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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Spatial identity"”.
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Embodying the City: Identity and Use in Urban Public Space
… framework is developed focusing on the areas of identity and use in the design of public spaces. Identity is looked at in terms of place attachment, spatial identity, and how surrounding uses affect the identity of a space. Use is explored in terms of designing a public space to encourage a …
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Contested nationhood: Literary Geographies of contemporary Italian Alpine borders
This thesis examines the articulation of spatial identity, and the sense of nationhood as expressed in Italian literature set in the Alpine border regions from the 1980s to the present. It explores how the presence of the national border, along with its related geopolitical, cultural, and social …
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Trace of Everyday Performance: A Contemporary Reinterpretation of the Ondol and Dot-Jari
… to such repetitive activity? It traces how the spatial typology of the floor, so important for Korean architecture, has been transformed by changes in such domestic activities. I present a series of design responses that draw upon everyday domestic performance, addressing a number of issues such …
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Amerika-Mura: discourses of modernity and identity in contemporary urban Japan
… of mutually constitutive personal and spatial identities in specific contexts. A series of examples demonstrates the complex relationship between such responses, firstly exploring historical contexts in Osaka and Japan in which notions of the 'new', the 'foreign' and the 'strange' have …
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Amerika-Mura: discourses of modernity and identity in contemporary urban Japan
… of mutually constitutive personal and spatial identities in specific contexts. A series of examples demonstrates the complex relationship between such responses, firstly exploring historical contexts in Osaka and Japan in which notions of the 'new', the 'foreign' and the 'strange' have …
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Haunted belongings: testimonios of body and home as autoethnography
… both material (objects, things, products) and spatial (identity, positionality, placement). I argue that the sense of belongings is produced through unsettled ties between materiality and spatiality. To elucidate the unfixed relationship between material and spatial, I forefront two major …
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Policing Children in Street Situations in São Paulo, Brazil: Relations of Violence and Exclusion in the City
This research explores the complex social and spatial nature of the relationship between police and children in street situations, investigating the ways these connections are shaped by everyday practices within participant’s life contexts. The fieldwork took place in the city centre of São Paulo …
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Visuality and the transnational urban space: Koreatown, Los Angeles
… value of the spaces fueled by Koreatown’s spatial identity. The process of the increasing creation of value of Koreatown is evidenced in countervisuality, as a result of how it manifests in Koreatown. The transnational and immigrant communities such as the Korean and Korean American …
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Repetition and its discontents : space, time and identity in the city of Urumqi
… examines the relationship between space and identity in the city of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. The work explores the shifting interface between various types of spaces within the city, focusing on three major areas: dominant …
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Pluripotency and patterning in nonhuman primate embryogenesis
… before and after primitive streak formation. Spatial transcriptome analysis revealed that pluripotency is sustained to the anterior EmDisc, in contrast to the mouse. Integration of RNA-seq datasets of marmoset preimplantation embryos generated a blueprint from zygote to gastrulation in the …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… have a dialectical relationship with the spatial features, specifically with the concepts place, territory and scale. Critical geography, political geography, and social movements’ studies provide the theoretical framework for the analysis, highlighting the significance of social movements …
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Ausprägungen räumlicher Identität in ehemaligen sudetendeutschen Gebieten der Tschechischen Republik
Das tschechische Grenzgebiet ist eine der Regionen in Europa, die in der Folge des Zweiten Weltkrieges am gravierendsten von Umbrüchen in der zuvor bestehenden Bevölkerungsstruktur betroffen waren. Der erzwungenen Aussiedlung eines Großteils der ansässigen Bevölkerung folgten die Neubesiedlung …
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(Un)Homely in Cape Town: contested space and the post-apartheid urban narrative
… 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, Cape Town has the distinction of evolving from …