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The digital power of the tower: digital communication technologies and dwelling experience in residential large urban developments
Residential large urban developments are the dominant mode of housing development in many cities around the world. They introduce new technologies to...
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Raising the Ambition of Urban Agriculture in Public Space: Nurturing Urban Agroecology and More-than-Human Health
Building on 15 years of research in the field of urban agriculture, this chapter discusses key issues that refrain urban agriculture from achieving...
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Assessing the right to water of the urban poor in Dhaka city
Dhaka, the capital metropolis of Bangladesh, is burdened with huge population and unplanned urbanization. It is facing huge challenge to provide...
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Urban Biodiversity and Green Space
This chapter focuses on three sub-themes: biodiversity, green space access, and green infrastructure. In biological diversity or biodiversity,...
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“Money has the final say in the market”: the Situational Geography of Urban Food Security in Lilongwe, Malawi
Increased interest in urban food security across Southern Africa is a welcome development, particularly given the considerable challenges faced by...
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“Urbex and Urban Space”: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis
Urbex – from urban exploration – is a leisure activity that involves scouting abandoned and/or neglected infrastructure with the aim of touring and...
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Urban Diversity and Spatial Justice: A Critical Overview
Drawing on literature emphasising circulation modalities of urban diversity policies and its (dis)connection with issues of socio-spatial...
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How socio-spatial aspects of urban space influence social sustainability: a case study
Today’s society is increasingly concerned with the social impacts of sustainability. Social and economic difficulties necessitated a reconsideration...
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Class, State and Urban Space
This chapter lays the conceptual groundwork for the analysis of the transformation of Amsterdam, through two mechanisms: the socio-political cycle of...
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Theorizing Urban Movements in Pierre Bourdieu’s Terms—the Example of Warsaw, Poland
For more than a decade, the importance of urban social movements has been systematically increasing in the Polish public sphere. However, available...
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Examining the impact of digital financial inclusion on economic development in urban and rural areas of China using remote sensing
The expansion and penetration of digital financial inclusion have provided new impetus to economic development. With the aim of investigating the...
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Urban Sustainability: The Way Forward
The anthropogenic pursuits and human interventions have brought enormous transformation in the bio-physical sphere of the urban ecosystem. The cities...
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City Streets and Disco Beats: Recentring the Urban in Queer and Trans Migration Studies
The last decade has seen significant scholarly interest in the cross-border movements of LGBTQ Africans. This work has helped spotlight the unique...
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Study of Citizen Satisfaction in Rural Versus Urban Areas in Public Services: Perspective of a Multi-group Analysis
This study proposes a comparative analysis between urban and rural areas concerning the magnitude or intensity with which the constructs are related...
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The Impacts of Peri-Urban Expansion on Municipal and Ecosystem Services: Experiences from Makhado Biaba Town, South Africa
The sub-Saharan cities are growing and changing due to immigration and modernization. One of the consequences of the current urbanization is that an...
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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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Urban green areas and their impact on land surface temperature in semi-arid environments: a case study in Kuwait
Urban green areas are considered significant contributors to environmental quality as they have been shown to reduce temperature and noise levels and...
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The Urban Facilities Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Spatial Association Patterns Mining in Wuhan, China
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant global impacts on human society. With the evolution of cities during this period, urban facilities...
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Policy level analysis of public urban lands management in Burundi: insights for harmonization of policy frameworks
Public urban lands significantly benefit the people, environment, and economy and demand protection and proper management from people. However,...
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Urban Disparities and Quality of Life Among Afghan Refugees Living in Informal Settlements in Mashhad, Iran
Urban planning policies have important implications for the quality of life of citizens and residents. Quality of life is measured through...
