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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Spatial Imaginaries"”.
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Beyond Marginality: Welfare, Governance and Spatial Imaginaries. Insights from Terre del Monviso
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Playing It Safe: Indian Middle-Class Spatial Imaginaries and Contemporary Visual Trans Representation
… characters within the bifurcated, static imaginaries of 'safe' and 'unsafe' zones of the city, wherein transgender characters seem to be afforded a linear movement between criminal-civil zones and extraordinary-ordinary spatial containers of crime and respectability. Here, the stasis of …
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Disorientations
… States also reinforce and normalize a white spatial imaginary. Conventions of mapping, imaging of land and landscape, and elements of the built environment continue to orient us in a logic of space as property. In my sculptural work, I employ strategies of disorientation and creative repair, …
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Reclaiming the spatial imaginary: a photovoice study of resistance to displacement in Woodstock, Cape Town
… of displacement and its resistance have social, spatial, psychological, and political components. Examining these components can contribute to understanding the processes and impacts of gentrification. Reclaim the City (RTC) is a young grassroots campaign that resists evictions and demands …
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The Sea on the Other Side: The Making of Hamburg and Rostock through the Cold War: 1945-1986
… of Germany. This analysis shows how a particular spatial discourse enabled the City of Hamburg to reorient its port around its newfound position at the edge of Europe’s Western Bloc, and how the new overseas Port of Rostock was conceived in order to serve the needs of the socialist GDR within …
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Transformative lines: a mapping approach to explore urban imaginaries and opportunities for socially sustainable change in Beirut, Lebanon
… Transformative Lines – to explore how residents’ spatial narratives and urban imaginaries can inform more socially sustainable urban development strategies. The research adopts a qualitative case study approach focused on two neighbourhoods in Beirut: Sabra and Karantina. Fieldwork was conducted …
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Constructing a Spatial Imaginary: The Formation and Re-presentation of Monte Carlo as a Vacation-Leisure Paradise, 1854-1950
… by 1950. It contextualizes how construction of a spatial imaginary, built through a consistent projection of the city’s image, meticulously-crafted through representational space, and mediated, re-mediated, and disseminated by visitors’ accounts, became crucial to Monte Carlo’s lasting success as …
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Epidemiological Landscapes: The Spaces and Politics of Mosquito Control in Lahore
… are contoured by long-standing colonial imaginaries of natural environments, the production of colonial subjects and racialised others, as well as extant architectures, technologies, and bureaucracies. Integrating perspectives on the political ecologies of cities, biopolitical regimes of …