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Development agendas governing the common good – Unfolding planning approaches: A case study of Vantaa, Finland 管理共同利益的发展议程 - 展开规划方法：芬兰万塔案例研究

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105581

Mari Jaakonaho , Zinette Bergman

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The spatial dynamics of financial expenditure on science and technology in Chinese cities: Financial capacity and government competition 中国城市财政科技支出的空间动态：财政能力与政府竞争

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105584

Yonglong Cai , Di Yan , Wenhui Li , Song Liu

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Strategic emerging enterprises drive city-level carbon emission efficiency in China 战略性新兴企业推动中国城市碳排放效率的提高

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105585

Muxin Liu , Hailin Lan , Xi Liang , Jiaqi Chen , Yi Wu

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Green infrastructure as a planning tool: A comprehensive systematization of urban redesign strategies to increase vegetation within public places 作为规划工具的绿色基础设施：增加公共场所植被的城市再设计战略的全面系统化

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105551

Luiza Sobhie Muñoz, Denise Helena Silva Duarte

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Travel sustainability of new build housing in the London region: Can London's Green Belt be developed sustainably? 伦敦地区新建住房的旅行可持续性：伦敦绿化带能否可持续发展？

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105574

Duncan A. Smith

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Decoding the spatial effects of walkability on walking behavior among older adults by integrating big data and small data 通过整合大数据和小数据，解码步行便利性对老年人步行行为的空间影响

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105537

Xuan He, Sylvia Y. He

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A novel approach to modeling urban commuting traffic demands 模拟城市通勤交通需求的新方法

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105583

Fangqu Niu, Bingcheng Xuan

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Socioeconomic advancement of women in the informal sector in Hosanna City, Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚 Hosanna 市非正规部门妇女社会经济地位的提高

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105580

Tayech Lemma , Mala Sharma

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Public, private and the pandemic: Everyday life in large housing estates during the COVID-19 lockdowns 公共、私人和大流行病：COVID-19 封锁期间大型住宅区的日常生活

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105575

Slavomíra Ferenčuhová , Marie Sýkora Horňáková , Jana Kočková , Petra Špačková

{"title":"Public, private and the pandemic: Everyday life in large housing estates during the COVID-19 lockdowns","authors":"Slavomíra Ferenčuhová , Marie Sýkora Horňáková , Jana Kočková , Petra Špačková","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105575","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105575","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped everyday life within five large housing estates (LHEs) in three major Czech cities: Prague, Brno and Ostrava. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 72 residents, the research explores the dynamics of coping with confinement within the limited space of apartments and their surrounding neighbourhoods. The findings highlight the shifts in the everyday routines of several residents of five LHEs and changes in how they perceived and evaluated their LHEs as a place of residence. Namely, the paper focuses on (temporary) changes in residents' uses and interpretations of public and private spaces and on the shifting boundary between the two. Moreover, it discusses the dynamic perception of “home” as shaped by external events. The paper thus contributes to two ongoing academic debates about, first, the impacts of the pandemic on various urban environments around the world and their residents, and second, the quality of life in the often-criticized 20th century modernist mass housing estates and their resilience in the face of current global challenges. It highlights the role of green areas, the flexible use of public spaces and the availability of local services in modernist mass housing areas – in post-socialist cities and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 105575"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania 罗马尼亚城市贫困的 Kunz 和后共产主义地理格局

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105582

Sorina Voiculescu

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