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Urban Science, 2020 Travel behavior can be determined by its spatial context. If there are many shops and restaurants in close proximity, various activities can be done by walking or cycling, and a car is not needed.
Ulrich Niklas +2 more
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Urbanity mapping reveals the complexity, diffuseness, diversity, and connectivity of urbanized areas
Geography and SustainabilityThere are urgent calls for new approaches to map the global urban conditions of complexity, diffuseness, diversity, and connectivity. However, existing methods mostly focus on mapping urbanized areas as bio physical entities. Here, based on the continuum
Weiqi Zhou
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Urbanity and Urbanization: An Interdisciplinary Review Combining Cultural and Physical Approaches
Land, 2014 This review paper focuses on research schemes regarding urbanity and urbanization, and brings together both cultural and physical approaches. First, we review the cultural and social construction of urbanity (as related to urbanization) in Germany.
Christoph Schneider
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Soil Physico-Chemical Properties Change Across an Urbanity Gradient in Berlin
Frontiers 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]
JES: 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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City, 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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Cadernos 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]
Journal 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]
, 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
Frontiers 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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