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Olympic Games and Global Cities: New Crises and New Challenges
This chapter focuses on the renewed connection between global cities and the Games. This connection isn’t new, as the European and North American...
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Hook-up culture among young Indian adults in Indian metropolitan cities
This study aimed to explore the existence of hook-up behaviour among emerging adults in the Indian metropolitan cities of Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi...
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Migrants and Refugees in the Mediterranean Cities: Reception, Regulation and Actors – Tunisia a Case Study
Based on the case study of Tunisian cities, this chapter focuses on how these cities have been involved in a variety of initiatives, actions and...
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Neo-liberalized Housing Policy and Urban Accessibility: the relevance of perception in intermediate cities. The case of Temuco, Chile
The neoliberal model of housing production has been installed in most Latin American countries. However, in most cases it has resulted in problems of...
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Linking Sustainability of Smart Cities to Education and Health: A Broad Study of Smart City Mission, India
Based on the extensive review of literature and reports on Smart city initiatives, this paper is essentially focusing on understanding the need and...
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Urban Expansion and Sustainable Water Argumentation for Africa’s Cities
The chapter argues that urban expansion and sustainable water augmentation is a colonial engineered problem whose impact if not tamed will perpetuate...
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A Place-based Approach to Understanding Immigrant Retention and Integration in Canadian and American Non-Traditional Gateway Cities: a Sco** Literature Review
As globalization and migration have intensified, the need for integrating immigrants has become vital. Considering the similar but distinct policy...
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The Livability of Cities
Socially-relevant indicators and indexes need not be limited to a country-wide scale. They can also be defined at the scale of regions, cities, and...
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Constraints on Health and Health Services Access: One Class of Migrants?
This chapter is the first empirical analysis chapter. Drawing on the data gathered from the fieldwork, this chapter gives an original account of...
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Enhancing Healthy Cities Through Urban Planning and Human Resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the critical link between urbanized areas and its population health. In light of the modern cities' dominant...
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Solid Waste Collection in the Informal Settlements of African Cities: a Regulatory Dilemma for Actor’s Participation and Collaboration in Kampala
Formal and informal institutions exist to regulate actors providing solid waste collection services in African cities, yet collection coverage...
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Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
Countries across Africa are rapidly transitioning from rural to urban societies. The UN projects that 60% of people living in Africa will be in urban...
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Older People During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An International Comparison of Four Cities
The fate of older people living in cities during the Covid-19 Pandemic was miserable. In America, for instance, the CDC confirmed that patients above...
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The Economic Geography of Resource-based Cities in North-East China
Northeast China is rich in natural resources and consequently resource extractivism has defined the region’s economic development since early...
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A Synergy Between Sustainable Solid Waste Management and the Circular Economy in Tanzania Cities: a Case of Scrap Metal Trade in Arusha City
The increased demand for secondary materials, particularly scrap metals, in cities due to development activities in both emerging economies and...
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Health Challenges in Everyday Life of Nigerians in Guangzhou City, China
The presence of Africans in Chinese cities has made their healthcare-related issues an expanding area of interest. However, previous studies have not...
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Winter Cycling Developments in Two Cities of Northern Finland
The aim of this chapter is to examine winter cycling in an Arctic urban environment as an everyday mode of mobility. I will discuss developments and...
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A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities
In the wake of a rapid urbanisation at a global scale, the question we need to ask ourselves is what we can do to deal with issues and problems...
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Internationalization of Cities
The last decades have been marked by the involvement of nontraditional actors in the international relations. This change has been of such magnitude...