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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 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 project of
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, 2014 Urban agricultural lands, which are of extreme importance to improve the ecological environment in cities and for an increase in the breathing spaces of the city, are now mercilessly assigned to the industrial and housing sectors as they provide higher economic yield.
CENGİZ, AYŞE ESRA +3 more
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Urbanicity, Urbanization, and the Urban Environment [PDF]
, 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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Itinéraires, 2021 Baudelaire is amongst the French poets who have most often been set to music. However, some adaptations of his poetry are too loose to be considered as song settings.
Nina Rolland
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(Un)Healthy in the City: Respiratory, Cardiometabolic and Mental Health Associated with Urbanity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Research has shown that health differences exist between urban and rural areas. Most studies conducted, however, have focused on single health outcomes and have not assessed to what extent the association of urbanity with health is explained by ...
Wilma L Zijlema +3 more
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Conditions sociales, registres de vulnérabilité et territoires de vie dans la France d’aujourd’hui
Populations Vulnérables, 2019 The article intends to highlight analytical links between forms of vulnerability and specific territories. It is based on empirical research carried out in France, which includes residential areas, a deprived tower block located in a social housing ...
Hervé Marchal
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Population Health Metrics, 2020 Background This study aimed to compare three small-area level mortality metrics according to urbanity in Korea: the standardized mortality ratio (SMR), comparative mortality figure (CMF), and life expectancy (LE) by urbanity.
Ikhan Kim +3 more
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Urban Deforestation and Urban Development [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper has developed a model of a single forest owner operating with perfect foresight in a dynamic open-city environment that allows for switching between alternative competing land uses (forest and urban use) at some point in the future. The model also incorporates external values of an even-aged standing forest in addition to the value of timber
Franco, Sofia +2 more
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Représentations de l’urbanité japonaise
Géographie et Cultures, 1992 Representations of the Japanese urbanity. « Urbanity » is here understood as the essence of the city. The Japanese urbanity refers in multiple way to nature, whereas the European one was brought forth by opposing the city to the non-city (i.e.
Augustin Berque
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