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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"City Identity"”.
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Embodying the City: Identity and Use in Urban Public Space
… can be created to reflect the vitality of the city by embracing the culture and the people who reside in it. Through literature review and case studies, a framework is developed focusing on the areas of identity and use in the design of public spaces. Identity is looked at in terms of place …
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We are the 'Who Dat' Nation: city identity, narratives of renewal, and football fandom in New Orleans public realm
… frames the relationship between sports and the city in terms of economics as researchers debate the costs and benefits of using public subsidies to build stadiums, retain professional teams and host mega-events. However, people assign symbolic or intangible values to their home sports teams that …
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Discovering urban crossings : the marriage of a public market and a transit station
… that enables and encourages community and city identity to develop. A large cross-section of the cities population can see, hear, meet-- know about one another and ultimately the choice to interact, or not, is provided. These qualities are essential to the health and livelihood of city and …
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Iraqi architecture between tradition and modernity : re-creating the urban identity of Basra, the “Venice of the East”
… years Iraqi traditional architecture and urban identity have been deeply affected by three wars, which challenged the cultural memory of the local people and in particular of young generations. This research focuses on the city of Basra to investigate the material features of the Iraqi …
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Literacies and racial ideology: a black Colombian young male's learning and participation in an urban school
… and racial ideology in Surgir, a school in the city of Cali, Colombia. This study focuses on Yeison Daniel, a black Colombian young male’s learning and participation in the school and in the classroom. His learning and participation are framed within his views on literacy as tied to racial …
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Materiality, identity and social positioning: The case of the Elbphilharmonie
… forms of materiality might affect organizational identity and takes into account that organizational identity change needs to be studied in more contexts with a focus on how it changes (Gioia et al., 2013). I use the case of the NDR orchestra’s relocation to the Elbphilharmonie to explore how …