La valeur des territoires au Brésil : le cas des favelas de Rio de Janeiro by Michael Chetry

“…The financialization of urban space is today in at the heart of studies on the city and leads to a growing interest about the value of space. …”
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Socially resilient mobility planning: Main challenges and design implications by Oliver Weberg, Jesper Lund, Vaike Fors, Andrea Resmini

“…The main challenges for urban planners and developers to achieve this were identified through a lack of guidelines for incorporating social sustainability into mobility planning, that in turn renders difficulties in employing qualitative methods tailored for enabling citizen and stakeholder engagement, as well as developing deeper understandings of local, social life. …”
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Optimizing the Composite Cost Involved in Road Motor-Transporting Trucks by Taking into Account Traffic Condition by Hongying Fei, Chengyi Zhang

“…Since the vehicle transporters mainly are the severe-polluting heavy-duty vehicles and their exhaust emissions vary under different traffic conditions, it is necessary to improve the planning of road motor-transporting services by taking into account road traffic condition, especially for urban areas. This study aims at minimizing the composite cost, including both the economic cost related to the driver cost and fuel consumption, and the social cost related to the vehicle emissions. …”
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The Use of Telemedicine Access to Schools to Facilitate Expert Assessment of Children with Asthma by David A. Bergman, Paul J. Sharek, Kathryn Ekegren, Shannon Thyne, Michelle Mayer, Mara Saunders

“…We conducted a prospective cohort study in 3 urban schools to ascertain the feasibility of using an asthma-focused telemedicine solution. …”
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First-Train Timetable Synchronization in Metro Networks under Origin-Destination Demand Conditions by Hetian Chai, Xiaopeng Tian, Huimin Niu

“…This paper focuses on how to synchronize network-wide timetables of first trains in an urban metro system, in which the train-connection-based route can be exactly determined for each first-train-attached origin-destination (OD) demand pair. …”
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Study on Gasoline Vehicle Emission Inventory Considering Regional Differences in China by Dong Guo, Zhan-gu Wang, Liang Sun, Kai Li, Juan Wang, Feng Sun, Hai Zhang

“…Rapid growth of China’s urban road vehicles, in particular, the increase in the number of gasoline vehicles, leads to an increase in the traffic congestion and problems pertaining to air pollution. …”
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Los mayas y los otros: integración y distinción cultural en el paisaje urbano y rural de Copán by Felix Kupprat

“…Intercultural and interethnic relations within Maya sites have received little attention, despite their relevance for our understanding of urban and social developments during the Classic period. …”
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Plac zabaw jako miejsce dla dzieci vs. miejsce dzieci by Jolanta Zwiernik

“… The content of the article is an analysis of two different concepts of children’s playgrounds, one of which is a standard urban/pre-school playground, reproduced in countless variations, and the other is an individualised variation of an adventure playground. …”
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ANALISIS PENGELOLAAN DANA DESA DI DESA BALUNG KULON by Putri Marta Ningtias, Dedi Wijaya Kusuma, Wiwik Fitria Ningsih

“… This study aims as follows: (1) Evaluation of accountability and transparency in the management of village funds for the development of Balung Kulon Village, Jember Regency. (2) To accelerate village development, reduce the difference between urban and rural areas, and encourage the community to actively participate in making development decisions in Balung Kulon Village, Jember Regency. …”
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Employment of population of large cities of Western Siberia in 1914–1917 by E. E. Shumilova

“…From the point of view of the theory of historical everyday life, it is argued that the urban environment of Western Siberian cities faced a number of new challenges with the beginning of the World War I, which significantly worsened the social well-being and economic activity in Siberian cities. …”
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GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS AND ANTHROPIC PRESSURE INDICATORS by DAN BĂLTEANU, DIANA DOGARU

“…There were identified three reference categories of anthropic pressure indicators, namely population; economic growth and resource consumption; urbanization. A brief discussion about the future research directions in the field of human-environment relationship research completes this paper.…”
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Trends of Rural Tropospheric Ozone at the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula by S. Saavedra, A. Rodríguez, J. A. Souto, J. J. Casares, J. L. Bermúdez, B. Soto

“…Tropospheric ozone levels around urban and suburban areas at Europe and North America had increased during 80’s–90’s, until the application of NOx reduction strategies. …”
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Impacto de la Educación Formal y Migración en el Desempeño de las Empresas Familiares: Un Caso en Jerez, Zacatecas by Héctor Gabriel Villegas-Berumen, Humberto Morales Magallanes, César Landeros Soriano

“…It was found that companies whose average educational level is high do not necessarily have better performance expectations in a Mexican urban area with low economic growth, due to the phenomenon of migration at an early age. …”
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Basics of Quantifying N Sources and Fates on the University of Florida Campus by Jiexuan Luo, George Hochmuth

“…Therefore, educating people about nitrogen cycling in the urban environment is critical for the development of solutions to the environmental problems caused by nitrogen loss. …”
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Le Parc Méric à Montpellier : représentations sociales d’un parc public entre campagne, jardin et nature sauvage by Gaëlle Aggéri

“…Motivated by the desire to use ecological engineering methods and of offering city dwellers a variety of green spaces ranging from the traditional sophisticated garden to “wild” open spaces, the directors of municipal parks and green spaces have experimented with what is called in France “La gestion différenciée” or “the differentiated management” of green spaces.Parallel with this essentially technical approach, the evolution of the idea of “urban nature”, demanded by the directors of municipal parks and green spaces, brought about the creation of alternative public parks, whose image and use refer strongly to the pastoral and “the wild”.This study investigates the physical and symbolic construction of this new type of nature, in particular with the example of the design and the social representations of the “Parc Méric” in Montpellier, a former bourgeois rural estate. …”
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Temporary city between emergency and recovery by Roberto Ruggiero

“…The paper presents the first results of a scientific-design research carried out at the School of Architecture and Design Eduardo Vittoria of Ascoli Piceno (SAAD) of the University of Camerino concerning the transformation of post-disaster first emergency settlements into temporary urban systems capable of reactivating social and productive dynamics.…”
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Benthic Macroinvertebrates along the Haraz Downstream in Southern Caspian Sea Basin: In Gradient of the Physicochemical Parameters by Amir Faraz Ghasemi, Morteza Kamali

“…Results showed impacts of anthropogenic activities caused by the urbanization and development on the occurrence of benthic macroinvertebrates taxa. …”
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Planning and Design of Equitable Free-Floating Bike-Sharing Systems Implementing a Road Pricing Strategy by Leonardo Caggiani, Rosalia Camporeale, Michele Ottomanelli

“…Promoting a more sustainable development of urban realities is one of the most important goals of the recent decades. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Subgrade Behavior under a Dynamic Maglev Train Load by Wubin Wang, Zhixing Deng, Yandong Li, Zhichao Huang, Yunbin Niu, Kang Xie

“…Medium-low-speed maglevs are increasingly used in the urban rail transit industry because of their advantages, such as low noise and low energy consumption. …”
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Environmental Risk Factors in Patients with Noninvasive Fungal Sinusitis by Badr Eldin Mostafa, Mohammed M. K. El Sharnoubi, Hesham A. A. El-Sersy, Mohammed S. M. Mahmoud

“…Yet, no statistical significance was found between allergy related occupations, exposure to animals or plants, although their percentages were higher among cases, smoking, and urban or rural residence. Conclusion. We suggest that for patients with noninvasive fungal sinusitis a change in their living environment must be implied with better exposure to sunlight, larger well ventilated homes, proper cleaning of dust and cockroach extermination, and if possible the judicious use of air conditioners.…”
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