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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"globalizing cities"”.
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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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The use of public space by foreign female domestic workers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
In globalizing cities around the world, middle class women are departing from their traditional domestic roles in child rearing and home management. This activity change creates a large influx of young, single and lower income female workers from developing nations such as the Philippines, …
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Conviviality in Bellville: an ethnography of space, place, mobility and being
… about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It is a study of how the mystique of conviviality configures amongst a diverse migrant and mobile population that frequents Bellville's central business district surrounding the train station - an area located approximately 25 …
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Globalisation and urban development: a case study of Dubai’s Jumeirah Palm Island mega project
… become an important new development strategy in globalizing cities, and a new or emerging form of development in economic, technological, social and political life, influenced by global flows of capital. Despite being acknowledged as an important factor in globalizing economies, the role of mega …
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Constructing global Amman: petrodollars, identity, and the built environment in the early twenty-first century
… in shape and function with megaprojects in other cities, particularly in the Gulf. However, the processes that produced Amman’s megaprojects were different than the processes that produced megaprojects in other cities. As a globally recognizable type of development serving functions and creating …