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Urban space renaissance of a developing country city

Urban Research & Practice, 2018
African Governments are envisioning their cities in the images of world-class cities elsewhere. This has led to relentless inner-city regeneration but with some challenges.
Samuel Twumasi Amoah, Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere, Emmanuel Narteh Angmor   +2 more
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Beyond the city of developing countries. The new urban order of the ‘emerging city’

Planning Theory, 2013
Under the impetus of globalization, the city of emerging economies is experiencing profound changes that are affecting its social and spatial structure. However, this new scenario seems to have had little impact on critical thinking and related urban policies.
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Research of City (Country) Urban System Planning Evaluation

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2013
This article proposes 3 aspects in evaluation of urban system planning and 9 contents through analysis of urban system planning, and takes 25 index to analyze evaluation contents. The author tries to construct a reasonable system to evaluate urban system planning, hoping to make reference for evaluation of urban system planning.
Jun Min Zhang, Xiao Dong Sun
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FOOD FOR THE CITIES: URBAN AGRICULTURE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Acta Horticulturae, 2004
The processes of population growth and urbanisation will lead to a more or less equal world-wide distribution of population in rural and urban areas by the year 2025. At present, however, there are great differences between the continents. Due to the rapid growth of Southern African cities, the basic needs of the citizens (shelter, food, education etc)
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City vs Country: Why salvation will be urban

New Scientist, 2010
Urbanites pollute much less, have fewer children and higher incomes - that's why cities are the best hope for planet and people ...
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From an urban country to urbanCountry: confronting the cult of denial in Australian cities

Australian Geographer, 2018
I write from the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, who have practised their sovereignty and law in Naarm, more familiarly known as Melbourne, for countless generations.
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City Country: The Paradox of Country Music in Urban America

New Errands: The Undergraduate Journal of American Studies
No other genre in American music has maintained such a popular presence on the national conscience as country music. Though it is not the only distinct "American" style of music in the United States, this genre has consistently maintained a strong listener base and standard themes of content, more so than any other variation of music.
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Book Review: A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America

2014
Vishaan Chakrabarti has an axe—or two—to grind. Federal subsidies for oceanfront homes, green technology trends such as fluorescent light bulbs, most people working in the planning profession today—all these and more are skewered in A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America.
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Urban air pollution and The Country and the City

Global Environment, 2016
Abstract Building from Raymond Williams' The Country and the City , this article examines the uses of urban smoke pollution as a symbol of the city, in particular of London. It argues that authors in early modern Britain used smoke as a metaphor for urban life, whether they ...
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