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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…
Najmaldin Al-Taesh, Katarzyna Ujma-Wasowicz
Mass street running has become one of the most popular sports that has taken place in the city’s center for many years. The interest in the participation of people with disabilities in street running has increased. Policymakers and urban planners are also awa…
Peter Newman, Jeff Kenworthy
This article provides a personal reflection 30 years after we created the concept of automobile dependence. The paper entitled “Gasoline Consumption and Cities: A Comparison of US Cities with a Global Survey and Its Implications” and an associated book “Citie…
Caijuan Liang, Jun Wang, Zhihao Ma, Shouni Tang, Bo Wang, Yue Wu
In the context of the global outbreak of COVID-19, this study took Wuhan as an example, using mathematical statistics and spatial analysis, and other methods to explore the distribution characteristics and distribution of COVID-19 in residential spaces in the…
Pastory Salvatory Thomas, Wilbard Jackson Kombe, Aldo Lupala
In the near future, urban agriculture will not be the same as it was in the past or as it is at present. The different forms and context at which agricultural activities take place can have different effects on the value of urban agriculture. Information abou…
Zuzana Dvořáková Líšková, Petra Pártlová, Dagmar Škodová Parmová, Eva Semančíková
The paper deals with the “top-down” approach because its existence should define limits for the “bottom-up” approach. The paper is focused on the exis tence and operation of the system of hierarchical planning of landscape in tw o post-communist countries — t…
Jacob Lutta, Yves Schoonjans, Aldo Lupala
The growth of African cities encountered movement of people from countryside to capital cities searching for employment opportunities. In the city of Dar es Salaam the job market has not grown enough to keep up population increase. The increasing urban popula…
Flavio Lopes Ribeiro
Disasters pose a major threat to cities’ development. Consequently, a lot of attention has been put into increasing urban capacity to withstand, adapt and grow no matter what kind of catastrophic event they go through. However, th e majority of international…
Zhe-Feng Lin, Jin-Yao Yang
With the stable development of new countryside construction, the changing of the landscape pattern in the Chinese countryside attracts more attention, especially in the ethnic townships which are hardly accessible. To explore the development of ethnic areas,…
Virpi Lund, 1 1
This paper contributes to the study of residents’ and civil servants’ transformative agency in urban development with the aid of the framework of cultural-historical activity theory. The aim is to investigate the emergence of transformative agency in five wor…
Chenyang Shen, Jiahua Li
Anyang City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Henan Province. It is located in the northernmost part of Henan Province. It is one of my country’s eight ancient capitals and a national historical and cultural city. The current Anyang Old Cit…
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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… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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