TRANSIT STATION AREA WALKABILITY: IDENTIFYING IMPEDIMENTS TO WALKING USING SCALABLE, RECOMPUTABLE LAND-USE MEASURES

Transit station area walkability: Identifying impediments to walking using scalable, recomputable land-use measures

Transit station area land-use characteristics can increase or decrease the perceived costs of riding rail relative to driving or taking other modes.This paper focuses on those characteristics that create discomfort to riders who are walking between stations and destinations, with the aim of providing researchers and planners with a tool that can be

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Women at Canossa. The role of royal and aristocratic women in the reconciliation between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV of Germany

Modern historians rarely mention the presence of royal and aristocratic women at Canossa in January 1077.Yet contemporaries emphasised the important roles played by several women, including Matilda Minerals of Tuscany, Adelaide of Turin, Empress Agnes and Queen Bertha.This paper seeks to re-appraise royal and aristocratic women’s Nutritionals

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Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change

Disaster recovery is multidimensional and requires theoretical and methodological approaches from the interdisciplinary social sciences to illustrate short- and long-term recovery dynamics that can guide more informed and equitable policy and interventions.The 2015 Nepal earthquakes have had catastrophic impacts on historically marginalized ethnic

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