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Apparecido Junior, Jose Antonio. "Projeto de intervenção urbana Vila Leopoldina-Villa-Lobos: resenha crítica sobre os principais aspectos jurídicos / Urban intervention project Vila Leopoldina-Villa-Lobos: critical review on the main legal aspects." Revista de Direito da Cidade 12, no. 3 (December 9, 2020): 344–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/rdc.2020.43763.
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ResumoO presente artigo tem por objetivo realizar uma análise crítica do Projeto de Lei n. 428/2019, do Município de São Paulo, que tem por objeto estabelecer objetivos, diretrizes, estratégias e mecanismos para a implantação do Projeto de Intervenção Urbana Vila Leopoldina-Villa Lobos e cria a Área de Intervenção Urbana correspondente, naquele município. Para tanto, disserta inicialmente sobre a natureza e o conteúdo dos denominados “Projetos de Intervenção Urbana”, previstos na Lei Municipal n. 16.402/2014, o Plano Diretor Estratégico de São Paulo, delimitando suas finalidades e possibilidades de atuação. Após, analisa criticamente os dispositivos do apontado projeto de lei, tecendo considerações pertinentes às novidades em termos de proposta de regulação urbanística em si estabelecidos. O resultado do trabalho é a constatação de uma abordagem inovadora e diferenciada da instrumentação jurídica prevista no projeto de lei, já que elaborada de forma a atender especificamente aos termos de um projeto urbanístico derivado do plano diretor, ao mesmo tempo em que proporciona a implantação da política de desenvolvimento urbano nele previsto.Palavras-chave: Direito urbanístico. Projeto de Intervenção Urbana. Área de Intervenção Urbana. Potencial Construtivo Adicional. Regulação Urbanística. AbstractThe purpose of this article is to carry out a critical analysis of the mains aspects of Draft Law no. 428/2019, of the municipality of São Paulo City, whose purpose is to establish objectives, guidelines, strategies and mechanisms for the implementation of the Vila Leopoldina-Villa Lobos Urban Intervention Project (Projeto de Intervenção Urbana Vila Leopoldina-Villa Lobos) and create the corresponding Urban Intervention Area (Área de Intervenção Urbana) in that municipality. In order to do so, it first discusses the nature and content of the so-called "Urban Intervention Projects", provided for in Municipal Law n. 16,402/2014, the Strategic Master Plan of São Paulo (Plano Diretor Estratégico), delimiting its purposes and possibilities of action. Afterwards, it critically analyzes the provisions of the aforementioned bill, weaving considerations pertinent to the novelties in terms of the proposal of urban regulation itself established. The result of the work is the finding of an innovative and differentiated approach to the legal instrumentation envisaged in the draft law, since it is designed in order to specifically meet the terms of an urban project derived from the master plan, while at the same time providing the implementation of the urban development policy envisaged.Keywords: Urban Law. Urban Intervention Project. Urban Intervention Area. Additional Constructive Potential. Urban Regulation
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Hossain, Mohammad Zahid, Nishan Barua, and Nusrat Sultana. "Adaptive Urban Intervention in a Wetland: A Study from Hamidchar, Bangladesh." International Journal of Engineering and Technology 13, no. 1 (February 2021): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/ijet.2021.v13.1186.
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Over the last few decades the on-rushing surge of population created an urban structural instability across the under developing parts of the globe like Bangladesh. For instance, due to over population and urban sprawl the current development pattern of this country is culminating in filling up wetlands, changing the course of lakes, narrowing down in some cases killing rivers for urban development leaving the urban health in the face of a disastrous future. The concern for implementing an adaptive sustainable strategy that interacts with wetlands and rivers in the field of urban landscape should be prioritize as the burning question that need to be answered. This paper will be emphasizing on the strategies & guidelines to restore a riparian wetland through imputing wetland sensitive technique saving the riparian edge as well as creating a value of this wetland by suggesting some urban programs that will not only provide recreational value but also provide economic benefit to the local people. In this research there will be a sole intention to develop sustainable and riparian sensitive guidelines which would especially be applicable for riparian wetland development that leaves least impact on nature and promote the adjacent community life and wellbeing of urban health.
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Ayhan, Ayşe, and Emine Bogenç Demirel. "Understanding urban intervention as a translational activity." Translation Spaces 7, no. 2 (November 28, 2018): 202–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ts.18004.ayh.
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AbstractThis article aims to examine Yeldeğirmeni, a historically multilingual and multicultural neighborhood in Istanbul, as a translation zone. The language landscape of Yeldeğirmeni, along with its social and cultural texture, has been transformed by both social and political changes in Turkey, and as a result of urban interventions by institutional and individual actors. We discuss the Yeldeğirmeni Revitalization Project and Mural Istanbul Festival as urban interventions that transform the social and cultural texture of the city in translation zones, owing to the significant role played by cultural mediators. Yeldeğirmeni is analyzed as a discourse in the context of cultural translation, and urban intervention is viewed as a medium of translation.
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Rifai, Ghada, and Seyda Emekci. "The Role of Urban Planning and Architecture in Sustainable Peacebuilding: Lessons from Belfast to Syria." Sustainability 14, no. 19 (September 21, 2022): 11878. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141911878.
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The peacebuilding process plays a critical role for urban planning in paving the way for sustainable peace or upcoming conflicts, where it is not innocent and not impartial. The paper aims to draw out lessons learned from Belfast to Syria, focusing on the urban intervention role in sustaining the peace process. The article reviews Belfast’s literature review, using the timeline to scan the recovery process and extract a few lessons learnt. This is followed by reviewing the current interventions for the recovery of Syria based on chosen articles in the Venice charter on reconstruction that define specific indicators of the role of architects and urban planners. Authors debate the way and the aspects of urban intervention in dealing with conflicts. The paper shows the critical role of urban interventions in sustaining peace process implementation and concludes with essential areas to ensure the integration of the urban intervention part of the peace process.
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Cerezo Ibarrondo, Alvaro. "La actuación sobre el medio urbano de regeneración y renovación integrada. El nuevo paradigma de la gestión urbanística en suelo urbanizado = The integrated regeneration and renovation in the urban intervention. The new paradigm of city planning management." Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística, no. 130 (June 30, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20868/ciur.2020.130.4446.
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ResumenLa actuación sobre el medio urbano de regeneración y renovación integrada (aMU-RRi) configura el nuevo paradigma de la intervención urbana, la preservación urbana con carácter conjunto e integrado. Para ello redefine la viabilidad económica, afecta el deber de conservación del derecho de propiedad a la actuación y articula un modelo de equidistribución de reparto de costes que supera las pautas del urbanismo que hemos conocido.El presente artículo constituye un breve recorrido histórico por los instrumentos y técnicas que ha dispuesto el urbanismo español para la preservación urbana: desde inviable e insostenible modelo clásico del urbanismo, pasando por el modelo de la sostenibilidad que incorporó la sostenibilidad plena y el régimen estatutario del derecho de propiedad, pero que estableció un régimen general de intervención sobre el suelo urbanizado inviable y dejó un hueco falto de regulación para la preservación de la ciudad; para alcanzar la definición de la aMU-RRi con la legislación del modelo por la ciudad y sus adaptaciones autonómicas de medio urbano y que ayudará a la formación del nuevo paradigma urbanístico, basado en la función social del derecho de propiedad que nos hemos dado para la preservación urbana conjunta e integrada de eso que llamamos, la ciudad.AbstractThe integrated urban regeneration and renewal intervention (aMU-RRi) configures the new paradigm of urban intervention, with its joint and integrated character for urban preservation. To this end, it redefines the economic viability, affects the duty of preservation of the right of property and articulates a model of equistribution of distribution of costs that surpasses the urban planning guidelines that we have known.This paper constitutes a brief historical journey through the instruments and techniques that Spanish urban planning has provided for urban preservation: from an unviable and unsustainable classic urban planning model, through the sustainability model that it incorporated full sustainability and the statutory property rights regime, but that established an unviable general intervention regime in the existing city areas and also left a gap due to the lack of regulation for the preservation of the city; and finally up to the definition of the aMU-RRi with city preserving legislation and its regional adaptations and that will help the formation of the new urban paradigm, based on the social function of property rights that we have been given for the joint and integrated urban preservation of what we call, the city.
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Luo, Ting, Mirandy Li, Donna Williams, Jackson Fritz, Stephen Phillippi, Qingzhao Yu, Stephen Kantrow, et al. "Urban and Rural Disparities in a WeChat-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention among Chinese Smokers." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13 (June 23, 2021): 6731. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136731.
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Introduction: Tobacco use, which is directly responsible for 10% of total deaths per year globally, remains consistently high, with approximately 20% of the population reporting regular consumption globally. Moreover, health disparities regarding tobacco consumption and smoking cessation are growing between rural and urban populations worldwide. Social media interventions for tobacco cessation may effectively reach both groups. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a WeChat-delivered smoking cessation intervention among rural and urban Chinese smokers, and to assess moderating variables that may contribute to differential intervention efficacy. Methods: WeChat was used to recruit smokers into this intervention study between 1 July and 5 August 2019. Participants were randomized to one of three intervention schedules: participants in the Standard Group and the Enhanced Group received 20 smoking-related messages over 2 weeks, whereas participants in the Enhanced Group received an extra 6 oral health-related messages for one week. Participants in the control group received 20 smoking-related messages after the post-intervention assessment. Participants completed questionnaires at baseline and at 4 weeks follow-up. Our primary outcome was smoking cessation stage of change and secondary outcome was 24-h point prevalence abstinence (PPA). Urban and rural areas were based on self-reported living areas. Chi-squared test, Fisher’s exact test, ANOVA test, linear regression, and logistic regression were used for analysis. Results: Overall, 403 participants completed the intervention (233 rural, 107 suburban, 63 urban). Compared to urban participants, rural participants were more likely to have progressed to a later stage of change (β = 0.40, 95% CI: 0.13, 0.67) and to report higher 24-h PPA rates at follow-up (aOR = 3.23, 95% CI: 1.36, 7.68). After stratification by living area, the intervention effects in stage of change and 24-h PPA rate at follow-up were only found in the urban subgroup. Discussion: Smokers who lived in rural areas reported better smoking cessation outcomes compared with urban smokers; however, the efficacy of a WeChat-based smoking cessation intervention was only found for participants living in an urban area. WeChat based smoking cessation interventions should be used to promote smoking cessation in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
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Misra, B. "Public intervention and urban land management." Habitat International 10, no. 1-2 (January 1986): 59–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0197-3975(86)90009-3.
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Wang, Chenchen, Xin Hong, Weiwei Wang, Hairong Zhou, Jie Wu, Hao Xu, Nan Zhou, and Jinkou Zhao. "The Combination of School-Based and Family-Based Interventions Appears Effective in Reducing the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, a Randomized Controlled Trial among Chinese Schoolchildren." Nutrients 14, no. 4 (February 16, 2022): 833. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14040833.
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To examine whether environmental interventions, student awareness and parents’ model roles are associated with the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), a randomized controlled trial was conducted among Chinese schoolchildren. A multi-stage cluster random sampling method was applied to select four primary schools, two in urban areas and two in rural areas, in Nanjing, eastern China. Classes of the third grade in the selected four schools were randomly assigned to the intervention group and control group. Among selected students in those classes, aged 9–10 years, those in the intervention group received intervention measures comprising school-based and family-based measures and accepted monthly monitoring along with interventions, for two consecutive semesters, while those in the control group did not receive any specific interventions. After intervention, there was a significant increase in SSB knowledge and an improvement in the family environment with parents in the intervention group. The proportion of frequent consumption (≥4 times/week) of any SSBs in the intervention group was lower than that in the control group (31.5% vs. 56.2%, p < 0.01). Multivariate analysis indicated that parental education level is positively associated with reduced SSB consumption. Interventions showed an average decrease in SSBs consumption by 1.77 units, those living in urban areas decreased by 2.05 units. The combination of school-based and family-based interventions appears effective in reducing SSB consumption among Chinese schoolchildren, especially in urban areas and for those with parents with lower educational levels.
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Bholey, Mihir. "SMART CITIES AND SUSTAINABLE URBANISM: A STUDY FROM POLICY AND DESIGN PERSPECTIVE." Scholedge International Journal of Multidisciplinary & Allied Studies ISSN 2394-336X 4, no. 6 (July 5, 2017): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.19085/journal.sijmas040601.
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This paper examines India’s foray into building hundred smart cities from multiple perspectives viz. urban challenges, urban policies, sustainable urbanism, emerging global models and design and technology intervention. It also evaluates the relative challenges of building new smart cities like Masdar or Songdo and applying smart interventions to retrofit the aging and ailing urban infrastructure of the existing Indian cities. Based on the data from the secondary sources it examines the priority areas and the possibilities of making smart intervention through use of appropriate technology and design. While doing so, it brings into discussion India’s urban challenges and its policy of urban development over the years besides the recurring development deficit. Today, Indian cities are faced with huge infrastructure deficit which reflects in their performance and service delivery. The imperative to ensure urban rejuvenation now reflects in the recent policy of creating hundred smart cities in India. This paper also discusses howtechnology and design interventions at appropriate levels canaugment urban infrastructure and make a sustainable urban eco-system called smart city.
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Hamdard, Naqibullah, and Mohammad Anwar Haneef. "Knowledge, attitude, and practices: assessing community based health care interventions in urban setting." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 4, no. 1 (December 21, 2016): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20164728.
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Background: The urban community based Maternal, and Child Health-MCH interventions were implemented in district one of Kabul city from 2013 to 2016. The study intended to assess the changes in mothers’ knowledge, behaviors and practices toward proportions of birth spacing, Ante Natal Care-ANC visits, vaccinations and health care utilization to estimate interventions success.Methods: To measure the success of implemented interventions, the data were collected from the intervention and the control districts. The district two was selected as control as it had similar demographic characteristics to district one. Semi structured interviews were conducted with randomly selected 341 mothers in district one and 341 mothers from district two.Results: The proportions of mothers who ever wished to utilize a contraceptive method, practiced birth spacing, knowledge about the date that the baby was expected to arrive, preference to give birth in a health facility and completion of all ANC visits were significantly higher in intervention district. Additionally, the proportions of under five children who did not complete all scheduled routine vaccinations were lower in intervention district. It is likely, that implemented interventions have contributed to improve MCH knowledge, attitude and practices in intervention district.Conclusions: The result of study imply that interventions contributed to the increase in mothers’ knowledge and attitude about birth spacing. The interventions have also improved the level of knowledge about expected date of delivery and attitude to prefer giving birth in health facility. While, there is still room for improvement as almost half eligible children in intervention district did not complete all scheduled vaccinations.
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Saint-Louis, Nicole M., and Evan Senreich. "The Evaluation of a Narrative Intervention for Health-Care Professionals in an Urban Oncology Inpatient Unit." Urban Social Work 2, no. 2 (October 2018): 176–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/2474-8684.2.2.176.
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Background:Oncology professionals in fast-paced urban hospitals are at risk for burnout and secondary traumatic stress.Objective:This exploratory study evaluated the effectiveness of a workplace narrative intervention for oncology professionals in regard to reducing burnout and secondary traumatic stress.Methods:Thirty-five oncology health-care providers from three inpatient oncology units within an urban medical center completed the Professional Quality of Life Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey before and after four monthly group narrative oncology interventions during the work day.Findings:Findings lend tentative support to the effectiveness of this intervention in reducing different aspects of burnout and secondary traumatic stress.Conclusions:Oncology social workers are in a prime position to take a leadership role in instituting such interventions in urban hospitals.
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MacGregor, Casimir. "Urban regeneration as a public health intervention." Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice 19, no. 3 (September 6, 2010): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/jsi.225.
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Michael, Michael S., and Stephen M. Miller. "Urban Unemployment, Foreign Capital, and Policy Intervention." International Economic Journal 8, no. 3 (September 1994): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10168739400000003.
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Weinberger, M. "School-based Asthma Intervention for Urban Teens." AAP Grand Rounds 25, no. 5 (May 1, 2011): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/gr.25-5-55.
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Tierney, Thérèse F. "Positioning Locative Media: A Critical Urban Intervention." Leonardo 46, no. 3 (June 2013): 253–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_00565.
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Technologies of space, information and power are integral aspects of cartography that have serious implications for the legibility and accessibility of a city; thus the design of locative media is more than a technical problem. In this paper, i-metro, an interactive installation, is developed in four stages: first, a theoretical discussion of urban representation is linked to historical notions of the commons; second, research methodologies are described; third, the findings are summarized, exposing a critical information inequality; fourth, a public locative media intervention is proposed as a design response.
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LONDON, SUSAN. "Immunization Intervention Targets High-Risk Urban Teens." Family Practice News 40, no. 10 (June 2010): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0300-7073(10)70659-9.
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Wilson, Ruth C., Marilyn Mulligan, and Ruth M. Turner. "Early Childhood Intervention in an Urban Setting." TEACHING Exceptional Children 17, no. 2 (January 1985): 134–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004005998501700209.
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Miller, Edgar R., Lisa A. Cooper, Kathryn A. Carson, Nae-Yuh Wang, Lawrence J. Appel, Debra Gayles, Jeanne Charleston, et al. "A Dietary Intervention in Urban African Americans." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 50, no. 1 (January 2016): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2015.06.010.
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Semenza, Jan C., Tanya L. March, and Brian D. Bontempo. "Community-Initiated Urban Development: An Ecological Intervention." Journal of Urban Health 84, no. 1 (November 23, 2006): 8–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-006-9124-8.
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Tsirantonakis, Dimitris, and Nektarios Chrysoulakis. "Earth Observation Data Exploitation in Urban Surface Modelling: The Urban Energy Balance Response to a Suburban Park Development." Remote Sensing 14, no. 6 (March 18, 2022): 1473. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14061473.
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Cities are developing rapidly as an increasing percentage of the global population resides in urban areas. In the face of climate change, the sustainable development of cities is crucial for the well-being and safety of urban populations. The potential of planning interventions towards improving of urban resilience can be evaluated based on methodological approaches used in the domain of urban climate. In this study, we present how Earth Observation (EO) can be systematically used to evaluate urban planning interventions, based on Urban Surface Models (USM) simulations. More specifically, the impact of a suburban park development in Heraklion, Crete, was assessed based on simulations of the USM SUEWS (Surface Urban Energy and Water Balance Scheme), which was forced by EO data. Multi-source satellite data were analyzed to provide information on urban form, highlighting the importance of EO data in evaluating the environmental sustainability potential of urban planning interventions. The modifications caused by this planning intervention to surface energy fluxes were simulated. The scale (102 m) and the type (no-use vegetated area changed to recreational vegetated) of the intervention triggered minor responses in the Urban Energy Balance (UEB) at neighborhood scale, since the change of the relevant surface fluxes was not greater than 10 W m−2, on average, assuming no irrigation and no important changes in soil moisture. However, the planned substitution of grass and bare soil with paved surfaces and trees was found to increase the overall net change in heat storage, therefore contributing to the urban heat island development.
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Fife, Brian L. "Comparing Desegregation Intervention Strategies." Urban Education 29, no. 3 (October 1994): 320–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042085994029003005.
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Paone, Sonia. "Urban Requalification Policies and Periphery: Notes on the Italian Case." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 207–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ajis-2018-0040.
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Abstract The impoverishment and vulnerability that characterize the European urban periphery in the transition from the Fordist production to the flexible accumulation regimes has started a new season of programs of urban renewal trough intervention related to the revitalization of specific part of the city. The European Union strongly supports these new policies and forecast a complex program with the intersection of physical, economic and social types of interventions. This article considers specifically the case of Italy, retracing the steps of planning changes that led to the creation of these new tools, and highlighting some limitations of this type of intervention.
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Malheiros, Ubiraélcio. "Intervenções artísticas em Belém: entre monumentos e outras possibilidades de expressão na rua." Arteriais - Revista do Programa de Pós-Gradução em Artes 6, no. 11 (September 27, 2021): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/arteriais.v6i11.11025.
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ResumoEsse trabalho é resultado das investigações do Projeto de Pesquisa: Esculturas permanentes, instalações efêmeras e intervenções: tipologias e relações da arte pública no espaço urbano de Belém, desenvolvido no Instituto de Ciências da Arte da Universidade Federal do Pará. Tem como objetivo contribuir para a percepção da Arte Pública da Amazônia Urbana, por meio de estudos das manifestações artísticas que considerem tanto a estetização institucionalizada quanto as estratégias espontâneas de intervenção visual na paisagem urbana. Apresenta contrastes entre monumentos tradicionais e intervenções artísticas aparentes nos meios e linguagens expressivas, que vão do grafite, dos stickers, do stencil e do teatro de rua a projeções de imagens na estrutura urbana, como o vídeo mapping. Nesta perspectiva, este trabalho, faz uma reavaliação histórico-crítica da relação entre arte e cidade, e por extensão do processo de transformação da prática da arte no contexto urbano do século XXI, na obra de artistas individuais e coletivos - de Eder Oliveira, Roberta Carvalho, Lucia Gomes, Daniel Ops, do Coletivo Conexão Rodovia Crew e Aníbal Pacha, do coletivo Animadores de Caixa. Essas visualidades efêmeras nem sempre coexistem em um mesmo tempo e espaço com os monumentos, entretanto trazem novas falas para arte pública e para o espaço urbano de Belém.AbstractThis paper is a result of the researches from the Project: “Permanent Sculptures, ephemeral instalations and interventions: typologies and relations of the public art on the urban space of Belém”, carried out at the Institute of Art Science of the Federal University of Pará. It aims to contribute to the perception of the Public Art in Urban Amazon, from studies of the artistic manifestations that consider as much the institutionalized aestheticization, as the spontaneous strategies of visual intervention on the urban landscape. It presentes contrasts between traditional monuments and apparent artistic interventions in the means and expressive languages, that goes from grafitti, stickers, stencil and street theater, to image projections on the urban structures, such as videomapping. Under this perspective, this work makes a historycal-critical re-evaluation of the relation between art and city, and, by extension, the process of transformation of the art practices in the urban context in 21st Century, the work of individual and collective artists – like Eder Oliveira, Roberta Carvalho, Lucia Gomes, Daniel Ops, from Coletivo Conexão Rodovia Crew, and Aníbal Pacha, from the collective Animadores de Caixa. These ephemeral visualities not everytime coexist in the same time and space with the monuments, however they bring new voices to the public art and the urban space in Belém.
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Singh, Vikram. "Social Exclusion and Urban Poor: Intervention of NGOs in Reducing Urban Poverty." Journal of Exclusion Studies 7, no. 2 (2017): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2231-4555.2017.00022.5.
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Kemmer, Laura. "Revisiting the urban cosmos—an intervention into the politics of urban assemblages." City 21, no. 5 (September 3, 2017): 685–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374781.
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Botelho, Adriano. "A renda fundiária urbana: uma categoria de análise ainda válida." GEOgraphia 10, no. 19 (April 12, 2010): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/geographia2008.1019.a13551.
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Resumo: Renda fundiária urbana é uma categoria pouco explorada pela maioria dos estudos mais recentes sobre o urbano. Porém, essa categoria oferece uma possibilidade de abordagem do urbano que permite a análise de fenômenos importantes, como a hierarquização dos usos do solo, o papel do setor imobiliário para a acumulação do capital e para a reprodução das relações de produção capitalistas, além de ser importante para o entendimento do processo de segregação sócio-espacial e fragmentação do espaço no urbano. Assim, levando-se em consideração os estudos passados e as dificuldades que ainda hoje permanecem, a questão da renda fundiária é retomada no presente artigo. Como forma de viabilização da análise da questão da renda fundiária urbana foi realizado um estudo de caso sobre uma modalidade de intervenção no urbano por parte do setor imobiliário em aliança com o mercado financeiro no município de São Paulo: os Fundos de Investimento Imobiliário e a Securitização de Recebíveis Imobiliários. THE URBAN LAND RENT: A CATEGORY OF ANALYSIS STILL VALID Abstract: Urban land rent is a category little explored by most recent urban studies. However, this category offers a possible approach for urban space that allows the analysis of relevant phenomena, like hierarchy in land use, the role of the real estate industry for capital accumulation and for reproduction of relationships in capitalist production, besides its importance in understanding the socio-spatial segregation and fragmentation process. In this sense, taking into account earlier studies and difficulties that still remain, this article aims to analyse the problem of land rent. To make this analysis possible, we present a case study about a kind of urban intervention by real estate agents in association with the finance market in the city of São Paulo: Real Estate Investment Funds and Real Estate Bonus. Keywords: Urban Land Rent, Fragmentation, Socio-Spatial Segregation, Urban, Real Estate Financing, Reproduction of Capital.
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Botelho, Adriano. "A renda fundiária urbana: uma categoria de análise ainda válida." GEOgraphia 10, no. 19 (April 12, 2010): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/geographia2008.v10i19.a13551.
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Resumo: Renda fundiária urbana é uma categoria pouco explorada pela maioria dos estudos mais recentes sobre o urbano. Porém, essa categoria oferece uma possibilidade de abordagem do urbano que permite a análise de fenômenos importantes, como a hierarquização dos usos do solo, o papel do setor imobiliário para a acumulação do capital e para a reprodução das relações de produção capitalistas, além de ser importante para o entendimento do processo de segregação sócio-espacial e fragmentação do espaço no urbano. Assim, levando-se em consideração os estudos passados e as dificuldades que ainda hoje permanecem, a questão da renda fundiária é retomada no presente artigo. Como forma de viabilização da análise da questão da renda fundiária urbana foi realizado um estudo de caso sobre uma modalidade de intervenção no urbano por parte do setor imobiliário em aliança com o mercado financeiro no município de São Paulo: os Fundos de Investimento Imobiliário e a Securitização de Recebíveis Imobiliários. THE URBAN LAND RENT: A CATEGORY OF ANALYSIS STILL VALID Abstract: Urban land rent is a category little explored by most recent urban studies. However, this category offers a possible approach for urban space that allows the analysis of relevant phenomena, like hierarchy in land use, the role of the real estate industry for capital accumulation and for reproduction of relationships in capitalist production, besides its importance in understanding the socio-spatial segregation and fragmentation process. In this sense, taking into account earlier studies and difficulties that still remain, this article aims to analyse the problem of land rent. To make this analysis possible, we present a case study about a kind of urban intervention by real estate agents in association with the finance market in the city of São Paulo: Real Estate Investment Funds and Real Estate Bonus. Keywords: Urban Land Rent, Fragmentation, Socio-Spatial Segregation, Urban, Real Estate Financing, Reproduction of Capital.
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Krmpotić Romić, Ivana, and Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci. "Temporary Urban Interventions in Public Space." Prostor 30, no. 2(64) (December 26, 2022): 178–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.31522/p.30.2(64).4.
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Insufficient research on the typology of temporary urban interventions, which has become a common tool for pointing out possible scenarios in the development of unused and neglected urban areas in recent 21st century projects, indicate the relevance of the article’s topic. A literature review has allowed for a definition and analysis of the typology of temporary urban interventions in order to determine their basic characteristics, the relationship between the intervention and public space, and the establishing initiatives. The paper determines the formative period through an analysis of architectural and artistic events in 20th century and distinguishes three direct predecessors: events in public space, experimental architectural projects of the 60s, and art installations in public space in the second half of 20th century. A synthesis of collected data is an important prerequisite for understanding the role and impact of temporary urban interventions on future public space. Based on the obtained results, the research emphasizes the importance of the relationship between temporary urban interventions and public space for the creation of contemporary urban space in 21st century.
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Nguyen, Lan, and Hans De Steur. "Public Acceptability of Policy Interventions to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Urban Vietnam." Sustainability 13, no. 23 (December 3, 2021): 13422. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132313422.
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This study aims to assess the public acceptability of interventions to reduce sugary drinks in Vietnam, identify the key determinants, and develop a classification of consumers. A cross-sectional survey with 263 urban consumers evaluated perceptions of four potential interventions: restricting choice, taxation, nudging, and labeling. Thereby, specific attention was devoted to perceived intrusiveness and (personal and societal) effectiveness, as well personal characteristics, including Confucius values. Results showed that “hard” interventions like taxation are less acceptable to consumers than “soft” measures such as labeling. Acceptability is generally affected by perceived intrusiveness and effectiveness (especially on other people in the society), while other factors (sugary drink behavior, trust in government’s competence, personal values, age, education) only matter for some of the interventions. Cluster analysis revealed three consumer segments, depicted as anti-taxation (28%), pro-intervention (20%) and pro-labeling (52%), which further underpins the heterogeneity of intervention acceptability.
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Rassam, Farzaneh, Leila Khedmat, and Farnaz Khatami. "Effects of Community-Based Interventions in Reducing the Obesity and Overweight Rate Among Iranian Women: Using Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool." International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health 7, no. 3 (September 20, 2019): 99–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijtmgh.2019.21.
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Introduction: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity is one of the most critical issues of urban health. The current study investigated the effects of community-based interventions on modification of overweight and obesity. Methods: A program based on the Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) was developed and implemented in 2013-2014. A total of 166 Iranian females aged 15 years or older who were classified as overweight or obese using body mass index (BMI) were randomly selected and gave verbal consent to participate in this study. The intervention was carried out for a duration of 4 months. Results: The mean age of subjects was 43.6±12.2 years. The total number of overweight and obese individuals were 75 (45.2%) and 91 (54.8%), respectively. The mean BMI of the patients before and after the intervention was 30.3±2.7 and 29.4±2.7 kg/m2 , respectively (P < 0.05). Higher education level and greater floor area were recognized as valid predictors for reduced BMI after the intervention (P < 0.001). Conclusion: This study successfully represents the collaborative role of the community in improving health status by reducing overweight and obesity. The Urban HEART provided distinct opportunities for presenting the promising results of interventions to health policymakers and managers so they can adjust macro and micro policies for achieving better community health outcomes.
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Ciemins, Elizabeth L., Patricia J. Coon, Nicholas C. Coombs, Barbara L. Holloway, Elizabeth J. Mullette, and William N. Dudley. "Intent-to-treat analysis of a simultaneous multisite telehealth diabetes prevention program." BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care 6, no. 1 (April 2018): e000515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjdrc-2018-000515.
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ObjectiveDetermine the effectiveness of a 16-week modified diabetes prevention program (DPP) administered simultaneously to multiple rural communities from a single urban site, as compared with a similar face-to-face intervention. A 12-week intervention was evaluated to consider minimization of staff costs in communities where resources are limited.Research design and methodsA prospective cohort study compared DPP interventions implemented in rural (via telehealth technology) and urban (face-to-face) communities using an intent-to-treat analysis. Primary outcome measures included 5% and 7% body weight loss. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine predictors of intervention success and included a variable for treatment effect.ResultsBetween 2010 and 2015, up to 667 participants were enrolled in the study representing one urban and 15 rural communities across Montana. The 16-week urban and rural interventions were comparable; 33.5% and 34.6% of participants lost 7% body weight, respectively; 50% and 47% lost 5% (p=0.22). Participants who were male (OR=2.41; 95% CI 1.32 to 4.40), had lower baseline body mass index (OR=1.03; 95% CI 1.01 to 1.07), attended more sessions (OR=1.33; 95% CI 1.11 to 1.58), and more frequently reported (OR=3.84; 95% CI 1.05 to 14.13) and met daily fat gram (OR=4.26; 95% CI 1.7 to 10.6) and weekly activity goals (OR=2.46; 95% CI 1.06 to 5.71) were more likely to meet their 7% weight loss goal. Predictors of meeting weight loss goals were similar for participants enrolled in the 12-week intervention.ConclusionsUsing telehealth technology to administer a modified DPP to multiple rural communities simultaneously demonstrated weight loss results comparable to those in a face-to-face intervention. Given the limitation of resources, linking rural areas to urban centers using telemedicine may increase access to much needed services to prevent or delay progression to diabetes.
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Wubie, Abebe Mengaw, Walter T. de Vries, and Berhanu Kefale Alemie. "A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Land Use Dynamics and Process of Land Intervention in the Peri-Urban Areas of Bahir Dar City." Land 9, no. 11 (November 15, 2020): 445. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9110445.
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The contemporary urbanization and its implication to land use dynamics especially in the peri-urban areas are emerging as a cross-cutting theme in policy debates and scientific discourse. As most cities in developing countries, including Ethiopia, are experiencing continuous expansion of built-ups and dynamic land use changes, monitoring and an in-depth analysis of the past, present and future predictions of these changes are important for a holistic understanding of the problem, its consequence, and to regulate proper land use intervention options. Thus, the main objective of this research is to assess land use dynamics and processes of land intervention in the peri-urban areas of Bahir Dar city using a socio-spatial analysis. It assesses to what extent the existing peri-urban land intervention processes and land use decisions are effective in combating and controlling unwanted land use changes. Primary socio-economic data were collected using questionnaires, focus group discussions (FGDs) and key informant interviews; in addition, spatial data including Landsat and Sentinel imageries of 1993, 2001, 2011 and 2020 were utilized. Land use/land cover (LULC) classes were computed using the integration of spectral and object-based image classification techniques. The results signal that built-ups are expanding horizontally with unpredicted patterns. This is because the existing land intervention processes are lacking effectiveness to govern the spatial patterns of built-ups. The results further depict that processes of land use intervention do not only determine horizontal urban expansion but also determine the nature of people-to-land relationships, which involve both formal and informal processes. This creates haphazard, disputed and unregulated land use systems in peri-urban areas of Bahir Dar. The socio-spatial methodology applied in this research is effective in monitoring both the spatial and social dimensions of land use changes. The spatial results effectively demonstrate the dynamics of land uses; whereas, the social analysis supports understanding of the processes of land use interventions. In conclusion, monitoring processes of land use interventions are key policy and decision making directions to regulate and manage land use dynamics in the peri-urban area.
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Costa, Joana B., Fernando A. F. Ferreira, Ronald W. Spahr, Mark A. Sunderman, and Leandro F. Pereira. "Intervention strategies for urban blight: A participatory approach." Sustainable Cities and Society 70 (July 2021): 102901. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102901.
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Yang, Jinghao Mary, and Lisa Richardson. "Recruiting Aboriginal students: intervention at an urban school." Medical Education 47, no. 5 (April 10, 2013): 514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/medu.12201.
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Baker, Cathy J., Sheena D. Palmer, and Chia-Wen Vianne Lee. "Smoking Cessation Intervention Preferences Among Urban African Americans." Western Journal of Nursing Research 38, no. 6 (January 25, 2016): 704–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193945915626381.
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Kalenderian, Elsbeth, Cheryl Pegus, Charles Francis, Norma Goodwin, Henock Saint Jacques, and Damaris Lasa. "Cardiovascular Disease Urban Intervention: Baseline Activities and Findings." Journal of Community Health 34, no. 4 (April 3, 2009): 282–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-009-9159-3.
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Gkoumas, Aristeidis, and Federico D’Orazio. "Public-space tactical intervention as urban tourist allure." International Journal of Tourism Cities 6, no. 4 (November 13, 2019): 711–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijtc-05-2019-0066.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the art-based project of Full Llove Inn as a tactical urbanism intervention and urban tourist attraction. The project consisted of an elevated room-car, displayed in the public space of Amsterdam from August 2006 to September 2007. Design/methodology/approach The research was conducted between December 2017 and November 2018 in Amsterdam. The study applied the methodological tools of semi-structured interviews, textual analysis and participatory observation. Findings Full Llove Inn provided an extraordinary allure for visitors and residents. It created a sense of intra-personal and inter-personal existential authenticity for local and non-local guests, respectively, while introducing a pop-up hotel as a new form of tactical initiative. Research limitations/implications Due to the inability to contact non-local guests for interviews, the only source of data was based on tourist experiences about Full Llove Inn derived from the hotel guest book. Practical implications The research suggests that pop-up hotels may be used by Destination Management Organizations as a means of strengthening the brand image and creating a competitive edge for cities. Social implications The research indicates that art-inspired tactical interventions in the public space of civic environments could constitute a social capital while generating interactions between residents and visitors. Originality/value For the first time in the tourism literature, this study investigates the impact of tactical projects on destination branding from the perspective of both locals and visitors.
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Griffiths, Ron. "Cultural strategies and new modes of urban intervention." Cities 12, no. 4 (August 1995): 253–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0264-2751(95)00042-k.
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Gould, Laura Feagans, Jacinda K. Dariotis, Tamar Mendelson, and Mark T. Greenberg. "A SCHOOL-BASED MINDFULNESS INTERVENTION FOR URBAN YOUTH: EXPLORING MODERATORS OF INTERVENTION EFFECTS." Journal of Community Psychology 40, no. 8 (October 9, 2012): 968–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21505.
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Williamson, Ariel A., Izabela Milaniak, Bethany Watson, Olivia Cicalese, Alexander G. Fiks, Thomas J. Power, Frances K. Barg, Rinad S. Beidas, Jodi A. Mindell, and Katharine A. Rendle. "Early Childhood Sleep Intervention in Urban Primary Care: Caregiver and Clinician Perspectives." Journal of Pediatric Psychology 45, no. 8 (May 20, 2020): 933–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsaa024.
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Abstract Background Despite significant income-related disparities in pediatric sleep, few early childhood sleep interventions have been tailored for or tested with families of lower socio-economic status (SES). This qualitative study assessed caregiver and clinician perspectives to inform adaptation and implementation of evidence-based behavioral sleep interventions in urban primary care with families who are predominantly of lower SES. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with (a) 23 caregivers (96% mothers; 83% Black; 65% ≤125% U.S. poverty level) of toddlers and preschoolers with insomnia or insufficient sleep and (b) 22 urban primary care clinicians (physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, and psychologists; 87% female; 73% White). Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, the interview guide assessed multilevel factors across five domains related to intervention implementation. Qualitative data were analyzed using an integrated approach to identify thematic patterns across participants and domains. Results Patterns of convergence and divergence in stakeholder perspectives emerged across themes. Participants agreed upon the importance of child sleep and intervention barriers (family work schedules; household and neighborhood factors). Perspectives aligned on intervention (flexibility; collaborative and empowering care) and implementation (caregiver-to-caregiver support and use of technology) facilitators. Clinicians identified many family barriers to treatment engagement, but caregivers perceived few barriers. Clinicians also raised healthcare setting factors that could support (integrated care) or hinder (space and resources) implementation. Conclusions Findings point to adaptations to evidence-based early childhood sleep intervention that may be necessary for effective implementation in urban primary care. Such adaptations could potentially reduce significant pediatric sleep-related health disparities.
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Fraser, Emma, and Clancy Wilmott. "Ruins of the smart city: a visual intervention." Visual Communication 19, no. 3 (May 26, 2020): 353–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470357220919265.
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The visual imaginary of the future city is increasingly dichotomized between visions of hyper-technological digital urbanism and the city in a state of ruin, without people, overtaken by nature. These alternating imaginaries key into concerns over urban futures, as questions of sustainability and rising inequality come to bear on urban life. Such binary imaginaries produce volumes of visual material, lauding and critiquing philosophies of newness, endless progress and the city without decline. This article uses an inventive visual methodology to ask how these imaginaries become situated in the everyday ecologies of living. This methodology focuses on several so-called ‘brownfield’ sites in Salford, UK, and the ‘smart’ Oxford Road Corridor in neighbouring Manchester, to playfully and visually map the entanglement of digital urban ecologies through the themes of wilderness, play and compost. These three themes relate to the pleasure of urban wilderness described by Rose Macaulay, reflecting on London’s wild ruins after the Second World War; the playful contrast between smart urbanism and urban wastelands, understood through interdisciplinary visual methods; and Haraway’s notion of compost as the fertile ground of collaboration that marks a material–semiotic entanglement between place, people and nature. The authors investigate how these frameworks reflect the diversity of urban ecology (animals, plants and humans) and might provide an alternative vision of how the city could be, a vision built from how the city currently is.
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Qiu, Xichenhui, Ting Li, Qiyu Fang, Lingling Huang, and Xujuan Zheng. "Online and Offline Intervention for the Prevention of Postpartum Depression among Rural-to-Urban Floating Women: Study Protocol for a Randomized Control Trial." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 13 (June 29, 2022): 7951. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137951.
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Background: As a higher-risk group of postpartum depression (PPD), rural to urban floating women urgently require effective and accessible mental health care after childbirth to prevent PPD. Even though there were various interventions, only a small number of women have sought professional help to reduce their depressive symptoms after childbirth, suggesting the need for an innovative intervention delivery to overcome women’s help-seeking barriers. Online and offline (OTO) interventions, which combine face-to-face and internet-based interventions, provide apparent benefits. As a result, the protocol for a randomized controlled study (RCT) was designed to examine the effectiveness and acceptability of OTO intervention on psychosocial outcomes for Chinese rural-to-urban floating women including the reduction of PPD symptoms and PPD stigma, and the improvement of social support and quality of life. Methods: A double blind, multicenter, RCT will be used and a total of 226 participants will be recruited. The OTO intervention called the “Hi, Mom” program will integrate two face-to-face consulting sessions with online sessions comprising an information module, a communication module, an ask-the-expert module, and a peer story module over a period of three months. The control group will receive routine postpartum care. Outcome measures including PPD symptoms, PPD stigma, social support, quality of life, mother–child bonding, and satisfaction with health care received will be conducted at baseline, postintervention, and three-month follow-up. Results and Discussion: If the intervention is effective, it will provide a convenient and effective intervention program on postpartum mental well-being for rural-to-urban floating women. As the first study to test the effects of an OTO intervention for the prevention of PPD in China, the outcomes gained from this study will provide evidence-based knowledge for clinical practice on PPD prevention based on online and offline health technologies. Moreover, it could be used to plan a culturally appropriate OTO intervention for migrant mothers from different countries.
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Anjarwati, Dwi Utami, Rahmawati Wulan Sari, and Diyah Woro Dwi Lestari. "Peningkatan Penggunaan Antibiotik Bijak pada Kelompok Pemberdayaan Wanita di Daerah Perkotaan di Kabupaten Banyumas Melalui Tindakan Intervensi KAP (Knowledge, Attitude, Practice)." Jurnal Pengabdian Pada Masyarakat 4, no. 2 (August 20, 2019): 203–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.30653/002.201942.109.
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INCREASING OF THE USE OF WISE ANTIBIOTIC IN WOMAN'S EMPOWERMENT GROUP IN THE URBAN AREA OF BANYUMAS REGENCY BY PROVIDING INTERVENTION OF KAP (KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, PRACTICE). Unwise use of antibiotic behavior in the community contributes significantly to the increase in the incidence of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance has become a major health problem throughout the world that must receive attention both in hospitals and in the community. The purpose of this community service is as an effort to increase the use of wise antibiotics in women's empowerment groups in urban areas in Banyumas Regency by intervening Knowledge, Attitude, Practice (KAP). The target audience was an urban community group in Banyumas regency, namely all members of the Rambutan women's empowerment group located at Jl. Kalijaga, Berkoh, Purwokerto. The activities carried out for KAP intervention were knowledge transfer, and educational video included antibiotics, the wise use of antibiotics, and the dangers of antibiotic resistance. The results of the KAP intervention were measured by questionnaires containing statements from aspects of Knowledge, attitude, practice before and after KAP intervention activities. Each statement in the questionnaire was assessed with a Likert scale and tested for its validity and reliability. Data were analyzed descriptively while testing the results of questionnaires I and II were carried out by paired T-Tests. Data that can be analyzed are 39 respondents. The results of the questionnaire analysis showed an increase in KAP about antibiotic use before and after KAP interventions in women's empowerment groups in urban areas of Banyumas Regency. The article concluded that KAP intervention actions could achieve an increase in the use of wise antibiotics in women's empowerment groups in urban areas in Banyumas Regency.
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Platt, Lois, Teresa A. Savage, and Nimmi Rajagopal. "33 An Intervention to Decrease Benzodiazepine Prescribing by Providers in an Urban Clinic." CNS Spectrums 24, no. 1 (February 2019): 192–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1092852919000270.
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AbstractSTUDY OBJECTIVESOutpatient benzodiazepine use can cause side effects including dependence (20–30%) and death from respiratory depression when used with alcohol or opioids. Benzodiazepine use is on the rise in the U.S., increasing 67% from 1996–2013. In this quality improvement project, two educational interventions were combined with the intent of decreasing benzodiazepine prescribing by providers (MDs, APRNs) in an urban university clinic.STUDY QUESTIONWhen prescribers working in a low-income clinic receive an intervention to increase awareness of benzodiazepine dangers and promote harm reduction strategies compared to treatment as usual, do they write fewer benzodiazepine prescriptions in the month following the intervention?METHODA hybrid intervention combining academic detailing (educational outreach visits) and pharmaceutical industry detailing (merchandising, relationship building) was provided in two sessions to family practice providers (salaried and residents) working in a university outpatient clinic in Chicago. The subject matter included benzodiazepine risks, alternative treatments for anxiety & insomnia, and methods to deal with patient demand. All clinic providers (n=40) were invited to participate. Participants were self-selected to attend each session (although resident physicians were obligated to attend). A total of 20–24 providers attended each session.Benzodiazepine prescription information was extracted by clinic information systems for two periods: 12months pre-intervention, and 30days post-intervention. For ease of comparison, each prescription was converted to a common denominator: the diazepam-equivalent dose. The pre-intervention monthly average (for one year) was compared to 30-day post-intervention data. The outcome measure was the numeric difference in the prescribed diazepam-equivalents pre- and post-intervention. This number was used as a measure of the effectiveness of the intervention. A decrease in prescribing post- compared to pre-intervention would indicate a successful intervention.RESULTSThere was an 80% decrease in benzodiazepine prescribing in the 30-day post-intervention period compared to the 12-month pre-intervention monthly average. This result cannot be explained by personnel changes at the clinic. Although these did occur in 2017, the pattern of prescribing was stable throughout the year prior to this intervention.CONCLUSIONSThe combination of academic and pharmaceutical industry detailing influenced family practice providers in an urban clinic setting to decrease benzodiazepine prescribing by 80%. Decreased benzodiazepine prescribing should decrease patient morbidity and mortality.
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Groth, Sanne Krogh, and Kristine Samson. "Urban sound ecologies." SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience 3, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 94–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/se.v3i3.18443.
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Within recent years, there has been a renewed focus on sound in urban environments. From sound installations in public space to sound festivals in alternative settings, we find a common interest in sound art relating to the urban environment. Artworks or interventions presented in such contexts share the characteristics of site specificity. However, this article will consider the artwork in a broader context by re-examining how sound installations relate to the urban environment. For that purpose, this article brings together ecology terms from acoustic ecology of the sound theories of the 1970s while developing them into recent definitions of ecology in urban studies. Finally, we unfold our framing of urban sound ecologies with three case analyses: a sound intervention in Berlin, a symphony for wind instruments in Copenhagen and a video walk in a former railway station in Kassel. The article concludes that the ways in which recent sound installations work with urban ecologies vary. While two of the examples blend into the urban environment, the other transfers the concert format and its mode of listening to urban space. Last, and in accordance with recent soundscape research, we point to how artists working with new information and media technologies create inventive ways of inserting sound and image into urban environments.
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Berringer, Ross, Jim Christenson, Maurice Blitz, John Spinelli, Jeff Freeman, Glenn Maddess, and Sandra Rae. "Medical role of first responders in an urban prehospital setting." CJEM 1, no. 02 (July 1999): 93–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1481803500003742.
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ABSTRACT: Background: Almost all North American cities have first responder programs. To date there is no published documentation of the roles first responders play, nor of the frequency and type of interventions they perform. Many urban stakeholders question the utility and safety of routinely dispatching large vehicles emergently to calls that may not require their services. Real world data on first responder interventions will help emergency medical services (EMS) directors and planners determine manpower requirements, assess training needs, and optimize dispatch protocols to reduce the rate of inappropriate “code 3” (lights and siren) responses. Objective: Our objectives were to determine how often first responders arrive first on scene, to estimate the time interval between first response and EMS response, and to examine the frequency and type of interventions performed by first responders. Methods: In a prospective observational study, trained observers were assigned to fire department first responder (FDFR) units. These observers recorded on-scene times for FDFR and EMS units, and documented the performance of first responder interventions. Results: FDFRs arrived first on scene in 49% of code 3 calls. They performed critical interventions in 18% of calls attended and 36% of calls where they arrived first. Oxygen administration was the most frequent critical intervention, yet occult hypoxemia was common and compliance with oxygen administration protocols was poor. Conclusions: First responders perform critical interventions during a minority of code 3 calls, even when “critical” is defined generously. Many “lights and siren” dispatches are unnecessary. Future research should attempt to identify dispatch criteria that more accurately predict the need for first responder intervention. First responder training and continuous quality improvement (CQI) should focus on interventions that are performed with some regularity, particularly oxygen administration.
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André, Carminda mendes. "QUANDO A CIDADE NOS ENSINA." Manzuá: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes Cênicas 1, no. 2 (February 1, 2019): 34–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21680/2595-4024.2018v1n2id15010.
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O artigo apresenta um programa de ensino tendo a criação de intervenções urbanas como prática arte educativa na formação de licenciados e de bacharéis em teatro. Embasa sua pedagogia nas noções de estratégia e tática de Michel De Certeau. Por meio de relatos de experiencia, apresenta um fazer que já é um saber.
Palavras-chaves: intervenção urbana, tática, arte-educação, cidade.
Abstract. The article presents a teaching program having the creation of urban interventions as a practical art education in the training of graduates and bachelors in theater. The text embodies its pedagogy in the notions of strategy and tactics of Michel De Certeau. By means of reports of experience, it presents a doing that is already a knowing.
Keywords: urban intervention, tactics, art-education, city.
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Aldelphi, Hussam S. O. "Urban participation in improving the urban environment of historic city centers." Wasit Journal of Engineering Sciences 6, no. 1 (April 3, 2018): 44–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/ejuow.vol6.iss1.82.
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Most of the historical city centers are subjected to great pressures due to urbanization and urban involvements by individuals and institutions. This intervention may change the original urban structure and threaten its involvements. The problem is the lack of a perception of the impact of urban participation and its impact on the urban environment, assuming that patterns of urban participation may have an effective impact on that urban environment. Then, the research aims at focusing on good practices and supporting the active groups in improving the urban environment of the city centers. Therefore, the research is concerned with activating the ways of urban participation in improving the urban environment. The research found that there is an actual state of change in some features of the city centers as a result of many urban interventions. Control of the nature of urban participation can improve the control of changes in the urban environment in a positive way to the latest developments and requirements of modern life of the inhabitants. The research recommends the development of mechanisms and policies appropriate to the content of change in historical centers to make them viable and keep with developments.
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Scorza, Francesco, Giovanni Fortunato, Raffaella Carbone, Beniamino Murgante, and Piergiuseppe Pontrandolfi. "Increasing Urban Walkability through Citizens’ Participation Processes." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (May 22, 2021): 5835. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13115835.
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The work is focused on the integration of space syntax analysis (SSA) in a process of participatory planning focused on a neighbourhood scale where the challenge of promoting pedestrian-friendly regeneration process is a bottom-up priority. The promotion of active mobility is one of the main themes of the urban regeneration project CAST operating on the western part of the city of Potenza (capital of the Basilicata region, Italy). Both the state of the art of the case study area and the potential effects of the intervention proposed on the basis of the participatory process have been assessed by SSA as a walkability assessment method. By measuring a street network’s syntactic parameters, it was possible to further enrich the cognitive framework relating to the current situation and to simultaneously evaluate the effects (in terms of potential movement and social usage) deriving from design interventions. The paper presents a methodology to evaluate the urban pedestrian environment and to provide an insight for walking-related intervention and improvements in neighbourhood-scale planning, according to a participatory approach. The research, based on specific local characteristics, represents a transferable approach to supporting and informing policy-makers and designers engaged in inclusive and participative urban regeneration projects.
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Cleary, Timothy J., Peter Platten, and Amy Nelson. "Effectiveness of the Self-Regulation Empowerment Program With Urban High School Students." Journal of Advanced Academics 20, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 70–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4219/jaa-2008-866.
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Impacting the academic performance of high school students in core academic content areas is important because of the high-stakes nature of secondary school course grades relative to their vocational and post-secondary pursuits. Getting students to become more active, strategic participants in their learning by teaching them empirically supported learning strategies as well as specific forethought and reflective thinking skills is an important pathway to academic success. The importance of self-regulation processes also has been established in recent survey research with teachers and school psychologists showing that students who are referred for academic problems often have self-regulatory skill and motivation deficits. Intervention programs like the Self-Regulation Empowerment Program (SREP) can be conceptualized and implemented within the context of school-based service delivery frameworks. Tier I interventions typically occur at a classroom level and thus are designed to provide all students with the potential benefits of an intervention. With regards to classroom-wide self-regulation interventions, there are many empirically supported techniques that teachers can readily infuse into the daily routine of a school day, such as requiring all students to set performance goals, engage in progress monitoring, and utilize self-reflective processes. Students who do not respond (i.e., continue to exhibit poor test performance) to this general level of intervention support would be eligible to receive more intensive, Tier II pull-out programs, such as SREP.