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Johannesburg’s transit revolution: a critical report on transit-oriented development strategy Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Yiming Han
In urban planning processes, global policies that are evaluated positively may not achieve favorable performance in specific urban, social, and policy circumstances. The practice of transit-oriente...
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Heat waves and urban vulnerability: climate shelters, public services and innovative solutions. Lessons from Barcelona Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Elena Camila Pede
Future projections indicate a global increase in heat waves, especially in urban areas due to climate change and the heat island effect, leading to adverse human, economic, and environmental outcom...
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Conceptualising nature-based solutions: addressing environmental challenges in the city of Amman, Jordan Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Salam Mare’e, Rawan Khattab, Hadeel Alqatamin, Ahmad Younis, Kate Crinion, Hua Zhong, Ibrahim Zakarya Kaddour, Tania Sharmin
This article explores the conceptualisation and applicability of nature-based solutions (NBS) in the semi-arid context of Amman, Jordan. Through a Delphi survey, interviews and literature review, i...
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Correction Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2024-02-02
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How divided government challenges strong mayors: the case of Poland Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Martyna Zawadzka
In ‘strong mayor’ local government systems, the institutional rules often allow for the formation of divided government. When the local government is divided, i.e. mayor is not supported by the maj...
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Airbnb and urban population change: an empirical analysis of the case of Stockholm, Sweden Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Czesław Adamiak, Roger Marjavaara
Internet platforms enabling the short-term rental of private homes are an increasingly important provider of tourist accommodation and a challenge for urban policy. Airbnb is frequently blamed for ...
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Climate Change and Urban Environment Sustainability Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Sidik Nur Toha
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 16, No. 5, 2023)
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Towards new geographies of cohesion in a context of growing inequalities: insights from two social innovation projects in Milan metropolitan area Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Luca Lazzarini, Carolina Pacchi
This contribution critically examines the possible interface between territorial cohesion and social innovation by investigating how two local social innovation initiatives in the Milan metropolita...
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The smart city and urban governance: the urban transformation of Barcelona, 2011–2023 Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Mariona Tomàs
This study explores the changes and stability of urban governance through the lens of smart city policy in Barcelona. It argues that the concept of smart cities is flexible and can be applied to bo...
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Prefigurative urbanization: housing cooperatives, social movements, and the urban transformation question in Harare (Zimbabwe) Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Elmond Bandauko, Robert Nutifafa Arku
Housing cooperatives and social movements have become significant actors in the housing delivery in Harare, Zimbabwe. This paper examines how these social movements contribute to the transformation...
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Putting inclusion into practice: how urban professionals give shape to participatory governance approaches in marginalized neighborhoods Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Simone van de Wetering, Martijn Groenleer
This article asks how urban professionals put inclusion into practice as they realize participatory governance in marginalized neighborhoods. Our ethnographic study shows that professionals focused...
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The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Stephen Essex, Federico Caprotti, Jiska de Groot, Jon Phillips, Lucy Baker, Peta Wolpe, Yachika Reddy
Critical to the trajectory and outcome of urban sustainable energy transitions is the ability of government institutions to foster conditions for change and innovation. In this paper, a theoretical...
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Identifying models of National Urban Agendas. a view to the global transition Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 João Igreja
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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A research Agenda for heritage planning. Perspectives from Europe Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Nicolas Marine
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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From the Garden City of West Africa to a landscape of urban crises Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere, Alfred Toku, Anthony Kwabena Sarfo
ABSTRACT This article examines the mutation of Kumasi from the ‘Garden City’ of West Africa to a landscape of urban crises. Although it focuses on contemporary issues, it also instigates into the discourse, historical perspectives to reveal the factors responsible for the urban crises using data from multiple sources. The results show dual city governance structure resulting from the socio-political
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Leadership, urban structure and place: evidence from Bristol and Dorset Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Rob Atkinson, Andrew Tallon, Maria Casado-Diaz
ABSTRACT Local leadership has become of increasing interest in the context of a renewed focus on local government and local development. In parallel, new interpretations of thinking about leadership drawing on Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Foucault suggest that leadership needs to engage with a wider range of participants. In the modern context, one way of understanding this engagement has been termed
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How do urban policies shape atmosphere? A multimethod inquiry of the sonic environment Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Nicola Di Croce, Edda Bild
ABSTRACT The effect of urban policies on the atmosphere of urban areas is rarely documented. Mobilizing the concept of atmosphere, this article takes a sonic lens to put forward a sensorial understanding of how urban policies shape city users’ sonic experiences and impact the perceived liveliness and attractiveness of public spaces. Reporting on a case study in Mestre (Venice, Italy), we study the
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Green gentrification and changing planning policies in Vienna? Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Michael Friesenecker, Thomas Thaler, Christoph Clar
ABSTRACT Adapting urban spaces to the impacts of climate change is one of today’s key challenges, especially when it comes to avoiding the associated social trade-offs which are often overlooked in planning and policy regulation. Based on a review of existing policy and legal documents from Vienna, we analyse how mitigation of green gentrification is already included in Viennese urban planning and
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Housing refugees from Ukraine: preliminary insights and learnings from the local response in five European cities Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Annegret Haase, Ivette Arroyo, Giovanna Astolfo, Yvonne Franz, Karlis Laksevics, Valeria Lazarenko, Bahanur Nasya, Ursula Reeger, Anika Schmidt
The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine caused an escape of >7 million people to other European countries. In this extreme context, the accommodation of refugees has been an urgent need and a...
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Capturing spatial inequalities: an analysis of walkable access to open spaces in Lima Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Viviana Silva, Elek Pafka
ABSTRACT Social inequity is a global problem that often acutely materialises in cities, where people with lower incomes have reduced access to open spaces. This article examines how walkable access to open spaces mediated by urban morphology and topography differs for people with contrasting income profiles. Taking Lima as a case study, the spatial analysis adapted GIS tools to consider the steep slopes
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Public housing and the PINQuA in Italy Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Constanze Wolfgring
After decades of disinvestment in public housing in Italy, the European Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) opens a window of opportunity for the regeneration of a housing segment displaying mul...
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Acceptance of users and non-users of an autonomous shuttle service Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Chloé Eyssartier, Guillaume Costeseque, Marie-Amélie Horvath
An experiment was piloted by Nantes Métropole concerning a transport service operated by an autonomous shuttle in spring 2019 in the Nantes-Bouguenais airport area. This paper aims to present the a...
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The role of municipalities in promoting housing affordability: an analysis of three Finnish cities Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Elina Sutela
ABSTRACT Land use and housing development policies are crucial for promoting housing affordability. As municipalities have considerable power over these policies, local variations in affordability measures occur. Focusing on three Finnish municipalities (Helsinki, Tampere, and Turku), this study analysed differences in promoting affordability. A content analysis based on expert interviews (N = 22)
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Size matters: action space for sustainability transition among planners in Swedish municipalities Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Karin Skill, Mosen Farhangi, Kristina Trygg
ABSTRACT We analyse the action space for strategic planning and sustainability transition among planners in Swedish municipalities. We use qualitative and quantitative materials from 103 survey responses obtained from Swedish municipal planners. Our analysis shows that the size and type (e.g. population and density) of the municipality where the planners work are connected to their perceived action
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Café culture and retail gentrification: a nonlinear canonical correlation analysis of intraclass diversity and bivalent class narratives in Cluj, Romania Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Norbert Petrovici, Vlad Bejinariu
ABSTRACT Retail gentrification remodels high streets and inner cities worldwide to appeal to the middle class, including specialty coffee consumption. The consumption of coffee in Cluj-Napoca’s inner-city district, a Central and Eastern Europe city, challenges certain tenets of the ‘revanchist city’ hypothesis, as shown through the concepts of ‘intraclass diversity’ and ‘bivalent class narratives’
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Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Alvarado-Arias Natalia
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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Financial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU: Reflections on the JESSICA Initiative Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Małgorzata Dziembała
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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‘Let’s do it together’: fostering social innovation through a university-community collaboration. The ‘Grandangolo’ project in the Aurora neighbourhood in Turin Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Francesca Bragaglia
ABSTRACT Using the case of the ‘Grandangolo’ project in Turin, funded by the European Union (EU) through the 4th call on urban security of the Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) programme, the paper discusses the role of the university and the relationship between the latter and local actors in enabling social innovation ecosystems through public funds. In a complex system where greater engagement of neighbourhoods
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Co-producing maintenance and repair: hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Lazarus Jambadu, Francesca Pilo’, Jochen Monstadt
ABSTRACT Access to water supply is still a problem in African cities. This has sparked discussions about how small-scale private actors could collaborate with the state to improve water supply. However, scholarly discussions on water supply have hardly examined the role of such actors in maintenance and repair. This paper shows how water infrastructures are maintained and repaired through hybrid labor
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Is the effect of Airbnb on the housing market different in medium-sized cities? Evidence from a Southern European city Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Imanol Mozo Carollo, Jon Morandeira-Arca, Aitziber Etxezarreta-Etxarri, Julen Izagirre-Olaizola
ABSTRACT Academic literature has analysed the effects of renting vacation homes in recent years from the perspective of large cities. This paper aims to test whether these effects also occur in smaller tourist cities. For this purpose, the case of San Sebastian (Spain), a medium sized tourist city. We find that a one unit increase per 100 housing units in Airbnb listings leads to a citywide average
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Cities Learning from a Pandemic. Towards Preparedness Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Agim Kërçuku, Politecnico Di Milano
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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European cities in Europe’s recovery plan: an historical opportunity for urban transformation? Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Pietro Reviglio
Abstract The EU post-pandemic recovery plan ‘NextGeneration EU’ is set to mobilise close to 750 billion of investments over the next 4 years. Beyond economic recovery, its ambition is to transform Europe’s development model and to align it with the objectives of the European Green Deal. This article provides an overview of the role that European cities have so far played in the design and implementation
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Winning city competition with a social agenda. The competition imaginary in Viennese urban development plans Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Carina Altreiter, Susanna Azevedo, Laura Porak, Stephan Pühringer, Georg Wolfmayr
ABSTRACT In the last decades, many scholars have studied competition between cities and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how competition between cities is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known less for its entrepreneurial policies than for its social welfare policies. The
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The effects of the local and regional conditions and inequalities on urban shrinkage: a multilevel analysis focusing on local population decline Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Jindo Jeong, Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim
ABSTRACT Urban shrinkage is becoming a worldwide issue. However, empirical investigation still lacks an understanding of the spatial extent of the factors that drive local population decline, a prevalent aspect of urban shrinkage. Empirical evidence on multilevel factors relating to population decline is particularly scarce. We investigated the influences by analyzing economic, social, physical, and
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Affordable housing alternatives in George Town World Heritage Site: what we have and what is possible Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Kuan Heong Woo, Suet Leng Khoo
Affordable housing is vital in ensuring the inclusiveness of a city. However, urbanization and gentrification have exacerbated the gap between housing availability and housing affordability. Many f...
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Retooling local economies: practitioners’ experiences and perspectives on plant closures in Ontario Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Jesse Sutton, Evan Cleave, David Bailey, Godwin Arku, John Hutchenreuther
ABSTRACT Since the early 2000s, plant closures have been a significant concern in Ontario, Canada. Scholars and policymakers alike aim to investigate the causes of plant closures and determine how to mitigate their impacts. Despite the large body of literature on plant closures, local economic development practitioners’ perspectives and experiences have been neglected. To fill this gap, this paper
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Handbook on cities and complexity Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Emine Koseoglu
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 15, No. 5, 2022)
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Being Interdisciplinary. Adventures in urban science and beyond Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Alicia Sevillano
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 15, No. 5, 2022)
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Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: between plans and reality in public-private partnerships Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Martijn van den Hurk, David Williams, Alvaro Luis dos Santos Pereira, Andrew Tallon
ABSTRACT Internationally, brownfield regeneration projects are delivered through public-private partnerships that form complex legal and structural delivery mechanisms. Utilizing private-sector finance and skills is an accepted practice to reduce financial risk for the public sector while delivering profits for the private sector. This article explores three international brownfield regeneration schemes
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Authenticity and integrity as qualifiers in managing living historic cities Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Niyati Jigyasu, Sharif Shams Imon
Authenticity and integrity are accepted qualifiers for cultural sites for inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Mentioned in various principles and frameworks, they have significant implicat...
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Women Leadership at the Apex. The Distinctiveness of Urban Women Mayors in Europe Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Lluís Medir, Carmen Navarro, Annick Magnier, Marcello Cabria
Women occupy leadership positions at all levels of government. While the topic has been extensively investigated and referred to national legislatures, other venues remain under-researched. By focu...
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Exploring the agency of policy through ecological urbanism for climate action: water and sanitation systems of Bengaluru Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Priya Joseph
ABSTRACT The cities of the world have been the exploiters of resources and the largest generators of waste. This paper explores the concept of Ecological Urbanism as a framework to convert cities from being waste generators to resource producers. The example of the wastewater from Bengaluru going into the lakes of Kolar is studied. The treated wastewater of the city reaches Kolar to fill its lakes
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Sustainable mobility transitions in suburbia – exploring (dis)connections between transport planning and daily mobility Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Ragnhild Dahl Wikstrøm, Per Gunnar Røe
The development of low-carbon cities calls for a restructuring of their suburban hinterlands, and regional land-use and transport planning has become an instrument to achieve this. However, this re...
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Planned urban development learning from town expansion schemes in the UK and Europe Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Corinna Di Franco
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 15, No. 4, 2022)
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Cities in the Anthropocene. New Ecology and Urban Politics Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Giorgian Guțoiu
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 15, No. 4, 2022)
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Gatekeepers of local environmental progress? Self-referencing practices of urban bureaucracy Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Renata Putkowska-Smoter, Mateusz Smoter, Krzysztof Niedziałkowski
We argue that contemporary debate on innovative urban environmental governance underestimates the influence of bureaucratic self-referencing practices. Informed by organisational and institutional ...
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From the representative to the radical: how novel forms of participation can reform democracy and reduce existential risk Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 James Herbert
ABSTRACT Existential risk is higher than is commonly thought. This risk can be reduced by improving our democratic processes and institutions. Local government has the opportunity, and therefore the responsibility, to experiment in this field. To inform this experimentation, this paper will discuss two novel types of participation. First, representative deliberative processes that reintroduce the Ancient
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Pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation through smart specialization strategies: the case of the lagging Centro region of Portugal Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Pedro Silva, Sara Moreno Pires, Filipe Teles, Alexandra Polido, Carlos Rodrigues
This research aims to understand the relevant pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation behind the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) of a lagging Europ...
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Public spaces in land use rating based on participatory mapping Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Anastasiia Galaktionova
ABSTRACT The paper presents citizens’ attitude to public spaces, which is a central topic in contemporary urban planning. Provided that the research concerning public spaces is rarely based on participatory methods, the paper introduces new quantitative data into scholarly research. Geo-located markers of positive and negative places, as well as proposals, were filtered through the city cadastre. The
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Factors and levels of community participation using the example of small-scale regeneration interventions in selected neighbourhood spaces in Polish cities Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Magdalena Miśkowiec, Edyta Masierek
This article analyses the regeneration initiatives conducted in urban courtyards in Poland based on the participatory mechanisms, diversity, and activity of participants, and collaborative capacity...
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Housing allowance and the perverse theory of housing outcomes Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Wasay Majid
This paper challenges economic theory applied within empirical literature on housing allowances for rent. The arguments challenged are (i) subsidy is a price drop, which increases demand, (ii) allo...
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Some ideas for a post-war recovery of Ukrainian cities Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 János Brenner
Abstract The author gives a short overwiev of ”Military Operations in Urban Terrain” (MOUT) as known from history, especially from World War II, especially in Kyiv and Budapest. Some reflections on history and actual state of civil defence follow. After an overwiev of actual Ukrainian local government reform and planning legislation, a description of desirable legilatvie and financial action for the
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Contemporary co-housing in Europe: towards sustainable cities? Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Anthony Boanada-Fuchs
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Urban operating systems: producing the computational city Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Astrid Krisch
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Neighbourhood rebuilding and affordable housing in Canadian cities Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Sasha Tsenkova
ABSTRACT A growing affordability problem in Canadian cities has prompted a renewed commitment of the federal government, complemented with provincial and municipal programs, to increase the supply of affordable rental housing. Recently, large Canadian cities have joined their efforts with non-profit and private organisations to provide affordable rental housing in mixed-income experimental projects
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Housing and urbanization policies of Istanbul, Turkey from central to the local Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Aysegul Can
ABSTRACT Global economic restructuring since the 1970s, and the rollback of the welfare state in the Global North has been a major contributor to a reduction in the affordable housing stock. Similarly in the so-called Global South recent economic development has been accompanied by a lack of sustainable affordable housing and housing policies. In this short paper, I aim to analyse important policy
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The impacts of neighbourhood governance on residents’ sense of community: a case study of Wuhan, China Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Da Liu, Zhigang Li, Yan Guo
This study examined the association between sense of community and neighbourhood governance. Based on residents’ evaluation of the service efficacies of the government, market and resident agencies...
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School and neighborhood selection as mechanism of socio-urban exclusion in Santiago of Chile: an action approach Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Fernando Campos-Medina, Iván Ojeda Pereira
We propose to study a set of biographical narratives about neighborhoods and schools’ selection in Santiago of Chile. Our argument holds that these family decisions have the capacity to transform i...
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Industrial lands, equity, and economic diversity: a comparative study of planned employment areas in Melbourne, Australia Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Carl Grodach, Nícolas Guerra-Tao
Cities develop innovation districts and mixed-use employment centres to grow knowledge industries and encourage sustainable urban form. However, this strategy may contribute to socio-economic inequ...
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Rethinking sustainability towards a regenerative economy Urban Research & Practice (IF 2.136) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Jelena Brajković
(2022). Rethinking sustainability towards a regenerative economy. Urban Research & Practice: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 317-319.