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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Feinman GM   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Urbanity [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
I define a composite amenity that provides aesthetic and consumption value to local residents: Urbanity. A novel data set of geo-tagged photos shared in internet communities serves as a proxy for urbanity. From the spatial pattern of house prices and photos I identify the value of urbanity in two of the largest European cities, Berlin and London.
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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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Urbanism and Urbanity [PDF]

open access: possibleUrban 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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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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Urbanism

2021
Megacity regions (MCR) created a big urban transformation, which allows a new critical per- spective concerning public services and manage- ment measures. The evolution of the MCRs in Europe implies a critical reflection on the social sustainability of the model.
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