Borgarino +3 more
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A Decision-Support Framework For Using Value Capture to Fund Public Transit: Lessons From Project-Specific Analyses, Research Report 11-14 [PDF]
, 2012 Local and state governments provide 75 percent of transit funds in the United States. With all levels of governments under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is welcome. Value capture (VC) is one such mechanism.
Mathur, Shishir, Smith, Adam
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Diurnal Air–Surface Temperature Dynamics in Hong Kong: An Analysis Across Land Use and Climate Zones
International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.Daytime and nighttime air temperature (Ta) from automatic weather stations and land surface temperature (Ts) derived from ASTER and Landsat 8–9 are used to examine the relationship between Ta and Ts. The spatial and statistical characteristics of Ta − Ts dynamics are further analysed across land use (LU) and local climate zones (LCZ).
Ibrahim Ademola Adeniran +4 more
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Institutional barriers to redevelopment of urban villages in China: A transaction cost perspective
Land Use Policy, 2016 Compared with other newly developed urban areas, urban villages in China are in greater need for redevelopment. Governed by institutions inherited from the local-state-dominated dual land ownership system, the redevelopment of these villages follows a state-led land requisition system, which confers development rights to local governments while ...
Tang, BS, Lai, Y
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Libbie & Grove Urban Design Plan [PDF]
, 2018 This plan was created for the City of Richmond Department of Planning and Development Review to serve as a recommendation for urban design improvements and suggested changes to zoning ordinances for the Libbie and Grove commercial area located in the ...
Benedict, Kathryn +8 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho +2 more
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the causal impact of federal homeless‐assistance grants on reported homelessness and shelter capacity across 370 Continuums of Care in 2019. We exploit cross‐sectional variation in pre‐1940 housing shares, used in Community Development Block Grant formula allocations, as an instrument for combined CoC and Emergency ...
Luke Maddock, Anita Alves Pena
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Réforme et transformation du paysage urbain dans le pays de Vaud
Chrétiens et Sociétés, 2015 This paper is about iconoclasm in the Pays de Vaud and the transformation of the urban landscape following the Reformation imposed by Bern in 1536. The particular focus of this article is on the future of religious buildings which were either destroyed ...
Sarah Pflug
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