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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Urban geography"”.
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Wired / unwired : the urban geography of digital networks
… systems and techniques of communications geography, it analyzes how the physical components of digital networks were deployed in major urban areas during the 1990s. It finds that historical processes and pre-existing differences between places shaped the evolution of this infrastructure at …
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Welcome Home to Black Rock City: Urban Geography of the Burn
… fanatical demand for Black Rock City's perceived urban counterculture grows, research findings from longitudinal participant-observation suggests that doxic city life is not only present at Burning Man, it trends along an elite postwar suburban trajectory opposed to many guiding principles, and is …
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The Fog and the Cloud: The emergence and development of social incubators in cities. An analysis of the urban geography of social innovation
… leaving the topic uncovered by economic geography. Social incubators are located in cities, close or incorporated into knowledge hubs such as universities or in zones with relevant level of inequalities, for developing innovations answering local social needs, engineering social …
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The Politics of Predation: Exploring the Rise of Coyotes in North American Cities
… the relationship between coyotes and the urban neighbourhoods of continental North America that they are increasingly colonising. I employ a multi-disciplinary approach - inspired by the likes of animal geographies, animal studies, urban geography and wildlife ecology - to explore how …
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a City and Nation Branding Tool: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Image of International Opinion Leaders
… perceptions of Beijing and China. Drawing from urban geography, political geography, international relations, and marketing theory, the study explores how mega-events contribute to the construction of national identity and global image. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research combines …
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Forced Displacement and Racialization: The Colombian Experience
… on critical geographies of race, postcolonial geography, and urban geography in relation to forced migration. The objective of this research is to question understandings of race and racism, particularly how space and mobility affect the dynamics of racialization through such diverse …
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Design Thesis - ReStacks
… and the sharing economy in the car-dependent urban geography of Columbus, OH. With growing concern about climate change and household economics, interests sometimes compete. While affordable housing and homeownership have become increasingly inaccessible, construction and the built environment …
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Cast Out Urbanites: The Historical Problematization of Cows in Kingston
… are regularly defined and managed as problems in urban policies and practices. Despite being common, the problematization of animals is ill-understood and under-theorized in urban geography. In this dissertation, I argue that problematization is important because it has significant implications …
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Experiments in Decentralization: Suburban Spaces in the Writings of Early Twentieth-Century British Female Novelists
… to the affluent bourgeoisie. That such shifts in urban geography and demographics threatened the bourgeois identity is perhaps best observed through an analysis of the literary texts of the period, which featured suburbs as Gothic spaces of otherness, or as feminized lands of monotonous …
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Transgressive topographien in der turkisch-deutschen post-migrantenliteratur
… intervene in contemporary spatial, especially urban and global discourses. They employ diverse "spatial tactics" by citing conventional dichotomies (local-global, West-East) in order to abandon and replace them subsequently with dynamic views on space and time. This thesis proposes a new …
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The places, power, and politics of Uganda’s secondhand clothing industry
… 1980, Uganda has experienced a 600% growth in urban population accompanied by the rapid implementation of neoliberal policy directives. Bound with and driving this dramatic urban growth, Uganda’s second hand clothing industry is a dynamic, power-laden, and hotly debated trade. In 2015, Uganda …
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To the Wall: London's Murals and 'the Left', 1975-1986
… and iconographic analysis and a body of Marxist urban geography and theory to argue that the murals’ radical and innovative presence as sites of contestation across a period of profound urban, economic, social and cultural transition, constitutes a significant episode in the histories of British …
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Urban Informality, Environmental Xenophobia, and Infrastructures of Citizenship: The Political Lives of Nicaraguan Migrants in the Informal Settlement of La Carpio, Costa Rica
<p>This dissertation examines urban politics, environmental justice, and infrastructure from the vantage point of South-South migration. It focuses on the work of Nicaraguan migrants living in the informal settlement of La Carpio in San José, Costa Rica, as they negotiate rights in the form of …
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Sport, space and segregation Pietermaritzburg, 1900-1980
… is an appropriate lens through which to view urban history and the relationships that shape it. Driven by a consistent ideological desire for White separateness, sport reflected social hegemony and assumptions about relative competence and ability. Instrumental use of sport by the local …
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Pilar - PB: uma pequena cidade economicamente dependente.
… this assignment is framed in the field of the “Urban Geography”. That affirmation is based, so, on the fact that the main issue is related to a scientific investigation about the topic: city. In a more specific way, it is noted that the Monograph belongs to the field of the studies about the …
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Impossible Subjects: Racial Politics, Citizenship, and Spatial Mobility in Chilean Cinema of Late Neoliberalism (2011-2020)
… race perspectives and theories of space and urban geography, in order to discuss the spatial dimension of racial difference. The works examined indicate that spatial boundaries have been shaped by racialized ideas of progress and modernity: racial distinctions are created and reinforced …
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Connecting for survival: Understanding the spatial implications of migrant women's food insecurity coping strategies in Medellin, Colombia, and Washington, DC
… (chapter 5), and are impacted locally by urban planning policies reflecting global norms (chapter 6). In doing so, this dissertation argues that food insecure individuals are powerful agents carrying out creative coping strategies that are constrained by political economic structures. …
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Art from Place: The Expression of Cultural Memory in the Urban Environment and in Place-Specific Interventions
… follows: How is cultural memory expressed in the urban environment and how can/do artists utilise this expression to produce work? Under the new streams of critical geography a new sense for the word place has developed, which reformulates the prevalent concept of space by mustering the realms of …
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A urbanização do bairro Valentina Figueiredo e suas desigualdades sociais.
The Brazilian urban expansion happened mainly from the 1940s, we can consider this decade as a landmark due to outflow of population from rural areas to the cities with population growth provided a rapid increase in the urban population.This phenomenon was not isolated in the Brazilian industrial …
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Boston's settlement housing: social reform in an industrial city
… through the city. The driving force behind these urban morphological changes was industrialization – and the emergence of industrial slums on the edges of expanding business districts. These industrial slums were widely believed to breed disease, crime, intemperance, and immorality – external …
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