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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Urban politics"”.
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The Cities on the Hill: Urban Politics in National Institutions
… divide between cities and rural areas. This urbanicity divide is stronger than it has ever been in our modern history, but it began with the development of an urban political order that changed the Democratic Party during the New Deal era. These cities, despite being the site of serious, …
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Urban Politics in Central Illinois: A Study in Conflict Management
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Chinatown and Urban Redevelopment: A Spatial Narrative of Race, Identity, and Urban Politics, 1950-2000
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The Urban Politics of Settler-Colonialism: Articulations of the Colonial Relation in Postwar Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945-1975 (AND BEYOND)
… of settler-colonization in North American urban environments, my inquiry starts from the premise that the “colonial relation” retains a persistent structural trace in Minneapolis, manifesting through a series of practices and dynamics that operate to enforce particular forms of social, …
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Urban Sustainability in Transformation: A Case Study of Seoul
While cities across the world are adopting urban sustainability plans and pursuing ‘sustainable development,’ the question of how these urban sustainability plans have made our cities indeed sustainable is a subject of debate. Some scholars are skeptical about whether urban sustainability planning …
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"If We Are Nothing Without Them, Then They Are Also Nothing Without Us": Cross-Class Political Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan
… The thesis challenges existing approaches to urban politics, which largely theorise political practices as class distinct. The thesis seeks to interrogate these framings through developing the concept of ‘overlapping politics’, defined as a political relationship between two (or more) distinct …
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Local accountability : the role of attribution, institutions, and communication
… government accountable. I gather data on local politics -- a level of government that people interact with on a daily basis, and one that encompasses the vast majority of elected officials and elections in the United States. My evidence comes from large-scale elections and communications data, …
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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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The dynamics of contingency: neoliberal redevelopment governance in Chicago and Buenos Aires
… and has come to profoundly influence mainstream urban politics. This project seeks to understand these formations from a comparative vantage-point, focusing on the global cities of Chicago and Buenos Aires. The study critically interrogates these governances to determine the degree to which they …
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Narrating the Politics of Urban Development in “New Era” Boston
Since 1950, urban governance in the city of Boston has been predicated on the close collaboration between the city’s economic and political elite, anchored in the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA). A common narrative in Boston is that this “growth coalition” has historically achieved …
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Socialist Constructions: Modern Urban Housing and Social Practice
My dissertation, “Socialist Constructions: Modern Urban Housing and Social Practice,” investigates the modernist production of living space by focusing on housing reform in Weimar Germany’s Berlin and Frankfurt am Main as well as on the subsequent projects of German modernist architects working in …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… in Indonesia, an important case given its recent urbanization, democratic status, and the world’s fourth largest and highly diverse population. Does informal housing (or slums) cause political marginalization? In the first paper, I delineate between housing informality of infrastructure and tenure …
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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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Urban Governance and the Conduct of Civic Violence in Silesia, Poland, and Prussia, 1300 – 1500
… causes and conduct of violent conflicts in the urban communes of Silesia, Poland, and Prussia and their significance for civic governance during the later middle ages. The thesis compares various examples of civic conflicts from across the three regions to consider (1) what variables led …
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Streets of Grievance: Everyday Poetics and Postcolonial Politics in Urban Algeria
… of language, settler-colonial and postcolonial politics, and urbanism in North Africa (Algeria). It is an urban and linguistic ethnography of Oran, Algeria’s second-largest city, based on sixteen months of ethnographic, linguistic anthropological, and archival research conducted in Arabic and …
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Inner‐city regeneration and the politics of resistance in Istanbul: a comparative analysis of Sulukule and Tarlabaşi
Territories of neoliberal urbanization have expanded as local and central governments around the world have increasingly approached and utilized urban land as a rent-‐generating tool that can as well reproduce the workings of advanced capitalism in full effect. It has thus been inevitable to see …
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Epidemiological Landscapes: The Spaces and Politics of Mosquito Control in Lahore
… disease, and how they shape, and are shaped by, urban politics in the postcolonial city. Recent outbreaks of dengue fever, chikungunyia, and zika, and the proliferation of insect vectors, in cities in the global South are a reminder of the crucial role of urban environments in the spread and …
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The Art Of Collaboration: Interlocal Collaboration In The Provision Of Fire Services In The Metropolitan Detroit Area
… issues. Feiock (2009) contends that much of the urban politics and public administration literatures tend to focus on regional governments and authorities as a way of solving collective action problems in metropolitan regions. Feiock (2008) also argues that little is currently known about the …
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Chasing Tickets: Party Politics, Corruption and Municipal Elections, New Delhi
… thesis is an exploratory study of informal party politics and competition for party tickets in local politics in India. It is an ethnographic account of the Bharatiya Janata Party (the BJP) and its party members in the city of New Delhi where they compete for election tickets in the municipal …
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