SOCIAL CAPITAL AND AIR POLLUTION: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY by Cuma Demirtaş, Munise Ilıkkan Özgür

“…This study analyses the impact of social capital on air pollution in all 81 cities of Turkey between 2008 and 2018 via utilizing the panel data method to test for the EKC hypothesis. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…Another question is whether urban-rural differences are limited to large cities compared to the rest, or whether we also find differences between towns and villages. …”
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NEED FOR SMART MOBILITY AND CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRANSITIONING TOWARD IT IN CAR-DEPENDENT COUNTRIES: INSIGHTS FROM LITERATURE by Talal ALMAGHLOUTH, Uneb GAZDER, Osama ABUDAYYEH

“…After the invention and acceptance of automobiles, cities were designed with layouts that favored automobiles at the expense of other forms of transportation. …”
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Research on the Hierarchical Spatial Structure of the Urban Agglomeration of the Yellow River Ji-Shaped Bend by Fang Wang, Mengyao Guo, Xi Guo, Fangqu Niu

“…The following conclusions can be drawn. (1) The cities with the strongest regional comprehensive power are Ordos, Taiyuan, Hohhot, Yinchuan, and Yulin, which cause the UAYB to present a significant “center-periphery” spatial pattern. (2) The biggest population flows mostly occur between cities in the same province, while interprovincial population flows mainly exist between cities with the strongest comprehensive power. (3) The hierarchical spatial structure of the UAYB forms a multitree structure, with Ordos as the core. (4) The attractiveness of the UAYB is very weak, being only slightly attractive to individual surrounding provinces, while the population outflow index to economically developed areas is high. …”
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Mathematical analysis of a weather-driven model for the population ecology of mosquitoes by Kamaldeen Okuneye, Ahmed Abdelrazec, Abba B. Gumel

“…Numerical simulations of the weather-driven model, using temperature and rainfall data from three cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kwazulu Natal, South Africa; Lagos, Nigeria; and Nairobi, Kenya), show peak mosquito abundance occurring in the cities when the mean monthly temperature and rainfall values lie in the ranges $[22 -25]^{0}$C, $[98 -121]$ mm; $[24 -27]^{0}$C, $[113 -255]$ mm and $[20.5 -21.5]^{0}$C, $[70 -120]$ mm, respectively (thus, mosquito control efforts should be intensified in these cities during the periods when the respective suitable weather ranges are recorded).…”
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Towards a green world: how new urbanization affects green total factor carbon productivity by Xiaohong Wang, Xuanting Li

“…IntroductionNew urbanization is a powerful support for regional economic growth and green transformation.MethodsIn this paper, we select data from 237 cities at prefecture level and above in China from 2010 to 2021 for quasi-experimental design, and investigate the effects of new urbanization policy pilots on urban green total factor productivity (GTFP) and its mechanism by constructing a multi-period difference-in-differences model.ResultsThe study finds that: a) the construction of new urbanization has a positive impact on promoting urban GTFP, and this result is verified by a series of robustness tests; b) the promotion of industrial structure upgrading, the facilitation of green technological innovation, and the reduction of the degree of resource mismatch all partially mediate the relationship between new urbanization and urban GTFP; c) environmental regulation and market integration both modulate the relationship between the construction of new urbanization and urban GTFP in positive directions; d) heterogeneity analysis shows that, in terms of the two-dimensional city attributes of ‘location-characteristics’, the increase in GTFP is more significant in eastern and central cities, and in non-resource cities; e) further analysis shows that the pilot policies of new urbanization have a spatial spillover effect on GTFP, and the policy spillover effects are mainly affected through mechanisms such as industrial structure upgrading in neighboring municipalities.DiscussionThis study provides new ideas for the next stage of sustainable regional green development in China, thus promoting China's high-quality development with theoretical and practical significance.…”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…Another question is whether urban-rural differences are limited to large cities compared to the rest, or whether we also find differences between towns and villages. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…Another question is whether urban-rural differences are limited to large cities compared to the rest, or whether we also find differences between towns and villages. …”
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Climate Characteristics of High-Temperature and Muggy Days in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region in the Recent 30 Years by Guohua Zhang, Jian Guan, Jingyi Ai, Jiangtao Zhang, Xiaoqing Jin

“…This disparity between the years with high-temperature extremes and the years with the most number of high-temperature days is located primarily in the central and southern cities of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. High-temperature extremes in the southern cities appear in June and July, while high-temperature extremes in the other cities appear in July. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…Another question is whether urban-rural differences are limited to large cities compared to the rest, or whether we also find differences between towns and villages. …”
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L’agglomération oranaise (Algérie) entre instruments d’urbanisme et processus d’urbanisation by Youcef Kadri, Mohamed Madani

“…Unlike developed countries, where urban growth is moderate, the cities of developing countries are marked by considerable sprawl of their urban territories. …”
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Optimization of Low-Impact Development Scheme for Communities by HU Jinhui, PANG Aoxuan, SUN Yingna

“…The benefits of different low-impact development (LID) combinations are compared and quantified from the perspective of sponge cities to alleviate the problem of urban waterlogging.For a residential project in Beijing,the stormwater management model (SWMM) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) are used to analyze three different schemes with different layout scales of bioretention facilities,grassland,sunken green space,permeable pavements,and reservoirs.Among them,Scheme 3 improves the rainwater utilization capacity of the study area and the landscape effect under the condition that the total annual runoff is reduced by 75%.The research achieves the optimization of the ratio of different LID facilities and the optimization of comprehensive benefits,which is of referential significance for promoting the development of sponge cities.…”
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Un travail invisible au vu de tout le monde ? by Simone Di Cecco

“…In contemporary Italian cities, volunteer asylum seekers help to clean up parks, streets and pavements, while at the same time being targeted by repressive policies aimed at the “undesirable” users of these same spaces. …”
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Les corridors industriels en Inde by Philippe Cadène, Yves-Marie Rault

“…Five « industrial or economic corridors » have been formally identified by the government, connecting the country's largest cities. The analysis of business locations shows that, in a context of strong and sustained growth, the country’s productive capital is concentrating in the main cities and along corridors, shaping large regions capturing investments and industrial activities. …”
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Digital transformation of societies with the use of digital identity: a case study in Turkey by Sevgi Kavut

“…As a result, this study shows that respondents' viewpoints differ in age, education levels,  and lived cities in the sub-dimensions of the Digital Identity Scale.…”
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La presenza dei valdesi nel territorio dauno by Caterina Celeste Berardi

“…In this short contribution, three cities that today host Waldensian communities are examined in particular: Orsara di Puglia, Cerignola, Foggia, without forgetting the case of Monteleone of Puglia.…”
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Resilience requirements. Adaptive methodology for the housing emergency by Ilaria Montella

“…Arup developed the City Resilience Framework for the 100 Resilient Cities project. …”
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Une « Vision Mumbai » pour transformer la ville ou la difficulté à (re)penser la gouvernance métropolitaine by Marie-Hélène Zérah

“…In India, economic liberalization and decentralization create the conditions for the rise of cities. As in other parts of the world, the metropolization process is accelerating. …”
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Post-conflict tourist landscapes: between the heritage of conflict and the hybridization of tourism activity by Zeid A. Kassouha

“….), and other practices that are intimately linked to these events (memory tourism, dark tourism, etc.).In this paper, we retrace the dynamics of this post-conflict "tourism resilience," through the observation of two examples in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the cities of Sarajevo and Mostar. We explore the urban and tourist landscape of these two cities in order to identify the different forms of tourism, memorialization or heritagization practices, related to the legacy of the Bosnian war (1992-1995).…”
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Les petites villes, de nouveaux centres pour le développement territorial chinois by Stéphane Milhaud

“…In China, since the economic opening in 1978, more than 15 million people move to cities every year. The urban rate has grown from 17.9 % in 1978 to 49.9 % in 2010: the unprecedented size and rapidity of Chinese urbanization have reformed the urban framework through the country. …”
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