Formal Ontologies and Uncertainty. In Geographical Knowledge by Matteo Caglioni, Giovanni Fusco

“…An example from the domain of urban geography finally shows how the cause-to-effect relation between household preferences and urban sprawl can be encoded within a crisp, a probabilistic and a possibilistic ontology, respectively. …”
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Graffiti Silence by Adriana Onita

“…The first poem titled “Graffiti of Silence” is a response to the anonymous “listen bird”, ubiquitous in Edmonton's urban geography from 2003 to about 2008. Stenciled, spray painted or stickered, it always featured a speech bubble with one word: listen. …”
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The Next Generative Infrastructure for Detroit by Constance Bodurow

“…Our transdisciplinary design research lab wishes to prompt the dialogue. A new urban geography and ecosystem are required. Vacancy is a new infrastructure for the city. …”
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The nightlife spaces: the case of bush bars in Abuja by Nicoletta Varani, Enrico Bernardini

“…Most of the literature in the fields of Urban Geography and Sociology has examined the daytime temporal space, neglecting the nocturnal dynamics. …”
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Improvement of the consideration of seismic risks in Algerian planning and urban development instruments: application to the Boumerdés region (50km east of Algiers/Algeria) by Kheliouen Mohamed Yacine, Bouder Abdelmadjd

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Primacy analysis in the system of Bulgarian cities by Dimitrova Zlatinka I., Ausloos Marcel

“…The concept of "primacy" as introduced by Jefferson in 1939 in urban geography leads to the notion of "dominant city" also known as the primate city. …”
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The Relationship between Urban Historical Landscape Approach and Urban Livability by Roholla Rostami, Seyed Yaghob Mousavi, Bahram Ghadimi, Khalil Mirzai

“…In theoretical elements of the research, approaches of urban geography, urban economy, urban planning, and urban sociology have been used. …”
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What Drives the Eco-Friendly Tourist Destination Choice? The Indian Perspective by Marek Nowacki, Yash Chawla, Joanna Kowalczyk-Anioł

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Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics by Li, H, Mykhnenko, V

“…This study exposes and maps a hitherto little‐known dimension of China's urban geography – that of shrinkage, directly affecting one in 10 of its cities. …”

Moving safely at night? Women’s nocturnal mobilities in Recife, Brazil and Brussels, Belgium by Farina, L, Boussauw, K, Plyushteva, A

“…While the significance of women’s intersectional identities to the construction of fear and safety in urban space has been well documented in feminist urban geography, we argue that the lens of South-North comparison highlights specific ways in which local urban spaces are implicated in women’s experiences of un/safety. …”

Delineating Urban Fringe Area by Land Cover Information Entropy—An Empirical Study of Guangzhou-Foshan Metropolitan Area, China by Junyi Huang, Qiming Zhou, Zhifeng Wu

“…Based on the 'fringe effect' theory in landscape ecology, the existing land cover information entropy model for defining the urban fringe is renewed by incorporating scale theory, cartography and urban geography theory. Results show that the urban fringe area of Guangzhou and Foshan metropolitan area covers an area of 2031 km2, and it occupies over 31% of the total study area. …”
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Identifying exurbs: A multi-criteria approach for Germany by Philipp Gareis, Christian Diller

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Paradigm Shifts in Geographical Research and Geospatial Applications by Koyel Paul, Vibhash Chandra Jha

“…Particular mention may be made in the fields of Geography such as geomorphology, population geography, urban geography, rural development and environmental geography. …”
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Science + Space + Society: urbanity and the risk of methodological communalism in social sciences of space* by J. Lévy

“…The present-day situation of urban geography (and probably of urban sociology, too) shows a serious risk of methodological communalism particularly located in Anglophone, and especially North American, literature. …”
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The Analyses of Informal Settlement and Determination of Effectiveness Coefficient for Each Parameter by Route Analysis Model (Case study: Shater Abbad Kermansha) by Isa Ebrahimzadeh, Mostafa Sayedi

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THINKING A SUBSPACE FOR MAN: REFLECTIONS ON SOCIOSPATIAL PROBLEMS OF SMALL CITIES FROM THE MICROREGION OF UMARIZAL (RN) PENSANDO UM SUBESPAÇO DO HOMEM: REFLEXÕES SOBRE PROBLEMAS SO... by José Erimar dos Santos, Rita de Cássia da Conceição Gomes, Maria José Costa Fernandes, Rosalvo Nobre Carneiro, Luiz Eduardo do Nascimento Neto

“…We aim to reflect on the small towns of the Microregion of Umarizal, addressing some of the main issues in the context of urban geography. The methodological approach adopted focuses on issues concerning the economic and sociospatial aspects, considering specially the following dimensions: education, housing, employment, income and health. …”
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Influence of demographic characteristics and social network on peri-urban smallholder farmers adaptation strategies - evidence from southern Ghana by Reginald Anum, Daniel Adu Ankrah, Jonathan Nicholas Anaglo

“…AbstractWith a gamut of climate variability and change literature that examines rural spaces in the global south, and in the case of Ghana, rural spaces in the northern part, this article turns focus to a less targeted empirical space of peri-urban geography to examine demographic factors and the extent to which membership of social networks intersect with adaptation strategies. …”
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A New Method for Identifying the Central Business Districts with Nighttime Light Radiance and Angular Effects by Na Jie, Xin Cao, Jin Chen, Xuehong Chen

“…Thus, the location and boundaries of CBDs identified by the unified standards are essential for comparative analyses in urban geography. However, past research mainly applied specific data or sensitive methods to delimitate CBDs within local knowledge in the case study, there remains no automated standardization technique for identifying and delimitating CBDs across the globe. …”
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Suburban zones as recreation and tourism reception areas for inhabitants of Polish metropolises by Marzena Makowska-Iskierka

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Urban musical modernism in ‘broken Britain’ by Vellianitis, A

“…The thesis balances issues of intention against matters of reception, considered through texts aimed at a broad audience – newspaper and magazine sources, radio and television broadcasts, publicly available musical scores, and websites – which it reads critically alongside primarily historical musicological literature, with the addition of some work on urban geography, and sociological work on artistic consumption. …”