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Current Urban Studies (CUS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement in the study of urban studies. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas…
Bessy Kathambi, Florence Ogutu
Institutional frameworks serve as vehicles for proper solid waste manage ment. Lapses in institutional structures create ecological disasters that affect public health and environmental degradation. Municipal solid waste management is a critical subject world…
Yexin Wang, Jing Li, Xuebing Ren
With the continuous expansion of mega-cities in China, the landscape pattern of the original urban-rural area is broken, resulting in serious fragmentation of landscape patches in the fringe area of the urban center and threatening urban ecological security.…
Teija Vainio, Iina Sankala
In the era of rapid urbanisation, technological development , and climate change, there is an urgent need for urban sustainability. However, the globally widespread concept of a smart city has not delivered on its promise of improving sustainability with urba…
Farish Jazlan, Ramin Saedi, Ali Zockaie, Mehrnaz Ghamami, Michelle Boucher, Hediye Tuydes-Yaman, Mehdi Ganji, Andrea Marr
Rising urban population, aging infrastructure, and increasing capital maintenance costs call for more efficient use of limited available resources. To address these concerns, the use of technology for urban infrastructure management and operational efficiency…
Peter Nientied, Besnik Aliaj, Katarzyna Stachowiak-Bongwa
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the issue of whether city governments could or should be engaged in (social) urban identity formation. From a functional angle, social urban identity formation can help to gain loyalty and pro-social and environmenta…
Xiangting He, Tiancheng Zhou, Tongguang Zang, Bingyu Sun, Konomi Ikebe
Since the 21 st century, cultural creativity has become a prominent way to revitalize cultural heritage such as historical buildings and historical landscapes. However, many current practices are dominated by the government, and the factors affecting individu…
Ana Moreira, Hugo Farias
Housing is a form of culture and, as such, is greatly influenced by social context and its transformation. Household composition and characteristics, modes of living and housing typologies and attributes are undoubtedly linked. This paper proposes an analysis…
Shunsuke Sekiguchi, Toshihiro Watanabe
In Japan, the uniform and simultaneous regulation of tobacco prices using the tobacco retail price system is regarded as a social issue. Previous studies have estimated the price elasticity or tax revenue elasticity of uniform national prices from the perspec…
Utpal Dutta, Xiaohui Zhong, Nouri Gsouda
Three years of global traffic death data were analyzed to identify significant socio-economic determinants of global traffic death. Due to wide variation of data elements, the collected data were standardized and then four clusters namely Medium, Low, High an…
Xiaojun Liang, Baoying Zhang, Kewei Wang, Xinyi Ji, Zhengxiang Geng, Cheng’e Chen
40 newly decorated residences in Kunshan city were selected and investigated. Formaldehyde concentrations were detected in the winter (January to February) and summer (July to August) respectively in 2019. A total of 324 indoor air samples were collected from…
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