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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"historic center"”.
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The project for the historic center of Genoa : toward the integration of urban planning and design
… presents a case study of intervention in the historic center of Genoa that suggests ways of thinking about city design which deal with with the gap between architecture and planning. The case is documented from the point of view of a participant in the intervention process. Following a brief …
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Transitions between town and metropolis : planning strategies for development and conservation of colonial Zacatecas
… conservation and development of cities full of historic, traditional and cultural value. The colonial city of Zacatecas in central Mexico, was chosen for this study because of its large and considerably well preserved historic center, and because, as a state capital city and primary city in its …
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"For The Enjoyment of All:" Cosmopolitan Aspirations, Urban Encounters and Class Boundaries in Mexico City
… groups in the country's most emblematic urban center. It draws on eighteenth months of ethnographic fieldwork with artists and young professionals living in the city's historic center as part of a public-private redevelopment plan locally known as the "rescue." Led by multimillionaire Carlos …
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"Por cima do mar, eu vim; por cima do mar, eu vou voltar": cenas transnacionais da Capoeira baiana
… de Capoeira, FBEC, located in Pelourinho, the Historic Center of Salvador da Bahia in Brazil. I demonstrate that Regional Capoeira is not only a driving force for the transnational expansion of Bahian Capoeira, but that it is, itself, the result of international practices and flows, since its …
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Habitar o Comércio, uma questão central: a política habitacional no bairro do Comércio em Salvador (1970- 2024).
… in broader urban dynamics. Within Salvador’s Historic Center, the neighborhood of Comércio illustrates this pattern in a particularly emblematic way, showing a progressive loss of residents and a succession of interventions primarily directed toward cultural and tourism-oriented …
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Space wars in Bogotá : the recovery of public space and its impact on street vendors
… shift of public space management in Bogotá's historic center from one of neglect by presidentially appointed mayors to an aggressive public space recuperation campaign led by Bogotá's elected mayors from 1988 to the present. Faced with the high barriers to public space recovery -- the …
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Developing heritage : activist decision-makers and reproduced narratives in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria
… of an ideal past. Aleppo, like other historic cities, arguably represents some of the most powerful lieux de memoire of twenty-first century urbanity. But, while memory and culture have been well-researched as instrumental facades for profit-driven urban projects (as well as in the …
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Behind the Waterfront: Enduring Inequities and Illusive Renewals in the Making of Mediterranean Port Cities
… From a methodological perspective, it employs historical GIS techniques on primary sources collected in more than thirty archives in Barcelona, Marseille, Rome, Naples, and Beirut. It models socioeconomic data and urban morphology features extracted from archival materials spanning a period of …
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L’immigrazione meridionale a Torino nell’Italia del miracolo economico. Il caso della Sardegna durante la stagione della Rinascita
… immigrants were living in old houses in the historic center of Turin, were heavy jobs that did not guarantee good living conditions, also the relationship between Italians from southern Italy and the Turin population were very difficult. After analyzing the Southern Italian Immigration in …
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Městská knihovna v Přerově
… knihovny je umístěna při nábřeží řeky Bečvy v historické části města. Knihovna je místem, které uchovává hodnoty vědění, kultury i doby. Takové místo by mělo být pevné a odolné. Vydržet staletí a chránit svůj křehký obsah. Zůstat ale otevřeným místem pro lidi, protože samotná informace nabývá …