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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"global city"”.
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Global fantasies and heartland realities: Making a global city in the Midwest
In an era where globalization and its desires have a strong pull on many local economies, this research project examines how immigrant CBOs’ claim citizenship and establish belonging within the context of neoliberal multiculturalism. Indianapolis is a new destination for immigrants in the Midwest …
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New York talk exchange : transnational telecommunications and migration in a global city
… notion that ICTs are critical facilitators of globalization through a multi method approach, combining analyses of long distance telephone traffic from New York City and interviews of migrants in Upper Manhattan and central Queens. The quantitative approach examines variation of call …
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Settling in a global city: transnational practices and cosmopolitan openness in sociality patterns
… London is frequently described as a cosmopolitan city. Still, to what extent people actually mix, across boundaries of ethnicity, remains an open question (Valentine, 2008). To address this, a combination of qualitative methods (semi-structured interviewing, visual interactive map, focus group) …
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Schule in der Global City New York - multikulturelle Gesellschaften zwischen Leistung, Integration und Chancengleichheit
… wiederfinden, spiegelt es die Heterogenität der globalen Einwandererstadt exakt wider. Mehr als 1,1 Millionen Schülerinnen und Schüler besuchen insgesamt mehr als 1.200 öffentliche Schulen, in denen rund 78.000 Lehrkräfte unterrichten. Es ist das größte städtische Schulsystem der USA und eines …
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Higher occupancy humanism : the trade-offs for encouraging middle income housing in a global city
… further and further from the center of the city where most of the infrastructural area amenities and jobs are located. This causes extended commuting times that result in the exacerbation of pollution and wasted allocation of resources. In effect, the overall function of the city grows more …
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Universal pensions in Mexico City : changing dynamics of citizenship and state formation in a global city
… para Adultos Mayores) program in Mexico City directed at city residents 70 years of age or older. A state-centered framework for social policy analysis is used to understand why and how was this policy implemented at the local level considering that it pertains a policy area that is …
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Renaissance and revenants in an emerging global city: discourses of heritage and urban design in Cape Town's District One and District Six, 2002-2014
… to go in 2014". The hopeful rhetoric of the city as ultimate holiday destination, African creative metropolis, prime global-events location and city of freedom indicates powerful cultural discourses at work. Looking at how Cape Town is simultaneously reinvented and haunted, this thesis poses …
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Re -Imagining Istanbul: Globalization and Urban Change
… contribute to an expanding body of literature on globalization and cities, and more specifically to the global city theory and research. These studies have drawn attention to the growing significance of particular cities as sites of globalization through which an emerging global system of …
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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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Meeting the challenges of educational reform through spatial design in the twenty-first century
… of Saudi Arabia becoming an active player within globalization. The context of entering into globalization for Saudi Arabia is harnessing the tenets of higher education. In its history Saudi Arabia traditionally practiced gendersegregated education. Saudi Arabia has made a bold attempt in its …
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The waterfront engine : proposal for a 21st century Delhi
Delhi, a 14 million people megacity, has a huge open space area available in its heart along the banks of the Yamuna River. At the same time, Delhi, which would like to become a fully-fledged global city, does not have a real modern business district yet, which explains why companies are moving to …
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The emergence of social sustainability in the development of Olympic parks: the case of Sydney Olympic Park
… the accomplishments of The Bruntland Report, a global sustainable society remains an elusive idea and begs another level of enquiry— the social. This thesis questions how and to what extent social sustainability emerges in the development of Sydney Olympic Park (SOP), considered a representative …
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Composite City: Towards A Theory of the Composite Urban In Contemporary Multi-/Ethnic Literature
… writers are reconfiguring the space of the global, American city and challenging the spatial, theoretical, and literary representations of the urban. The space of the city has been a predominant figure in literary conversations, namely because the city is a particularly robust space for …
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Towards a local community: colonial politics and postwar Hong Kong cinema
… from a remote British colony into a hypermodern global city in the 1980s and 1990s. Ideological struggles in Cold War Hong Kong were waged in the realm of an increasingly politicized local society, as Hong Kong became a battleground for the ideological struggles between pro-Communist and …
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Creative networks in Guanxi Land: a study of social networking related to Shanghai Expo 2010
… of networking in the formation of Shanghai as a global city. The overall question is: To what extent will China be able to enter the global network economy whilst maintaining its emphasis on hierarchical decision-making and central control? This concerns the role of the social in the preparation …
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L.A. Micro-Publics : expanding the seams of the transportation system
The global city is the privileged site of "repositioning ... citizenship in practice," where traditional notions of identity and citizenship are being radically reconstructed. This thesis examines contemporary Los Angeles as such a site, a heterotopia built on difference, without a coherent civic …
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Field container as a regional strategy for revitalizing the Los Angeles River
… establishes the nature of public space in the city as a highly contested sphere of multiple interests and constituencies and utilizes the river as a platform to engage these tensions. The Los Angeles River epitomizes the artificiality and ingenious of Los Angeles as a city which molded its …
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The Dualities of Home: Hong Kong Citizens in a Mobile World
… make and are being made by homes in a global city that was once imagined by its residents, its government and my interlocutors as a city of futuristic modernity and is now experienced as a deteriorating city in crisis. I conducted multi-sited fieldwork in three key locations: Hong Kong, …
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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
… the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a tool of city and nation branding, analyzing their role within China's broader soft power strategy and their impact on international perceptions of Beijing and China. Drawing from urban geography, political geography, international relations, and marketing …
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The balance of local culture and global economic development : the case of the Nyarugenge Heritage Village in Kigali, Rwanda
… Africa is projected to play a major role in the global economy. The upward trend in the influx of foreign direct investments is set to continue thanks to an overall stable political and macroeconomic climate on the continent and microeconomic reforms in many countries. The country of Rwanda …
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