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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…
Sonja Deppisch, Mert Can Yilmaz
Urbanization is ongoing and its processes infringe upon human rights, along with creating opportunities for people. This systematic literature review gives an overview of the state of research on the impacts of urbanization processes on human rights. The prim…
Ying Lai, Xingxing Yang
Huizhou, seated in the Pearl River Delta, is located at the intersection of the three main folk groups of Han Nationality of Guangdong. Owing to the different historical sources and the different terrain of the three main folk groups such as Hakka, Guangfu an…
Awais Azhar, Holly Buttrey, Peter M. Ward
Today most scholars, policy makers, and low-income “slum” residents themselves eschew the term slum and some argue that it is high time to retire the term altogether. We agree, and yet recent research of consolidated informal settlements in Latin America and…
Svetlana Albu, Anna Leșan
The protection of the national cultural heritage consists of all measures of a sc ientific, legal, administrative, financial, fiscal, and technical nature, d esigned to ensure the identification, research, inventory, classification, preservation, security, ma…
Zohreh Karaminejad
While collaborative governance and planning are often criticized for exacerbating power imbalances, failing to be inclusive and/or impartial, and for ignoring historical conflict, some scholars have found an informal but foundational phase/pre-collaboration c…
Mwangi Josephine, Gariy Abiero, Makworo Micah
The design of street layouts in urban areas in developing countries has been centered around motorized transportation with little close to no consideration to non-motorized modes of transport. This has resulted in increased congestion, poor urban air quality,…
Paulo Henrique Trombetta Zannin, Thomas Jefferson Vieira, Andrei Rei Rodrigues Silveira
An evaluation was made of the acoustic quality of classrooms on two campuses of the Federal University of Paraná. Despite the heavy vehicle traffic flow on the streets in and around the campuses, the noise maps of the Polytechnic Center campus indicated that…
Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi
A sustainable urban vision needs to reflect the distinctive qualities, characteristics and identities of each individual space and cit y , integrated with evolving social and cultural aspects. This vision is also an expression of the integrated values and per…
Rizqa Uswah, Lin Wang
Urban waterfront development had been a global trend in many cities around the world, not only in big cities but also in medium-sized cities, and even small towns. They have improved their waterfront area with good utilization in order to create attractive pu…
Surendra Singh Jatav, Sanatan Nayak, Surendra Meher, Sonali Narang
This paper aims at identifying key determinants, which influence and motivates households to wash hand on a regular basis with soap and water before taking meal and after open defecation in urban Uttar Pradesh using household-level 76 th round NSSO data (July…
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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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