Cholecystectomy Rates Mirror Urbanization Trends and Highlight Consequences of Urban Living in an African Cohort

This paper explores a renewed problematization of contemporary metropolises' dynamics in the light of speci fic efforts to reclaim the city as commons. Building on Lefebvre's theorizations of the city's virtuality and comparing it to contemporary approaches to the urban condition that emphasize the potentialities of contemporary city-life, it suggests that urban commoning is unleashing the power of collective creativity and collaboration. Struggles to appropriate the city as a crucial milieu for sharing transforms parts of city and produces new patterns of urban living. Examples from Latin American urban movements focused on establishing emancipatory housing conditions are used to illustrate the transformative capabilities of urban commoning.

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The Blue-Green Urban Living Labs of Kuala Lumpur

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal ◽

10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2072 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (13) ◽

pp. 359-367

Author(s):

Jamalunlaili Abdullah ◽

Raziah Ahmad ◽

Muhammad Hafiz Zainal

Keyword(s):

Green Infrastructure ◽

Publishing House ◽

Kuala Lumpur ◽

Urban Living ◽

The Public ◽

Societal Challenges ◽

Private Citizen ◽

Living Labs ◽

International Publishing ◽

Open Access Article

The extraordinary societal challenges demand cities to be innovative and adaptable to the needs of urban citizens. In the Malaysian context, the Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) has not been well incorporated into the ULLs. This paper seeks to address this gap by exploring the potential of the Blue-Green Urban Living Labs (BGULLs) at the Sungai Bunus catchment area. Using Google Form, survey questionnaire is conducted among professionals and the public. Findings of this unprecedented study suggest the BGULLs offer beyond beautification works, and it is voicing the virtual idea of the BGULLs into a real setting that reflects the public-private-citizen partnerships.Keywords: Urban living labs; Blue-Green Infrastructure; Innovation; societal challengeseISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2072

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Notes from the Trenches

10.1093/oso/9780199760145.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

David Wendell Moller

Keyword(s):

Personal Autonomy ◽

Employment Opportunity ◽

The Self ◽

Deep South ◽

Spiritual Beliefs ◽

Urban Living ◽

Life And Death ◽

Personal Empowerment ◽

Self Worth ◽

The Individual

This chapter details the vicissitudes of race and poverty shaped J. W. Green’s upbringing in the Deep South as well as his adjustment to urban living as an adult. His lack of education, employment opportunity, and personal empowerment led to a “life on the streets.” Stoic faith saw him through a life and death in poverty. Mr. Green teaches us that everyone comes to this phase of life with strengths to cull from their cultural and spiritual beliefs. Mr. Green also teaches us that dignified dying does not require the unfettered exercise of personal autonomy, although a deep and abiding respect for the self-worth of the individual is necessary.

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Urban Living Labs, Circular Economy and Nature-Based Solutions: Ideation and Testing of a New Soil in the City of Turin Using a Multi-stakeholder Perspective

Circular Economy and Sustainability ◽

10.1007/s43615-021-00011-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Grazia Sveva Ascione ◽

Federico Cuomo ◽

Nicole Mariotti ◽

Laura Corazza

Keyword(s):

Circular Economy ◽

Stakeholder Management ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Green Roofs ◽

Exploratory Research ◽

Urban Living ◽

Natural Systems ◽

Living Labs ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

The City

AbstractIn the attempt to foster circular economy (CE), cities are increasingly adopting urban living labs (ULLs) as sites of co-production aimed at testing alternative solutions based on the reuse of products, reduction of consumption and recycling of materials. Taking this perspective, our study adopts an exploratory research design to discover the pragmatic implications emerging from a case study. The City of Turin joined proGIreg, a European project that entails the regeneration of former industrial districts by means of nature-based solutions (NBS). Ranging from aquaponics to green roofs, seven NBS have been experimented in Turin, which rely on the use of natural systems to tackle social, economic and environmental challenges efficiently and sustainably. Among them, the most promising is related to the production and test of the ‘new soil’, a blend obtained by mixing earth materials coming from construction sites with compost, zeolites and mycorrhizae. The case herein presented is interesting to analyse for the multi-stakeholder management setting used, where public institutions, private companies, research institutions, citizens and associations collaborated in the co-creation and testing phase of the NBS. Consequently, the data collected through participant observation and direct interviews allow researchers to describe multi-stakeholders’ dynamics and how they work. Thus, this paper narrates a micro-contextual experience while providing a critique. Results include an analysis of the unique combination of different stakeholders, which strongly impacted on the management and the effectiveness of the entire project. By consequence, the paper offers both theoretical contributions to the relational branch of stakeholder theory and practical evidence in demonstrating the importance of the relational branch of the theory over a more traditional transactional view.

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Urban living in healthy Tanzanians is associated with an inflammatory status driven by dietary and metabolic changes

Nature Immunology ◽

10.1038/s41590-021-00867-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 287-300 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Godfrey S. Temba ◽

Vesla Kullaya ◽

Tal Pecht ◽

Blandina T. Mmbaga ◽

Anna C. Aschenbrenner ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Metabolic Changes ◽

Urban Living ◽

Inflammatory Status

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Cracks in the wall of a car-oriented local mobility system – Results of an urban living lab

Journal of Environmental Psychology ◽

10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101678 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 77 ◽

pp. 101678

Author(s):

Philipp Rollin ◽

Sebastian Bamberg ◽

Carmen Ketterl ◽

Stefan Weiland

Keyword(s):

Urban Living ◽

Local Mobility ◽

Living Lab ◽

Mobility System

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Robust Control for Urban Living Water System with Seasonal Volatility

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.295-298.1927 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 295-298 ◽

pp. 1927-1930

Author(s):

Ke Bai Li

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Robust Control ◽

Control Method ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Water System ◽

Management Model ◽

State Variables ◽

Urban Living ◽

Target Value ◽

Seasonal Volatility

Established urban living water management model. With capital and labor as state variables, using the pole assignment robust control method, realize the urban living water system supply and demand balance tending to target value.

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