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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Capital Cities"”.
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Vegetation growing season length along the urban-rural gradients across European capital cities
Ilmastonmuutoksen ja kaupungistumisen myötä urbaanin kasvillisuuden merkitys ilmaston, ekologian ja ihmisen hyvinvoinnin näkökulmasta on korostunut. Kasvillisuuden fenologia säätelee merkittävästi ekosysteemipalveluiden toimintaa, ja kaupunkikasvillisuuden fenologiaan vaikuttavat esimerkiksi …
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First World War memory and national mythmaking in capital cities - horizontality and verticality in London, Paris, and Budapest
… WWI commemorations had on the urban landscape in capital cities, London, Paris and Budapest. It analyses how the urban space has changed its physical, symbolic and temporal layers during the hundred years between the end of WWI war and the WWI centenary celebrations, following the changes in …
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The Mexico City Metro: Appropriation and Assimilation of Foreign Technology To Stay on Track With Other Modern Capital Cities and To Produce a Technological and Cultural Marvel
… The use of newspaper articles from major cities from around the world demonstrated that the metro was accepted as a successful technological marvel. Newspaper articles, songs, and local art show that Mexicans accepted the metro as their own. We conclude that the metro was a cultural …
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The ethos in the form making of grand projects in contemporary Beijing City
Capital cities embody national identity and ethos, buildings in the capital cities have the power to awe and to inspire. While possibly no capital city in the world is being renewed so intensely as Beijing, which presents both enormous potential and threat. Intrinsic to this research is a concept …
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The Paradox of Ramallah: An Investigation into Palestine’s Political and National Architecture and Urban Topography Since 1995
… perceive as their historical home and national capital. As such, the PNA has gradually concentrated itself in the city of Ramallah, considering it a temporary base whilst maintaining the hope and desire for an eventual return to Jerusalem as a capital. However, as the PNA began constructing its …
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Sustainable urban forms for Chinese typical new towns
… how new town plans differ from both historic capital cities and the work units of the Maoist period, classifying them into four types based on featured visual elements. Last, this thesis proposes linear networking compact cities as a model for typical micro-scale towns. Constructing linear …
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United in diversity? A discourse analysis on the selective representation of the Islamic past in Spanish and Portuguese tourism
… the territory of al-Andalus, they were the last capital cities under Islamic control, and they are considered to be very well preserved national monuments today. Although these sites have the potential to legitimize and include Islam in European identity, the way in which they are represented …
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A palimpsest-image: place, space and film geographies
… on a film made with images recorded in the seven capital cities of countries from the former Yugoslavia. These cities are a platform for two objective ideas: first, to discuss questions of identity, memory, history and place in the context of an imaginary city, Novi (2012-2015), portrayed as a …
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Urban Planning in Strasbourg and Sarajevo, 1848-1918
… Among their most striking examples are capital cities such as Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Brussels, Rome, Madrid, and Budapest. We know a lot, consequently, about urban planning in the centres of political power. We know much less, by contrast, about urban planning in geographical and …
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Post-communist capital city tourism representation:a case-study on Bucharest
… of Central and Eastern European post-communist capital cities and the process of representation. Drawing from a number of academic fields such as urban tourism, culture, marketing, and media, as well as original primary and secondary research, the study wishes to contribute to existing debates …
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A descriptive analysis of emergency care provided in Northern Somalia
… all emergency units in Hargeisa and Garowe, the capital cities of Somaliland and Puntland respectively. A standardised WHO emergency care assessment tool was used to assess the performance of emergency care procedures in the emergency units. Simple descriptive statistics were used to analyse the …
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The dynamics of long-range intermodal transportation planning : using a high-speed rail connection to Bilbao Airport as a catalyst for change in the Basque Country
… network into the Basque Country will connect the capital cities of the three Basque provinces, creating an opportunity to drive change at many levels of the transportation network and making the region more attractive to both internal and external business interests. Accordingly, accessibility …
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Accessing public transport, a comparative study of Berlin and London
Berlin and London are both major European capital cities with extensive public transport networks. The main motivation for this study stemmed from my extensive experience travelling around independently in both cities on public transport as a totally blind person. I wanted to gain a much greater …
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Living drosscapes, remediating urban disconnections
… barriers” in urban development. In South African cities, the effects of Apartheid urban planning has led to purposeful “waste landscapes” to deliberately separate social groups through the use of mine dumps, landfill sites and enclosed communities. Therefore, there is a need to remediate the past …
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O jingle e outras práticas culturais dos vendedores de rua de Aracaju/SE
… center and adjacencies of the Aracaju city, capital of Sergipe state, located in Brazilian‟s Northeast. This is a study about the jingle and others social practices found in the day-by-day of streets by the streets sellers. There is a clear intention of consider the pregão singed by sellers …
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Affordable Housing Provision for Workers Constructing Nusantara, the New Capital City of Indonesia
… ongoing example of a country relocating its capital city for economic and environmental reasons amid numerous challenges. The new capital city site is located far from existing cities, with limited infrastructure and only a small population. One major challenge entails how and where best to …
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Geographies of Feminist Activism in Berlin and Dublin: Hybrid Feminist Counterpublic Spaces of Resistance
… of feminist groups/projects in two European capital cities, Berlin and Dublin, call attention to violence at multiple scales. Feminist resistance has traditionally been classified according to ‘waves’ of feminism, with the most recent ‘fourth wave’ characterised by the use of new media. …
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30° from the Northern Tropic: Art, region and collective practices from urban Latin American and Arab worlds
… study of nineteen artist groups of four capital cities of Latin America and the Arab world. The research draws upon sociological methodologies of research, arts methodologies and historicisation to chart the scope and function of these groups against the backdrop of the global …
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Gardens of resistance
… and intersecting identities. As for most capital cities such as New Delhi, alongside entrenched political regimes come the evolution of a parallel legacy of fighting against, opposing and obstructing, and resisting. Whether manifesting as the rallying cries at mass protests, as the …
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A Souvenir for the Land of Pagodas
In the capital cities of Myanmar (Burma)—present and previous—stand five government-sponsored pagodas, five gold-plated stars linking two architectural constellations. The first of these constellations is composed of the thousands of religious structures that punctuate the landscape of Myanmar, …
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