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Urban Atmospheres [PDF]

open access: yescultural geographies, 2017
What is an urban atmosphere? How can we differentiate an ‘atmosphere’ from other facets of urban consciousness and experience? This essay explores some of the wider cultural, political, and philosophical connotations of atmospheres as a focal point for critical reflections on space and subjectivity.
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Improvement of the Environmental Permit and License Application Process in Turkey

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, 2021
Improvement on the environmental permit application that has been put into force since 2014 by the By Law on Environmental Permit and License (BLEPL) in Turkey has been achieved through a project realized by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization ...
Asude HANEDAR   +18 more
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Mining hourly population dynamics by activity type based on decomposition of sequential snapshot data

open access: yesInternational Journal of Digital Earth, 2022
The dynamic population distributions by activity type (e.g. working, shopping or in-home) are vital for resource allocation, urban planning and epidemic containment.
Qingli Shi   +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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Dense Temperature Mapping and Heat Wave Risk Analysis Based on Multisource Remote Sensing Data

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023
As high temperature and heat wave have become great threats to human survival, social stability, and ecological safety, it is of great significance to master the spatial and temporal dynamic changes of temperature to prevent high temperature and heat ...
Mengxi Liu   +5 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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Urban Sustainability and the SDGs: A Nordic Perspective and Opportunity for Integration

open access: yesUrban Science, 2019
Urban sustainability has been used to cover multiple aspects of urban development. Terms related to sustainability have been generously used to advance ubiquitous and hard-to-measure targets not least in response to global and national sustainable ...
Emma Terama   +3 more
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Phenotypic signatures of urbanization are scale-dependent : a multi-trait study on a classic urban exploiter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Understanding at which spatial scales anthropogenic selection pressures operate most strongly is a prerequisite for efficient conservation and management of urban biodiversity.
Aerts, Johan   +5 more
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Urban History, Urban Health

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2001
Over the course of the 20th century, the United States became an urban nation: 80% of Americans now live in metropolitan areas. Supplying basic sanitary services—drinking water, sewers, and garbage removal—to these cities is a gargantuan task, yet most people have little understanding of urban infrastructure systems and their enormous regional ...
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Urbanization, Inequality, and Poverty in the People’s Republic of China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People’s Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban–rural inequality, and poverty, and provides ...
Zhang, Yuan
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