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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"De-industrialization"”.
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Still Working: Re-examining America’s Urban Working Waterfronts
… they are now disappearing, reflecting larger de-industrialization trends. This thesis argues for a critical re-examination of the continued and evolving role that waterfronts play as sites of work. It expands the definition of urban working waterfronts to include sites of industry, production, …
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Designing an integrated waterfront : responsive redevelopment at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
… changed. Due to the combined forces of de-industrialization, globalization, and military restructuring, urban waterfronts have transformed from industrial and manufacturing employment centers to tourist destinations, passive recreation areas, and luxury residential and corporate office …
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Regeneration of Ccuyahoga Flats – [De]-Industrialized Riverfront in Cleveland, Ohio
… United States have faced the consequences of [de]industrialization, including massive ecological disturbances. The Lower Cuyahoga River in Cleveland started facing those consequences when it was modified in the 1800s. The river channel was radically re-engineered with an aim to ease the …
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Peasantry to industry : labor and Chinese cokemaking township and village enterprises
… partly responsible for the economic and social deterioration of the Mon Valley. Then, I claim that the unique institutional environments in which Chinese TVEs operate are conducive to positive labor-management relations and labor practices that render these enterprises competitive in the global …
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Will Globalization Play in Peoria? Class, Race, and Nation in the Global Economy, 1948-2000
De-industrialization and the globalization of labor processes fundamentally altered the lives of working-class Americans, both at work and in their communities, in the second half of the twentieth century. As a result, unions and especially the industrial workers belonging to them existed in a far …
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Financialization of housing, social policy and inequality
The paper analyses the evidence and impact of housing financialization in South Africa. It gradually develops a mapping of the various interlinked characteristics of financialization and housing in the country. This mapping supports a structured discussion regarding the impact of housing …
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The Political Future of Cities: Camden, New Jersey and the Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act of 2002
Since the mid-20th century demographic and economic changes have left older post-industrial American cities located amidst fragmented metropolitan areas and has resulted in the loss of political power accompanied by loss of economic wealth. This has left urban centers in the Northeast and Midwest …
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Modelling socio-economic dynamics in a working class desegregation area in post-industrial, post-Apartheid South Africa : the case of Danville-Elandspoort, Pretoria
… areas which are experiencing rapid rates of desegregation. It is in these cases a researcher could pose a question to whether or not Apartheid’s race-class divisions are still prevalent. A further gap in South African literature is a lack of a model on which to base socio-economic changes in …
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The transformation of the ideal wilderness : a case study of Springfield, Missouri and the mid-size American city
… the mid-size American city and examines the deeply nuanced relationship between city form, landscape and culture. Using Springfield Missouri as a representative case study, the city is viewed as a process of transformation, a reading which is used to build a layered spatial comprehension, …
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Embracing Detroit's urban ruins
The current urban landscape of Detroit reflects the fallout from the city’s tumultuous history of racial turmoil and social and spatial segregation. Since the “white flight” to the suburbs of residents and the institutions they controlled, Detroit has become an “urban prairie” characterized by the …