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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Representations of the City"”.
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“Managing” the future of a lost empire. Byzantine émigré discourses of agency and fate in the face of crisis and affliction. Cardinal Bessarion and George Trapezuntius (ca. 1400-1472)
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Nanjing City Wall: embodied heritage in wallscape
Nanjing City Wall is one of the largest city walls in China. As the capital of Ming Dynasty between 1368-1420 CE, the wall was built to protect the city. A four-wall system separated the royal palace in the city from the countryside. After approximately six hundred years of damage by humans and …
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Literaire erflaters. Canonvorming in tijden van culturele crisis, 1700-1750
Contains fulltext : 170247.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Fault lines : the legacy of urban renewal in Hudson, NY
Hudson, New York, has been carved by a series of historical forces that continue to shape present-day physical and narrative representations of the city. Today, the local landscape reflects two distinct communities contained within a compact street grid, with the city's core commercial artery of …
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George MacDonald and Victorian Society
This thesis approaches the ways George MacDonald viewed and represented Victorian society in his novels by analysing select social issues which he felt compelled to address. <br/><br/>Chapter One introduces the thesis. It contains a review of critical commentary on MacDonald’s work, as well as …
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Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film
<p>This dissertation is an examination of literary and filmic representations of the post-1945 city, organized in three thematic sections—“Alienation”; “Disappearance”; and “The Random Encounter and Possibility of Community”—each of which is composed of a diptych of two “plateaus.” “Alienation” …
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(Un)Homely in Cape Town: contested space and the post-apartheid urban narrative
Negotiation of urban space is particularly pertinent to South African history as a site of social and spatial conflict resulting from the legislative practices and social engineering of the apartheid government in the form of the Group Areas Act (1950). As a postcolonial and post-apartheid city, …
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Shops, retailing and consumption in eighteenth-century provincial England: Norwich 1660-1800
The history of retail and consumption during the eighteenth-century has enjoyed interest from historians for a number of decades, yet few studies have concentrated on large cities or utilised a case study method to develop an in-depth and longitudinal understanding of change across the whole …
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'Real Liberals' and Conservatives in the City of London, 1848-1886
This is not an economic history. Neither is it a post-modernist tract. Rather this thesis is a knowledge based history 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 …
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The representation and re-imagining of the city in mainstream American animated feature films
… American animated feature films are a form of art and entertainment especially popular among children. However, the genre has been understood in a limited way as being sentimental, didactic and bound to certain ideologies. These films have demonstrated a growing investment in stories which …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
… and after WWII. 'Global' here refers to how, in the context of the war, the roles and meanings of cities in the world were beginning to be understood differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their connection to changing imaginaries of the world that were …
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Writing Barcelona: reflections on city planning and urban experience, 1854-1888
This dissertation analyzes the articulation and the reception of the new urban model that transformed the city of Barcelona between 1854 and 1888. Through an interdisciplinary approach that includes the analysis of literature, visual culture, and specific proposals of urban planning, I examine how …