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The ‘Container Menace’: unpacking household perceptions of container urbanism in Ghana
This study investigates the perceptions of households towards container urbanism, a rising alternative urban development trend in Ghana. The research...
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Stray urbanism: stray donkeys and place-identity in Makhanda, South Africa
The presence of free-roaming livestock in cities is often seen as something that should be regulated, and zoning practices across the world generally...
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Urbanism and minority-group spatial isolation in early twentieth-century U.S. cities
Studies guided by urbanism theories disagree about the extent to which city size and minority-group size affect ethnic group boundaries. The present...
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Southern urbanism: a systematic review of concepts, debates, and future directions
A significant part of urban theory now engages with southern cities. In this paper, we synthesize the various theoretical propositions and...
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Approaching Platform Urbanism
This chapter demonstrates the different understandings of platforms before approaching platform urbanism from three different research directions:...
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Counter-mapping platform urbanism
This chapter provides examples of counter-mapping practices and possible adaptations that serve as starting points for the analysis of the key areas...
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New urbanism: assessing the effectiveness of residential complexes on the feasibility of the idea of community (case study: residential complexes in area one of Tehran metropolis)
During 1980s, a large number of American architects and urban planners criticized the consequences of modernism planning, which led to the emergence...
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Unsettled DIY Urbanism
In the Viennese district, Ottakring, an increasing number of events in (semi-)public space can be found concerning diverse practices of maintenance....
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Governance, Monumentality, and Urbanism in the Northern Maya Lowlands During the Preclassic and Classic Periods
This article synthesizes monumentality, governance, urbanism, and regional statecraft in the Northern Maya Lowlands during the Preclassic and Classic...
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The Later Phases of Southern Mesopotamian Urbanism: Babylonia in the Second and First Millennia BC
Although considerable attention has been devoted to early urbanism in southern Mesopotamia, the later development of cities in the region has been...
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Assembling Informal Urbanism
Forms of informal urbanism, ranging from informal settlement to informal street vending and informal transport, have become integral to how cities...
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Exploring Platform Urbanism Using Counter-Mapping Opening the Black Box
In recent years, the world witnessed the rise of big digital platforms like Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. The emerging research field of platform...
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Improving Fairness and Equity by Minimizing Community Vulnerability to Food Accessibility: A Computational Urbanism Approach
One important point of interest in urban areas is the food outlet, especially retailers that provide fresh and healthy food. Street markets, or...
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Biophilic Vision, Regenerative Sustainable Urbanism and Circular Economy
The Paris Agreement (COP21) emerged as a significant global response to address the risks associated with climate change by emphasising the urgent...
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The Ideology of Public Space and the New Urban Hygienism: Tactical Urbanism in Times of Pandemic
This essay interprets the implementation of “tactical urbanism” as the latest step in the urban technocratic project aimed at destroying or at least...
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Local Events as a Temporary Urbanism Tactic for Public Spaces Revival
One primary urban regeneration objective is to revive the city’s declined and sluggishly animated public spaces. Nevertheless, due to a lack of...
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From “Politique de la Ville” to “Renouvellement Urbain”: Paradigm Shifts of Urbanism in Plaine Saint Denis, Paris
This chapter aims to examine the paradigm shifts in urbanism and urban policy in France. It also aims to illustrate the ways “peripheries” (banlieue)...
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Repositioning Drone Sensing in Landscape Urbanism and Planning
In a period of climatic breakdown, the instruments of sensing environmental change are critical. Aerial photography was the first tool in the...
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Healthy Urbanism Designing and Planning Equitable, Sustainable and Inclusive Places
The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of...
