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Where does face-to-face interaction happen?
Steven Farber adn Tijs Neutens and Juan-Antonio Carrasco and Carolina Rojas, "Social Interaction Potential and the Spatial Distribution of Face-to-Fac...
October 20, 2023Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No “Right to the City”
Annals of The Association of American Geographers. Mar2018, Vol. 108 Issue 2, p370-379. 10p. Abstract Employing qualitative and ethnographic dat...
October 20, 2023Urbanism, if done right, can strengthen local identities
Ricky Burdett, "Mapping Scales of Urban Identity," Architectural Design 82 (2012): 6 The take-away: Burdett questions how urban design can contribu...
October 20, 2023Urbanism and social capital: using the built environment to bridge local space and drive social cohesion
Joseph Cabrera and Jonathan Najarian, "How the Built Environment Shapes Spatial Bridging Ties and Social Capital," Environment and Behavior 47 (2015):...
October 20, 2023UK ‘home zones’ and their impact on liveability and activity
Mike Biddulph, "Radical streets? The impact of innovative street designs on liveability and activity in residential areas," Urban Design International...
October 20, 2023The right trees for your city are in this database
Juliane Vogt et. al, "Citree: A database supporting tree selection for urban areas in temperate climate," Landscape and Urban Planning 157 (2016): 1 ...
October 20, 2023Trees: benefits, challenges, and solutions
Jennifer Mullaney & Terry Lucke & Stephen Trueman, "A review of benefits and challenges in growing street trees in paved urban environments," Landscap...
October 20, 2023The why and how of participatory place-making
Elizelle Cilliers and Wim Timmermans, "The Importance of Creative Participatory Planning in the Public Place-Making Process," Environment and Planning...
October 20, 2023The built environment shapes neighborhood residents' sense of community, but perception is a tricky question
Sarah French and Lisa Wood and Sarah Alexandra Foster and Billie Giles-Corti and Lawrence Frank and Vincent Learnihan, "Sense of Community and Its Ass...
October 20, 2023Tall buildings and place-making: a conceptual model
Kheir Al-kodmany, "Placemaking with tall buildings," Urban Design International 16 (2011): 4 Abstract (comprehensive): Despite their profound impac...
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