Solar Radiation Partitioning and Surface Albedo Parameterization in the Hinterland of Taklimakan Desert by Chunlei Meng, Huoqing Li

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Experimental Study of the Development of Soil Microstructure under the Electroosmosis Dewatering Process by Yimin Liu, Lingwei Zheng, Shaohua Rao

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Call and Response by Jesse Foster Honsa

“…This paper considers the operative nature of 'housing crisis' and related terms by investigating their use as a tool for urban reform in the 19th and 20th centuries in London. …”
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Benjamin’s Dialectical Image and the Textuality of the Built Landscape by Ross Lipton

“…I will then discuss the ‘textual reductionism’ implicit in Benjamin’s theory of the dialectical image, in which the dense pluralities of urban space are reduced to a finite script to be pieced together through Benjamin’s constructivist method of historical observation. …”
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Yaoundé (capital de Camerún) by Carlos García-Monzón Martín

“…The image, taken on July 23, 2023 as part of a cooperation stay with a Cameroonian educational center, shows a view of the city in which the precariousness of the housing and unpaved streets contrasts with the beauty of the natural surroundings. The urban inequality observed makes Yaoundé an exponent of many African cities. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…This article focuses on Woolf’s portrayal of Victorian urban life in her fiction, especially in The Years (1937), where London sounds are everywhere present and deployed to create the polyphony—an exciting cacophony in modernist terms—of the great city. …”
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American Weed: A History of Cannabis Cultivation in the United States by Nick Johnson

“…Understanding how the US became one of the premier cannabis-growing regions of the world in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries will help scholars pinpoint major themes in the world history of cannabis, such as its adoption and distribution by marginalized peoples, its transnational appeal in a globalized capitalist system, and how the plant embeds itself within the urban and rural ecology of human civilization. With a clearer picture of these themes, cannabis scholarship can better inform future studies, discussions, and public policy related to the plant.…”
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A Santidade Enfurecida by Leandro Duarte Rust

“…Among the most frequent cases of disputes during the "Gregorian Reformation Era" were clashes between monks and bishops, whose outbreak had repercussions in numerous directions: on aristocratic domination, patrimonial control networks, foundations of ecclesiology, urban mobilizations, legal consensus. The following pages consist of a study of such a case: around 1034 a quarrel opposed the high echelon of the Florentine bishopric to a portion of local monasticism filling in decades with reports of terrifying miracles, popular clamours, open challenges to the papacy and bloody disputes by legal authority. …”
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Racial, Linguistic, and Economic Diversity Across Schools with Two-Way Dual Language Immersion Programs: Evidence from the Los Angeles Unified School District by Sarah Asson, Erica Frankenberg, Clémence Darriet, Lucrecia Santibañez, Claudia Cervantes-Soon, Francesca López

“…We find that elementary schools with TWDL programs are enrolling increasing numbers of racially, linguistically, and economically marginalized students and are generally more diverse than schools without TWDL programs, although there appear to be limits on the potential of TWDL programs to foster diversity, especially in a segregated urban context.…”
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Public spaces and neoliberal policies: The Greek case by Despina Dimelli

“…In Greece, although public spaces are decisive elements of the urban tissue, the tools, strategies, and mechanisms for their development are mainly based on public funding and the role of the private sector is still weak. …”
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Territories of Equivalence by Clare Louise Lyster

“…These serve to contextualise my own reading of logistical objects as manifestations that not only allow us intimacy with the larger and complex world of logistics, but more significantly, as dynamic shapers of new types of architectural and urban space, here characterised as territories of equivalence.…”
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An Evaluation of Qualitative Criteria of Subway Station According to Audience-Based Criticism by mohsen kameli

“…Due to the high volume of users of the subway and the long-term stops of passengers, stations have become an effective venue for urban daily activities. Considering the growing trend of metro expansion in Tehran metropolis and the increasing need for it, special attention is paid to the quality of the environment of stations The metro should be considered as a metropolitan environment for the social interactions of citizens. …”
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Economic Analysis for Setting Appropriate Repair Cycles on the Fixed Materials and Facilities in the Public Rental Housing by Sung-Min Choi, Yeon-Sil Lee

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Tuberculosis en tiempos de COVID-19: cambios y oportunidades by Alexia Urbán-Solano, Yerany Aguilar-Durán, Julio Flores-Gonzalez, Leslie Chavéz-Galán

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Negative Anthropology by Stephan Trüby

“… Is there an architectural and urban planning agenda at work behind the politics of contemporary (neo-)fascists and populist, radical and extremist right-wing forces? …”
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THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC RELEVANCE OF TRADITIONAL THRIFT AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN SOCIETY by ROBERT MARTINS EZE

“…The paper concluded that thrift and credit associations have played and continue to play a significant role in the socio-economic development of the rural and urban economies in contemporary Nigeria, given that many cottage industries, petty businesses, and many families have been lifted out of poverty, especially in the rural areas. …”
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Modeling Spatial Riding Characteristics of Bike-Sharing Users Using Hotspot Areas-Based Association Rule Mining by Chao Sun, Jian Lu

“…These findings make us understand urban spatial structure in response to traffic plan and provide evidence for bike-sharing dispatch optimization.…”
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Active Safety Planning Method for Transportation Network Design by Hongzhi Lin

“…A bilevel programming model system is proposed where the upper level is the urban planners’ decision to minimize the estimated total number of traffic accidents, and the lower level is the travelers’ response behaviors to achieve transportation system equilibrium. …”
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Sustainable performance analysis and environmental protection optimization of green entrepreneurship-driven energy enterprises by Huaxing Wang, Yanzhao Zeng, Jiali Zhang, Shuhui Yu, Zeyu Wang, Yue Deng

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The Reflections of the “Stop Climate Change Digital Game” on Primary School Students' Learning about Climate Change by Sahin Idil, Orkun Kocak

“…It was conducted at an urban primary school in Ankara. 22 fourth grade students were participated as control group and 23 fourth grade students were participated as treatment group in the study. …”
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