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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"processes of urbanization"”.
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Livelihood Strategies in China: Lessons Learned From Taiyuan
Studies of urban China often deploy top-down analyses and focus on tier-1 cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. This thesis contributes to a diversifying literature by using a bottom-up analysis to compare the livelihood strategies of peri-urban residents in Taiyuan, a tier-2 city, to those in …
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Tactical cities : negotiating violence in Karachi, Pakistan
… their residents. The thesis draws on a variety of theoretical and epistemological frameworks from urban studies to analyze the social and historical processes of urbanization that have led to the perception of Karachi as a city of violence. It then uses the distinction that Michel de Certeau …
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Between nature and artifice : The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979)
Cambridge in the 1960s was a locus of experimentation and research in new computing technologies -from the production of transportation models for New England to the design of war games simulating the vagaries of the terrain in Vietnam. One research group, working in the nascent field of computer …
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Coming Home to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China
… research aims to explore the phenomenon of peri-urban farming, rural-urban integration, and community building that are crystallized in Chengdu Plain, China in recent years. Through the lens of therapeutic landscape experience, individual and community well-being is examined with these …
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The killing consensus : homicide detectives, police that kill and organized crime in São Paulo, Brazil
… and theoretically, as a core function of the state. Much of the knowledge presumes that police are the only body that may kill and arbitrate killing, routinely and without retaliation from contesting parties, as a means of establishing and maintaining a legitimate legal order. This …
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Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932
<p>Manifestations of religion in the built environment and in conceptions of space illuminate a variety of cultural impulses. As the most tangible display of religion on the landscape, religious structures embody and shape the theological understandings, cultural assumptions, and social aspirations …
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Nature Unsettled: the making of the wilderness imaginary and the Canadian settler state
Despite the economic significance of extractive resource industries to the national economy, Canadians hold their national parks—as spaces of untouched nature—in high regard as a key aspect of national pride and identity. By critically investigating the cultural framing of nature in Canada as …
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How Food Logistics Is Changing Our Cities. Large-Scale Retail Trade Distribution Centers in Italy
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment