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Neither Shoreditch nor Manhattan: Post‐politics, “soft austerity urbanism” and real abstraction in Glasgow North [PDF]
Area, 2018 Speirs Locks is being re-constructed as a new cultural quarter in Glasgow North, with urban boosters envisioning the unlikely, rundown and de-populated light industrial estate as a key site in the city's ongoing cultural regeneration strategy.
Neil Gray
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Urbanization, Urbanicity, and Health [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2002 A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007. The most rapidly urbanizing cities are in less-wealthy nations, and the pace of growth varies among regions. There are few data linking features of cities to the health of populations.
Vlahov, David, Galea, Sandro
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Urbanicity, Urbanization, and the Urban Environment [PDF]
, 2007 Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55740/1/ompad_urbanization_2007 ...
Ompad, Danielle C. +2 more
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PLOS ONE, 2021 Large cities are more productive and generate more output per person. Using data from the UK on energy demand and waste generation, we show that they are also more energy-efficient. Large cities are therefore greener than small towns. The amount of energy demanded and waste generated per person is decreasing in total output produced, that is, energy ...
Eeckhout, Jan, Hedtrich, Christoph
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How to build a community : New Urbanism and its critics [PDF]
, 2018 The focus of the following article will be New Urbanism, an urbanistic movement which originated in the United States and advocated the establishment and reinforcing of communities through planning activities.
Łucka, Daria
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Urbanization And Urbanism [PDF]
, 2015 Chapter 28 Turkey’s urbanization started in the post-World War II era. “Over 3.3 million people were added to the urban population during the 1950s, more than twice as many as in the previous quarter century” (Danielson and Keles¸, 1985: 27). This “rapid urbanization” brought major transformations of society, challenging the ideals of the modernization
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, 2008 For very understandable reasons phenomenological approaches predominate in the field of sensory urbanism. This paper does not seek to add to that particular discourse. Rather it takes Rorty’s postmodernized Pragmatism as its starting point and develops a
Matthews, Geoff
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Urban Deforestation and Urban Development [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper has developed a model of a single forest owner operating with perfect foresight in a dynamic open-city environment that allows for switching between alternative competing land uses (forest and urban use) at some point in the future. The model also incorporates external values of an even-aged standing forest in addition to the value of timber
Sofia F. Franco +3 more
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Urban commons and urban struggles [PDF]
Focaal, 2013 Ida Susser and Stéphane Tonnelat are right to view the question of the urban commons in global cities as a crucial issue. It has precipitated massive urban and often violent struggles. We know that the ideological basis of these fights is very similar from one continent to another.
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Public participation and New Urbanism: a conflicting agenda? [PDF]
, 2007 The challenges to public participation in planning are numerous. Inclusive and equitable processes are recognised as an ideal in much planning theory and practice, yet this ideal is increasingly difficult to realise in today’s societies that comprise ...
Bond, S., Thompson-Fawcett, M.
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