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Urban expansion in Greater Irbid Municipality, Jordan: the spatial patterns and the driving factors
Urban expansion within Greater Irbid Municipality (GIM) witnessed an extraordinary rise, expanding approximately ninefold between 1967 and 2020....
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Urban Green Economies
The chapter explores what urban green economies currently look like and where they are heading in select Canadian cities. Green economies in this...
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Ethics of Urbanism: Rights in Urban Controversies
This book is about the ethics in relation to urban issues. Its main theme is how ethical considerations from Eastern and Western perspectives,...
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Have home-based work trips affected the transmission of Covid-19 in urban areas? Study on the urban areas of Urmia, Iran
Many studies have explored the effects of transportation and population movement on the spread of pandemics. However, little attention has been paid...
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Return Migration of Rural-Urban Migrant Children in China
Rural migrant children in urban China face multiple barriers in the public education system, and these challenges lead many of them to return to...
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Islam and social changes among university-going urban youth in Bangladesh
There have been marked differences between many urban youths and the older generation in practising Islam in Bangladesh. In the contemporary...
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Urban Village Redevelopment in Bei**g
This chapter traces the main policies and actions to erase the urban village in Bei**g. Based on site visits to the representative pre- and...
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Regional variations in urban poverty in India: pattern and determinants
The prevalence of poverty has bothered Indian economists, policymakers, and politicians alike. The rapid economic growth was unable to trickle down...
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Happiness in urban environments: what we know and don’t know yet
There is no consensus on what makes for a livable urban environment. This requires empirical assessment of the relationship between urban...
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Knowledge map** of research on peri urban areas: a bibliometric analysis
Peri urban areas have been a key interest area in the literature because of their dynamic and transformative nature. The expansion of the urban...
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Sustainable interventions to improve the degrading visual quality of place and street spaces in urban hill town of Shimla region, Himachal Pradesh
The degradation of the visual quality of place and street spaces has become a pressing issue in recent times especially in urban towns. Present study...
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Citizen-Led Environmental Governance: Regulating Urban Wetlands in South America
Wetlands provide ecosystem services such as flood protection, improved water quality, and wildlife habitat, but are under attack in urban land-use...
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The late modernist community in the late socialistic block of flats: the issue of urban neighbourhood vitality in Poland
The question of the big-city neighbourhood seems important due to the discussion on the condition of modern cities. The issue is centred on the...
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Assessing the performance of sustainability in Ibadan peri-urban areas, Nigeria
This study assessed the performance of sustainability indicators in peri-urban areas of Ibadan. The importance (i.e., residents' expectations) of...
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Urban Approaches to Sustainability: Food
The increasing growth of the world’s population in urban areas has an enormous influence on the organization of food systems. Urban areas with almost...
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Understanding shocks for sustainable urban open space development in selected cities in the Southern Ethiopian Corridors
The rapid and uncontrolled urbanization in develo** countries raises concerns about sustainability as urban centers continue to expand in both size...
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Navigating Urban Spaces as Queer Women in South Africa
Occupying urban spaces for queer women, often shaped by implicit and explicit forms of regressive heteropatriarchy, has been understood as a...
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Assessing the impacts of urban expansion on sustainability; empirical evidence from Islamabad, Pakistan
Sustainable urban expansion is the need of the day for urban development and sustainability. This study attempts to analyse the impacts of urban...
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Investigating Financial Motivators and Demotivators of Urban Sprawl Through the Lens of Municipalities: A Case of the Qom Municipality, Iran
Some studies speak of the financial and economic benefits of urban sprawl indicating that there is little evidence that compact cities outside of...
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Enhancing the sense of place: insights from urban design practices in harbourside regeneration
The UK has made efforts to rebuild its cities’ image through harbourside regeneration projects, aiming to enhance citizens’ sense of local identity...
