Does Urban Rail Transit Discourage People from Owning and Using Cars? Evidence from Beijing, China by Shasha Liu, Enjian Yao, Toshiyuki Yamamoto

“…Our study verifies that URT does discourage people from owning and using cars, which may have important implications for developing cities to make response to the ongoing motorization.…”
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Ibadan In Ibadan: The University and The City by Toyin Falola

“…It is therefore not erroneous to affirm that the University of Ibadan has contributed to the conditioning of the City and that the City of Ibadan has its own impact on the University. …”
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES AND TERRITORIES: STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY by Dmytro Anfilov

“…We note that for the benefit of future generations, the strategy of sustainable development of cities should satisfy their own needs, covering social, economic, and ecological dimensions. …”
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Data Offloading Over Vehicular DTNs: City-Wide Feasibility Study in Nagoya by Takamasa Higuchi, Lei Zhong, Ryokichi Onishi

“…Delay-tolerant networking (DTN) over vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications has been considered as an effective means of offloading the cellular data traffic, while its quantitative performance in urban road traffic remains unclear in many aspects. In this paper, we unveil the benefits of data offloading over vehicular DTNs by city-scale network simulations in Nagoya, Japan. …”
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O espaço é a flor azul do imaginário: Gaston Bachelard e Walter Benjamin em Paris – a descoberta de uma paisagem literária by Valéria Cristina Pereira da Silva, Carlos Fonseca Clamote Carreto

“…The ontology of the space in the imaginary is the central theme of this work whose main objective is to understand the space lived in the literary landscapes as a thematic branch of the city’s imaginary and, above all, to understand the imaginary by showing the relationships that exist in these two theoretical and methodological paths, with their own perspectives and possibilities of development between the studies of Geography and Literature, through the literary landscape that unfolds in the city’s imaginary.…”
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Managerial competences and their management: a study in Brazilian inns of a historic city (Tiradentes, Minas Gerais) by Leandro Eduardo Vieira Barros, Kely César Martins de Paiva, Mônica Carvalho Alves Cappelle

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space by Елена Григорьева

“…The hot, arid and antiquities-rich South and the cold, seemingly unfriendly, but in its own way beautiful and promising North. We have divided these notions, although in fact there is no unambiguous border between them. …”
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The impact of environment on human religiosity: The possibility of piety in a culture of meaninglessness and mutual "passing-by" by Dizdarević Bajram

“…In addition to the aforementioned, we plan to examine whether it is even possible to be religious in the city environment, since the modern city is characterized by deep ontological nothingness and Kafkaesque nonsense, and what are the consequences of the almost complete fusion of the village and the city, as a result of which it is no longer possible to count on a gradual cultural-civilization the maturing of the people, i.e. the intellectual and spiritual growth of individuals.…”
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Compte rendu de l’exposition « Cityscapes in Anime Background Art » by Delphine Vomscheid

“…These creations are so intricate that we can consider them “doubles” of the Japanese city – sometimes inspired by reality, sometimes by dystopia.…”
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A Review of Multi-Source Data Fusion and Analysis Algorithms in Smart City Construction: Facilitating Real Estate Management and Urban Optimization by Binglin Liu, Qian Li, Zhihua Zheng, Yanjia Huang, Shuguang Deng, Qiongxiu Huang, Weijiang Liu

“…In the context of the booming construction of smart cities, multi-source data fusion and analysis algorithms play a key role in optimizing real estate management and improving urban efficiency. …”
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Participatory epidemiological approaches for risk assessment of bed bug (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cimicidae) infestation in public hospitals in the city of Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan by Arzoo Ashraf, Muhammad Sohail Sajid, Hafiz Muhammad Rizwan, Kashif Hussain, Muhammad Asif Mahmood, Muhammad Imran Arshad, Zain ul Abdin, Shumaila Ashraf, Malcolm K. Jones, Dalia Fouad, Farid S. Ataya

“…Most observations of bed bugs by patients were in their beds (10.42%), with chairs (3.91%) being the second most reported location. However, we found bed bugs from only 17 (4.42%) beds and 5 (1.30%) from chairs. …”
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Redes pessoais e fragmentação socioespacial urbana: as hipóteses da fragmentação by Luciano Antonio Furini, Afonso Muzzo Alves

“…The specificity of the urban socio-spatial fragmentation process is configured to embrace other processes that already exist in our cities, characterizing its own dynamics. In this study, we seek to debate this theme from the analysis of the categories form, function, structure and process, with the results of the Maringá case study, city ​​located in the state of Paraná, Brazil. …”
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Contrarracionalidade no centro de Campinas: a (sobre)vivência dos trabalhadores da alimentação frente à imposição do planejamento estratégico by Livia Cangiano Antipon

“…It is a matter of looking at the problematic substantiated by the clash between the strategic planning imposed on the places and the response of these places and their subjects, combining alternatives and resisting the deterioration of the ways of living and surviving in the city. The analysis of the popular food market spaces proved to be a vital element for the reflection of the urban crisis in Campinas, highlighting the presence of the hidden hunger in the city and the counter-rational gestures of the poor social subjects who organize their own economic spaces.…”
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Une archéologie de la ville. À partir des « espaces autres » de Michel Foucault by Alessandro Zinna

“…This rein-terpretation anticipates modernity's own hybridisa-tion between topical and a-topical spaces. …”
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Rios nossos que estão no sertão! São Francisco e Parnaíba by Gercinair Silvério Gandara

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Problems of Cosmopolitanism and Alternativeness in the History of Central Asia by N. T. Nurulla-Khodzhaeva

“…We residents of Samarkand and Bukhara, throughout history aimed to accumulate traditions of challenging the established (often elitist) limits of local culture, economics and history. …”
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Creative tourism: opportunities for smaller places? by Greg Richards

“…We argue that smaller places should not attempt to emulate big city models of creative development, such as attracting the creative class, but should find their own creative mode based on using their endogenous resources, capacity building and bottom-up creativity. …”
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Le développement périurbain du Pays de France : des influences urbaines différenciées by Jean-Baptiste Grison

“…The “Pays de France” is so a “buffer strip”, where each locality knows its own landscape changes. The growth of Parisian suburbs follow some major trends, threw a development of low coast residential areas. …”
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Para além das metrópoles globais: a atuação de investidores financeiros nas cidades médias brasileiras by Maira Magnani, Lucia Shimbo

“…This study seeks to fill this gap. We argue that the financialization of these cities is not merely an extension of the phenomenon observed in the metropolises but a distinct process with its own characteristics. …”
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Depicting Berlin’s Atmospheres: Phenomenographic Sketches by Maxime Le Calvé, Olivier Gaudin

“…It examines a few contemporary atmospheres of the city of Berlin. We describe a selection of specific situations from the angle of sensorial experience and contextualize them with sociological, geographical and historical elements. …”
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