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A Connected Community Approach to Building Community Resilience
Urban resilience research is recognizing the need to complement a mainstream preoccupation with “hard” infrastructure (electrical grid, storm sewers, etc.) with attention to the “soft” (social) infrastructure issues that include the increased visibility of and role for civil society, moving from (top-down, paternalistic) government to (participatory) governance. Analyses of past shock events invariably point to the need for more concerted efforts in building effective governance and networked relations between civil society groupings and formal institutions before, during, and after crisis. However, the literature contains little advice on how to go about this. A Connected Communities Approach is advanced that offers the missing guidance, and it's key features are explained.
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  • 20 Oct 2021
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Accessibility to Public Service Facilities on Housing Prices
High-value units of public service accessibility are concentrated in built-up areas, while low-value units are located at the urban fringe. Larger public services have more significant clustering effects than smaller ones. Recreational, medical, educational and financial facilities all have capitalisation effects on housing prices. Both the geographical detector model and the spatial association detector model could identify the drivers of housing prices, but the explanatory power of the latter is greater and could enhance the validity and reliability of the findings.
  • 273
  • 29 Jun 2023
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Achieving Healthy City Development in Ghana
A growing number of proposals, policies, projects, practices, and methodologies have been undertaken globally to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability in urban areas. This is due to the recent appreciation of human capital development, healthy living standards, and the benefits of safeguarding the ecosystem against eminent threats of pollution. The Local Government Act 2016 (Act 936) of Ghana places the District Assemblies (DAs) at the forefront of planning, executing, and managing policies concerning the districts (i.e., cities, and towns). 
  • 241
  • 09 Oct 2023
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Air Pollution Perception and Urban Settlement Intentions
With the public paying more and more attention to the problem of air pollution, the impact of air quality on migration has gradually become a growing concern. The concept of talent urban settlement intentions is the willingness of talent to work and live in a city for a long time. A comprehensive analysis of the influencing factors of the willingness of talent to settle down can help city administration understand what such talent need from the city and thus enact targeted and efficient public policies and provide public goods. As environmental hazards, e.g., air pollution, have become increasingly serious, more individuals consider air quality an important factor when choosing a place of residence (for physical and mental health purposes). Young talent are more sensitive and concerned about air pollution, and that this may consequently influence their choice of cities when seeking long-term employment.
  • 288
  • 08 Apr 2022
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Analysis of Perceived Safety, Urban Landscape Sense Perception
Numerous studies in the field of urban planning show that the perception of qualitative traits such as safety is influenced by the visual components of the urban environment. Studies have proposed methods to predict citizens’ subjective perceptions at the urban scale, which also includes the evaluation of the subjective safety perceptions of streets. 
  • 87
  • 19 Jan 2024
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Analysis of SUMPs in Spain
Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) are increasingly popular planning tools in cities with environmental issues where numerous actions are usually proposed to reduce pollution from urban transport. 
  • 603
  • 04 Jan 2022
Topic Review
Appraising Agroecological Urbanism
By the mid-century, urban areas are expected to house two-thirds of the world’s population of approximately 10 billion people. The key challenge will be to provide food for all with fewer farmers in rural areas and limited options for expanding cultivated fields in urban areas, with sustainable soil management being a fundamental criterion for achieving sustainability goals.
  • 453
  • 24 Jan 2022
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Art Galleries in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris
Today in Paris, it is the Marais neighborhood—a sector that started developing in the 1970s but even more in the 1980s and 1990s—that epitomizes the place to be for contemporary art galleries. The implantation of contemporary galleries in Paris clearly results from a historical process that led them from the 8th arrondissement to the Marais, stopping briefly at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (or the 6th arrondissement) mostly for small avant-garde structures.
  • 519
  • 11 Apr 2022
Topic Review
Barriers to Industrial Heritage Reconstruction and Reuse
The reconstruction and reuse of industrial heritage has constituted important means for the protection of that heritage, and has played a crucial role in promoting urban renewal and sustainable urban development. Based on time limits imposed on the completion of any reconstruction and reuse project, the obstacles can be divided into financial and systemic barriers in the early stage of a project and into secondary problems in the latter stage of a project. 
  • 728
  • 05 Dec 2022
Topic Review
Big Data-Based Urban Park Research
Urban parks provide multiple benefits to human well-being and human health. Big data provide new and powerful ways to study visitors’ feelings, activities in urban parks, and the effect they themselves have on urban parks. Big data benefits urban park research by providing low-cost, timely information, a people-oriented perspective, and fine-grained site information. 
  • 471
  • 24 Jun 2022
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