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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Urban crisis"”.
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State Constitutional Revision and the Urban Crisis: The Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention
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The Relation Between Mayoral Authority and the Quality of the Life in U.S. Cities.
The plethora of problems identified as the urban crisis has been a primary concern in United States domestic affairs since the early sixties. During this time national leadership has responded by offering broad programs channeling large subsidies to the cities.
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A new trajectory for spatial data infrastructure evolution in the developing world
… into more relevant platforms for confronting the urban crisis in developing nations and thereby ensuring that they have the societal impact that they are intended to. The research explores the characteristics of the mainstream efforts to counter urban crises in the developing world to determine …
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Food, love and resistance: lessons on reimagining social reproduction from East Bay housing cooperatives
… social practices are squeezed to the margins. In urban housing, this manifests as atomized nuclear households that maximize private resources and a focus on waged work, often sustained invisibly by the labour of feminized bodies. Yet across the San Francisco Bay Area, informal housing cooperatives …
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Resident-Led Urban Agriculture And The Hegemony Of Neoliberal Community Development: Eco-Gentrification In A Detroit Neighborhood
… residents in hyper-abandoned and disinvested urban neighborhoods. Using a case study of resident-led neighborhood development in the low-income neighborhood of Brightmoor in Detroit, Michigan, I show how “everyday discourse” of urban decline in Detroit and the possible rehabilitation of the …
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Transactional terrains : partnerships, bargains and the Postwar redefinition of the public realm, New York City 1965-1980
This dissertation traces the architectural and urban history of the privatization of the public realm. At the center of the research is New York City during the "urban crisis" years of the 1960s, as the city grappled with issues of civil rights, urban policy, and physical decline. The period saw an …
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The township concept in modern South Africa
… racial- was and identified as a solution to the urban crisis of the 19ifgs. I further arguelnafthe concept of a township for the urban African population - with all that it entailed - reflects the was in which the crisis and the role of the African in the South African urban system _were …
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Racing the City: Intentional Integration and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in Post-World War II America
… to serve as a model for sustainable urbanity and racial justice in the United States. My research, centered on the northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of West Mount Airy, chronicles a liberal community effort that confronted formal legal and governmental policies and deeply entrenched …
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Cairo Contracted: Investigating the ᶜAshwā’iyyāt (Informal Settlements) through the Dynamics of Construction
… portrayed through stark political, economic, and urban challenges. One of its most prominent characteristics is the prevalence of its so-called informal settlements, the ‘Ashwā'iyyāt, which accommodate a staggering 70 percent of Cairenes, and are in many ways illegally constructed. While Cairo’s …
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EMANCIPATING DESIRE, EMPOWERING FANTASY: CULTURAL POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA
… alternative sexuality, troubled youth and urban crisis, marginalized peripheral places) into existing genres, which make visible and audible those who have been unseen, unheard, uncounted and discriminated within society. This thesis argues that contemporary Indonesian and Malaysian indie …
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Structured evaluation of attitudes to dwelling environments : people’s subjective assessments of preference satisfaction and meaning as indicators of architectural design performance
… of present-day widely felt concerns about recent urban-design and development, seen as an offending environment for human-consciousness, Part 1 of the Thesis develops, against a motivating prospect of urban-crisis related to resource deficiencies, a theoretical framework embracing a commitment to …
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Land and housing practices in Namibia: cases of access to land rights and production of housing in Windhoek, Oshakati and Gobabis
… preserved and expanded. At the same time, the urban transformation that Namibia has seen in recent decades has been astonishing. These changes expose the limits of previous approaches and at the same time lay bare new openings for socio-spatial production. There are various practices that have …