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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 Dynamics and Urban Cycles [PDF]

Environment 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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Conceptualizations of Urbanization and Urbanism

Review of Religious Research, 1964
seling orientations. The emergence of clinical ministers and the pastoral teachers as a significant group attests to the institutionalization and consolidation of the movement through individuals professionally devoted to the attainment of its ends. The shifting of the age balance, so that the ministers are more nearly age peers of the psychiatrists ...
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Urban Knowledge and Urban Policy

2013
As we have seen in contemporary societies, particularly in relation to the ‘knowledge-based society and economy’, the role and position of knowledge has acquired increasingly strong and positive connotations; this is an indication that reflection and careful preparation is important before action takes place (although one might argue that this has ...
Andersen, Hans Thor, Atkinson, Robert
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Urbanization and Urban Cultures

2013
Urbanization and the creation of distinctive urban cultures are amongst the most dramatic social transformations in modern African history. This chapter considers the emergence of the field of African urban studies in the late colonial period, as sociologists began to research new forms of town life, and traces the development of a fully fledged urban ...
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Rural-to-urban and urban-to-urban migration patterns in Colombia

Habitat International, 1993
"The object of this study was to identify the factors that may explain, and help to predict, the direction and intensity of migration flows from rural to urban and from urban to urban areas in Colombia. For this purpose, statistical models were used with a view to obtaining a better insight into the push-and-pull causes of the migration patterns and a ...
Daniel Shefer, Luis Steinvortz
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Urban Design and Urbanism

2019
Urban design is about making public places useful and beautiful. It concerns compactly built forms with attractive streetscape and variety in architectural expressions. Moreover, urban design is about making spaces between buildings socially liveable and environmentally sustainable.
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Urbanization, Urbanism and the Medina of Tunis

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1978
The problematic status of the historical urban core raises analogous questions for city planners in cities otherwise as diverse as Paris, Istanbual, or Mexico City. In the case of medinas of the Islamic world the historical core is less the site of monuments pertaining to our common heritage than it is a discrete part of the urban fabric which, while ...
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Urban Mobility – Urban Discovery:

Environmental Philosophy, 2018
In this paper I investigate how different modes of urban transportation shape our experience of the urban environment. My goal is to argue that how we move through a space is not merely a question of convenience or efficiency. Rather, our transportation technologies can fundamentally shift how we experience where we are.
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Questioning the Urban in Urban Tourism

2009
The relationships between cities and tourism are much wider than the scope of this chapter. Much tourism clearly occurs outside cities, but the importance of cities is easily argued and only the most relevant aspects of these interactions will be considered here.
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