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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"urban neighbourhood"”.
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Policy and practice of urban neighbourhood renewal and regeneration : what can China learn from British experiences?
Urban neighbourhood renewal and regeneration have a long history in Western industrialised societies like Britain. The renewal or regeneration strategies, visions, approaches and implementations often reflect the particular political, economic, social and cultural contexts of each development …
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Urban planning, neighbourhoods and social cohesiveness : a socio-cultural study of expatriate residents in Dubai
In an era of globalisation and hyper-urbanisation, cities are rapidly emerging as drivers of social, cultural and economic change. Cities are imbibing the values of urbanism: the absence of intimate and personal relationships, and human relations which are largely anonymous, superficial and …
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Place mending: unscripted urban practice, abstract[ed] city and co-creation of urban space.
Urban areas are facing problems of great complexity, therefore providing a better collective quality of life in contemporary cities is becoming a progressively critical issue for urban planning. This study focused on meaningfully contributing to technically-minded planning practices by measuring …
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Neighbourhood and Identity in Renaissance Florence: Artistic Patronage at Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio
… proximity of these two churches within the urban neighbourhood that extended loosely between Palazzo Strozzi, the Lungarno, Via de’ Fossi, and Via della Spada. Working with archival and documentary sources, this research addresses a fundamental gap in monastic and art-historical scholarship …
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Multiple childhood geographies: giving voice to young people's experience of place
… of young people growing up in inner and outer urban areas of an English Midlands town in the late 1990s. An investigation of this kind is especially apposite in that it provides geographical perspectives on the widening, and increasingly more complex, discourses surrounding young people, space …
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Tracing ‘paper', discovering people: three ethnographic case studies exploring the use of health information to improve health services in Gugulethu
… 18 months in Gugulethu, an underprivileged peri-urban neighbourhood in Cape Town. Three case studies emerged from this research that provide a lens to analysing the role of health information in South Africa. The use and exchange of health information in the larger health system is inherently …
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Sustainable urbanism and its assessment in developing countries: the Nigerian case
… explosion has affected the development of urban areas. Such uncontrolled growth often results in the destruction of arable lands, congestion, various forms of pollution, slums and shanty towns. This perspective brings a pressing reality to the necessity to build tomorrow's world on …
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Capacity Factors for Urban Sustainability Transformations – The Eco-capital Suwon in South Korea
… models coupled with a rapid, dense urbanisation process. This growth model has incrementally induced carbon-intensive urban structures that have consequently produced socio-environmental degradation and severe challenges to sustainability. A range of efforts to solve such challenges …
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Detroit in Decline: An investigation into the dynamics of two urban neighbourhoods
Urban decline is often understood as the opposite of urban growth, yet this conceptualization is oversimplified, obscuring a genuine understanding of the social and spatial realities of the city today. Through the study of Detroit and, in particular, through a close reading of two residential …
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Spatial urban environmental change and Malaria/Diarrhoea mortality in Accra, Ghana
… understood and weakly articulated. What is more, urbanization which is driven by demographic pressures ultimately affects the distribution of the expressed urban health outcomes. In the urban areas, the demographic and socioeconomic pressures drive uneven availability of basic services, …