transport: Póvoa de Varzim

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Póvoa de Varzim (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpɔvu.ɐ ðɨ vɐɾˈzĩ] ) is a Portuguese city in Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, 30 km (18.6 mi) from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho and Douro rivers. In 2001, there were 63,470 inhabitants, with 42,396 living in the city proper. The city expanded southwards, to Vila do Conde, and there are about 100,000 inhabitants in the urban area alone. It is the seventh-largest urban agglomeration in Portugal and the third largest in Northern Portugal. Permanent settlement in Póvoa de Varzim dates back to around four to six thousand years ago. Around 900 BC, unrest in th…

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A native of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal is called a Poveiro which can be rendered into English as Povoan. According to the 2001 Census, there were 63,470 inhabitants that year, 38 848 (61.2%) of whom lived in the city. The number goes up to 100,000 if adjacent satellite areas are taken into account, ranking it as the seventh largest independent urban area in Portugal, within a polycentric agglomeration of about 3 million people, ranging from Braga to Porto. The urban area has a population density of 3,035 people/km2 (7,860 people/mi2), while the rural and suburban areas have a density of 355.5/km2 (921/mi2). The rural areas away from the city tend to be scarcely populated, becoming denser n…

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Will COVID‐19 hinder or aid the transition to sustainable urban mobility? Spotlight on Portugal’s largest urban agglomeration

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To Build-Up a Resilient Ecological Network by Investigating Dynamic Stability of the Ecological Sources for the Largest Chinese Urban Agglomeration. Resilience is a key goal and topic in studies on ecological networks (ENs) challenged by anthropogenic threats to withstand perturbations. With respect to the recognized source-loss effects on the resilience of ENs, we propose the concept of dynamic stability (DS) and its grading approach to improving the importance evaluation s of ecological sources. In the present study, five ecosystem services (ESs) indicators were selected and quantified. Thereafter, these indicators were used to identify the primary ecological sources of the largest Chines…

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Assessing the inequities in access to peri-urban parks at the regional level: A case study in China’s largest urban agglomeration

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The North Region (Portuguese: Região do Norte [ʁɨʒiˈɐ̃w̃ du ˈnɔɾtɨ]; Mirandese: Region de l Norte [rəʒiˈõŋ d(ə)ɫ ˈnoɾtə]) or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisbon, and the third most extensive by area. The region has 3,576,205 inhabitants according to the 2017 census, and its area is 21,278 kilometres (13,222 mi) with a density of 173 inhabitants per square kilometre. It is one of five regions of Mainland Portugal (NUTS II subdivisions). Its main population center is the urban area of Porto, with about one million inhabitants; it includes a larger political metropolitan region with 1.8 million, and an urban-metropolitan agglomeration with 2.99 million in…

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China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is divided into 33 province-level divisions, including two special administrative regions. Beijing is the capital, while Shanghai is the most populous city by urban area. Its geography features the Central Plain, major rivers such as the Yangtze and Yellow River, deserts, subtropical and temperate forests, plateaus, and mountain ranges such as the Himalayas. It is the world's second-most populous country after India, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion (17% of the world's population). Covering 9.6 million square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third largest country by area. Humans first arrived…