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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"urban citizenship"”.
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Belonging in the Segregated City: Gender, community and urban citizenship in Mumbai, India
… The thesis examines evolving notions of urban belonging in the context of ethno-religious segregation at the intersection of gendered and minority rights in India. It explores everyday gendered negotiations of belonging to urban space in and from segregated neighbourhoods in the Mumbai …
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The Peri-urban City: Cargo Cult Urbanism, Porosity and an Emerging Urban Citizenship in Vietnamese Secondary Cities
The impact of urban development on local residents in the urban periphery oscillates between processes of empowerment and processes of marginalization as well as between state-controlled order and decentralized self-organization. Consequently local authorities, including urban planners and local …
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"If We Are Nothing Without Them, Then They Are Also Nothing Without Us": Cross-Class Political Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan
… The thesis challenges existing approaches to urban politics, which largely theorise political practices as class distinct. The thesis seeks to interrogate these framings through developing the concept of ‘overlapping politics’, defined as a political relationship between two (or more) distinct …
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Manufactured landscape : strategies for peri-urbanism in Dongguan
… Open Door Policy has brought about a series of urban restructuring of cities in the Pearl River Delta of China. The Peri Urban fabric of the these cities are formed as a result of complex orchestration of urban processes. In particular, rural hinterland are increasing being exploited as a vacuum …
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The Grey Matters: Investigating the Wingfield Strip as an Urban Borderspace
South Africa's refugee policy, favouring urban integration over encampment, has been widely applauded as a progressive measure for refugee protection. While this policy bodes well for visions of inclusive urban citizenship, in practice, refugees and asylum seekers in the country face major barriers …
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Vending the city : mapping the policy, policing and positioning of street vending in New York City
… the absence of meaningful, in-depth datasets on urban informality, studies investigating this variation have had to rely on case studies, anecdotal material and qualitative neighborhood comparisons. As a result, there have been no large-scale empirical studies undertaking city-wide analysis of …
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Participation in the Smart City: An Ethnographical Study of Citizen Engagement in Dublin
… ethnographic insights into the nature of smart urban projects; secondly, it provides a theory explaining the motivation for participation as well as the benefits gained through engagement. Smart urban projects are celebrated for helping to improve social cohesion and aim make life more effective …
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Villages of Delhi : towards inclusivity and plurality in the urbanizing countryside
The idiom of urbanization driven by financialization of rural land is purported to bring development to rapidly developing contexts. However, the nature of the resulting urban realm, functionally, socially and ecologically dispute any concept of betterment. Delhi is a poster child of this kind of …
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Embedded Cities, Excluded Citizens: Governance, Housing, and Rroma Marginality in Post-Socialist Romania
… housing and define the symbolic boundaries of urban citizenship. These findings explain why EU instruments yield uneven inclusion and clarify what would have to change locally to alter that pattern.
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Conversations with tradition: faith-based community development through the Eden Network in Cape Town
Community development is a tool in urban planning that, when used in contexts in the global South, can be used to perpetuate forms of "worlding" (Roy, 2011). "Worlding" tracks the way that urban models travel in asymmetrical ways from the global North to the global South. Christian Faith-Based …