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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"production of space"”.
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Infrastructural Imaginaries: Highways and the Sociotechnical Production of Space in Baltimore
The highway, its promise of freedom and mobility, stands as a source of intrigue in American culture. Yet, the asphalt and dashed lines that cut across the country conceal the contentious history that accompanied interstate highway construction. This dissertation examines the social and spatial …
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Brooklyn of Korea: Place branding as a process in production of space
… planning and development practices, branding is often used as a promotional tool to attract investments and tourists, and thought of as a mechanism to portray a selected image of a place. In this thesis, I argue that the branding process can be one of the driving forces of neighborhood change and …
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Exploring the potential of technology in enabling the inclusive co-production of space
The potential of emerging technology to address poly-urban issues is a growing focus on the agendas of cities worldwide. However, there is a lack of consensus regarding how and in whose interests it should be applied - should the aim be to establish 'smart cities' or to encourage 'smart citizens'? …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
<p>In the last decade, the organization of several territorially based social movements in Chile has expressed a significant level of social discomfort about the political and economic system of the country. The central objective of this dissertation is to analyze how motivations, achievements, and …
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Housing policy, design, and struggle: The colonial production of space of Israel/Palestine, one new city at a time
… design have a long history as instruments of colonial domination in Israel and as strategies for shaping the Jewish state as such. This thesis examines how a housing crisis framework, including local struggles for the right to housing, may be utilised by the Israeli Zionist regime to …
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The Production of Space, Place, and Food: The Ecology of Money and the Emergence of Transformative Circuits of Money Capital
… argues that Henri Lefebvre’s (1991) The Production of Space expresses a theoretical blueprint for the construction of an interdisciplinary approach to social science that integrates political economy, ecology, and geoscience under common meta-theoretical commitments. From this foundation …
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A scenographic analysis of emergent British 'national' identity, on the stages of the National Theatre between 1995-2005
This thesis examines space within the context of scenography and investigates its presence as a theme exposing the unstable condition of identity. It does this by examining how 'national' identity has been presented through the medium of design on the stages of the UK's National Theatre during an …
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Understanding 'It': Affective Authenticity, Space, and the Phish Scene
"Understanding It: Affective Authenticity, Space, and the Phish Scene" is an ethnographic study of "scene identity" around the contemporary rock band Phish. Utilizing data generated from six years of ethnographic fieldwork, including over one hundred and fifty interviews with Phish scene …
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Space and spatiality in the colonial discourse of German South West Africa 1884-1915
… two things: first, to demonstrate that space and spatiality is the domain in which discourse partakes of the colonial project, and second, to isolate a number of textual strategies employed in the discursive production of colonial space. The first aim requires a lengthy theoretical …
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Law-in-spacing : geographies of territorialization and resistance
My thesis revolves around the extension of Anglo-American common law to the newly acquired territories of the Old Northwest and Louisiana. Both of these territories had French-speaking populations with traditions of European Civil law systems. I suggest that the extension of common law to these …
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The production of rurality : social and spatial transformations in the Tamil countryside 1915-65
This dissertation advances a critique of the "planetary urbanization" thesis inspired by Henri Lefebvre's writings on capitalist urbanization. Theoretically, it argues that Lefebvrian scholars tend to conflate two distinct meanings of urbanization: a) urbanization understood simply as the …
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Placing the City: An Exploration of John Paskievich’s Photographs of Winnipeg's North End as Visual Cartography
… starting in 1976, John Paskievich's photographs of the North End of Winnipeg occupy a distinct space in the photographic history of the city. Ranging from local streetscapes to portraits of community members, this diverse grouping of images take on qualities similar to the 'New Documents,' and …
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Choleric spaces: Producing spaces for cholera patients during the 1877 cholera epidemic in Japan
This thesis investigates the production of space during the cholera epidemic of 1877 in Japan. Called “choleric spaces” in this thesis, they are separated into two co-constituting types: material and discursive. The material spaces are demonstrated by government-produced quarantine hospitals and …
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Politics of Space in Ankara: The Spatial Triad as Mobilization and Demobilization
… Marxist, and postmodernist critiques of power, architects continue to play a role in assimilating and, sometimes, marginalizing the population through a mode of spatial production that contributes to climate change, structural racism, income inequality, social isolation, and numerous …
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Who Owns the Land? Domestic Model Claiming the Complexity of the Spatial Ownership Pattern
… users and developers. In the development of urban housing, shifting the land control to privatization causes the destruction of housing, which is called capitalist accumulation. As a result, the displacement of unprofitable housing and residents is happening. However, if the land is argued …
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Bourgeois Balkans: world-building in Belgrade and Sofia 1830-1912
This dissertation examines the transformation of urban life in the Balkan capitals of Belgrade and Sofia between 1830 and 1912. In the nineteenth century, mayors, planners, doctors and intellectuals envisioned a new, urban society in which progressive social transformation could emerge through a …
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Norms and Space: Understanding Public Space Regulation in the Tourist City
How are public spaces regulated in tourist cities? In this doctoral dissertation I seek to answer this question by exploring the intersections between urban tourism and public space regulation. I argue that public space regulation substantially differs from the tourist to the non-tourist zone. This …
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The social production of community garden space: Case studies of Boston, Massachusetts and Havana, Cuba
<p>This research incorporates 'production of space' theory to explore how individual and societal characteristics influence community gardening practices and outcomes for individuals and neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba and Boston, Massachusetts. Methods used for this research include demographic …
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Play City Life: Henri Lefebvre, Urban Exploration and Re-Imagined Possibilities for Urban Life
The contemporary Western city is a space of capitalism, realized on a personal level through the lived realities of work and consumption. Elevation of these twin activities is contributing to ongoing social and environmental problems, both within the city and the larger interconnected world. As an …
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Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the missing boundaries
Taking as its point of departure Henri Lefebvre's contention that "(Social) space is a (social) product," my dissertation explores the contemporary American novels of Pynchon, Acker, Reed, Auster, DeLillo, and McElroy as well as the two recent films Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor and their …
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