Like much of the housing constructed during the 1970s in Japan, Takashimadaira conforms to modernist design principles. It is comprised of near-identical 14-storey long-thin slab blocks organised in a largely regimental fashion east-west across the site. The aesthetic is essentially uniform. All ...
(9). The others were conducted as regular interviews in office spaces, over the phone or via a secure digital platform (7). The documents included in the study concerned the urban planning of the city and were subjected to discourse analysis (Wetherell and Potter1992). The analysis presented...
W: Excuse me, is there a post office near here? M: Yes, there is. W: How can I get there? M: Walk straight to People’s Hospital. Then turn right on North Street and the post office is on your left, next to a school. Question 12: Where does the woman want to go? 请听第...
At 0330 hours, an armed terrorist group stationed at the Fuqaha' al-Salihin school near the Majid mosque in the Maydanneighbourhood,togetherwithsnipers on the roofs of buildings in the said district, attacked the outer city police station from the west and[...] ...
Which reminds me, in my book on Neighbouring and older people I quoted the striking example from Tony Parker's The people of Providence, of 87-year-old Mrs Williams: ‘The person I like best is my neighbour next door, the one who goes and gets my pension from the post office for me...
services, particularly with regard to spaces and resources for children, youngsters and elderly people. Some basic services are not available within the neighbourhood, especially in the case of Poble Sec: for example, there is no adult school, and the health centre and the library are too ...
[134]. Moreover, rapid urbanisation and population growth aggravate inequity by constraining government ability to deliver basic services and resources, limiting urban residents’ access to green spaces, particularly the low socio-economic status groups [135], who already live in less green ...
Public transport services 0.274 1.887. 0.340 2.141* 0.590 4.048** Financial institutions −0.379 −2.323* −0.483 −2.553* −0.543 −3.302** Places for exercise or sports 0.307 1.902. 0.445 2.508* 0.002 0.009 Other services such as hair salons and pet care −0.346 −1.493 −0.464...
Also whenever I do go somewhere, then the next day the whole office knows that I went out to the trendy bar where the youngest amongst our staff go out to or went somewhere but didn’t come home with the driver (if a friend dropped me off) and it makes people wonder. Also I gave...
In CFAS II, the associations were generally weak apart from park and post office (Table 2). Living far from public parks was associated with lower odds of dementia (0.64; 95% CI: 0.42, 0.95) and the effect sizes were not attenuated after adjusting for sociodemographic factors and self-...