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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…
Vaiva Kalesnikaite, Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor
The article intends to provide more understanding of strategies intended to tackle homelessness presence in Miami-Date County as well as draw some lessons that could be learnt from experience. It is explanatory in nature and the main method used is extensive…
Jitendra Kumar
The present study has examined in geographic perspective of origin and regional setting of me-tropolises that constitute an important component of Indian urban system. These are the spatial expression of urban perspective and have acted as focal points on the…
Panini Amin Chowdhury
Urban expansion has become a popular word nowadays. For sustainable development strategy and efficient city management, the growth pattern analysis of the city is a pre requisite. Urban expansion is a dynamic process and is a difficult task to create a unifor…
Michel Dimou, Alexandra Schaffar
The aim of this paper is to document the role of spatial effects in the relationship between urban trends and economic development in China, between 1984 and 2004. During this period the Chi-nese urban system experienced dramatic changes, with significant rur…
Hesam Kamalipour, Mohsen Faizi, Gholamhossein Memarian
Different conceptions of crime in design practice, sociology, environmental psychology, and crimi- nology indicate an extensive articulation of crime in relation to the built environment and urban form in the city. Five decades of different studies on urban c…
A. C. Carfan, E. Galvani, J. T. Nery
This study aims to analyze the thermal comfort in urban areas for different land uses. The ENVI- met microclimatic model has been used for urban boundary layer simulation, providing the following thermal comfort indexes: PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) and PPD (Pre…
Vidya Sagar Pancholi
Since last couple of decades, there is an emerging trend of decentralisation and India is no exception to such a trend. Studies that measure decentralisation in India, however, are mostly comparative and target a limited set of parameters. This paper, attempt…
Bojan Grum
The aim of the study was to explore the role of demographic characteristics of potential acquirers of real estate rights. We were interested in whether the participants according to different origins of cultures and the basic demographic characteristics refle…
Peter M. Ward, Edith R. Jiménez Huerta, María Mercedes Di Virgilio
The paper describes an innovative methodology developed as part of a major “mixed methods” collaborative and multidisciplinary research project across several Latin American cities. It offers a systematic “hands-on” methodology about how to conduct multi-disc…
C. R. Ramakrishnaiah
Current water resources management practices in most developing countries result in unnecessarily high economic and environmental costs. The magnitude and consequences of such costs have spurred the emergence of a global consensus on principles for improving…
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