american cities
Deviations from Zipf’s Law for American cities: an empirical examination
... between actual city size and the size which would correspond to it with a Pareto exponent equal to one (Zipf’s Law). The results show two differentiated behaviours: most cities (80.25%) present a greater size than ...
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Book Review: The Archaeology of American Cities, by Nan A. Rothschild and Diana diZerega Wall
... in American cities and the data it has revealed, serving as both a catalyst for new research questions and a source for background data and comparison ...in cities focusing on the placement of ...
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Looking comparatively at displacement and resistance to gentrification in Latin American cities
... in cities from central or strategic areas is of course well-known and documented since the Chicago School’s models of invasion and ...Latin American gentrification we are able to trace many different forms ...
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The Platino project: methodology of a multicenter prevalence survey of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in major Latin American cities
... Methods/Design: A multi-country survey is being carried out in major cities in Latin America. In each metropolitan area, a population-based sample of approximately 1,000 individuals aged 40 years or older is being ...
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Transgressive urbanism : borderlands and urban informality of american cities along the panamerican highway
... Raziskava obravnava načine za preseganje političnih mej, da bi razvili podrejene oblike urbanizma in robnih pogojev, s ciljem primerjalne analize (ob)mejnih mest v Amerikah, kjer prevladujejo sive ekonomije in jih naj- ...
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Stranger Homicides in Nine American Cities
... As Table 13 shows, in family homicides and in both types of stranger killings, offender mean age was older when a gun was used and younger when stabbing or beating and strangulation was [r] ...
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How Are American Cities Planning for Climate Change? An Evaluation of Climate Action Planning in Chicago, IL and Portland, OR
... how cities are addressing climate change with local policies and to what degree they are achieving their ...Two cities were chosen to allow for an in depth evaluation of climate policy action within the ...
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American Cities as Firms in the 21st Century - or, Should Philadelphia Move to New Jersey
... Key to successfully consolidating Philadelphia with Camden City and its surrounding suburbs, and moving Philadelphia to New Jersey through a state border change, is s[r] ...
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Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack – examples from four American cities
... The areas of New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Atlanta affected by blast from a 550 Kt nuclear detonation are shown in Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, respectively. One stagger- ing factor of the blast damage in Washington ...
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Land Use and Transport Mode choices: Space Syntax Analysis of American Cities
... Figure 3. Graph illustrating number of streets sorted by length 2.3 GIS Spatial Analysis The data sources used in this study provides information at different kinds of spatial units. The 2010 Census provides information ...
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Arson Investigation in Selected American Cities
... In most cities the departmental rules and regulations provide that officers selected for arson work can be returned to their regular fire department duties at the discretion of the appoi[r] ...
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Transgressive urbanism : borderlands and urban informality of American cities along the Pan-American Highway
... borderlands are understood as peripheral or edge voids, buffer lands al- lotted between frictional political, ethnic and economic shores. they are uninhabited bands or corridors, ‘terrain vagues’, which are usually ...
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African and Non-African Refugees’ Perceptions of Police: A Study of Two American Cities Joselyne L. Chenane, MS
... Although there is an enormous amount of scholarship on public perceptions of the police, few studies have had an interest in refugees’ opinions. Using a survey instrument, the current study aims to understand the ...
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Comparative Costs of the Administration of Criminal Justice in American Cities
... 4.' Comparison of Means The comparison made in the following table between the mean per capita cost as computed by the editors of Part VI and the figures obtained by this study, shows th[r] ...
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Towards a common standard: comparing European and American cities
... Because of the distinct pattern of urbanisation in America’s New England region and the relatively greater significance of existing town and city boundaries, a distinct but related statistical system known as the New ...
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Transgressive urbanism : borderlands and urban informality of American cities along the Pan-American highway
... Raziskava obravnava načine za preseganje političnih mej, da bi razvili podrejene oblike urbanizma in robnih pogojev, s ciljem primerjalne analize (ob)mejnih mest v Amerikah, kjer prevladujejo sive ekonomije in jih naj- ...
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A Brief History of the Underworld and Organized Crime, c 1750 to c 1950
... in American cities through the enterprise of bootlegging, which, “with an enormous consumer base in place, with little opprobrium attached to drinking outside of fundamentalist religious groups, ...
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CAS: Incorporating Spatial Dependence and Climate Change Trends for Measuring Long-Term Temperature Derivative Risk
... North American cities whose derivatives are actively traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ...the cities, and allows for possible trends in degree days due to climate ...
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A survey of results on mobile phone datasets analysis
... two american cities to vali- date their model, showing that their model, based on only aggregated data and probability distributions, could reproduce many of the features of mobility of users, without any ...
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Crime concentration at micro-places in Latin America
... Research on crime concentration at micro-places has had a very western-industrialised focus. In this paper we provide results on crime concentration for 42 cities in Latin America. The results suggest that crime ...
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