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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"urban history"”.
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Phantom Limbs: Urban history and the generation of built form
Throughout the process of trying to manage decisions and objects coming together in a designated area of the city, questions are faced that are generated by more than one set of circumstances, the many histories of a place, its geology and typology and topology, the balance of pragmatism and …
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For an Urban History of Milan, Italy: The Role of GIScience
… of this dissertation is to investigate the history of the city of Milan, Italy, employing Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Using historical maps and ancillary data, the spatiality of historical events that interested the city is analyzed, interpreted and explained by means of new …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
… differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their connection to changing imaginaries of the world that were shaped by the experience of war, and that have received little attention in historical literature. The dominant narratives of postwar urban history …
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Space, History and Mobility: A Historical Inquiry of Seoul as a Mobile City From 1970 to 2000
… and society by focusing on the recent modern urban history of Seoul from 1970 to 2000. In this dissertation, I attempt to understand the history of Seoul as it has experienced movement and stasis. The concept of mobility organizes this dissertation. By relying upon the recent developments in …
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Study on Urban Form Changes and Urban Transformation of Modern Luoyang(1910s-1960s)
Urban history is a precious memory of urban development. Especially in the context of China’s rapid development today, sorting out, reviewing, and interpreting urban history from different perspectives can provide necessary references for current urban preservation work. Luoyang, as the birthplace …
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Merchants, commissioners and wardmasters : municipal politics in Cape Town, 1840-1854
… in the growing body of academic research on the history of Cape Town, this dissertation aims to make an original contribution to the field of South African urban history.
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Enabling and inhibiting urban development : a case study of Lahore Improvement Trust as a late colonial institution
… the Lahore Improvement Trust in relation to the urban development of the city of Lahore in mid-twentieth century. LIT was responsible for most major urban development in the city from 1936 up until 1975, when it metamorphosed into the Lahore Development Authority. However, its impact on Lahore's …
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The University of the Witwatersrand History Workshop and radical South African historical scholarship in the 1970's and 1980's
The thesis examines the History Workshop at the University of the University of the Witwatersrand in the context of radical South African historical scholarship. Not only is the History Workshop shown to mirror developments in radical scholarship but it is seen to guide and stimulate particular …
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Nakano Flow: Designing for Spatial and Temporal Flow in urban Tokyo
Urban Tokyo is an environment of flows, having rapidly developed from its feudal form of the Edo period through cycles of destruction, growth and transformation since modernization. The plaza space adjacent to Nakano Station in Tokyo exemplifies this pattern, with an urban context drawing from many …
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Community and Resistance in the Gateway City: Black National Consciousness, Working -Class Formation, and Social Movements in St. Louis, Missouri, 1941--1964
… argues that Black working-class formation and urban community-building propelled the major Black social movements between World War II and the early 1960s. The agendas emerging from these movements represented the racial and class interests of Black working people, not only in demands for …
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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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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966--1996
… seeks to provide an intraracial narrative history of African American politics and class tensions in Atlanta, Georgia from 1966, the year when black power movement forces emerged and helped to elect Maynard H. Jackson as Atlanta's mayor to the 1996 Centennial Olympiad. Also, this study is …
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Children of Moses's experiment : youth, mental health, and hip-hop in the South Bronx
Urban youth have developed ways to overcome trauma and promote wellness in their lives through the art and culture of hip-hop. This paper asks, "how is hip-hop music and culture being used as a tool for mental health promotion amongst urban youth, and are these methods effective?" In recent years, …
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The hydrographic city : mapping Mexico City's urban form in relation to its aquatic condition, 1521-1700
Mexico City is a special case in urban history because the measures taken by the Aztec and Spanish to avoid inundations have fundamentally changed the city's character. In 1521, it was an island-city; in 1629, it lay near the banks of Lake Mexico; and by 1700, it rested on a reclaimed mainland. …
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Invisible parentheses : maping (out) the city and its histories
In theory as much as in practice, "history" and "design" have been traditionally regarded as distinct and even opposite spheres of investigation; however, the space of the city, itself a product of both, manifests the overlapping between the two fields. Contrary to modernism's evolutionary model, …
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The aesthetics of concealment : Weegee in the movie theater (1943-1950)
… of the movie house at a specific moment in the history of the United States. By analyzing these photographs in the context of other sources of information such as posters, newspapers and magazine articles of the time, the dark and permissive interior of the movie theater emerges as an effective …
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Charity, architecture and urban development in post-Tridentine Rome : the hospital of the SS.ma Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti (1548-1680)
… analyzes the institutional, architectural and urban history of charitable institutions in Rome from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. It highlights the previously ignored central role that these institutions played in the consolidation of papal power and the political administration of …
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Shaping the City from Below: Urban Planning and Citizens' Battle for Control in Roanoke, Virginia, 1907-1928
In 2017, urban planners in Roanoke, Virginia, created a plan to construct a new public space that will honor the city's first professional city planner, John Nolen. Nolen is now considered a founder of the urban planning profession in the United States. Roanoke officials hope to celebrate the …
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The Working Poor : Labour Strategies of Welfare Recipients in Helsinki, 1890–1970
This study discusses urban poverty and precarious work from early industrialization until the era of the welfare state in Finland. The dissertation analyses the labour strategies of individuals in the receipt of poor relief or social assistance allowances in Helsinki between the early 1890s and the …
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The applications of aerial photography, photogrammetry and photo-interpretation in the planning process
… feasibility studies, land use, resource surveys, urban and regional research and analysis, urban history, urban and rural administration, site evaluation, transportation and other. branches of engineering, urban sociology and economics, as well as urban aesthetics. Aerial photographic data …
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