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Anthony Boanada-Fuchs, Monika Kuffer and Jota Samper
Slums are a structural feature of urbanization, and shifting urbanization trends underline their significance for the cities of tomorrow. Despite their importance, data and knowledge on slums are very limited. In consideration of the current data landsca...
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Naledzani Mudau and Paidamwoyo Mhangara
Research on the detection of informal settlements has increased in the past three decades owing to the availability of high- to very-high-spatial-resolution satellite imagery. The achievement of development goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goal...
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Jota Samper and Weichun Liao
This article challenges the narrow definition of informal settlements as solely lacking a formal framework, which overlooks the dynamic city-making and urban design processes within these areas. Communities? self-building processes and areas? constant gr...
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Ilse Schoeman and James Chakwizira
Various strategic plans compiled by the local levels of government seek to advance the need to integrate strategic planning frameworks and improve service delivery and related content through the application of performance management tools. From the pers...
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Nastaran Peimani and Hesam Kamalipour
The imperative to address the challenge of transforming car-dependent cities and promoting sustainable mobilities requires that we engage with the relationships between urban morphology and forms of urbanity in public spaces surrounding transit nodes. Wh...
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Valerio Di Pinto, Antonio M. Rinaldi and Francesco Rossini
This paper explores the link between the current vision of the ?smart city? and the notion of urban autopoiesis understood as self-organized/managed urban systems. It seeks to highlight how the use of GIS analysis, applied to the study of informal settle...
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Savis Gohari, Dirk Ahlers, Brita F. Nielsen and Eivind Junker
A pragmatic and polity-focused solution for governing a smart city in the direction of sustainability is still missing in theory and practice. A debate about whether a smart city is a pragmatic solution for modern challenges or just a technology-led urba...
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Liora Bigon
This commentary points to the problems inherent in critical place names studies in terms of classic research topics, methodologies and geographies. It expounds the limits of the official ?index?, that is, the variety of traditional urban inscriptions on ...
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Yuan Gao, Sina Shahab and Negar Ahmadpoor
Urban villages play an important role in providing affordable housing to urban migrants in Chinese cities. They are considered as supplementary to the dual rural-urban system in China. Of central importance to studying urban villages is how the morpholog...
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Álvaro Forteza, Cecilia Noboa
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We argue that societies sometimes choose not to enforce the law to gain ?flexibility?. Especially developing countries face a dilemma between discretion and commitment to only partially-contingent rules. Rules are good for incentives, but discretion may ...
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