Vulnérabilité et résilience des populations riveraines liées à la pollution des eaux lagunaires de la métropole d’Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire by Koné Brama, Cissé Guéladio, Houenou Pascal Valentin, Obrist Brigit, Wyss Kaspar, Odermatt Peter, Tanner Marcel

“…As aspect of resilience, individual actions of maintaining lagoon banks are undertaken. The social, financial and human capital of the sick persons or their family plays an important role in determining their resilience in the case of disease.…”
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Vienna’s Resistance to the “Neoliberal Turn" by Florian Urban

“…Upholding the system of state-subsidised housing, the Austrian capital supported new architecture as a means to regenerate the inner city and to promote innovative social policy. …”
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Calculation and Influencing Factors of the Operating Efficiency of Chinese Airports under High-Quality Development by Meng Shang, Chunjie Jia, Hui Li, Yu Liu, Junwei Cao

“…Combining with the connotation of the “green, smart, humane, and safe” airport high-quality development, the paper applied the Tobit model to quantitatively analyze the influencing factors of the operating efficiency of airports, and the research shows that (1) the overall operating efficiency of the study airports is 0.734; in terms of the region, the operating efficiency of airports located in southwest and northwest regions is greatly affected by natural factors, while the operating efficiency of airports located in North China is mostly affected by social factors. (2) Under the perspective of human-earth relationship, the impact of natural factors on the operating efficiency of airports is greater than that of social factors, wherein PM2.5 and relative humidity have negative impact, while the actual foreign capital utilization of the city and domestic and foreign tourists have positive impact. (3) The regression results of the Tobit model indicate that green, smart, and safe indicators can promote the high-quality development of airports, while the humane indicator restrains the high-quality development of airports.…”
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LA ROUMANIE AU BOUT DE LA TRANSITION DÉMOGRAPHIQUE: DISPARITÉS ET CONVERGENCES RÉGIONALES by IONEL MUNTELE

“…The presence of a diffusion of this pattern was confirmed both at the national and regional level, starting from several nuclei earlier connected to the modernization process (the capital city of the country, theSouth of Transylvania and Banat), well known from the literature dealing with this topic. …”
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Llthuanian book publishing in Riga, 1904-1914 by Violeta Černiauskaitė

“…Due to the flexibility of the local administration in this multinational city and a more advanced economic and cultural atmosphere, the conditions for developing social and cultural activities for the Lithuanians were far more favorable than in Lithuania or any other center in the Russian Empire. …”
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Key Drivers Affecting the Future of Power Relations in Tehran Metropolis with a Scenario-Writing Approach by Afshin Mottaghi, Arash Ghorbani Sepehr, Joseph Saloukadz

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Evolution of the “Production-Living-Ecological” space of urban trituration and its prediction of carbon mitigation potential–The case of Xi’an by Jinzhao Song, Jie Lei, Peijia Wang

“…Under the perspective of spatial low-carbon optimization, revealing the changes in the production-living-ecological space pattern and its carbon emission pattern of the historical capital-type city is of great significance for deepening the theory of land use transformation and helping the country achieve its dual-carbon goal. …”
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Indicativos de gentrificação na cidade de Ponta Grossa, PR: uma análise a partir da relação entre a legislação urbana municipal e as transformações no espaço urbano by Thais Sanson Sene, Lúcia Cortes da Costa, Sandra Maria Scheffer

“…So, this pointed the possible occurrence of gentrification in the affected locations, thus revealing the contradictions between the spatial results of the legislation and the ideal of developing more socially just cities.…”
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Drastic Improvements in Air Quality in Ecuador during the COVID-19 Outbreak by Rasa Zalakeviciute, Renne Vasquez, Daniel Bayas, Adrian Buenano, Danilo Mejia, Rafael Zegarra, Valeria Diaz, Brian Lamb

“…As a result, significant reductions in the concentrations of NO2 (–68%), SO2 (–48%), CO (–38%) and PM2.5 (–29%) were measured in the capital city of Quito during the first month of quarantine. …”
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How sufficient economy philosophy contributes to sustainable resilience: a qualitative study on the COVID-19 pandemic response in Thailand by Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Kathleen Ford, Bhubate Samutachak, Kullatip Satararuji

“…Objective This qualitative study sought to understand how sufficient economy philosophy (SEP) was applied to cope with and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.Design A qualitative study conducted through focus group discussions.Participants 19 focus groups, with 161 participants, selected for the diverse backgrounds in gender, profession, education and region (urban/rural) and different levels of impact from the pandemic.Setting Bangkok, the capital city, and the four regions of Thailand: north, northeast, south and central.Findings Participants highlighted the moderation, reasonableness and prudence as key themes that mitigated adverse economic impacts during the pandemic. …”
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La communauté Nova Esperança (PR) : l'incorporation des droits des migrants internationaux et des réfugiés aux revendications des mouvements de lutte pour le logement au Brésil... by Elaine Cristina Schimtt Ragnini, Daniele Regina Pontes, José Ricardo Vargas de Faria, Márcio de Oliveira

“…The Comunidade Nova Esperança was created in 2020 in a public space on the outskirts of the city of Curitiba, capital of the state of Paraná, based on the actions of the Popular Movement for Housing (PMH). …”
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“Urban by nature”: The Sokoto jihadist approach to urban planning by Stephanie Zehnle

“…This article hence analyses the construction of Sokoto as a capital city from the “drawing board” as a case study. …”
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Applying circular economy strategies in mitigating the perfect storm: The built environment context by Love Opeyemi David, Clinton Aigbavboa, Omoseni Adepoju, Nwulu Nnamdi

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Un aménagement de berge antique sur l’Auron, pour la villa de Lazenay à Bourges (Cher) by Alain Ferdière, Emmanuel Marot

“…Recent discoveries made in the peri-urban sector of Bourges made it possible to better situate this facility in its economic and social context, in connection with this large villa and its monumental development. …”
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Establishing a baseline for surgical care in Mongolia: a situational analysis using the six indicators from the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery by Raymond R Price, Ali Jalali, Anudari Zorigtbaatar, Sarnai Erdene, Sergelen Orgoi, Andrea Davis, Jonathan Nellermoe, Jade M Nunez, Simon Ruhnke, Battsetseg Gonchigjav, Nomindari Bat-Erdene, Kevin Bagley, Micah Katz, Hannah Pioli, Batsaikhan Bat-Erdene, Ganbold Lundeg

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Work–health–personal life conflicts in naive patients with chronic hepatitis B receiving initial treatment in China: a qualitative study by Li Zhang, Ying Chen, Ying Li, Hongmei Wang, Lin Zhu, Xiaoyang Lu, Yingjing Zheng, Donald Patrick, Fengjiao Xu, Mengna Song, Xiao Cheng, Boyan Chen

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Spatiotemporal dynamics and prevention strategies of cervical cancer incidence in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: an ecological study by Mathewos Assefa, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Teferi Gedif Fenta, Tariku Shimels

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An Urban Network Study of Government Procurement Activities: A Case Study of Northeast China by Lisha Cheng, Daoqin Tong, Xuepeng Ji, Shijun Wang

“…In particular, urban networks constructed based on firm connection data have been used to depict the circulation of capital, information, personnel, and products between cities. …”
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Timişoara, de la petite Vienne du Banat à la Capitale européenne de la culture by Amandine Dargaud

“…However, these policies deals with the weakness of institutional tools, criticisms of the dominant narrative of the city promoted by institutional actors and their relays – like the TM2021 association in charge of preparing the European Capital of Culture event in 2021 –, but also the permanence of dissonant and even conflicting legacies of socialism in the context of europeanization.…”
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Le flirt à Rabat au Maroc : Engagements des corps et arrangements socio-spatiaux by Chadia Arab, Christophe Guibert

“…However, heterosexual seduction practices in Morocco are not to be taken for granted in a country where bodies, especially women’s bodies, are subject to strong political and social control. Our article intends to break with the dominant discourses and ethnocentric visions, in Morocco as in France, which consider sexualities in Morocco only through the prism of religion and women’s passivity. …”
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