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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"City of London"”.
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Members Only: Place and Performativity in the City of London
Through its focus on the City of London as a particular work sector and setting, the thesis emphasizes the symbolic and material significance of place to understanding organizational life. The analysis, drawing primarily on Lefebvre’s theorisation of space as socially produced and on his work on …
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'Real Liberals' and Conservatives in the City of London, 1848-1886
… that examines the political and cultural life of the City of London between 1848 and 1886 alongside its financial and commercial institutions. In attempting this task it has not been assumed that the City's signifying character was necessarily to be found in the financial and commercial …
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Spatial development of the city of London in the later middle ages
… with a particular spatial morphology - that of the City of London in the later Middle Ages - and the way that it evolved. It addresses itself to the organisation of space at the meso-scale, i.e. the way buildings were aggregated or arranged on the ground, and the external spaces that were …
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1960's office towers in the City of London : obsolete or recyclable?
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Summary proceedings and social relations in the city of London, c.1750-1800
Historians of crime and the criminal justice system have largely neglected the summary process. While an important theme of previous work on the history of crime has been concerned with the use of law, most research has focused on the jury courts of assize and quarter sessions and has used records …
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An investigation into combating money laundering in banks and financial institutions in the city of London and British Overseas and Crown Dependent Territories
… for banks and financial institutions in the City of London and the British Overseas and Crown Dependent Territories. In this study, the phrase “City of London” is used as a euphemism for the broader UK financial sector and economy, rather than solely referring to the geographic “Square Mile.” …
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Tales of the city: a critical exploration of children’s place- related identity with reference to London.
Abstract Tales of the city: a critical exploration of children’s place-related identity with reference to London. - Christopher Stephen Michael Hussey My thesis explores children’s relationships with place, focusing on London as a site of place identity. London is renowned for being a multicultural …
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Anatomizing the social body: representing the plague in London, 1665
… broadsheet produced in response to the outbreak of bubonic plague in the City of London in 1665. This form of representation utilized visual, textual, and statistical elements in 'anatomizing’ the spaces of the City during the outbreak, and the social processes brought into play by the presence …
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“I think myself as good as anybody” : nationalism, manliness, space and identity in Boswell’s London Journal
James Boswell (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson and lifelong diarist, provided one of the most detailed descriptions of eighteenth-century London life in his London Journal: 1762-1763. In it, Boswell chronicled his self-conscious attempts to refashion himself from the uncultivated Scottish …
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An exercise in selecting low-cost air quality sensor placements within an urban environment
… important environmental health risk to citizens of major cities all over the world. The high cost of current monitoring programs means that enforcement of current regulation, such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ambient air quality standards, can be lacking at the …
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Examining the Influence of Environmental Opportunities and Exposures on Children's Sleep Duration
… void in knowledge on how certain characteristics of the built and natural environments may impact children’s sleep duration. Data was collected on a sample of 614 children (aged 9-14 years) drawn from 22 elementary schools throughout the City of London, Ontario, Canada. Participants completed the …
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Change Is Brewing: The Industrialization of the London Beer-Brewing Trade, 1400-1750
<p>London's early modern brewing trade was a dynamic one that was constantly in flux throughout the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This dissertation seeks to better understand how issues of gender, ethnicity, and class changed and shaped London's early modern brewing …
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Emotional Geographies of Home: Place Identities Among Senior Women Residing in a Long-Term Care Facility
… meanings and identities attached to the concept of ‘home’ among older women residing in long-term care. The study is based upon semi-structured, open-ended interviews with eleven senior women who reside in a long-term care home in The City of London, Ontario. This study contributes towards …
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An Explanation of the Decade-Long Delay in the Rollout of a Green Bin Program in London Ontario, Analyzed Through the Lens of the Multiple Streams Framework
… posits that laws are created when different sets of interests, called the problem, policy, and political streams, align. When that alignment of the three streams does not occur for a particular issue, legislation to address the issue is not created, regardless of the issue’s importance. This paper …
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"How the Fishes Live in the Sea": Shakespeare's Daughters and the Market of Romance
… late romances were originally staged in London, seventeenth-century playgoers would have encountered a dramatic genre intertwined with global intrigue and fantastical, even fairy-tale elements. These plays, however, are also deeply invested in the changing economic landscape of the City …
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1290 A.D or 1307 A.D? When? Why? And by Whom? Was a Medieval Charter Granted to the Township of Laugharne, West Wales
Laugharne is a small, west Wales township of 2,700 people situated ten miles south of Carmarthen.1 It is unusual if not unique, outside of the City of London, for being a medieval chartered borough with an active corporation, who still convene a fortnightly ‘Hundred Court’ and manage 200 acres of …
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People like us: gentrification and the service class in Hackney in the 1980s
This is a study of service-class residents in Hackney, an inner London borough situated directly to the north of the City of London. The main focus of the study is on why these people chose to live in Hackney in the first place, why they have stayed and what influence living in Hackney has had on …
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Company Colonisation and the Settler Revolution, 1820–1840
This dissertation examines the cluster of agricultural trading and colonisation companies that emerged in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. It argues that company colonisation in Britain’s settler empire was driven by developments in the City of London. While scholars have long studied emigration …
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