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Second thoughts: Do secondary suites provide adequate housing?
Abstract While secondary suites were once informal and hidden, they are now seen as a key to addressing Canada's housing supply and affordability challenges. Cities such as Edmonton, where this study was conducted, have reformed their urban planning to allow and encourage secondary suites.
Damian Collins +3 more
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The influence of climate and urban morphology on tourism activity in the Porto Metropolitan Area: perceptions and simulation of the bioclimatic comfort of tourists [PDF]
Tese de doutoramento em Geografia (especialização em Geografia e Planeamento Regional)Nos últimos anos, muitos daqueles que têm definido estratégias e políticas para os destinos turísticos urbanos têm vindo a preocupar-se cada vez mais com a maior ou ...
Lopes, Hélder Tiago Silva
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(English) Bike’s recognition as a vital form of urban transportation underscores its capacity to enhance mobility, improve quality of life, and address several urban challenges such as air pollution, traffic congestion, and greenhouse gas emissions. This
María Angélica Caicedo Mafla
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Los estudiantes con necesidades educativas especiales. Recursos y apoyos para su atención educativa
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15658/rev.electron.educ.pedagog18.03020204El articulo presenta los resultados de investigacion relacionados con la educacion de ninos, adolescentes y jovenes con necesidades educativas especiales, en donde se hizo enfasis en la ...
Sonia Guerra Iglesias
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From private to public and back? Kyoto's cityscape councils and the urban commons
Abstract Scholarly and public debate on the urban commons is burgeoning, but building exteriors and the cityscape these constitute are surprisingly absent from it, despite their considerable significance for and impact on residents and visitors. After reflecting on the cityscape as a commons, the article turns to Kyoto, the former capital of Japan and ...
Christoph Brumann
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Résumé Les géographes usent généralement de la notion de territorialisation pour évoquer ou réfléchir sur le processus par lequel l'être humain est en relation avec le monde et y fait sa place à partir du territoire qu'il crée ou recherche. Ils emploient les notions connexes de déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation pour évoquer ou réfléchir sur ...
Mario Bédard
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Plant responses to urban gradients: Extinction, plasticity, adaptation
Herbaceous plants often change their morphology in response to urban conditions: grass cutting, altered soils, warmer temperatures and being surrounded by tightly‐packed buildings. These changes are sometimes hereditary, which suggests that city management and planning affect the ability of plants to survive and evolve in urban environments.
Alejandro Sotillo +4 more
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The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India
Abstract The turn of the 21st century has witnessed a rising trend of migration from the African continent to cities across India. Accompanying such flows have been racial tensions and policing spectacles, including incidents of violence, vandalism, and evictions against African migrants and their pathologization as “illegal.” These subtle yet ...
Bani Gill
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Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona
Abstract Cities and local governments are important actors in the global governance of climate change; however, the specific governance principles and arrangements that enable urban climate plans and policies to realize commitments to social equity and justice remain largely unexplored. This article uses the City of Barcelona, Spain, as a critical case
Ana Terra Amorim‐Maia +3 more
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Résumé La publication de la Politique nationale de l'architecture et de l'aménagement du territoire du Québec (PNAAT) interpelle la géographie à plusieurs égards. Cette politique, qui résulte d'un processus d'élaboration de dix‐huit mois, est mise en récit autour du paradigme de l'aménagement durable, comme le veut la tendance générale aujourd'hui en ...
Martin Simard
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