Call and Response by Jesse Foster Honsa

“… A "housing crisis" is often naively understood as a simple market imbalance between supply and demand, frequently occurring within cities in a capitalist mode of development. If that were the case, the solution would be to simply open the pipes and build more houses, a regulatory action delegated to technocrats. …”
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Serial Analysis of Ten Precipitation-Based Indices by Land Use in Semiarid Regions by Victor M. Rodríguez-Moreno, J. Ariel Ruíz-Corral, J. Saúl Padilla-Ramírez, Alfonso Peña-Ramos, Thomas G. Kretzschmar

“…Open ecosystems in Mexico are under increasing pressure, due particularly to the expansion of cities and agricultural activities. These developments occur without integrating biodiversity concerns in land use planning and result in extensive fragmentation and transformation of the landscapes. …”
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A Novel Trip Coverage Index for Transit Accessibility Assessment Using Mobile Phone Data by Zhengyi Cai, Dianhai Wang, Xiqun (Michael) Chen

“…It enables decision makers to assess transit accessibility in a finer-grained manner on the individual trip level and can be well transformed to measure transit services of other cities.…”
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Dynamic modeling of spatial-temporal characteristics of dust in south and southeastern Iran with REG-CM4 model by Motahhareh Zargari, Mahdi Boroughani, Alireza Entezari, Abbas Mofidi, Mohammad Baaghideh

“…The location of monthly and annual dust distribution shows the highest amounts of dust for the cities of Zabol, Bandar Abbas, Zahedan and Jask compared to Sirjan, Kahnooj and Lar stations. …”
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Afghan Pashtun asylum seekers’ ideological resistance in Germany by Ashfaq takkar

“… This article provides the migration experiences of Afghan Pashtun asylum seekers who have migrated from Afghanistan to German cities of Landshut and Cologne. This ethnographic study focuses more explicitly on how asylum seekers' patterns of resistance materialise against deportation and temporal rationalities (waiting and time). …”
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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN CONSULATES IN CHINA IN 1851–1852 by E. P. Koudryavtseva

“…None of the documents from the Archive of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were used by national historians, they only mentioned the fact, that according to the Treaty of Kulja Chinese cities Yili and Tarbagatai hosted Russian representatives that looked after trade. …”
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Resilient Schedule Coordination for a Bus Transit Corridor by Xiongfei Lai, Jing Teng, Paul Schonfeld, Lu Ling

“…Although transit priority methods have been applied in some high-density cities, operating delays may cause priority failures. …”
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The Galungan Holiday in Postmodern Historical Studies by I Nyoman Wijaya

“…Galungan is not only celebrated in Bali but also in almost all major cities in Indonesia and around the world. In every celebration, Galungan is always referred to as the day of victory of dharma (virtue) over adharma (evil). …”
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Robust Evaluation for Transportation Network Capacity under Demand Uncertainty by Muqing Du, Xiaowei Jiang, Lin Cheng, Changjiang Zheng

“…As more and more cities in worldwide are facing the problems of traffic jam, governments have been concerned about how to design transportation networks with adequate capacity to accommodate travel demands. …”
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Le Nôtre, un ancêtre encombrant ? Variations autour de l’enseignement de l’histoire dans la formation des architectes-paysagistes versaillais (1873-1945) by Stéphanie de Courtois

“…After the renewal of the school of landscape architecture under the direction of Adolphe Alphand, at a time when nationalist sentiment took the figure of Le Nôtre as a reference and cities conducted their redevelopment based on the Cornudet law, the question of history took on greater significance: How did it interact with social sciences and geography? …”
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Past, Present, and Future Perspectives on the Integration of AI Into Walkability Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review by Yasin Delavar, Sarah Gamble, Karla Saldana-Ochoa

“…Finally, the lack of integration of emerging technologies like virtual/augmented reality and digital twin leaves a significant gap in research, inviting further study to determine their efficacy in enhancing the current methods and, in general, understanding the interaction of humans and cities.…”
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Design and Construction of a Virtual Bicycle Simulator for Evaluating Sustainable Facilities Design by Carlos Sun, Zhu Qing

“…The authors hope that this article will encourage other researchers who conduct research in sustainable cities to explore the use of bicycle simulators for improving bicycle facility design and operations.…”
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Carbon emission of urban vehicles based on carbon emission factor correlation analysis by Jingwen Wang, Hongna Dai, Haixia Feng, Meng Guo, Vladimir Zylianov, Zhongke Feng, Jipeng Cui

“…During rush hours, fuel consumption in most cities in China exceeds national standards, making it urgent to improve urban traffic efficiency. …”
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Spirometra (Pseudophyllidea, Diphyllobothriidae) Severely Infecting Wild-Caught Snakes from Food Markets in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Guangdong, China: Implications for Public Health by Fumin Wang, Weiye Li, Liushuai Hua, Shiping Gong, Jiajie Xiao, Fanghui Hou, Yan Ge, Guangda Yang

“…To understand the prevalence of Spirometra in snakes in food markets, we conducted a study in two representative cities (Guangzhou and Shenzhen), during January–August 2013. …”
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Snowfall in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula: Synoptic Circulation Patterns and Their Influence on Snow Day Trends by Andrés Merino, Sergio Fernández, Lucía Hermida, Laura López, José Luis Sánchez, Eduardo García-Ortega, Estíbaliz Gascón

“…In this work, we develop a classification of synoptic situations that produced important snowfalls at observation stations in the major cities of Castilla y León from 1960 to 2011. We used principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster techniques to define four synoptic patterns conducive to snowfall in the region. …”
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Determination of Particulate Matter Dispersion in Eastern Black Sea Region Using Geographical Information Systems by Kazım Onur Demirarslan, Halil Akıncı

“…Air pollution reduces the life quality in cities and also it brings about many health problems. …”
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Decentralized Identity Management for Internet of Things (IoT) Devices Using IOTA Blockchain Technology by Tamai Ramírez-Gordillo, Antonio Maciá-Lillo, Francisco A. Pujol, Nahuel García-D’Urso, Jorge Azorín-López, Higinio Mora

“…The findings suggest that IOTA-based solutions can effectively advance secure and user-centric identity management in IoT, paving the way for broader applications in various domains, including smart cities and healthcare.…”
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Prevalence of canine impaction among Kurdish people in Kurdistan region of Iraq. by Anees Mahmood Mudhir, Omar Fawzi Chawshli, Liqaa Jabur Hassan

“…Methods: This study comprised data from 2520 patients who attended the oral diagnosis and radiology clinic in specialized centers of dentistry in Duhok, Erbil and Slemany cities in a period between January 2015 to December 2019 were examined for the study. …”
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Cost-Efficient LEO Navigation Augmentation Constellation Design under a Constrained Deployment Approach by Jing Ren, Dan Sun, Deng Pan, Mingtao Li, Jianhua Zheng

“…To achieve the navigation performance requirement with the least system cost, a synthetic approach is presented to design and deploy a cost-efficient LEO navigation augmentation constellation over 108 key cities. To achieve lower construction costs, the constellation is designed to be deployed by constrained piggyback launches, which brings additional complexity to the constellation design. …”
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Evaluating the Impacts of Bus Stop Design and Bus Dwelling on Operations of Multitype Road Users by Jian Zhang, Zhibin Li, Fangwei Zhang, Yong Qi, Wenzhu Zhou, Yong Wang, De Zhao, Wei Wang

“…Data are collected from eight sites in two cities of China. Results of data analysis show that different bus stop designs have quite different impacts on the neighboring traffic flows. …”
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