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Developer-driven co-housing in Denmark: strengths and weaknesses compared to resident-driven co-housing Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Jesper Ole Jensen, Marie Stender
The international literature on co-housing has for a long time called for more market actors to be involved in the provision of co-housing. However, few studies have been made on the implications o...
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Shared challenges, divergent practices. The impact of institutional frameworks on area-based initiatives in Barcelona and Paris Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Mar Esteve-Güell, Oriol Nel·lo, Ismael Blanco
In recent decades, the persisting inequalities in European cities have spurred the implementation of area-based initiatives (ABI) in the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This paper investigates h...
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The motivations and practices of commercial short-term rental operators in the short-term/long-term “regulatory gap” Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Charlotte Belot, Danielle Kerrigan, David Wachsmuth
Despite the rapid proliferation of short-term rentals (STRs) over the last decade, research contacting commercial operators to explore their business practices, motivations, and attitudes remains r...
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Typologies of informal adaptations of communal spaces:a comparative study between different socio-economic spatial settings in Amman Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Amro Yaghi, Lama Abuhassan, Dana Hamdan, Lubna Aalwneh, Lama Khushamn, Saba Tarawneh, Jawdat Goussous
This research reflects on various typologies of informal adaptations to communal spaces. Amman City has faced several humanitarian and economic crises that have played a significant role in its urb...
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Heritage and entrepreneurial urbanism: unequal economies, social exclusion, and conservative cultures Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Graham Gill
This article articulates an argument observed in the voices of key stakeholders in Bath, Edinburgh, and York, in conversations with the literature, whereby heritage-led entrepreneurial urbanism pra...
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Evaluating ‘pocket’ public spaces in Al Wehdat refugee camp, Jordan: challenges and opportunities Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Dana M.A. Hamdan, Bayan El Faouri, Tarek Teba, Amro Yaghi
The main objective of this research is to evaluate public ‘pocket’ spaces in Al Wehdat Refugee Camp, Jordan. The paper aims to identify the challenges associated with implementing pocket space upgr...
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Pockets of survival and alleys of livelihood: tracking local practices to sustain urban vitality in cities during and post-conflict in the city of Homs/Syria Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Abeer Abdelal, Tarek Teba, Barrak Gharbi
Armed conflict desolates the built environment and contributes to extremely complex political and economic conditions, which makes it difficult to envision revival strategies. This is a clear situa...
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Urban policy in the framework of the 2030 agenda: balance and perspectives from Latin America and Europe Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Anthony Boanada-Fuchs
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2024)
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The urban now: living in an age of urban globalism Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Ran Yi
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2024)
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The emerging role of cooperatives in the management of public housing in Italy. Opportunities and limitations of the ”Valorization-alternative-to-sale” policy in Lombardy Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Massimo Bricocoli, Marco Peverini, Anna Tagliaferri
Many public housing units in Italy are vacant or in critical need of repair due to continuous political withdrawal and a structural lack of funds. To cover overheads with low rents – linked by law ...
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Compensation as a planning compass: decision making in light of future claims and lawsuits Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Eynat Mendelson-Shwartz, Nir Mualam
Local governments around the world are typically required to compensate property owners for decline in property values due to planning actions. This has impacted and constrained the ability of citi...
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Planning the metropolitan region in the era of governance: three Latin American cases Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Pablo Elinbaum, Magdalena Vicuña, Luis Miguel Valenzuela Montes
Although there is a large body of literature examining metropolitan regions, it is difficult to find specific literature on metropolitan planning, especially in Latin America. Few studies overlook ...
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Smart adaptation to urban shrinkage in North Gyeongsang province, South Korea: opportunities and obstacles for implementation Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Seok-Gil Denver Jang, Juhyun Lee, Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim
In shrinking cities, adaptive responses such as ‘smart shrinkage’ are regarded as a promising approach to address depopulation and the quality of life for remaining residents. While its validity ga...
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Correction Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Operationalizing spatial justice in urban planning: bridging theory with practice Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Fillipe Oliveira Feitosa, Jan Hendrik Wolf, João Lourenço Marques
This research explores the challenges of using spatial justice as a basis for public policy and urban planning. Philosophical principles of justice are useful for systematic reasoning but lack obje...
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The production of Asian public space: the role of the transnational developer Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jillian Walliss, Ruiqi Shen
Accounts of projects generally credit design vision to the landscape architect or architect, relegating the role of the developer to the client. This essay offers an alternative perspective, arguin...
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Framing Europe on the local level – policy networks in German cities and their activities for political cohesion in Europe Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Renate Reiter, Dorothee Riese, Stephan Grohs, Benjamin Gröbe
Political practice and academic discourse similarly assume that the local level has the potential to strengthen political cohesion in the European Union: it is the tier closest to citizens and impl...
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EU awareness: unlocking the European potential of cities and regions Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Tibor Hargitai
This article provides insights from a 1-year-long collaboration of four cities, a university of applied sciences and the regional authorities of South-Holland (Netherlands) on how to increase aware...
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Beyond the informal understanding Self-organized Kampungs in Indonesia Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Tarpin Juandi, Angga Kurniawansyah, A. Siti Namirah Bunyamin, Ach. Firyal Wijdani, Aulia Riski, Dessy Ayu Wijayanti
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2024)
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Navigating in unknown waters: planners’ involvement in negotiated developer obligations in Turkey Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Fatma Belgin Gumru, Sevkiye Sence Turk
This study provides a comprehensive look at the actual, self-perceived, and aspired role of planners in the NDO-making process in Turkey where planners are torn between plan-led legislation and dev...
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Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Anupreet Singh Tiwana, Amol Nimsadkar
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2024)
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Johannesburg’s transit revolution: a critical report on transit-oriented development strategy Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-02
Published in Urban Research & Practice (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2024)
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How divided government challenges strong mayors: the case of Poland Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Nicola Di Croce, Edda Bild
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...
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Green gentrification and changing planning policies in Vienna? Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Michael Friesenecker, Thomas Thaler, Christoph Clar
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...
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Housing refugees from Ukraine: preliminary insights and learnings from the local response in five European cities Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) 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 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Viviana Silva, Elek Pafka
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 ...
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Public housing and the PINQuA in Italy Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Karin Skill, Mosen Farhangi, Kristina Trygg
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 ob...
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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 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Norbert Petrovici, Vlad Bejinariu
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 d...
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Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Lazarus Jambadu, Francesca Pilo’, Jochen Monstadt
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, sch...
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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 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Imanol Mozo Carollo, Jon Morandeira-Arca, Aitziber Etxezarreta-Etxarri, Julen Izagirre-Olaizola
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 tour...
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Cities Learning from a Pandemic. Towards Preparedness Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Carina Altreiter, Susanna Azevedo, Laura Porak, Stephan Pühringer, Georg Wolfmayr
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 compe...
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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 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 with and perspectives on plant closures in Ontario Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Jesse Sutton, Evan Cleave, David Bailey, Godwin Arku, John Hutchenreuther
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 mitig...
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Handbook on cities and complexity Urban Research & Practice (IF 1.8) 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 1.8) 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 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Martijn van den Hurk, David Williams, Alvaro Luis dos Santos Pereira, Andrew Tallon
Internationally, brownfield regeneration projects are delivered through public-private partnerships that form complex legal and structural delivery mechanisms. Utilizing private-sector finance and...