Design and digital transition. New design-driven challenges for techno-social innovation by Salvatore Di Dio, Benedetto Inzerillo, Francesco Monterosso, Dario Russo

“…Starting from theoretical reflections and multidisciplinary contributions, this paper focuses on the strategic importance of techno-social innovation, critically illustrating some significant design-driven experiences that outline innovative lines of development in the field of design research: WASP’s experimental activity (3D printing), Manzini’s reflections on hybrid local communities and cities in chaotic mutation, the projects of hacktivists Persico and Iaconesi on open source artificial intelligence, the experiences of frugal technological innovation with high social impact in the Planet’s most challenging economic, environmental and social contexts, and, finally, the bold projections on the food of the future with the related problematic experiments on production systems and lifestyles. …”
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The sustainable soul of the past. Learning from the present to regenerate outdated urban spaces by Antonella Falzetti, Giulio Minuto

“…The places to which the contribution refers are often the result of a skilful design culture: they have contributed to the design of cities, to improve degraded areas, but they suffer from a lack of aptitude to project themselves into future transformative dynamics, resulting in spaces removed from the life cycle that their urban function requires today. …”
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THE TARIQA SHATTARIYYA: ETNO-TARIQA AND HOMETOWN “REMINDER TOOL” OF PARIAMAN-TRANSLOCAL IN INDONESIA by Ziaulhaq Hidayat

“…This study focused on Medan and Bekasi cities to explore TS and the Pariaman-translocal community. …”
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Independent or Bureaucratic? The Early Career Choice of an Architect at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Germany, France and England by Andri Gerber

“…The need for architects in administrations was primarily a consequence of the rising independence of cities and the necessity to react to urbanization and property speculation, and later for the mass housing programs in the aftermath of the First World War. …”
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Digital financial inclusion's impact on farmers' income and spatial spillover effects: Evidence from inner Mongolia, China by Hua Li, Xue Wei, Wenhui Chen

“…This study analyzes data from 12 prefecture-level cities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from 2011 to 2022 to investigate how digital financial inclusion(DFI) affects the increase in farmers' incomes and its spatial spillover effects. …”
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A Further Study and Assessment on Geographic Information System: From Highway Ecological Landscape Environment Angle of View by Ling Zhou, Weijie Liu

“…Based on the understanding and integration of domestic and foreign landscape evaluation system research, this paper constructs a new type of highway landscape evaluation model and selects Zhangjiakou, one of the co-host cities of the Winter Olympics, to analyze and verify the model. …”
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Labor Industry Allocation, Industrial Structure Optimization, and Economic Growth by Liyuan Shi

“…Using the sample data of 282 prefecture-level cities from 2008 to 2018, this paper tests whether this wage-guided labor industry allocation will affect economic growth and whether there is an intermediary effect of industrial structure optimization. …”
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DETECTION OF URBAN SUMMER WARMING IN TEMPORAL CHANGE OF HEAT STRESS-RELATED INDICES IN THE ROMANIAN PLAIN REGION by DANA MICU, LOREDANA HAVRIŞ, CARMEN-SOFIA DRAGOTĂ

“…The study suggests that, during the last decades, the cities in the Romanian Plain Region experienced a significant increase of heat stress under a higher occurrence probability of hot summer days and nights and prolonged heat waves, corrensponding to a growing need for cooling in summer, as well as in early autumn and late spring months, in response to the recent seasonal trends in minimum and maximum temperatures.…”
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Guide méthodologique pour l'analyse spatiale du covid-19 dans les zones urbaines non métropolitaines du Brésil by João Pedro Pereira Caetano de Lima, Raul Borges Guimarães

“…It then presents different mapping techniques and how they can be implemented, especially in medium-sized cities. Point implementation, including proportional symbols and distribution in points; II. …”
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Confiner les marges, marginaliser les confins : la souffrance des oubliés du lockdown dans les villes indiennes by Rémi de Bercegol, Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud, Shankare Gowda, Antony Raj

“…Dramatic images of migrant workers desperately fleeing the big cities to return home have circulated around the world. …”
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MODELISATION DU PLAN D’URBANISME DE LA VILLE D’EL EULMA (ALGÉRIE). APPORT DE L’INTELLIGENCE TERRITORIALE DANS LA GOUVERNANCE URBAINE by AKAKBA AHMED, KALLA MAHDI, DRIDI HADDA, FILLALI ABDELWAHHAB

“…The contribution of territorial knowhow to urban governance. All Algerian cities have great difficulties to implement coherent management plans. …”
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An Analysis of the Hierarchy of Goals that Guides the Consumer’s Decision to Attend Shopping Malls: a Contrast Between Men and Women by Silvana Taschek Hastreiter, Renato Zancan Marchetti

“…In the quantitative stage, with electronic data collection, we obtained a sample of 703 valid questionnaires from consumers of 66 Brazilian cities. We found that men and women go to shopping malls with different motivations and therefore have different goal structures. …”
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The Relationships between Parental Involvement, Students’ Basic Psychological Needs and Students’ Engagement in Science: A Path Analysis by Uluhan Kurt, Yasemin Tas

“…The sample of the study included 926 sixth, seventh, and eight grade students educated in one of the largest cities located in eastern part of Turkey. A path analysis using LISREL 8.8 programme was conducted to examine the hypothesized relations among variables of the study. …”
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Application of the HeWuTong System in the Practice of the “River Chief System” by TAO Tao, ZENG Qingbin, HUANG Rong

“…HeWuTong application system is a modern information management platform built on the premise of fully integrating the needs of river management in the practice of “River Chief System” in Shenzhen.Through the system,the circulating water information resource base and multi-level linkage intelligent control platform shared by cities and districts are built with means of “system + responsibility + technology” and technologies of Internet of Things (IOT),GIS,big data,microservices,etc.…”
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Assessing Logistics Industry Efficiency and Identifying Determinants in Shijiazhuang, China – A Comprehensive Analysis by Tao-Xing ZHU, Hao SONG

“…This study evaluated the efficiency of the logistics industry in Shijiazhuang City by using the DEA-BCC and Malmquist index models to analyse efficiency changes from 2010 to 2019 and compared them with seven logistics hub cities in the eastern region. …”
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MODELLING ROUNDABOUT ENTRY CAPACITY FOR MIXED TRAFFIC FLOW USING ANN: A CASE STUDY IN INDIA by Aarohi Kumar MUNSHI, Ashish Kumar PATNAIK

“…Efficient traffic flow in cities depends upon appropriate capacity estimation of roundabouts. …”
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Las redes anticomunistas entre América latina y Asia (1954-1980) by Ernesto Bohoslavsky

“…Their first connections were established during four Anti-Communist conferences held in Latin American cities in the Fifties. The links between the Confederación Interamericana de Defensa del Continente and the Asian People’s Anti-Communist League paved the way for a lasting Asian-Latin American Anti-communist cooperation in the Sixties and even more so in the Seventies—a period when Taiwanese, Central and South American anti-communist dictatorships reinforced the ties between them in order to gain legitimacy in the face of increasing allegations of human rights violations and reduced international diplomatic recognition. …”
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Assessing Farmers\' Willingness to Participation in Land Consolidation Projects in Meymeh District, Isfahan by Alireza yousefi, mahdiyeh shahabinejad, Amimozafar mini

“…The population of this study consists of all farmers of Meymeh County and its surrounding cities and villages and Niloofar-Abi cooperative of Vazvan city. …”
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La transition énergétique : eldorado des relations ville-campagne ? Le cas de TEPOS métropole-montagne by François Balaye, Lisa Bienvenu, Gilles Debizet, Pierre-Antoine Landel

“…This article analyses transactions between cities and upland institutions carried out within the framework of the “Territoires à Energie Positive” (Positive Energy Territories) – or TEPOS – process in France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.There is a disconnect between the TEPOS topics and the reality of the flows, and it underlines the gap between the promise of rural/urban complementarity (called by energy transition policies) and the weak position of the TEPOS within a mosaic and juxtaposition of decision-making arenas pertaining to spatial planning or energy carriers. …”
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Airbnb, or the (globalized) geopolitics of a contested tourist accommodation offer. From magnified disruption to generalized conflictualities... by Victor Piganiol

“…Behind this phenomenal success, however, criticism from city stakeholders, angry residents, and other accommodation professionals has begun to emerge. …”
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