Urban Thermal Comfort - Reality and Challenges by Aneta Afelt, Wojciech Szymalski, Kamil Leziak

“…The analysis of topoclimatic conditions is presented on the example of two towns near Warsaw: Mińsk Mazowiecki and Wołomin. …”
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Greece’s Ethnic Cleansing Operation to the Turks as a War Crime in East Thrace 1920 -1922 by Mehmet Şükrü Güzel

“…Greek goverment used methods of forced expropriation of Turkish lands and houses with out any indemnity, burned Turkish villages and towns, killed Turkish civilians and forced others to leave their houses. …”
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A historical overview of the Wärğəḥ Muslim community in the Christian highland of Šäwa by Deresse Ayenachew

“…In north Šäwa, the community of Wärğəḥ has established scattered pockets of villages between Däbrä Berhan and Säbäta towns. Linguistically, they speak Oromo and also Amharic. …”
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Зовнішня міграція з Переяславщини після 24 лютого 2022 р. (за матеріалами газети «Вісник Переяславщини»)... by Олена Колибенко

“…Against the background of the spatial aspect: the geography of the routes of immigrants; the way through the territory of European countries; the names of the cities and towns chosen as the final destination, the reasons for leaving, the circumstances that adjusted the migrants' route to the border, the problems faced by Ukrainians at the places of resettlement, assistance to refugees, opportunities that open up in a new place are considered.…”
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Placemaking through guerilla gardens at the TOKI mass housing grounds in Bor (Niğde) by Ufuk Soyöz

“…Tasked with providing affordable housing for low-income families, TOKI implements standardized designs across Turkey's cities and towns, including the Bor (Niğde) complex. As opposed to the rigidity and uniformity of TOKI blocks, the architecture of guerilla gardens displays the spontaneity and ingenuity that characterized the original gecekondu. …”
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Cinema as Testimony and Discourse for History: Film Cityscapes in Autobiographical Documentaries by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

“…These films share a similar subjective approach to portraying the decline of industrial towns through personal memories, despite their belonging to three different subgenres: the performative political documentary, the essay film and the self-fiction. …”
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L’abbaye de Lisle-en-Barrois (Meuse) : opportunités et contraintes spatiales d’un temporel cistercien frontalier by Christophe Wissenberg

“…At the turn of the thirteenth century, the abbey classically went beyond its initial circle of restrictions – by moving into the towns – and diversified its supplies (wine and salt) and income (rents), embarking on a process of adaptation – if not abandonment – of its principles in line with seigniorial economy, of which the founding of the villeneuve of Deuxnouds is the most eloquent incarnation.…”
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Youth as actors and mediators in Tuareg theater and social life (Urban Niger and Mali) by Susan Rasmussen

“…In northern Niger and Mali, West Africa, droughts, settling of some nomads in towns, return of labor migrants, marginal employment, and recurrent armed conflicts have prompted different generations of Tuareg (also known as Kel Tamajaq, or “people who speak Tamajaq”)—traditionally semi-nomadic, stratified, and predominantly Muslim—to reflect on dangers and opportunities for the different generations in these upheavals. …”
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L’établissement routier de la Goudagne (Auch, Gers) : une hôtellerie ? by Fabien Colleoni, Catherine Petit-Aupert

“…Second, it could be seen in the administrative importance of the principal towns of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (Auch and Lectoure), which were milestones in the Itinerary. …”
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“Étrangers à la montagne” by Aimada Solé, Miguel Solana, Enric Mendizabal

“…The small size of villages and towns and the lack of privacy are characteristic of this mountain area. …”
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Les notables voconces au Haut-Empire by Bernard Rémy, Nicolas Mathieu

“…AD, but more than fifth of the inscriptions cannot be dated. 31 “notables” are attested outside their civitas; the rest of them are mainly mentioned in texts found in Luc-en-Diois (Drôme), Die (Drôme) and Vaison-la-Romaine (Vaucluse). Other small towns and rural areas are far less represented. It can be assumed, however, that this privileged society derived the bulk of their wealth from their lands. …”
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Ethnozoology of bushmeat by Romain Duda, Sandrine Gallois, Victoria Reyes-García

“…However, the increase of bushmeat consumption in towns and more efficient hunting practices have pushed the harvest of wild animals to unsustainable levels, generating a “bushmeat crisis”. …”
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'Saving' the child in Victorian Dundee by Chrissie Urquhart

“…Contemporary observers argued that it was the drunkenness, ignorance, promiscuity, and irresponsibility of parents which were responsible for the 'gangs' of disorderly and offending children 'swarming' the streets of Victorian towns (Pearson, 1983; Platt, 1969; Shore, 1999). …”

Assessment of Lifestyle Behaviors of Nursing Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Şeyma Nur Hepokur Yıldırım, Yeter Kitiş

“…Participants in big cities adopted more unhealthy diets than those in small towns. Participants who had tested positive for COVID adopted healthier diets than those who had not (p…”
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The return of the property question in the development of Alpine tourist resorts in Switzerland by Christophe Clivaz, Stéphane Nahrath

“…In these very favourable conditions for landowners, who also see land ownership strengthened by its introduction in the Federal Constitution at the end of the 1960s, the "growth coalitions" structuring the local power in many tourist towns usually planned oversized building areas (and often badly located) which have facilitated the development of second homes industry to the detriment of productive estate home industry. …”
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The theme of the North in modern Russian folk-horror by Elena A. Safron

“…It turns out that this subgenre is built on the basis of the chronotope of locations remote from large cities (towns, villages, settlements), which are associated with the chthonic world and threaten people (the motif of a cursed place). …”
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Analysis of Farmer Relocation Selection Behavior Based on Bayesian Network by Song Li, Yanbo Guo

“…The results of regression analysis by establishing a multivariate logistic model show that there is a strong willingness to choose small towns and large cities. However, the willingness to choose not to relocate to local villages is relatively weak.…”
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Leveraging IoT and industry 4.0 for enhanced environmental safety by Javad Pourqasem, Duško Tešić, Eisa Abdolmaleki

“…Subsequently, there is a need to guarantee the supply of filtered drinking water for individuals both in urban areas and towns. Water Quality Monitoring is a practical and proficient framework intended to screen drinking water quality that utilizes Internet of Things (IoT) innovation. …”
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Risk of Fungi Associated with Aflatoxin and Fumonisin in Medicinal Herbal Products in the Kenyan Market by Lucia Keter, Richard Too, Nicholas Mwikwabe, Charles Mutai, Jennifer Orwa, Lizzy Mwamburi, Stanley Ndwigah, Christine Bii, Richard Korir

“…Research was carried out to determine the presence of aflatoxins and fumonisins in herbal medicinal products sold in Eldoret and Mombasa towns in Kenya. The study employed both exploratory and laboratory experimental design. …”
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Rapid Mapping and Deformation Analysis over Cultural Heritage and Rural Sites Based on Persistent Scatterer Interferometry by D. Tapete, F. Cigna

“…Advantages and drawbacks of the methodology are critically discussed based on feasibility tests performed over Pitigliano and Bivigliano, respectively, located in Southern and Northern Tuscany, Italy, and representative of hilltop historic towns and countryside settlements chronically affected by natural hazards. …”
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