Global warming and cities. Increasing vegetation and urban planning between the unfinished and the urban landscape by Andrea Sciascia

“…The thesis founded on the increase of vegetation in urban areas as an indispensable tool for temperature mitigation emerges as the protagonist from this scientific starting point. …”
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Megatrends and Structural Change — Which Regions Will Benefit? by Mirko Kruse, Dörte Nitt-Drießelmann, Jan Wedemeier

“…In Germany, the process of structural change encounters heterogeneous regions that differ in terms of e.g. spatial structure, demography or economic strength. Moreover, urban areas can adapt particularly well to current trends, while rural and peripheral areas threaten to fall behind. …”
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Se déplacer à la marge ? Première approche des mobilités des usagers de nouveaux espaces de travail collaboratif hors des métropoles by Benoit Feildel

“…Mobility in these obviously low-density areas, located in discontinuity with urban areas and largely dependent on cars, is a major challenge for the ecological and social transition. …”
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Effects of Construction Sequences and Volume Loss on Perpendicularly Crossing Tunnels by Yanwei Zang, Penglu Gan, Jia-jia Yan, Shiming Liu, Zihai Yan

“…The number of constructed tunnels has been gradually increasing for the past decades due to rapid development in urban areas. However, the soil-structure interaction problems arising from perpendicularly crossing tunnels attract relatively little research attention in the past. …”
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Spatial distribution and determinants of improved shared sanitation facilities among households in Ethiopia: Using 2019 mini-Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey. by Baye Tsegaye Amlak, Daniel Gashaneh Belay

“…Significant factors related to the use of shared toilet facilities were being 55 years of age or older, possessing secondary or higher education, having a middle or rich wealth status, living in urban areas, and residing in metropolitan or peripheral regions. …”
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Agriculture et projet urbain durables en périurbain : la nécessité d’un réel changement de paradigme by Christian Peltier

“…French Agriculture Chambers and urban areas are reflecting upon agriculture space in those areas. …”
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Sol LeWitt. The Conceptuality of Drawing by Paolo Belardi

“…In the first fax, dated March 22, 1995, LeWitt (at the time residing for long periods in Spoleto) tells his friend Bruno Corà (then professor of Art History in the Academy) about the delivery of the maquette of a work created specifically for Perugia [1]: an ‘open cube’ (the solid form most loved by LeWitt [2]) which, as an element of the exhibition project City and Art, aimed at injecting viral works into extra moenia urban areas of symbolic interest, was to be exhibited in the portico of the large public building built in those same years by Aldo Rossi and located on the western side of the Piazza Nuova in Fontivegge [3]. …”
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Prolétarisation incomplète et miracle économique chinois : entre héritage collectiviste et capitalisme transnational by Jean Mathieu

“…Social-property relations in industrialised urban areas are thus capitalist-like, yet in the countryside they are still shaped by institutional collectivist heritage. …”
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La voie d’Aquitaine entre Tolosa (Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) et Carcaso (Carcassonne, Aude) : stations et sites de bord de route by Michel Passelac

“…The article reports on the sites referred to in the antique Itineraries – state stations – established primarily in urban areas. The location of a mutatio, Ad Vigesimum, is specified. …”
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FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMENGARUHI PENGGUNAAN TRANSPORTASI UMUM BUS TRANS METRO DEWATA DENGAN METODE REGRESI LOGISTIK BAYES by NI KADEK FENI DARMAYANTI, I WAYAN SUMARJAYA, MADE SUSILAWATI

“…The increasing population density has resulted in a high level of mobility that requires various modes of transportation, especially in urban areas, giving rise to the problem of traffic congestion. …”
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Facteurs d’adoption des foyers améliorés en milieux urbains sahéliens camerounais by Patrick Arnold Ombiono Kitoto

“…This study highlights the factors likely to reinforce the adoption in urban areas. The methodology uses data from a survey conducted in the city of Kousseri coupled with econometric analyzes based on the Heckman (1979) selection model and refined by Van De Ven and Van Praag (1981). …”
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Le paysage au service de la biodiversité dans la ville durable by Alban Bourcier

“…In this article we will suggest a number of actions that will be helpful in a program of sustainable territorial development and which are specifically aimed at improving the human environment while rehabilitating the natural world and emphasizing that it is of primary importance.One of our objectives will be to demonstrate the need for a multi-scale approach to planning procedures and to encourage the integration of questions of biodiversity and landscape into projects by taking an overall, large-scale view of the problems rather than a merely local one.Taking into account all the stages from planning to operational implementation, we will attempt to list the systems and options available to improve and influence biodiversity in larger territorial planning projects.Our main objective is to show the principle questions that may be addressed by improving the diversity of flora and fauna in urban areas.…”
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‘Groaning wicked like a maddening dog’: Bestiality, Modernity and Irishness in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World by Hélène Lecossois

“…This article proposes to read these imageries as indexes of (pre-) modernity, and as markers of the divide between rural and urban areas that modernity accentuated. It argues that the animal-like behaviour that Synge’s play calls for may be considered as a form of resistance to a hegemonic and early twentieth century conception of modernity. …”
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A materialização dos poderes no espaço como expressão da memória e identidade urbana medieval by Maria do Carmo Ribeiro, Arnaldo Sousa Melo

“…Secondly, we present some forms of materialization of power in urban areas, namely those that derive from royal, episcopal, lordly and municipal powers. …”
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Agricultura Urbana e a transformação da vida e da paisagem no Tatuquara, Curitiba-PR by Valéria Borges Yonegura, Henrique Manoel da Silva

“…Urban agriculture (UA) is characterized by agricultural production within urban and peri-urban areas to produce food or generate income. Depending on the context of the place where it is implemented, this practice can improve the landscape, the quality of life and food of producers, as well as their social relations. …”
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Potential Damage to Modern Building Materials from 21st Century Air Pollution by Peter Brimblecombe, Carlota M. Grossi

“…The evolution of damage to building materials has been estimated for the 21st century, with a particular focus on aluminum, zinc, copper, plastic, paint, and rubber in urban areas. We set idealized air pollution and climates to represent London and Prague across the period 1950–2100. …”
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Biscogniauxia (Hypoxylon) Canker or Dieback in Trees by Claudia Paez, Jason A. Smith

“…B. atropunctata or B. mediterranea are usually the species found on Quercus spp. and other hosts in Florida, affecting trees growing in many different habitats, such as forests, parks, green spaces and urban areas (McBride & Appel, 2009).  Typically, species of Biscogniauxia are opportunistic pathogens that do not affect healthy and vigorous trees; some species are more virulent than others. …”
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Emphasizing the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in Agricultural Extension by Kathryn A. Stofer, Laura A. Warner, Steven Arthurs

“…Finding effective solutions to agricultural issues, especially in urban areas, increasingly involves working with clientele to solve problems jointly. …”
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Biscogniauxia (Hypoxylon) Canker or Dieback in Trees by Claudia Paez, Jason A. Smith

“…B. atropunctata or B. mediterranea are usually the species found on Quercus spp. and other hosts in Florida, affecting trees growing in many different habitats, such as forests, parks, green spaces and urban areas (McBride & Appel, 2009).  Typically, species of Biscogniauxia are opportunistic pathogens that do not affect healthy and vigorous trees; some species are more virulent than others. …”
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Tertúlia geográfica pelo Rio Madre de Dios by Ricardo José Batista Nogueira

“…Throughout the research, the importance and significance of the drainage network of the Madre de Dios River was identified, which, along its course, performs a strong work of erosion and deposition of its banks, causing problems in the urban areas it crosses. We verified the existence of the technique of "defensas ribeiriñas" in the Peruvian city of Puerto Maldonado as an alternative to reducing the erosion process, composed of metal barriers to reduce the speed and impact of the river on the affected areas. …”
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