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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Guangzhou"”.
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Transit oriented development strategy : Guangzhou case study
Mega-cities are the centers of population, economy, culture and political power. Yet, along with these characteristics, they are also the greatest source of energy consumption, resource depletion, and pollution. In order for developing countries to take a more sustainable development path, they …
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Promoção e ensino da língua portuguesa em Guangzhou, China
Tomando o caso de Guangzhou, esta dissertação focar-se-á na promoção e ensino da língua portuguesa. Este trabalho de investigação pretende analisar as estratégias e iniciativas adotadas para a disseminação do português nesta metrópole chinesa. Guangzhou, uma cidade com uma rica herança histórica de …
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Second generation internal immigrants' bilingual practices and identity construction in Guangzhou, China
… mobility. The setting of this research, Guangzhou, is one of the cities that host the largest number of immigrants, and the dominant local speech, Cantonese, is unintelligible to immigrants who speak other language varieties, including China’s official language Putonghua. Since 2010 …
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Spatial Recombination - The Geography of Architects’ Work and Workspaces in Guangzhou, China
… world. Our empirical case study is the Greater Guangzhou in southern China, a city region where the businesses are well known for their openness, pragmatism, adaptability and proportionate regulation regime. It provides a fairly wide relevance to market-oriented urban economies around the world. …
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Social status and governmental trust : a study of civil society organizations in Guangzhou, China
… the state. Based on my two months' fieldwork in Guangzhou City between May and July 2010, however, I find that some civil society organizations support the state while other groups oppose the state. Specifically, elite civil society organizations, which are established by people with mid or high …
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Proposal for New Commuter Rail Service and TOD Master Plan Along Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway
The Guangzhou-Shenzhen Suburban Railroad Project seeks to transform regional transportation and urban development within the Greater Bay Area by introducing suburban rail services on the Guangshen Railway (GSR). This proposal outlines a framework centered on investment sectors, innovative methods, …
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Popular newspapers in post-Mao Guangzhou: toward a social history of Southern Weekend, 1984-2010
… Weekend [Nanfang Zhoumo], a news weekly based in Guangzhou yet with national influence especially since the late 1990s, the study aims to examine how popular newspapers have explored the forms and politics of their journalism under new historical conditions. For each period of development, the …
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Privatization of sewage treatment in China's coast cities : environmental policies, international experience, and policy implications for Guangzhou
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1996.
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Urbanism with Chinese Characteristics and the Right to the City : The Regeneration of Urban-Villages in Guangzhou, China
… context of the regeneration of urban-villages in Guangzhou. Referring to in-depth interviews with key practitioners and actors in the regeneration process, this thesis explores three specific relationships and/or processes. -- First, it examines the discursive and structural conditions surrounding …
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A mixed methods sequential explanatory study of the utilisation and practice of traditional Chinese medicine by Chinese people in Hong Kong and Guangzhou
… regions of China, in this study, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. A mixed-method, sequential explanatory study was undertaken that involved two phases. In the first phase, a structured questionnaire translated into Chinese was used to collect data from a convenience sample of Chinese patients attending …
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Productive Landscape - Revitalizing a Post-industrial District with Slow Economy
… professionals. In some developing cities, like Guangzhou China, reprogramming post-industrial sites for new productive purposes can be problematic because of contradictory conditions: theses large cities are aging but also still expanding. In addition, Guangzhou requires productive landscape …
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Cultural Perspectives on Photography Education: An Inquiry into Pedagogy and Student Experiences in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and University of Wales Trinity Saint David
… through a cross-cultural lens, centring on Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) as a primary case study, with comparative reference to the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) in the UK. Drawing on the author’s experiences in China and the UK, it investigates how cultural and …
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Urban transportation policies toward sustainability of mega-cities
… in two existing megacities, Mexico City and Guangzhou City, using lessons learned from previous experiences in two industrialized countries, the US and Japan. The objectives of this study were as follows: - Review the environmental problems caused by urban transportation; - Examine policies …
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Automobile regulations in China examined from a behavioral perspective
… By drawing on two survey results in Beijing and Guangzhou, this thesis analyzes the automobile regulations with respect to the normative aspect, the empirical aspect and the behavioral aspect of the debate. I structure this thesis in three separate essays. The first essay focuses on the normative …
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High Density Residential Design
… since the "Reform and Open Up" policy began, Guangzhou has experienced economic growth and urban expansion and attracted a vast number of migrants. Seen as the product of the rapid urbanization, urban villages accommodate the majority of migrants by providing low-rent housing, but at the same …
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Interstitial DenCity : an architectural apparatus of political mediations in Chinese urban villages
… property prices, developed cities such as Guangzhou exemplify the impending crisis wrought by this flawed mode of urbanization. Furthermore, the urbanization does not take into account the massive urban migration that fulfills the low-wage labor force necessary to sustain a metropolis. The …
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Participatory Democracy in the Chinese Cyber World: Case Studies from Weibo
… sentence, the sanitation workers’ strike in Guangzhou, and the anti-trash incineration protest in Yuhang, and triangulates the results with an online survey and examination of the extant literature.</p>
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