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Dengue in the urban slums of Pakistan: health costs, adaptation practices, and the role of dengue-diagnosis and surveillance in controlling the epidemic
Dengue virus (DENV) infection is a public health issue in tropical and sub-tropical climates, including in Pakistan. A significant population in...
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In-between metropolitan cities and urban theories: a case of small town Dharamshala
The scholarship and discussion on urbanization and urbanism are restricted to the exploration of a few metropolitans and global cities. In this way,...
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Research on the social stratification of rural-to-urban migrants in China and paths to the granting of urban residency
Today, China has roughly 260 million rural-to-urban migrants, and most are young working-age people. The improving socioeconomic status of these...
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Form Change in Develo** Africa: The Case of Addis Ababa City
Urban form is an element of city complexity that influences urban daily activities and sustainability. Particularly, fast urban land expansion in...
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Built-in Flood Risk: the Intertwinement of Flood Risk and Unregulated Urban Expansion in African Cities
Urban flood risk is significantly shaped by ground conditions and the built environment, which are constantly modified and transformed by human...
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Urban Toponymy in Turkey
“Man [or object] does not exist unless he has a name. It must be named to exist” (Tesone, 2013: 73). Names are studied by different sciences. The act...
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From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021
In the study of the reproduction of state power through urban space, more attention has been paid to how states organize urban space to construct the...
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Medium-Sized Spanish Cities: Urban Planning and Urban Policies
This chapter addresses the debate on the restatement of the dynamics of urbanizationMedium-Sized Spanish Cities in medium-sized Spanish citiesCities...
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Social sustainability and urban third places: the case of the city of Isfahan in Iran
Third places are a successful example of public places, which, due to their special characteristics, play an important role in enhancing the social...
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City Core and Urban Sprawl
Cities around the world occupy 2% of the area of the globe, and are accountable for about 80% of the consumption of all the energy produced by Earth....
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The Role of Religion, Wealth, and Livelihoods in the Hunting Practices of Urban and Rural Inhabitants in Western Amazonia
Hunting by rural and urban populations is essential for securing access to protein and other nutrients throughout the tropics. The hunting patterns...
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Unpacking Urban Environmental Visions and Contestations of Street Vendors in Kolkata, West Bengal
Street vendors, more popularly known as “hawkers” in South Asia, constitute a visible part of the urban informal population in India and often settle...
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Introduction to the Special Issue on “The Political and Economic Contexts of Families’ Financial Lives”
The articles in this special issue begin to explore the political and economic contexts of families’ financial lives and their undergirding...
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Esca** Townscape—British Architects and Urban Morphology
This chapter reflects on the possible reasons for the neglect of the concepts of urban morphology by British architects, in stark contrast to the...
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The Historico-Geographical Approach to Urban Morphology
This chapter addresses the fundamental developments of the historico-geographical approach over the last 30 years. After considering the central role...
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The Journal Urban Morphology and Jeremy Whitehand’s Comments
This chapter explores the correspondence between Jeremy Whitehand’s way of thinking and the development of urban morphology and ISUF. His Comments as...
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A Study on the Cooling Capacities of Urban Parks and Their Interactions with the Surrounding Urban Patterns
In this study, the climatic interactions between parks and the urban pattern surrounding them were investigated by sampling from two urban parks...
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Working Across Boundaries in Urban Morphology
Urban morphology—the study of urban form—is a subject intrinsically concerned with boundaries. These are often physical, such as boundaries between...
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Inequality Dynamics in Urban Manipur, India: A Decomposition Analysis
The high pace of urbanization in Manipur being confined to the valley regions has attracted much attention to researchers to explore the intra-state...
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Population Growth and Urban–Rural Structure
The urban–rural structure of the population has been a key issue in China for several decades. In the new era of social development, China has put...