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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Urban Theory"”.
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Skycourts and skygardens: towards a vertical urban theory
… two semi-‐public social spaces that cross the urban-‐architectural-‐landscape boundaries -‐ skycourts and skygardens. It considers them in light of their social, economic, environmental and spatial contribution to the urban habitat. The thesis argues that they are ‘alternative’ social spaces …
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THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN CRITICAL URBAN THEORY: NAVIGATING PLANETARY/ASSEMBLAGE DIVIDES
… makes a theoretical contribution to critical urban theory by bringing two literatures, planetary urbanisation and assemblage urbanism, into productive conversation. This thesis’ point of departure is that the two theories are complementary rather than necessarily opposed, despite how their …
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The crisis of leftist urban theory in postmodernism : the case of the L.A. 'School'
… into the methodology of a particular group of urbanists based in Los Angeles who call themselves the 'LA School'. It understands their varied approaches as the product of an epistemological history stretching from the mid- nineteenth century through the advent of post-structuralism and …
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Decolonising the Informal: Discourse, Everyday Life, and the Politics of Urbanisation in Windhoek, Namibia
… which are rapidly overtaking formal urbanisation processes inherited from colonial times. All the while, conventional professional spatial practices remain structurally elitist and seem ineffectual in settings of ‘urban informality’, which largely overlap with the lived experience of …
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Understanding Urban Vibrancy and Third Places: A Computational Study of the Social Life of Cities Through Multi-Source Digital Trace Data
Urban vibrancy is a central concept in understanding how cities function socially, reflecting patterns of activity, interaction, and engagement within urban space. Although widely discussed in urban theory and planning, vibrancy remains difficult to observe directly and is typically examined …
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Post-apartheid Speculative Fiction and the South African City
… the argument initiates a dialogue between genre theory and urban theory as a means of (re)imagining and (re)mapping the city spaces of post-apartheid Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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Losing home: Housing, displacement, and the American Dream
… genre of homeless life narratives as a form of urban theory that has been largely displaced from public memory. Based on close readings of hundreds of memoirs and oral histories of homelessness from cities across the United States, this research highlights the violent geographies of the American …
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Old markets, new ideas : revitalization for Aminabad, Lucknow
… the background information of current urban theory; a different economic and demographic situation; and the addition of new parameters like sustainability and good community life; a new strategy needs to be devised. This thesis addresses the historic core of the city of Lucknow. Lucknow …
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Re-assessing the inner city of Johannesburg : an exploration into emerging African urbanism and the discovery of black agency in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow and Kgebetli Moele's Room 207
… we are witnessing an exciting moment in African urban discourse, one that sees writers and theorists engaging with new avenues in which the African city can be configured and read. The discourse reflects and focuses on the myriad, creative ways in which African urbanites capitalise on their …
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Between external and internal space : an urban transition
… explore the evolution of both architecture and urban space, in terms of mutual relationship between solids and voids, with particular attention to two transitional moments of ancient and modern history: the Hellenistic and Baroque periods. This study is the result of the consideration that in …
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Lo visible, lo invisible y lo imaginable: Neoliberalismo y ciudad en las producciones culturales de posguerra en Centroamérica
… social; consequently, resulting in an important urban shift in regard to postwar cultural productions. I build a theoretical model organizes the investigation in three representative examples of Central American urban imaginaries (The Visible, The Invisible, and the Imaginable) so as to enlighten …
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Standardising the city: A material-discursive genealogy of CPA-I_001, ISO 37120 and BSI PAS 181
… the new materialism, nonrepresentational theory and urban theory.
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Navigating Identity and Place: The Role of Displacement Camps in Community Rebuilding and Identity Preservation in Sudan
… has given rise to a self-organized, complex urban environment shaped by collective labor, cultural resilience, and everyday acts of spatial and political agency. This thesis explores how communities in Kalma have remade space, redefined home, and preserved identity in the face of prolonged …
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The search for city : between being and seeming in the rapid urbanisation of Doha, Qatar
… (1) to add generally to architectural and urban theory, and particularly to Arabian Gulf studies; (2) to develop an analytical framework based upon hermeneutic phenomenology that incorporates architecture into its structure of understanding; (3) to use this framework to illuminate the …
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The poetics of place: New York and identity in the works of Paul Auster
… It traces how Auster moves from a position of urban nihilism to one of qualified optimism for forms of social life and community in the contemporary metropolis. The work of cultural geographers offers a theoretical framework appropriate to Auster’s urban spatial imagination. Consequently, the …
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Transnational Impact on Urban Change. Modern Projects in Vinh, Vietnam
Following an “agency-oriented Urban Theory” as advanced by Smith (2001), this study takes the urban landscape of Vinh City in Central Vietnam as a starting point into an investigation of multiple visions of modernity (Eisenstadt, 2000) put forward by social actors, as well as into urban change …
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Experiential Encounters with Architecture and Sound: The Use of Styli in Urban Field Recording and Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis
… autoethnography, sociology, sound studies, urban theory, neuroscience, and the theory of rhythm. Building on the work of creative practitioners such as Christian Marclay, Italo Calvino, Yoko Ono, Michel de Certeau, and Henri Lefebvre, I pose the following questions: How can field recordings …
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An urbanism theory for Chengdu: criteria towards advancing an alternative urban development model for central Chinese cities
This project advances an alternative urban development model for central Chinese cities. Urbanization of Chinese cities occurred within a relatively short time compared to western cities. The related urban theories, as a consequence, are less developed. Most Chinese cities apply western urban …
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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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Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. A case-study of institutional curating of contemporary art in an urban context
… and contemporary art exhibitions in a Western urban context today. It is concerned with exhibition studies’ methodology, the reciprocity between the art institution and the city, and the relationship between the art institution and the independent curator. With regards to methodology, I propose …
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