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Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations [PDF]
The proportion of a country's population living in urban areas is highly correlated with its level of income. Urban areas offer economies of scale and richer market structures, and there is strong evidence that workers in urban areas are individually ...
David E. Bloom +2 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese +2 more
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American 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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INVENTING URBANITY: URBAN MOVEMENTS IN POLAND
Society Register, 2020 The article discusses the process of formation and transformation of urban movements in Poland. Conclusions are based on the data collected during the research project “Urban Social Movements in Poland” supported by the National Science Centre. For the requirements of the project was adopted a method of qualitative research using the techniques of in ...
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Fiscal Decentralization and Urbanization in Indonesia [PDF]
Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking and service delivery functions to the subnational tiers of government (provinces and districts).
Comola, Margherita, de Mello, Luiz
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Mixed evidence for the influence of structural and social factors on adolescent substance use behaviors exists across the rural–urban continuum. Therefore, this study explores how adolescent perceptions of structural and social community risk factors are associated with lifetime and past 30‐day use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, and ...
Melissa Pearman Fenton +4 more
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A macroevolutionary theory of urbanization
Urbanization is perhaps the most consequential and best documented process in the archaeological and historical record, yet we lack a formal evolutionary theory to explain it.
David S. Sandeford
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Dynamics of Urbanization and Ecosystem Services Provision II
This reprint focuses on innovative methodologies based on remote sensing, as well as the monitoring and analysis of the relationship between urbanization and ecosystem services on different scales.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In the digital era, adolescent development is deeply embedded in the cyber environment. Despite ongoing debate on the benefits and/or risks that Internet use brings to adolescents in empirical studies, conceptual and theoretical discussion on the influences of the intensity and modalities of Internet use is peripheral.
Linxiao Zhang +3 more
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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China [PDF]
In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China’s urban areas absorb migrant workers under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial and regional
Liwen, Chen +2 more
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