Spatial variations of intra-city urban heat island in megacity Delhi
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2017.11.026
Abstract: Abstract This study examines the variation of intra-city Urban Heat Island (UHI) in megacity Delhi by the mobile transverse measurement technique and spatial maps of UHI along the mobile routes have been generated for the… read more here.
Keywords: city; urban heat; heat island; city urban ... See more keywords
Resurgent landlordism in a student city: urban dynamics of private rental growth
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DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2020.1741974
Abstract: ABSTRACT Many countries have seen a remarkable revival of private-rental housing markets in recent years. Academic literature so far has focused on theorizing the political-economic drivers of reinvestment in the tenure or on charting aggregate… read more here.
Keywords: rental growth; city; private rental; city urban ... See more keywords
After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship
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DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2021.1913335
Abstract: Manchester and Chicago were each the ‘Shock City’ of their age in Britain and America, both undergoing massive industrialisation and urbanisation, with similar problems. Tom Hulme’s outstanding res... read more here.
Keywords: shock city; culture making; city urban; urban culture ... See more keywords
Evolution of plasticity in the city: urban acorn ants can better tolerate more rapid increases in environmental temperature
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DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coy030
Abstract: Cities often warm at faster rates during the day and across space. The mechanisms underlying how organisms respond to these climatic changes in cities are largely unknown. This study finds evidence that the heat tolerance… read more here.
Keywords: urban acorn; evolution plasticity; acorn ants; ants better ... See more keywords
So much for the city: Urban-rural song variation in a widespread Asiatic songbird.
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DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12284
Abstract: Song plays a fundamental role in intraspecific communication in songbirds. The temporal and structural components of songs can vary in different habitats. These include urban habitats where anthropogenic sounds and alteration of habitat structure can… read more here.
Keywords: variation; much city; urban rural; city urban ... See more keywords
Mexico City as an Urban Laboratory: Oscar Lewis, the “Culture of Poverty” and the Transnational History of the Slum:
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DOI: 10.1177/0096144218768501
Abstract: This paper examines U.S. anthropologist Oscar Lewis’s research in Mexico City in the 1950s to reflect on how urban poverty has been construed in the United States and Latin America in the twentieth... read more here.
Keywords: oscar lewis; urban laboratory; mexico city; history ... See more keywords
Charting Change in the City: Urban Political Orders and Urban Political Development
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DOI: 10.1177/1078087420988608
Abstract: Cities matter. They are often the sites in which the helping hand and the clenched fist of the state makes first contact with the citizen. They are engines of national economic growth and, often, t... read more here.
Keywords: change city; urban political; orders urban; city urban ... See more keywords