The effect of micro climate factors on energy consumption optimization approach in Tehran urban buildings by pariz Amiri Ade, Saeed Tizghalam zenozi, Mehrdad Javidi Nejad

“…this study is designed to investigate the impact of micro climatic factors on optimizing energy consumption in Tehran urban buildings. The present study is of applied purpose and analytical method. …”
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Identification of shrinkage patterns in Japan’s four major metropolitan areas based on nighttime light and population data by Hao Zheng, Runsen Zhang

“…Here, we integrated Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership–Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite nighttime light data with WorldPop population data to examine the patterns of urban shrinkage from 2012 to 2020 in Japan’s four largest metropolitan areas: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka. …”
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A cartografia do fenômeno urbano e econômico no Paraná: uma leitura com auxílio da semiótica by Ricardo Rodrigues Monteiro

“…This paper presents a narrative of Paraná urban phenomenon from 1872 to 2010 with the help of cartography and Peirce's semiotics. …”
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The Impact of International Tourism on Environmental Quality (Case Study: D8 Countries) by Roohollah Babaki, Behnam Elyaspour, Narges Sanjari Konarsandal

“…The general model of this study is as follows:                                                                         CO2it = f (TRit, GDPit, POPit, Urit) Where CO2 is the amount of carbon dioxide emissions, TR is the income from arrival tourists (as a percentage of GDP), GDP is the economic growth rate, POP is the population growth rate, and UR is urbanization. …”
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From temporary bike lanes to a cycling oriented mobility paradigm. The case of Lyon during and after the pandemic of COVID-19 by Nathalie Ortar, Patricia Lejoux, Nicolas Ovtracht

“…The aim of this article is to focus on the experience of tactical urbanism during the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Lyon, the second largest city in France, and to investigate whether these pop-up infrastructures have facilitated a shift towards a cycling oriented mobility paradigm. …”
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGY OF SPRING CEREALS IN THE TRANSYLVANIAN PLATEAU by Teodor Rusu, Felicia Chețan, Ileana Bogdan, Paula Ioana Moraru, Adrian Ioan Pop, Camelia Alămorean

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Envisioning Metropolis—New York as Seen, Imaged and Imagined by Heinz ICKSTADT

“…The essay first sketches the geography of literary New York from the Bowery and the Lower East Side to Harlem; then fills out the geographic space with chapters of New York’s literary history from modernism and its myth of metropolis (in Dos Passos, Joseph Stella and Hart Crane) to the collapse of this vision of an urban sublime during the Great Depression. It subsequently discusses more playful versions of the urban in Pop Art and literary texts of the 1970s and 1980s, before it turns to contemporary fiction where the modernist tradition of an urban sublime is deconstructed and metropolitan space reconceived as part of a larger transnational system of information, global money flows and migratory movements. …”
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“aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambition makes you look [pretty] ugly”: Mass consumption and computer-generated art in Radiohead’s OK Computer by François Hugonnier

“…It uses paradox in order to assimilate the mass-consumption and technological progress it both abhors and embodies. In an urban landscape of sedated “consumer-robots”, the band embraces the digital era and fuses pop-rock songs with electronic distortion. …”
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'Des Yeux Qui Ne Voient Pas...': The smartphones by Luca Di Lorenzo

“…Described by the architects themselves as a ‘travel toolbox’ or ‘pop-up fly loft theatre in the city’, this compact architecture is the incarnation of three interesting formal qualities usually associated with smartphones: the clear division between the hardware and the ergonomic user interface; the possibility to operate different functions (or software) in the same space (or screen); and the real and virtual connection with different urban situations.…”
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The hidden crisis: double burden of malnutrition among refugee children in South Asia – a systematic review and meta-analysis from observational studies by Pooja Panchal, Mohd Usman, Tajung Longkumer, Reshma Susan Babu, Mahalaqua Nazil Khatib, Shariza Abdul Razak, Kavitha Menon

“…The 10 studies covered a total of 4,274 participants with 3,536 urban and 738 rural refugee children aged between 0 and 19 years [refugee children (n = 8) and refugee adolescents (n = 2)]. …”
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HCHs and DDTs in Soils around Guanting Reservoir in Beijing, China: Spatial-Temporal Variation and Countermeasures by Tie-yu Wang, Bing Tan, Yong-long Lu

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