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Daily Activity Space And Exposure: A Comparative Study Of Hong Kong’S Public And Private Housing Residents‘ Segregation In Daily Life, Donggen Wang, Fei Li Oct 2015

Daily Activity Space And Exposure: A Comparative Study Of Hong Kong’S Public And Private Housing Residents‘ Segregation In Daily Life, Donggen Wang, Fei Li

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Differences in individuals' exposure to social/physical environment in daily life or activity–space segregation have aroused renewed interests in socio-spatial separation in geography and urban studies. However, there are not many empirical studies that comprehensively assess activity–space segregation perhaps due to the scarcity of detailed data to define and characterize activity space. This paper aims to help fill in this gap by contributing an empirical study in Hong Kong. We compare the daily life experiences of public and private housing residents in terms of activity space and exposure to people in their daily life. We find that inhabitants of public housing …


Tracing A History Of Atlanta’S Public Transit, Joseph Hurley Apr 2015

Tracing A History Of Atlanta’S Public Transit, Joseph Hurley

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On The Road To The In-Between City: Excavating Peripheral Urbanisation In Chicago’S ‘Crosstown Corridor’, Jean-Paul Addie Jan 2015

On The Road To The In-Between City: Excavating Peripheral Urbanisation In Chicago’S ‘Crosstown Corridor’, Jean-Paul Addie

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This paper critically engages the uneven distribution of infrastructure provision, connectivity, and mobility in contemporary neoliberal urban landscapes by uncovering the path dependent trajectories and politics of transportation in post-suburbia. Departing from contemporary debates on the evolving geography of urban peripheries, I utilize a relational theorization of the ‘in-between city’ to empirically unpack the urbanization processes internalized in the evolution of the ‘Zwischenstadt’ in a North American context. Through a longue durée case study of transportation planning, politics, and spatial practice in Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor’, in-between urbanization is demonstrated to express an on-going multiscalar mediation of co-habiting modes …