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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"southern cities"”.
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Fight the Power: Protest, Showdown and Civil Rights Activity in Three Southern Cities, 1960-1965.
… freedom rides of 1960-61, Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference was looking for a way to dramatically reveal the racial injustice of the South. Stumbling into a campaign in Albany, SCLC found thr right method in the use of nonviolent direct action. While Albany was a …
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The Transcultural Production of Creative Subjectivity: London Art, Design and Communication Higher Education in Mumbai and Shanghai Cultural Industries
… Internationally mobile subjects from the southern cities engage in a passage through the constitutive other – the former metropole – to produce a subjectivity whose very autonomy and abstractly cosmopolitan flexibility serves transnational capital. The research finds that interview …
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The Transcultural Production of Creative Subjectivity:London Art, Design, and Communication Education in Mumbai and Shanghai Cultural Industries
… Internationally mobile subjects from the southern cities engage in a passage through the constitutive other – the former metropole – to produce a subjectivity whose very autonomy and abstractly cosmopolitan flexibility serves transnational capital. The research finds that interview …
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An Analysis of the Impact of Racial Transition on the Desirability of Neighborhoods.
… together. While there are many good things about cities, they also are plagued by overwhelming problems. Every urban problem evolves out of a historical context.In order to understand the impact of racial transition on a southern city, we must be familiar with how southern cities developed …
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MILITANT MAIDS: DOMESTIC WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUS BOYCOTTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH
… Party to improve their treatment in Northern and Southern cities. Modern historians have expanded their research to explore the participation of domestic workers in the Civil Rights Movement, especially in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In some cases, researchers also have explored the complicated …
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Plant City, Florida, 1885-1940: A Study In Southern Urban Development
… to the broader historical theories of southern urban development, specifically those put forward in David Goldfield's pioneering work, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region 1607-1980. Goldfield contended that southern cities developed differently than their northern …
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Exposure of urban food-energy-water (FEW) supply chains to water scarcity in China
… local and supply chain water scarcity than do cities in southern China. Supply chains expose southern cities to water scarcity, particularly through agriculture. Agriculture exposes the domestic supply chain to water scarcity more than any other economic sector in China. This research …
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Deconstructing the boundary between environmental sustainability and social justice: decision-making and obscured rationalities in government-led housing in Johannesburg
… rationalities impact decision-making within cities. Given that urbanisation, poverty, and climate change impacts are concentrated in cities in the global South, the challenge of building socially just and environmentally sustainable cities predominantly lies with Southern cities. As a …
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A place to live: incremental building and its logics in informal settlements of Cape Town and Delhi
Many, if not most, houses in southern cities are self-built. Whether formal or informal, these houses are both built, and often, expanded incrementally. Through an in-depth exploratory method of ‘homestead biographies’, in this research I explored the multi-dimensional and relational nature of …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
… of Texas annexation from the viewpoints of two southern cities: Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. It looks primarily at four major newspapers, two in each city: the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Whig; and the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the New Orleans Whig. These four …
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Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… movement activities in predominantly Catholic southern cities like Natchez. In constructing this project, I conducted the bulk of my primary research in reviewing Baroni's correspondence and essays, Baroni family oral history interviews, personal journals, and The Catholic Worker newsletters in …
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Greener pastures of home: an ethnographic study on everyday sustainable practices in Nyanga, Cape Town
Most contemporary urban development in cities of the global South is responding to rapid urbanisation caused by prospects of employment opportunities and improved quality of life. Research in the field of sustainability in cities of the global South mainly focuses on economic and social development …
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Addressing car dependency in Cape Town: Reviewing how the Citys mobility and spatial frameworks can transcend car-oriented urbanism
… associated with the dominance of cars in cities. The problems include carbon emissions contributing to climate change, road safety issues, pollution and other public health challenges, but also inequitable accessibility favouring private car users, among many other problems. Also, the …
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Young People and Migration in Ghana
… of children/young people from northern to southern cities in Ghana. It focuses attention on the following specific research questions: What are young peoples’ motivations for migration, and negotiations surrounding the decision-making process? What are the precarious employment and living …
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Exploring the role of E-learning practices in protecting secondary school education after violent conflict : case study - secondary school education in Libya
… support e-learning in secondary education in the southern cities. In this respect, it should engage international donors in order to generate maximum funding for investment in the development of the ICT infrastructure for students in Libya. Contribution: The study is the first to consider how …
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Epidemiological Landscapes: The Spaces and Politics of Mosquito Control in Lahore
… and the proliferation of insect vectors, in cities in the global South are a reminder of the crucial role of urban environments in the spread and control of infectious diseases. The dangerous intimacies of humans and disease-carrying mosquitoes in urban environments are particularly …
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Cosmo City Greens: contested aspirations of ecologically sustainable lifestyles in mixed-income housing
… gained momentum in urban planning, especially in southern cities. These policies potentially not only bridge racial and economic disparities but they also confront issues of fragmented environmentalism through housing developments. South Africa's first mixed-income housing development, Cosmo City …