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Soil Physico-Chemical Properties Change Across an Urbanity Gradient in Berlin

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
In this study the impacts of urbanity on physical soil properties were explored by measuring water stable aggregates, combined particle size, infiltration rate and hydrophobicity across an urban gradient.
James Whitehead   +9 more
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SPACE SYNTAX AS AN EVALUATIVE AND PREDICTIVE TOOL TO EXPLORE URBANITY LEVELS IN NEW DAMIETTA CITY [PDF]

open access: yesJES: Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2020
In New Damietta city, many residential neighborhoods have the appearance of empty, dull, and monotonous places. These neighborhoods have low levels of urbanity in terms of vital and flourishing street life.
Asmaa Eldiasty   +2 more
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A method for assessing the vitality potential of urban areas. The case study of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Italy

open access: yesCity, Territory and Architecture, 2022
Vitality and Urbanity emerge as key goals of strategies for urban sustainable development as necessary prerequisites for varied and prosperous cities.
Chiara Garau, Alfonso Annunziata
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The Post-Political Urbanity

open access: yesCadernos de Arte Pública, 2021
We live in post-political times (Rancière 2004), when the fetishization of urbanity and technocracy creates the context of replacing the usual terms of describing the city with regard to neo-liberal thinking as competitiveness, creativity, sustainability,
Cristina Moraru
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Urbanization, Urbanicity, and Health [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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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Urbanization And Urbanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Soil microbial communities shift along an urban gradient in Berlin, Germany

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2022
The microbial communities inhabiting urban soils determine the functioning of these soils, in regards to their ability to cycle nutrients and support plant communities. In an increasingly urbanized world these properties are of the utmost importance, and
James Whitehead   +7 more
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Revamping the “Network Paradigm” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the contemporary metropolitan areas the quality of the “space of flows” in terms of 'urbanity' is becoming crucial. Urbanity is closely related to the multi-scale and flexible interconnections of the strategic railway nodes as privileged exchange ...
Monardo, Bruno
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Urbanicity, Urbanization, and the Urban Environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Les petites villes açoriennes au défi de l’archipel et des réseaux

open access: yesEspace populations sociétés, 2023
The Portuguese archipelago of the Azores is a kind of urban form museum. It’s the result of a rich history and strong competition between the nine islands.
Louis Marrou
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