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Smart city development is recognized as a potential solution to urbanization issues, but a disconnect comes along with the vagueness in smart city elements and pathways. The use of the term smart city by some local government units in the Philippines evokes a utopia – a local sphere with...
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This paper analyses institutional reforms and political participation, most notably indirect and direct elections of residential committees (RC), in China's urban neighbourhoods and communities (shequ). It shows that these elections at present are not meaningful to the majority of city dwellers...
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Urban sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Brazilian cities are growing. At the national level, the dominance of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in Brazil masks the fact that emissions from other sectors, like Energy, Transport and Waste, are growing quite rapidly in cities....
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The effects of climate change on the world's cities and the people who live in them is not a matter that has received a great deal of attention. The effects of climate change tend to get considered in continental or regional terms – melting ice caps, agricultural crop losses across vast swaths...
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der modernen Stadt nachhaltig zu verankern? Diese Abhandlung analysiert kritisch das aktuelle Verständnis von … Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Die Stadt im Blickpunkt der Bürgergesellschaft …
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der modernen Stadt nachhaltig zu verankern? Diese Abhandlung analysiert kritisch das aktuelle Verständnis von … Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Die Stadt im Blickpunkt der Bürgergesellschaft …
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In the past, both researchers and policymakers have often underlined the important role cities have to play in reaching the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Meanwhile, city networks have become increasingly active in approaching international...
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Programm „Soziale Stadt“ verband die Stadterneuerung mit der Unterstützung der Bevölkerung und des lokalen Gemeinwesens in … aus dem RWI GEO-RED, um die Auswirkungen der "Sozialen Stadt" auf Haushaltseinkommen, Mieten und Wohnungspreise in den …
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A country's urban silhouettes prophesy its future climate policy, or so this paper argues. The more its city silhouettes are skewed to the periphery, the more likely a country is to implement the carbon tax. This is why the effect of a country's urban form on greenhouse gas emissions -- a bone...
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