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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"socio-spatial"”.
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Visible communities : designing a socio-spatial map
… human-machine crowdmapping approach to creating socio-spatial maps that represent both spatial and social aspects of communities. Our implemented system combines satellite image analytics, a mobile mapping app, and social survey data. The system is designed to provide an end user experience that …
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Disabled women and socio-spatial 'barriers' to motherhood
… social history of institutionalisation and spatial segregation has, over time and space, set them apart from mainstream society and rendered them invisible in the spaces and places of everyday life. In more contemporary times, when disabled women ‘invade’ reproductive spaces, their presence …
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Socio-spatial experiences of part-time community college faculty
… of part-time community college faculty through a socio-spatial lens. The research was conducted as a case study and conceptually framed by institutional ethnography and critical geography. Methods included interviews, mental sketch mapping, and document analysis. The combination of methods was …
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Parental choice in secondary education : socio-spatial dynamics and motivation
… study area. Second, to identify the extent of socio-spatial variation of patterns and trends in choice of school. Secondary school transfer data relating to over 16,000 children for 1991 and 1993 to 1995 was analysed in a Geographical Information System (GIS). One hundred and sixty two parents …
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SOCIO-SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN’S LIVES IN TBILISI, GEORGIA
… this mobility and migration on Georgian women’s socio-spatial dimensions and what this means for the economic and cultural survival of women in post- Soviet Georgia. Specifically, the research focuses on the spatial availability of family and rural contacts and the use of social safety nets as a …
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SOCIO-SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN’S LIVES IN TBILISI, GEORGIA
… this mobility and migration on Georgian women’s socio-spatial dimensions and what this means for the economic and cultural survival of women in post- Soviet Georgia. Specifically, the research focuses on the spatial availability of family and rural contacts and the use of social safety nets as a …
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Understanding the Zongo : processes of socio-spatial marginalization in Ghana
The spatial processes of marginalization and ghettoization have been described, labeled, and theorized extensively in the United States and Europe, yet there has been little research dedicated to these processes in the literature concerning urban Africa. Rather than using prescribed Western …
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The socio-spatial construction of consumption: a historical and contemporary analysis
… and anthropology. Finally, the contemporary sociological investigation of ‘consumption’ is critiqued and its broad reliance upon a utilitarian-derived cost/benefit model adapted to incorporate ‘sign-value’ and discussions of postmodernism are rejected. This prompts the proposal of a …
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The Infrastructure of Peace: Socio-spatial planning in UN Peace Operations
… through an approach informed by historical sociology. I offer an urban planning perspective on peace operations, and specifically its infrastructure building. Through three case studies, this dissertation explores the ‘infrastructural imaginaries of peace’ – infrastructure as promise, risk, …
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The city in change : socio-spatial dimensions of urban environmental change
… historical process of formation. Change in the socio-cultural processes in a city at a given moment in its history, therefore, corresponds to and is evidenced in the physical changes of its many urban forms. The different urban forms, which are essentially manifestations of the different moments …
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Being Dignified: Understanding Socio-Spatial Exploitation and Agency in Nepali Domestic Work
… arguing that broader forms of social and spatial exploitation are key to including Nepali domestic workers' experiences in labour and employment studies, and labour organising more generally. Three empirical chapters align with distinct yet intersecting domains of exploitation beyond the …
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Mapping the Socio-Spatial Educational Trajectories of Justice-Impacted Latina/o/x Students
… students and how it is shaped by social-spatial contexts is lesser known. The purpose of this study is to address this research limitation by exploring the socio-spatial contexts that shape the educational experiences across the academic trajectories of former justice-impacted Latina/o/x …
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Socio-spatial entanglement theory, the I2S2A method, and civil legal service realized accessibility
Most spatial and social service accessibility studies are unidimensional; they examine one dimension of service accessibility in isolation. These unidimensional studies are not responsive to the realities of service usage. This is because unidimensional service accessibility studies implicitly …
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Understanding 'the National Sport for New Zealand Women': A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Netball
… feminist interpretation of Henri Lefebvre’s spatial theory, I demonstrate how the relationship between women’s sporting bodies, space and social relations is mutually constituted. In this thesis, I explain spaces of netball as reproducing and celebrating particular gendered and sexualized …
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Public place making in Enkanini : a socio-spatial methodology for intervening on the informal
… a result, these projects impose new social and spatial conditions that are often not liberating to the communities that they serve. As an alternative, this thesis proposes a methodology that contrasts with this approach, a process that aims at understanding the socio-spatial conditions of a …
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The Socio-Spatial Patterns of Acute and Chronic Toxic Air Releases in Texas, 1987-89
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The provision of recreation facilities for the youth in Umlazi township a socio-spatial perspective
This study has been designed to investigate the detrimental effects that may result from the minimal provision of recreation facilities for the youth in Umlazi The theme that has been addressed by the study is: "The constant growth of anti-social behaviour among the black youth in black townships …
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Socio-spatial inequalities in late-stage cancer diagnosis in Illinois: spatiotemporal trends and methodological challenges
… dissertation examines the effects of social and spatial inequalities on late-stage diagnosis of colorectal and breast cancer, and it addresses several methodological challenges surrounding the use of ZIP codes as a study unit in analyzing late-stage cancer at diagnosis. Given that my dissertation …
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Building inclusive neighborhoods: assessing the socio-spatial implications of transit-oriented development in St. Louis, Missouri
… and qualitative analyses. First, I use spatial regression analyses to explore the relationship between gentrification-related residential change and LRT stations. The results from the analyses point toward St. Louis, Missouri and the Delmar Loop TOD site specifically as a place to …
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Re-designing public housing integration : investigating efforts for a socio-spatial connection between project and neighborhood
… integration strategies according to physical, socioeconomic and organizational variables. Finally, Chapter 4 investigates the roots of present day isolation in Mission Main, while Chapter 5 details the complex implementation process that characterized the Boston example. Results show that …
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