African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks? by Cécile Cottenet

“…The authors of the genre, many of whom are former gang members or convicts, followed in the steps of the best-selling pulp writers of the 1970s Donald Goines (Whoreson, Daddy Cool) and Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim (Pimp).This urban literature can be loosely characterized as formulaic stories set in the black community, revolving around sex, drugs, guns and cash; yet they also emphasize redemption and can be read as cautionary tales for the young. …”
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Smart cities survey: Technologies, application domains and challenges for the cities of the future by Ruben Sánchez-Corcuera, Adrián Nuñez-Marcos, Jesus Sesma-Solance, Aritz Bilbao-Jayo, Rubén Mulero, Unai Zulaika, Gorka Azkune, Aitor Almeida

“…The paradigm of Smart Cities arises as a response to the goal of creating the city of the future, where (1) the well-being and rights of their citizens are guaranteed, (2) industry and (3) urban planning is assessed from an environmental and sustainable viewpoint. …”
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The Important Step for European Integration: “Council of Europe” and the Matter of Turkey’s Membership to Council by Ali Servet Öncü

“…This organization which stipulates cooperation in such areas human rights, social affairs, education, culture, sports, youth, public health, environmental, architectural heritage, urban planning, local and regional authorities, and law as well as defence and security was founded on 5 May 1949 by ten European states. …”
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Vienna’s Resistance to the “Neoliberal Turn" by Florian Urban

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Mykonos: a place of experimentation for the gastronomy-world relationship by Olivier Etcheverria

“…From this presupposition, this study aimed to identify and analyze the commercialization of gastronomic souvenirs of Curitiba, an urban tourist destination located in the southern region of Brazil. …”
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Dziecięce kompetencje do przeciwstawiania się w kulturze szkoły polskiej by Monika Wiśniewska-Kin

“…The paper presents the results of an educational research project implemented in the school year 2016/2017 in selected primary schools in urban environment (Łódź). The aim of the study was to diagnose oppositional discursive strategies (initial opposition movements, relationships between partners, reaching agreement), in a group of thirty 8- to 9-year-olds and 9- to 10-year-olds. …”
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Interorganizational Knowledge Division Decision Model Based on Cooperative Innovation of Supply Chain System by Wei Zhang, Qingpu Zhang, Guangdong Wu

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Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73 by Mark Swenarton

“…Under borough architect Sydney Cook, Camden aimed to establish a new kind of housing architecture based, not on the Corbusian tabula rasa, but on a radical reinterpretation of traditional English urbanism. The outcome was a series of projects, including Fleet Road, Alexandra Road, Highgate New Town, Branch Hill and Maiden Lane, designed by members of Cook’s team, including Neave Brown, Peter Tábori and Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth, as well as projects designed by up-and-coming private architects like Colquhoun & Miller, Edward Cullinan and Farrell Grimshaw. …”
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Sensual Environmental Robots: Entanglements of Speculative Realist Ideas with Design Theory and Practice by Santer Steven C.

“…The performative behaviours of these multi-sensorial robots evoke a sense of things by removing the truthiness of data and thereby emancipating language from privilege and expertise, subverting expectations of technology, and notions of urban Nature. Through Harman’s Quadruple Object, we speculate on asymmetricality within object relations, including between the devices and the practices of design itself. …”
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Between Objective and Subjective Architectural Experiences: Conceptualizing Refractive Neuroarchitecture Phenomenology by Yongjun Shin

“…For a practical implication, it is expected to demonstrate the importance of the phenomenological aspect of architectural efficacy and ways of applying neuroscientific research for place-making, including urban renewal and historic preservation. …”
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National Spatial Planning and the Constraints pertaining to the New Territorial Governance in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia by Mourad Ben Jelloul

“…And in order to reduce territorial inequity public authorities committed themselves on the one hand to major projects in the field of infrastructure and large-scale public facilities, on the other hand to deep-reaching institutional and legislative reforms namely by issuing and adopting the new Local Authorities Code and Urban Planning Code. Indeed, the analysis of the reconfiguration of territorial policies in Tunisia after 2011 is likely to allow us to highlight the difficulty of shifting from a highly centralized model to one that takes into consideration local authority players and citizen participation. …”
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Evaluation of state administration performance in improving access to education in rural areas of Indonesia by Daniel T Todapa

“…The disparities in access to educational services between urban and rural areas in Indonesia are varied, encompassing social, economic, and cultural aspects. …”
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Simplified Method for Calculating the Active Earth Pressure on Retaining Walls of Narrow Backfill Width Based on DEM Analysis by Minghui Yang, Bo Deng

“…Spaces for backfills are often constrained and narrowed when retaining walls must be built close to existing stable walls in urban areas or near rock faces in mountainous areas. …”
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The Influence of Pile-Beam-Arch Construction on the Stratum and Station Support Structure by Nan Liu, Xiao Tong, Longfei Chang, Yong Lv

“…The PBA construction method is suitable for urban subway construction in situations with dense traffic and many surrounding buildings and can effectively reduce surface disturbance and control surface subsidence. …”
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Weavers, embroiderers, and armadoras in Yucatan: New and old work classes at home by Jimena Méndez-Navarro, María de Jesús Ávila-Sánchez

“…The findings suggest there are a set of factors connected to the proto-industry theory, specifically the relationship between the urban and rural, the extraterritorial market that strengthens the labor relationship between works and the commercial capital in the economic expansion of the state of Yucatan, Mexico.…”
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Multidimensional Determinants of National Food Security in Azerbaijan: an Application of the ARDL Approach by Ragif Huseynov

“…The ARDL model suggested that food import, exchange rate, inflation, climate change, and urban population growth harm national food security dynamics of Azerbaijan. …”
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The Influence Mechanism of BIM on Green Building Engineering Project Management under the Background of Big Data by Ning Feng

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Digital Financial Inclusion, Spatial Spillover, and Household Consumption: Evidence from China by Yao Li, Haiming Long, Jiajun Ouyang

“…Further analysis based on subsamples finds that the effect of digital financial inclusion on household consumption is more considerable for rural households than for urban households.…”
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Study of Complex Helical Drill with a “S” Type Chisel Edge Tip Orient to Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics by Yu He, Xiaolong Zhou, Ping Zou, Kun Liu

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Graph-based service recommendation in Social Internet of Things by Yuanyi Chen, Yanyun Tao, Zengwei Zheng, Dan Chen

“…In this study, we focus on the problem of service recommendation in Social Internet of Things, which is very important for many applications such as urban computing, smart cities, and health care. We propose a graph-based service recommendation framework by jointly considering social relationships of heterogeneous objects in Social Internet of Things and user’s preferences. …”
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