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Greek Port Cities in Transition: Regeneration Strategies, Waterfront Development and the Role of Cultural and Tourist Resources [PDF]
Greek port cities find themselves in a profound and encompassing change as they try to improve their image and confront the competition for advanced port services and facilities and the need for urban revitalization.
Nicholas Karachalis +1 more
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Case Studies in Thermal EngineeringUrban water bodies play an important role in regulating the thermal environment in densely populated cities. Typical central urban areas along both sides of the Pearl River in Guangzhou are selected as study sites and have been divided into 25 local ...
Lin Liu +6 more
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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson +2 more
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'McGeneration'? An examination of the continuing importance of place in cultural regeneration [PDF]
The regeneration of urban places is a major force in the landscape of previously declining industrial cities. The processes and policies of regeneration have received considerable research over the years, with a particular emphasis on quantitative ...
Brown, Amanda
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The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli +2 more
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Lisbon images and 4 metaphisical dissertations on waterfront urban design: vision, move, ethics, and interdisciplinarity. [PDF]
, 2002 Representations of urban utopia, so relevant in recent waterfront projects, challenges us before anything else to understand change - the inevitable mutability of cities.
Brandão, Pedro, Pedro Brandão
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Shape of Water: Power Dynamics for Supply Chain Resilience
Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The world is facing climate change‐driven disruptions such as extreme weather events, which affect nature as well as firms and their supply chains. Nonetheless, little is known about how supply chain players shape their socioecological resilience, including from a power perspective.
Aristides R. Oliveira Junior +3 more
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WaRe project: Comparing Urban Waterfront Redevelopment
, 2013 The Blue Frontiers report is a useful tool for those who intervene in the management and transformation of the fi ve waterfront examined by the WaRe project but, more generally, can be taken as a model for comparative analysis of processes of ...
SCAVUZZO, GIUSEPPINA
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BuildingsThe psychological benefits of waterfront public spaces have become an important topic in environmental design and architectural research. However, existing studies have primarily focused on the direct relationship between physical environmental ...
Zitong Zhan +2 more
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Social Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 6, Page 1135-1145, November 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing on institutionalist political economy, this paper argues that education should be conceptualised as a foundational institutional determinant of health rather than a contextual socioeconomic factor. Utilising data from Scotland, which faces some of the most profound health challenges within Europe, this paper uses Qualitative ...
Ian Greener, Kieran Laskawy
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