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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"global cities"”.
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Global heritage cities : managing complexity of cultural world heritage sites in global cities
… on the management of historic urban areas in global cities that are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which are referred as global heritage cities hereafter. In this rapidly globalising world that is market-driven, the binary approach of managing change in historic cities while …
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From Global Cities to Global Governors: Power, Politics, and the Convergence of Urban Climate Governance
Cities are increasingly included in discussions of climate governance and lauded as sources of innovation, leadership, and experimentation. But can they succeed where states have failed in producing meaningful collective actions and effects? To respond to this pressing question requires …
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Church Planting in New York City: A Case for a Global Cities Church Planting Strategy
… missiological implications of church planting in global cities. Chapter 1 introduces the main argument for this thesis: that all evangelism strategies should hold church planting as the end goal and that the most strategic places to implement these strategies are our global cities as evidenced by …
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Measuring the COVID-19 Shock from Outer Space: Local Economic Vibrancy in 15 Global Cities
… changing patterns of economic activities within cities worldwide, and (2) examine intra-city spatial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and whether these patterns differ across them. Informed by existing literature, I propose a cluster analysis using two groups, residential activities and work …
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The growing pains of global cities : struggles in the urban environment of Dubai and Singapore
… explores the validity of current theories of globalization through the analysis of two prominent second level global cities, Dubai and Singapore. The hypotheses of global homogenization and hybridization are studied according to their prominence and influence on the architecture of the …
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Mobility of the future : typologizing global cities for the simulation of future urban mobility patterns and energy scenarios
… order to feasibly simulate these scenarios on a global scale, we need to first determine a few prototypical cities that best represent the entire world, each exhibiting qualities that encompass the group to which it belongs. Our methodology for accomplishing this is centered around machine …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
Thinking about cities became increasingly global during and after WWII. 'Global' here refers to how, in the context of the war, the roles and meanings of cities in the world were beginning to be understood differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their …
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Planning Cities, Economically or Communally: A comparative study of Amsterdam and San Francisco
<p>Globalization has spun “community” off its axis. What once defined community is no longer the current state of the community. Increased economic transactions have led to the instability of communities that once depended on one another at the local level. These communities are now dependent on …
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Roberto Clemente Community Academy: A Counter-Narrative on Chicago School Reform, 1988--1998
… situated it in a broader discussion of global cities, neoliberalism, globalization, and colonialism. Citing Chicago's shifting political economy and imbalanced urban development since the 1970s, the discussion explores how and why the aforementioned sociopolitical dynamics inhibit …
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How the City State Fares Under State Capitalism in the PRC: Local and State-Wide Reform
… and economic policies impact the ability of cities to accomplish urban growth and economic goals? This study examines the state policies Shanghai operates under to assess the potential for software reform in China. Specifically, this study examines software by drawing on the corruption and …
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Speculative urbanism constructing entrepreneurial subjects in India
… dissertation examines how current governances in cities of India are involved in engineering a new politics, i.e. the sculpting of civic subjects. This agenda, to sculpt civic subjects by entrepreneurializing spaces, is relatively new. I chronicle that beneath this political maneuver to …
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Imagining a new public space in the foreshore by re-creating the city-sea relationship
… What architectural methods are being employed in global port-side cities to reinvent and make use of large tracts of de-valued inner city land? Technology question: What is the nature of the physical condition that the foreshore area presents and what impact has this had on the haphazard …
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Locational Distribution of Global Advanced Producer Service Firms in the Polycentric US Metropolis
… with the assumption that the contemporary global flows of people, capital, and commodities, which accelerated dramatically in the age of globalization, have significant impacts on the land use patterns of global cities. With this assumption, the study further questions in the context of …
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Disproportionate Realities: The Climate Justice Implications of Mitigation Policies Across Scales
<p>Global climate change will have disproportionate effects on low-income and minority communities around the world producing important justice challenges. As national governments increasingly rely on local governments, civil society, and private transnational actors to establish and implement …
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
… to refine critical methods for interpreting global cities and their cultures, charting an aesthetic history of neoliberal New York — from the 1929 regional plan to the present. Surveying a range of literature, art criticism, and planning discourse, I argue that the global has served as the …
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Urban megaprojects-based approach in urban planning: from isolated objects to shaping the city:The case of Dubai
Urban megaprojects are at the core of cities’ re-imaging and marketing. As large-scale development projects, they are considered as a globalization product, marked by a search for spectacle and visibility. In Dubai, UMPs have constituted in recent years the main tool in drawing a city image that …
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The understanding of the urban pattern of the financial district with the introduction of new technological improvements in the process of conducting business
… structure and its new positions, in centralized global cities, edge cities and in the possibilities of locating back offices in other countries. Therefore the new nature of business allows a new understanding of how urbanism must respond to work with the new market structure and create a new …
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The dynamics of contingency: neoliberal redevelopment governance in Chicago and Buenos Aires
… 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 have significantly different institutional affiliations, operations, and outcomes. At issue is an important notion …
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It's My Right to Fix the City: Women, Class, and the Postcolonial, Politics of Neoliberal Urbanism in Ibadan, Nigeria
… future, informed by the discourse that African cities are failing and in need of catching up to northern global cities in order to develop. I use an African feminist postcolonial urbanism theoretical framing to suggest that understanding the lived reality and politics of urban space from the …
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"A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People": Globalizing Cities, World-Class Waste, and the Biopolitics of Food Not Bombs
This is an ethnography of waste, cities, and social movements. Primarily one social movement in particular, Food Not Bombs, which recovers and freely redistributes wasted food in the public spaces of hundreds of cities, in dozens of countries, on every continent except Antarctica. In the process, …
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