I nterest in refugees who live in urban settings, especially those of the global south, has developed fairly recently, although refugees themselves have always been part of urban society. In 2002, the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University in Cairo held a workshop to explore some of the methodological and ethical issues implicit in doing research among urban ref...

OBJECTIVE In many resource-limited settings, people from rural areas migrate to urban hubs in search of work. Thus, urban public-sector HIV clinics in South Africa (SA) often cater to both local residents and patients from other provinces and/or countries. The objective of this analysis was to compare programmatic treatment outcomes by citizenship status in an urban clinic in SA. SETTING An u...

urban parks as public green space have played a unique and indispensable role in providing recreation opportunities and functions to urban populations. as a result of population growth and density, the sustainability of urban parks is a challenging management task. there exists a need to adopt effective management strategies for achieving the sustainable development and management of urban park...

The application of community informatics-assisted urban planning and design is still rear in the Finnish context. The aim of the article is to present and discuss the potentials of community informatics for participatory planning and design, as well as for ICT-mediated participation in general. The article is based on a case study on the co-design of a shared yard at the Roihuvuori Youth Centre...

mashhad municipality faces several governance issues including transparency, providing information, justice, accountability and lack of satisfaction on the part of citizens. the necessity of researching these issues and analyzing the current situation of governance in mashhad cannot be denied. this study opens a new horizon in this regard by analyzing the indicators of good governance (particip...