Prośrodowiskowe kształtowanie terenów zieleni - propozycje dla dzielnicy Ursynów m.st. Warszawy by Justyna Staroszczyk, Antoni Skowroński

“…Plants influence urban conditions in many ways; they have a positive effect on both people’s health and environmental issues, there are many reasons why the proportion of green areas in cities should be increased. It is important to take advantage of plant properties and suitable methods of shaping green areas to benefit nature. …”
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Modulating urban dynamics from a climate perspective – In-between spaces and climate neutrality by Fabrizio Tucci, Paola Altamura, Maria Michaela Pani

“…The paper compares six case studies that represent the three identified categories of in-between spaces, evaluating them through the criteria of Naturalness, Proximity and Circularity and in relation to the six strategic axes of Green Cities.   Article info Received: 10/09/2023; Revised: 10/10/2023; Accepted: 19/10/2023 …”
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Development of mountain domestic tourism close to the major urban areas of Nepal: South side of the Annapurna Massif and Helambu by Pierre Dérioz, Pranil Upadhayaya, Philippe Bachimon, Maud Loireau

“…Firstly, these developments are described in two different sectors (the south side of the Annapurna massif and Helambu) which have received large numbers of visitors for many years and are both located close to two of the country’s cities (Kathmandu and Pokhara), with improved links via new roads providing better access to mountain valleys. …”
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Japanese Persimmon Cultivars in Florida by Ali Sarkhosh, Peter C. Andersen, Dustin M. Huff

“…With an estimated population of more than 21 million, a diverse cultural base, and large cities close to production zones, Florida is primed for a larger persimmon industry. …”
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Utilizing Semantic Segmentation to Analyse Google Street View Imagery for Health-Oriented Urban Planning by Siyi Qi

“…The main findings include: (1) a GVI mean of 15.05% within Copenhagen Municipality, ranking below the average of six other European cities, and (2) a map showing the spatial distribution of GVI in the study area. …”
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Facilitating Community Change: Lessons from Climate Adaptation to Guide Extension Engagement by Martha C. Monroe, Annie Oxarart, Holly Abeels, Wendy-Lin Bartels, Alicia Bradigan-Betancourt, Crystal Goodison, Thomas Ruppert

“…While much of the research behind these strategies has been conducted in the context of climate adaptations in vulnerable communities and ecosystems, such as coastal fisheries, rainfed agriculture, and floodplain cities, the principles that underlie these processes are universal. …”
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The Impact of Borrowing Debt on the Efficiency Loss of Municipal Infrastructure Investment and Construction by Xiaojie Li, Hao Li, Fei Qiu

“…In this paper, panel data from 2003 to 2018 in cities above the prefecture level in China are used to study the impact of borrowing debt on the efficiency loss of municipal infrastructure investment and construction. …”
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Analysis of the Tambov region’s labor market and factors of it’s transformation in conditions of economy digitalization by I. N. Makhonina, M. S. Sysoeva, T. N. Cheremisina

“…The attractiveness of large cities as a destination for labor resources is constantly increasing due to high demand and wages in the labor market. …”
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Rasch Rating Scale Model: Bias Detection and Validation Test of Indonesian-Adolescent Life Satisfaction Scale by Yonathan Natanael, Rahmaditya Salsabilla, Denisa Aulia, Dwi Khoirunnisa, Husna Nursaid Munawar, Nada Salsabila Hidayat, Romi Faizal Firdaus

“…The modern construct-oriented scale construction method was selected as a guide in developing the instrument, and the participants were 474 adolescents from various cities in Indonesia. At the initial screening stage using the Rasch model analysis, 54 participants were detected as outliers, hence further analysis was only conducted on 420. …”
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THE AMUR RIVER WATER DURING THE WINTER LOW WATER PERIOD: THE MANY-YEAR DYNAMICS OF THE SULFATES CONTENT AND RUNOFF by Vladimir P. Shesterkin, Nina M. Shesterkina

“…Therefore, the purpose of the research is to study the long-term dynamics of the content and runoff of sulfates in the Amur River in the winter low-water, based on the materials of Roshydromet for 1943-1976 and the author’s data for 1999-2019.Significant variations in the main areas were found due to both the diversity of natural conditions and anthropogenic influence in the areas of large cities and localities. The impact of the construction of hydroelectric power plants, significant economic changes in the Chinese part of the Amur basin, as well as the closure of pulp and paper and microbiological industries in the Russian part of the Amur basin on the long-term dynamics of the content and flow of sulfates is estimated. …”

La programmation cinématographique parisienne au cours de la saison 1929/1930 : vers une appréhension des habitudes spectatorielles by Valentin Stimpfl

“…It allows us to observe trends that may be compared with those resulting from future investigations including the movie theatre programme from other major European cities.…”
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Les images paysagères autour du thé et de la Chine dans la publicité : quels simulacres de paysage ? by Yun Zhang

“…Based on documentary work and a survey of two areas around the cities of Fujian Province (Wuyi Mountains and Fuzhou), the article considers the genesis of the tea-growing landscape and its image. …”
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Préservation du patrimoine bâti et développement durable : une tautologie ? Les cas de Nantes et Angers by Isabelle Garat, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Vincent Veschambre

“…A cross study of Angers and Nantes, cities confronted with important construction pressure in a context of important population growth, tends to show that the convergence of heritage and sustainable development agendas is not obvious. …”
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Le paysagisme : source et ressource pour l’urbanisme ? by Benoît Romeyer

“…It successively identifies and defines the urban design practises predominantly influenced by the “plant” component, and which involve the notions of the embellishment, re-enchantment and "re-naturing" of open spaces, and the practises that specifically concern the landscape component of the parks, “green and blue” infrastructures, and “extra-urban” spaces of different neighbourhoods, suburbs and garden cities. Whether analysed separately or together, these elements constitute resources that may be reconsidered and re-used in order to establish more balanced relationships with the elements surrounding us in our contemporary urban construct.…”
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La topographie légendaire des itinéraires de la navette by Xavière Lanéelle

“…The commuter, the train and the route have been the object of a myth to serve a commercial policy as well as a development of the served cities.But the legend settled down only because it is one of the anthropological foundations and because the myth allows to combine incompatible elements, here the combination of the requirements of contemporary modernity and a more traditional life of provincial rooting.One of the aspects of the myth is that the TGV is a sterile environment and the countryside it goes through, a "black hole". …”
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Ré-enchanter les sols pour les rendre visibles : le regard des enfants en question by Aurélie Javelle, Pascale Scheromm, Béryl Muller

“…Beacause of the current urgent need to change our relationship to the soil given the issues relating to it, especially in cities, there is a crucial need to make the soil visible again and to reflect on its management. …”
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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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How the Slovaks Helped Count Dracula: Stereotypes of the Late 19th Century by Martin Kasarda

“…It is clear that when Bram Stoker was creating the character of count Dracula, he used the information he had from the Hungarian orientalist Ármin Vambéry, who was a native of the multicultural Hungarian (now Slovak) town of Svätý Jur and studied in the other Slovak cities — Dunajská Streda and Bratislava. The study deals mainly with this Slovak, Slavic and Hungarian footprint in Stoker’s work.…”
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Les sociétés rurales européennes ont-elles accepté les politiques publiques paysagères ? by Pierre Donadieu

“…Either they will resist to the public sustainable landscape project by running away from it (relocation outside Europe or far from the cities) ; or they will integrate a local asset of sustainable development in their trade activities, with the assistance of the farm territories and lands inhabitants. …”
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Facilitating Community Change: Lessons from Climate Adaptation to Guide Extension Engagement by Martha C. Monroe, Annie Oxarart, Holly Abeels, Wendy-Lin Bartels, Alicia Bradigan-Betancourt, Crystal Goodison, Thomas Ruppert

“…While much of the research behind these strategies has been conducted in the context of climate adaptations in vulnerable communities and ecosystems, such as coastal fisheries, rainfed agriculture, and floodplain cities, the principles that underlie these processes are universal. …”
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