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Designing Resilient Cities that Work for Women, Too
Urban landscapes can—and do—influence multiple aspects of our lives, including our overall quality of life and disaster resilience. Research has...
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Practice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile
This chapter explores Santiago’s Plaza de Armas as an emergent space of migration. Recent flows of migrants have made use of this central public...
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Joining the Circle: Native American Philosophy Applied to the Study of Late Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast United States
Archaeology is in a period of change, a point of inflection in which the discipline strives to reject its colonial roots. Embracing the “ontological...
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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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Cities as Quintessentially Human
Cities are our greatest invention, an arrangement of homes and businesses that drastically increases the speed of interaction. This interaction then...
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Urban Approaches to Sustainability: Transportation
Transportation mobility is an essential part of environmental, economic, and social sustainability in the twenty-first century. Although...
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The Conservative Reaction and the June 2013 Revolts
In the 2010s, subaltern social groups sought to affirm their rights both through advances in the institutional arena and through shocking...
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Blood Tribute, Earth Offerings, and the Formative Origins of Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica has long been identified with a range of ritualized practices or ritual diversity centered on both animal and human sacrifices. In...
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The transformation of Ar-Riyadh’s landscape from constructivism perspective
The geographical research describing urbanization and transformation in the cities of Saudi Arabia including Ar-Riyadh, in the last decades, has...
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Population Aggregation and Dispersal as a Driver for Settlement Change in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley Between AD 1100 and 1500
The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley has served as a frontier of Mississippian period expansion to the east and as an important intermediary between...
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In Search of a Place Like Me: Making Sense of Character, Boundaries and Later-Life Mobility Pathways in Southeast Asia
Paul Green draws on longitudinal research involving later-life foreigners based in Penang, Malaysia, and Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, and examines self,...
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Understanding the Relationship between Urban Public Space and Social Cohesion: A Systematic Review
Public space serves as opportunities for everyday engagement including cultural activities and social interactions. The co-presence of diverse groups...
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Impact of COVID-19 on Transgender Women and Hijra: Insights from Gujarat, India
Protecting vulnerable populations from the COVID-19 pandemic is a strategic imperative, especially when considering the potential vulnerability it...
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Methods and Data
This research follows the social constructivist perspective and tends to investigate the earlier landscape constructions in comparison to current...
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Social Marketing Actions in Small-Format Convenience Stores: The Case of Oxxo in Mexico
Oxxo is a Mexican chain of small-format convenience stores owned by FEMSA. Over the course of 30 years, it has managed to satisfy the daily needs of...
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Elements and Factors Analysis for Trialistic Composition of Human Settlement, Inhabitation, and Travel Environment
Three elements in environmental system of human settlement, inhabitation, and travel background are natural environment, agricultural and forestry...
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The Historical Dimension in International Planning Studies
This chapter considers the historical dimension of international planning emphasising the importance of historical awareness to the study of planning...
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Essentials of Community Intervention
Clinical sociology is a creative, rights-based, interdisciplinary specialization that seeks to improve the quality of life in the world around us....
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The Politics of Space: Naypyidaw and the Ghosts of Yangon
This chapter introduces new ways of understanding twenty-first-century Myanmar. Politics needs to be understood as a battle over the control of space...
