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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Port City"”.
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A people-oriented port city : urban rejuvenation: Port Louis
… urban issues and design principles pertinent to Port Cities. 'Man meets water': Our primordial psyche Man has had a relationship with water since time immemorial. Moving freely from earth to water is an activity which comes naturally to the human being. According to Eastern philosophy, Earth is …
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Locating an Ottoman Port-City in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Izmir 1580-1780
… of Istanbul into a bustling trans-regional port-city, so the standard narrative goes, was due to mercantilist penetration by English and Dutch chartered companies at a time of Ottoman economic and political crisis and social dislocation. This formulation gives little credit to the city’s …
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Building a Port City in China: The German Multiscale Planning Approach in Qingdao at the Turn of the 20th Century and Its Urban Heritage
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Towards a theory of logistics urbanism: how the transport fix, racialized low-wage labor, and engagement with the state define Chicago’s role as the inland port city of North America
… labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Port of call or port of conflict: the evolution of the port of New York and New Jersey, port-city relationships, and the potential for land use conflicts on the Newark bay waterfront
This dissertation, a case study of the Port of New York and New Jersey, covers three major research topics: 1) the evolution of the port spanning a period of over 200 years; 2) the relationship between the port (and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) and five municipalities on Newark …
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Unnamed modernisms : national ideologies and historical imaginaries in Beirut's urban architecture
… reconcile the war induced fragmentation of both city and national identity whilst reclaiming its "historic" position as one of a global network of cities. These changes are grounded in a series of historiographic approaches to memory, architecture, and urbanism. This dissertation argues that a …
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Elite composition and power structure of Chittagong, Bangladesh, 1940-1985
… the power structure of Chittagong, the principal port city and commercial center of Bangladesh. My approach is to identify the elites and analyze their nature, composition, characteristics and value orientations in order to determine their role in the development of Chittagong. Tracing her …
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Taking Control, Women of Lorient, France Direct Their Lives Despite the German Occupation (June 1940-May 1945)
… "Pocket" surrendered, although the women of this port city faced drastic changes, they took control of their everyday lives. They did what it took to feed and clothe their families, working, standing in lines, buying on the black market, bartering, demonstrating, and recycling. They developed …
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Invisible parentheses : maping (out) the city and its histories
… of investigation; however, the space of the city, itself a product of both, manifests the overlapping between the two fields. Contrary to modernism's evolutionary model, in which the past is there only to be surpassed, and to postmodernism's revisionist agenda, in which history simplistically …
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The Rio Grande Expedition, 1863-1865
… of this campaign was Brownsville, Texas, a port city on the lower Rio Grande. Its capture would not only serve as a warning to the French in Mexico; it would also disrupt a lucrative Confederate cotton trade across the border. The expedition had a mixed record of achievement. It succeeded in …
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Fishing for Food and Fodder: The Transnational Environmental History of Humboldt Current Fisheries in Peru and Chile since 1945
… world or extracted and their nutrients exported as mass commodities, at greater profit, as a building block for the food chain in the global North. The epicenter of the fishmeal industry in the 1960s was the port city of Chimbote, Peru, where its cultural, social, and ecological impacts …
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Elise Reimarus (1735--1805), the Muse of Hamburg: A Woman of the German Enlightenment
"Reimarus grew up in Hamburg, a prosperous port city with international flair, which also housed the largest Jewish community in Germany at the time. The daughter of an educated family, Reimarus received an exceptional education, which was enhanced through her correspondence with her older brother …
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Shanghai contemporary : the politics of built form
… the world. Having once been a lucrative treaty port city, Shanghai has re-embarked on the mission to become an economic global city through a combination of assimilated industrialized cityscape and the startling industriousness of Chinese pragmatism from 1980 onwards. Driven by the momentum of …
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Singapore trade center in Boston : a design exploration into architectural identity
… Singapore is a relatively young independent city-state with no known natural resources but its people and strategic geographic location. Its key to survival is to plug into the global market. Thus there is no escaping from the reality of global exposure. To keep up with the pace and challenge …
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Writings for acquisition : Hellenizing Alexandria, Egypt
… all the while effectively attenuating the importance of eleven centuries of Islamic rule and commercial prosperity. As for contemporary name places, they are merely reference points useful to the modern visitor as a means for imagining the missing ancient city. In so doing, Forster relied on …
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Jan Sanders van Hemessen and Antwerp Painting before Bruegel
… painters in Antwerp at a time when the port city was an international center for both art and commerce. Structured around four chapter-length case studies, the dissertation concludes with updated Checklists of Paintings and Technical Art Historical Appendices that enrich the first …
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The Defence and Evacuation of the Kuban Bridgehead, January – October 1943
… a foothold in the southern suburbs of the port city of Novorossiysk that was quickly expanded and became known as Malaya Zemlya (The Small Land). Early April saw the launch of Operation Neptune, a German effort to eliminate the Malaya Zemlya beachhead. This failed utterly due to the …
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Critical Cartographies of Transnational Infrastructure-led Urbanization
… coastal region of Baluchistan, in Pakistan. This port city acts as a gateway to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which, because of its deepsea edge, has been subjected to China’s infrastructure-led urbanization. As a result, the local fishing community – numbering close to 36,000 - and its …
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"Encourager le commerce et répandre les Lumiʹere" : the press, the provinces and the origins of the Revolution in France: 1750-1789
… part of the dissertation focuses in on the port city of Bordeaux and its two local papers. Like other provincial papers in France, Bordeaux's papers were collective endeavors. Yet, the community that was fashioned in the pages of the Bordelais papers was necessarily an imagined community. It …
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