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Comparison of three small-area mortality metrics according to urbanity in Korea: the standardized mortality ratio, comparative mortality figure, and life expectancy

open access: yesPopulation 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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Injected Urbanism? Exploring India’s Urbanizing Periphery

open access: yesEconomic Geography, 2022
Engaging with different literatures in economic geography, postcolonial urbanism, and planetary urbanization, this article seeks to develop a theoretical understanding of remote urban formations taking shape in India’s countryside. The analysis draws on extensive primary data collected at two study sites in Bihar and West Bengal, which rendered an ...
Robbin Jan van Duijne   +2 more
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Green urbanity [PDF]

open access: yesAR: Arhitektura, Raziskave, 2012
Tourism and other culture-based types of small business, which are the leitmotif in the planning of the Europark Ruardi, are becoming the guiding motif in the spatial development of urban centres that are influenced by dynamic transformation processes ...
Alenka Fikfak
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Analysis and review of the Quiddity and function of Rusāfas in Islamic urbanity [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران, 2023
cognition the quiddity of the Islamic city, its constituent elements and components requires a deeper study and exploration of concepts and terms used in historical and geographical sources and texts.
mahdi ezati
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Combined Application of Multiple Global Change Factors Negatively Influences Key Soil Processes across an Urban Gradient in Berlin, Germany

open access: yesSoil Systems
Urbanization is a growing phenomenon affecting soils worldwide. Urban centers have been highlighted as hotspots for global change factors due to heightened anthropogenic activity.
Peter Meidl   +6 more
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Urban Deforestation and Urban Development [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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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CityScapeLab Berlin: A Research Platform for Untangling Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Urban biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of how urbanization modulates biodiversity patterns and the associated ecosystem services. While important advances have been made in the conceptual development of urban biodiversity research over
Buchholz, Sascha   +4 more
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Migration signatures across the decades: Net migration by age in U.S. counties, 1950−2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Migration is the primary population redistribution process in the United States. Selective migration by age, race/ethnic group, and spatial location governs population integration, affects community and economic development, contributes to ...
Johnson, Kenneth M., Winkler, Richelle
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Rénovation urbaine post-industrielle et mise en ambiance méditerranéenne à Kawasaki : une rédemption par le pastiche ?

open access: yesAmbiances, 2017
In Downtown Kawasaki the presence of an industrial brownfield (ex-Toshiba factory) and the fact that commuters arriving from Tokyo just rushed towards their respective residential neighbourhoods combined in making the local characters of urbanity very ...
Denis Bocquet
doaj   +1 more source

Odporność miast i nowe polityki miejskie

open access: yesPoliteja, 2021
Urban Resilience and New Urban Policies The article analyses new urban policies and the question of urban resilience. The author focus on two case studies: the examples of “superblocks” idea in Barcelona and the idea of “15-minute city” in Paris.
Paweł Kubicki
doaj   +1 more source

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