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Gianluigi Salvucci, Luca Salvati and Maria Felice Arezzo
?Marginal? urban settlements can be assumed as specific locations within a metropolitan area that are unable to attract (incoming) commuter flows. The official statistical system of Italy (headed by the National Statistical Institute, Istat) introduced a...
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Christopher Chimaobi Onyeneke and Aly H. Karam
Debates in urban social research indicate that one of the most significant problems facing cities of the global south is the dilemma of crime. This study explores the research question: what is the level of influence of economic deprivation and residenti...
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Dana R. Thomson, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forrest R. Stevens, Gregory Yetman, Peter Elias and Robert Chen
Low- and middle-income country cities face unprecedented urbanization and growth in slums. Gridded population data (e.g., ~100 × 100 m) derived from demographic and spatial data are a promising source of population estimates, but face limitations in slum...
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Monika Kuffer, Jon Wang, Dana R. Thomson, Stefanos Georganos, Angela Abascal, Maxwell Owusu and Sabine Vanhuysse
Routine and accurate data on deprivation are needed for urban planning and decision support at various scales (i.e., from community to international). However, analyzing information requirements of diverse users on urban deprivation, we found that data a...
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Tatiana Kolodin Ferrari, Flávia da Fonseca Feitosa, Diego Bogado Tomasiello, Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro
Pág. 841 - 862
Household structure has been recognized as an important element of residential location choice. The aim of this work is to understand how the spatial configuration resulting from these location choices could cause differentials in terms of urban life and...
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Meghann Mears and Paul Brindley
Urban greenspace can provide physical and mental health benefits to residents, potentially reducing health inequalities associated with socioeconomic deprivation. The distribution of urban greenspace is an important social justice issue, and consequently...
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Solomon Zitta Wuyep and Isaac Tebogo Rampedi
In most urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa, the migration of people from rural to urban areas in search of better socio-economic conditions and improved livelihoods is contributing to increased unemployment levels, poverty and large scale urban deprivatio...
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Pablo Cabrera-Barona
Self-reported health is considered a health outcome related to neighborhood characteristics. This study analyzes the influence of urban multi-criteria deprivation and spatial accessibility to healthcare on individual self-reported health from a case stud...
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Tom Brower
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In the midst of an energy crisis, sub-Saharan Africa is a global outlier with respect to power infrastructure and is literally without power. Nearly 600 million Africans?roughly two-thirds of the region?currently lack access to consistent, reliable, and ...
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