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R.J. Nelson
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Housing inequalities
The space-time geography of housing policies
Changes in policy over the last thirty years, particularly within advanced economies, have allowed for increased financialization, deregulation and globalisation of housing. What differentiates real-estate from other financial markets is that it possesses a salient socio-spatial
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Social inclusion through the urban lens
A comparative analysis of neighbourhoods of residential racial homogeneity and heterogeneity in Cape Town, South Africa
The world is increasingly urbanising, more than half of the global population live within cities. The impact of COVID-19 is having devastating effects. The United Nations estimates that the pandemic will most likely elevate poverty and inequalities at a global scale. The World Ba
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The United Nations World Social Report (2020) reveals that more than two thirds of the world's population live in countries where urban inequalities have increased in the last three decades. While urban inequalities are traditionally characterized as an economic issue, scholars a
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To Redefine, Not Reinforce
A Spatial Decision Support System with Generative Design Model for Exploring Optimal Improvements to Existing Street Networks for Enhancing Equity of Accessibility
Transport decision-making determines people’s level of accessibility and deeply influences an individual’s access to social and economic opportunities and the quality of life. Socially vulnerable populations are highly dependent on yet often more likely to have less access to tra
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