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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Urban Future"”.
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A city of placelessness : digital nomads and Tallinn's urban future
… of placelessness in shaping an alternative urban future. As a mobile workforce with increasing powers in technology, digital nomads gain political supports from Estonia where their visits have been transforming the capital city of Tallinn into a digital nomad hub. On the other hand, their …
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Deciphering human activities in complex urban systems : mining big data for sustainable urban future
"Big Data" is in vogue, and the explosion of urban sensors, mobile phone traces, and other windows onto urban activities has generated much hype about the advent of a new 'urban science.' However, translating such Big Data into a planning-relevant understanding of activity patterns and travel …
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Urban change agents: citizen-based projects in Cape Town as drivers of transformative pathways towards a climate-friendly, socially just, economically viable and ressource-efficient urban future
… highlights their potential to drive innovative urban development processes towards a spatially just, economically viable, climate-friendly and resource-efficient urban future. The city of Cape Town serves as a case study to describe the transition arena and transition management system of civil …
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Technology impacts on future urban change in Egypt : Implications for developing countries.
… significant changes to city structures and urban systems in both the developed and developing countries. Technology advancements of the Post-Industrial era, especially in telecommunications, are expected to introduce a new substantial wave of urban change. This research examines the future …
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The Peri-urban City: Cargo Cult Urbanism, Porosity and an Emerging Urban Citizenship in Vietnamese Secondary Cities
The impact of urban development on local residents in the urban periphery oscillates between processes of empowerment and processes of marginalization as well as between state-controlled order and decentralized self-organization. Consequently local authorities, including urban planners and local …
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Retrofit + shrink wrap Dubai : an urban recovery plan
… and largely uninhabited, creating vast urban blights. Dubai risks damage to both its image and its ability to function. The city's decline, however, presents a unique opportunity for immediate and sweeping intervention against urban decay. My thesis proposes a dialectical planning …
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MODELLING THE FUTURE OF LAND USE, TRANSPORTATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE WINDSOR CMA, ONTARIO, CANADA
… to examine the long-term impacts of alternative urban form scenarios on the sustainability of the transportation system using the Windsor CMA as a case study. The specific objectives of this research work are as follows: 1. Design several land use scenarios to identify potentially sustainable …
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Urban Green Assemblage: A Machinic-MLG Approach to Green Cities
… escalates, increasing emphasis is placed upon urban solutions, through urban futures and sociotechnical imaginaries such as the green city agenda. The thesis critically examines the green city agenda in its presumptive context of a multi-level governance often characterised by humans enacting …
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The case of inclusive gentrification in Casco Viejo : when long-term investment and community interests align
in the near urban future. The case of Casco Antiguo--the historic district of Panama City, Panama--demonstrates an instance in which the aligned interests of the community and real estate developers created an opportunity for shared growth for some of the groups who are excluded in traditional …
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The architecture of water infrastructures : strategies for urban growth in the Haitian-Dominican border
… population increase on the Haitian side, and urban infrastructures were unable to keep up with the fast pace of informal growth. At this site, the borderline coincides with the River Massacre, a major source of water in the region, threatened by the current patterns of urbanization. Given the …
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It's My Right to Fix the City: Women, Class, and the Postcolonial, Politics of Neoliberal Urbanism in Ibadan, Nigeria
… to the current trajectory for Africa’s urban future, informed by the discourse that African cities are failing and in need of catching up to northern global cities in order to develop. I use an African feminist postcolonial urbanism theoretical framing to suggest that understanding the …
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Cyberpunk visions of the future city
As a future-oriented practice, urban design compels us to imagine, anticipate, design and plan our cities of tomorrow. In fact, 20* century urban planning has generated a number of influential visions of urban futures - from Howard, Le Corbusier, and Wright, to Fuller, Archigram, and Soleri. Yet …
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Equity and Climate Resilience in Bogotá's Public Space Policy: A Critical Policy Review
… analytical framework informed by literature on urban environmental justice and climate adaptation. This framework serves as both an evaluative tool and a resource for policymakers seeking to move beyond vague commitments and toward actionable pathways for equity and climate resilience. The …
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Shifting Spaces: Housing and Urban Change in Kabul
… experts, it analyzes how Shahraks have reshaped urban development in a rapidly growing city. Inspired by Soviet-era Mikrorayons, Shahraks introduced formal infrastructure, legal recognition, modern amenities, and opportunities for new economic activity. They helped expand Kabul’s formal housing …
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Does energy follow urban form? : an examination of neighborhoods and transport energy use in Jinan, China
… 9 neighborhoods representing four different urban form typologies commonly found in Chinese cities: "traditional", "grid", "enclave", and "superblock." Data on neighborhood forms and households are obtained from visual survey, GIS digitalization and a household survey. Household transport …
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Exploratory Analysis of the Inhabitants' Experience of the Singaporean Smart Nation: Construction, Boundaries, and Connection
… resultant 2020 lockdown measures fast-tracked urban dependence on digital infrastructure and uptake of technology across the world. In Singapore, one possible urban future is becoming a reality under the smart banner, necessitating this timely analysis of life in the SN.
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Iraqi architecture between tradition and modernity : re-creating the urban identity of Basra, the “Venice of the East”
… recent years Iraqi traditional architecture and urban identity have been deeply affected by three wars, which challenged the cultural memory of the local people and in particular of young generations. This research focuses on the city of Basra to investigate the material features of the Iraqi …
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Imagination in the public domain: The case of the homeless workers movement (MTST) in São Paulo, Brazil
… Toward that goal, I integrate the ideas of future as a source of learning (Scharmer, 2009) and future as a space of struggle between the opening up and closing down of the imagination (Miraftab, 2018). I ask how planners can unleash the collective imagination towards the flourishing of more …