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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Urban Reform"”.
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Theoretical Architecture in Structures of Dense Urban Reform
… and principles useful for the development of an urban theoretical architecture. Acceptance of nature as a design element and in particular the use of nature to bound nodes of high density development are explored. The use of fractal geometry to distribute the urban footprint upon the landscape is …
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Politica habitacional e urbanização: da reforma urbana ao Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida
This study aims to study the proposals of the Urban Reform field, focused on housing policy and guidelines of the My Home My Life (MCMV), created in 2009 by the Lula government, in order to reduce the housing deficit. Bringing a historical fight for Urban Reform in the country, its proposals and …
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Public Health and the Politics of Haussmannization in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 1830-1870
… Seine, Georges Haussmann, engaged in a series of urban reform projects that transformed Paris. These projects, often collectively referred to as Haussmannization, entailed the construction of boulevards, expansion of the sewer system, and clearance of what the state considered insalubrious …
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Estudo de impacto de vizinhança: um instrumento para a melhoria da qualidade de vida na zona sul da cidade de João Pessoa – PB.
… population focuses, in its majority, in the urban areas, as indicates DSNI (Demographic Studies National Institute), that around 3,3 billion of people, that is 51% of the world population lives in the urban areas. In all the world, especially in the so called developing countries, since it is …
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Enhancing access to public spaces : an evaluation of public libraries and the urban situation in Seoul
… the city remains significant in the privatized urban situation. In Seoul, the number of public libraries has significantly increased for the last 15 years due to the new policy for library construction in the entire country. Despite these attempts, however, I argue that the current urban context …
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Evocative and evidentiary : interpreting the city through non-fiction filmmaking
… the relationship between non-fiction film and urban discourse. It outlines intellectual and visual strategies at play in a selection of non-fiction films that actively assign meaning to the mutual influence of urban form and social processes. In so doing, I identify two overlapping traditions, …
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Housing Provision through Real Estate Development: Adopting Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Delivery in Brazil
… analyzes contemporary transformations in urban policy and space production in Brazil; in particular, those associated with state efforts to attract the private sector to participate in the design, finance, development and long-term management of infrastructure and housing provision …
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The Société Française des Urbanistes and the Invention of Urbanism
… that it was the Société Française des Urbanistes (SFU) that invented urbanism in the interwar period, rooting it in Henri Bergson’s theories of creative evolution and Paul Vidal de la Blache’s principles of human geography. Scholars have historically overlooked this contribution, and do …
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Manners of distinction: nineteenth century urban imaginings, performances and bodies of affect in Havana, Cuba
… emergence of two racialized creole or Cuban born urban classes, a native white bourgeoisie and a native free bourgeoisie of color, in the political and ideological context of the sugar agro-industrial capitalism’s expansion since the early 19th century. I examine their role in engineering new …
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A Higher Public Spirit and a Better Social Order: The Civic Club of Allegheny County, 1895-1930
… created in the Progressive era that confronted urban issues that plagued early twentieth century Pittsburgh. Although the club's origins were part of a long tradition of women's reform groups, this organization was a mixed-gender organization, different than most cities in the United States. The …
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Práxis de política urbana no Brasil: movimentos e articulações nacionais e internacionais na construção do direito à cidade
… de princípios e práticas de política urbana constitui tema central desta tese, desenvolvido por meio da reflexão crítica sobre os processos de disputa de hegemonia por um projeto político cujo núcleo central é a defesa do direito à cidade. Esse projeto apoia-se em princípios …
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The Role of American Elites in the New Courthouse Building Project: Progressive-era Ideologies in the Vieux Carre
… the motives and visions of Progressive-era urban reformers, few studies have addressed issues of power in shaping these narratives and in silencing the past. Through its analysis of the planning processes surrounding the Louisiana Supreme Court Building, this thesis acknowledges these …
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Η ΙΔΕΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΗΠΟΥΠΟΛΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΕΟΔΟΜΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΣΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ
… AGROPOLES ATTEMPTED AT ADDRESSING A VARIETY OF URBAN AND RURAL ILLS. FINALLY, THE CREATION OF THE ATHENIAN SUBURBS (AND TO A LESS EXTEND OF THE ONES OF SALONICA), WHICH MEANT TO HAVE SUBSTANCIAL SIMILARITIES TO THE EUROPEAN GARDEN SUBURBS, COMBINED THE ESTABLISHED EUROPEAN PRACTICE OF TOWN …