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Integration of Thermo-Responsive Materials Applied to Bio-Inspired Structures. [PDF]

open access: yesBiomimetics (Basel)
Lima E, Ferreira H, Mateus L, Arruda A.
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Industrialization drives convergent microbial and physiological shifts in the human metaorganism

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Poyet M   +65 more
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Urbanism and Urbanization

Issue, 1978
Africa is now the least urbanized of the continents but is becoming more so at one of the fastest rates in the world. The history of urbanization in Africa predates the birth of Christ; it may have developed as early as 3500 B.C. in the flood plain of the lower Nile for control and administration of the Nile Valley by the Pharaohs, though most of the ...
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Urbanism and Urbanity

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1989
The functions of cities in societies are discussed in this essay, the specialized functions performed and the integration of functions. The cities are seen as marketplaces of ideas, attitudes, artifacts, and consequently, innovation; they are driving wheels of great cultures.
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Urban Regeneration for Urban Health

2020
For some years now when attempting to regenerate the urban fabric of big cities, the field of environmental design has been tackling the challenges posed by ongoing climate change, extreme poverty, social marginalisation and health problems, where these are neither occasional nor residual situations that arise as part of development processes but ...
Battisti A., Barnocchi A., Iorio S.
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Urban Folklore, Urban Legend

2021
Abstract Everyday talk is central to how places become stigmatized and how asymmetric borders enter the popular imagination. This chapter explores the tales about Tijuana that proliferate in neighboring San Diego, based on a set of forty-five qualitative interviews conducted in six San Diego County communities between 2006 and 2008.
Kristen Hill Maher, David Carruthers
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Urbanism and Urbanization

American Journal of Sociology, 1959
The global phenomena of city growth stimulate increasing interest in urbanism as a world-permeating way of life. Urbanization, seen as the movement of people into industry and cities and reflective of urbanism, has received considerable demographic attention. But the research fails to include some pertinent phases of urbanization.
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Urban Dynamics and Urban Cycles [PDF]

open access: possibleEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1978
Some basic elements of catastrophe theory are discussed insofar as they relate to discontinuities observed in the allocation of economic activities in urban settings. The case of a dynamic model of the allocation of manufacturing and residential activities is presented in an open urban area as a model of a hyperbolic umbilic catastrophe.
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