Working, Housing: Urbanizing
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Knowledges in Disciplines and Cities: An Essay on Relations Between Archaeology and Social Sciences
In this chapter the author explores the relations between academic and practical knowledges. Using the knowledge generated in and through cities as the example of the latter, it is shown how the social science...
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Discordance between mitochondrial and nuclear genetic structure in the bat Chaerephon pumilus (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southern Africa
The aim of this study was to investigate the evolutionary determinants of genetic structure in a molossid bat, Chaerephon pumilus, from South Africa based on 306 nucleotides of the mitochondrial control region an...
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Erratum to: Working, Housing: Urbanizing
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Introduction
This short book is about cities. Specifically, we are concerned with the overall process of making cities (in other words urbanizing) and within this broad theme we focus on the practices of people working in cit...
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Urbanizing: The Future
In this short book we have presented an overview of some of the most urgent issues and questions facing city dwellers, planners and scholars about the development and social significance of cities. We have exa...
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A Polymath in City Studies
I am using the word polymath to describe the remarkable range of Peter Hall’s scholarship as a means of avoiding popular terminology that promotes disciplinary thinking through its inter- or multi- or cross-va...
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Cities in Time and Space
Cities are distinguished from other human settlements by two key features: they constitute dense and large clusters of people living and working together, and they are the focus of myriad internal and external...
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Housing
The expansion of urban economies has been accompanied by constant migration of people to cities in search of opportunities for work and livelihood, as discussed in the previous chapter. There are other reasons...
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Working
As we saw in the previous chapter, the history of urbanization all around the world is long and multifaceted. Thus far we have considered this history without paying much attention to the internal dynamics of ...
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Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Intensification in land-use and farming practices has had largely negative effects on bats, leading to population declines and concomitant losses of ecosystem services. Current trends in land-use change sugges...
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The Ethics of Participatory Processes: Dynamic Flux, Open Questions
Collaboration and participation are widely emphasized in environmental planning and management. This chapter describes a discussion group on the ethics of participatory processes, raises the possibility of tra...
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Psychometric Properties and Development of the Brief Adolescent Prosocial Perception Scales (BAPPS)
Prosociality represents an important aspect of social functioning in adolescents and is related to the risk of psychological problems. The current paper describes the development and psychometric testing of tw...
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Linking changes in small mammal communities to ecosystem functions in an agricultural landscape
Global increases in agricultural production have significant implications for biodiversity and ecosystem processes. In southern Africa, sugarcane production has converted native vegetation into agricultural mo...
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Measurement and interpretation of connectivity of Chinese cities in world city network, 2010
This is an empirical paper that measures and interprets the position of Chinese cities in the world city network in 2010. Building on a specification of the world city network as a ‘interlocking network’ in wh...
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The Network Dimension
There is now a considerable literature on the role of cities as key nodes in an increasingly globalized economy. One expression of this can be found in recent large edited volumes such as this one: for instanc...
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European Cities in Globalization: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Location Strategies of Advanced Producer Services
Today there is a key question that lurks behind any consideration of Europe and its cities: is this foundation core zone of the modern world-system showing symptoms of drop** out of the contemporary core zon...
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A Gene-Free Formulation of Classical Quantitative Genetics Used to Examine Results and Interpretations Under Three Standard Assumptions
Quantitative genetics (QG) analyses variation in traits of humans, other animals, or plants in ways that take account of the genealogical relatedness of the individuals whose traits are observed. “Classical” Q...
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Open AccessGenetic monitoring detects an overlooked cryptic species and reveals the diversity and distribution of three invasive Rattus congeners in south Africa
South Africa's long and extensive trade activity has ensured ample opportunities for exotic species introduction. Whereas the rich biodiversity of endemic southern African fauna has been the focus of many stud...
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Cross-species chromosome painting in bats from Madagascar: the contribution of Myzopodidae to revealing ancestral syntenies in Chiroptera
The chiropteran fauna of Madagascar comprises eight of the 19 recognized families of bats, including the endemic Myzopodidae. While recent systematic studies of Malagasy bats have contributed to our understand...
