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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"urban culture"”.
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Formation and development of middle-class urban culture and politics : Sheffield 1825-1880.
This thesis examines the formation and development of the Sheffield middle-class through the focus of the Sheffield Club. In chapter two cultural institutions of the town prior to the formation of the Club are examined. The institutional formation and development of the Club is then traced from its …
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Multi-ethnic London: an architectural study of religious buildings in a globalized urban culture
… have created architecture for shelter. Different cultures began to develop architectural forms to suit many kinds of social functions; then, as time passed, and civilizations grew and developed even further, more complex forms materialized to suit even more complex functions. Architecture today …
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The Urban Culture of Chinese Society in Bangkok: Cinemas, Broadcast and Literature, 1950S-1970S
The thesis has addressed urban culture in Chinese society in Bangkok in the postwar era, with particular focus on cinemas, broadcast and literature. These forms of cultural expression appear in the social sphere?in the streets, on the air and in texts, which constitute important parts of the urban …
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The LinkNYC Kiosk: Phone Booths, Urban Culture, and the Neoliberal Dream for New York City
… a “dialectical image” to understand the use of urban culture as a means of achieving political ends. First, I lay out a cultural history of public communication devices in their relation to the political and material changes in New York City since the late 19<sup>th</sup> century. By doing so, …
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Gray City of the Midway: The University of Chicago and the Search for American Urban Culture, 1890-1932
… role of cultural institutions in the shift to an urban-oriented society. In-depth analysis of the University of Chicago’s architecture and planning traces how urban form emerged gradually as an assimilation of different traditions. It challenges a planning literature reliant on narrowly-prescribed …
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Community composition, demographic change, and the impact of spatial proximity to disadvantage on violence and gang presence in New Jersey municipalities
… indicate that: (1) From 2000 to 2010, suburban and rural municipalities in New Jersey have experienced significant demographic changes, while urban areas remained relatively static; (2) neighborhood- and school-based characteristics are stronger predictors of crime, school violence, and …
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Swell : a proposition for coastal metropolises in the age of rising seas and distributed centralization
… upon the certain realities of the rise of urban sprawl, globalized dynamic networks, and sea levels, this thesis seeks to question these forces and mobilize the inherent potentials that lie within their intersections. Is contemporary urban form appropriate to contemporary urban culture? Do …
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Challenges in Measuring Firearm Prevalence: A Test of Cook's Index Across The Rural–Urban Continuum
… unreliable across types of counties. Rural and Urban counties had significantly different ratios of Cook's Index to Pistol Permits in New York. The models show a general finding that the relationship between Cook's Index and legitimate firearm ownership varies depending on the Rural-Urban …
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After Exodus : re-occupation of the metropolitan wall
… to ruin. Such zones become the stage for a new urban culture invigorated by invention and subversion, each with an objective of territorial gain through a type of architectural warfare that stakes its claim on the conterminous ruins along its edge. The result is manifested in adaptive …
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Entertaining the Yugoslav capital: culture, urban space, and politics in Belgrade between the two wars
… force to the development of a unified Yugoslav culture, all the more detrimental in the state’s capital city. I argue that foreign entertainment destabilized the notions of class and gender that formed the fundamental pillars of Yugoslav society, just as it democratized both national and elite …
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Building upon ruins : the evolution of an urban artifact from infrastructure to public space
… architecture can be. In my thesis I propose that urban infrastructure built in the late nineteenth-century, can be the foundation for urban public space in the late twentieth-century. I propose that by exploring the value inherent in an existing structure, or fragment thereof, we can derive …
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Electroacoustic music composition: myth, symbol and image
… In this section I address the use of modern urban culture symbols in order to create a contemporary mythological canon. Section 4 - A conclusion to this thesis.
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Indigenous Detroit: indigeneity, modernity, and racial and gender formation in a modern American city, 1871-2000
… formation of modern Detroit and the impact of urban culture on the reemergence of Indigenous people in that same location at the end of the 20th century. Covering more than a hundred years of urban Indigenous history between the nexus of urban history and Indigenous studies, Indigenous Detroit …
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Tradition and conviction :architecture in context
… ignorance and neglect of the continuity that is urban culture." In a complex environment the realities of context must be considered to maintain a sense of order. Designers must transcend the narrow, egotistical aim of evolving a personal idiom and consider the broader problem of relating each …
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Re-crafting Architecture in Philippi + the everyday - Developing the urban potentials and sites of production in the Cape Flats
… potential for a site of production and vibrant urban culture. The scope of work aims to establish a more nuanced comprehension of informality, its connection to the wider formal networks, and what opportunity it represents to a new architectural culture. The understanding of these aspects and …
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Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, a Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952
… public, market-oriented roles that transformed urban culture. During this time, a new form of commercialized entertainment emerged to bridge women's work with the popularity of social dance. Taxi dance halls or "closed dance halls" were unregulated commercial dance venues where taxi dancers …
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Urban school leader development and preparation for leadership roles
… Darius L. This study aimed to understand how urban school leaders perceive and benefit from their preparation and training programs designed to prepare them for their current leadership roles. This will help to find ways to overcome leadership challenges in urban schools and help urban …
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Decolonizing Transnational Subaltern Women: The Case of Kurasoleñas and New York Dominicanas
… are at the same time encouraged by these same urban spaces to explore multiplicity and foreignness, ironically allowing for a unique urban culture to develop along-side the nationally reinforced homogenous identity/culture. This comparative analysis suggests that cosmopolitan urban spaces are …
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The search for city : between being and seeming in the rapid urbanisation of Doha, Qatar
… the possibilities and limitations of civic culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. This thesis’ contribution to knowledge is four-fold: (1) to add generally to architectural and urban theory, and particularly to Arabian Gulf studies; (2) to develop an analytical …
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