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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"urban identity"”.
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(D)urban identity : stories of an African city
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-309).
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richmond local arts museum; urban identity: recognition through transformation
… a thesis concentrated on correcting the identity of a place that is lost in history. an intentional interruption to the "historic" context of richmond will transform the city. richmond's connection to the civil war will soon be diluted, as it will quickly gain recognition for its …
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Iraqi architecture between tradition and modernity : re-creating the urban identity of Basra, the “Venice of the East”
… recent years Iraqi traditional architecture and urban identity have been deeply affected by three wars, which challenged the cultural memory of the local people and in particular of young generations. This research focuses on the city of Basra to investigate the material features of the Iraqi …
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Urbanisation of Rural-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shiminhua in The Greater Bay Area of China
This thesis on “The Urbanisation of Rural-urban Migrants: A Case Study of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China” is designed to answer the research question of "How does the phenomenon of *shiminhua* (urbanisation of rural-urban migrants) unfold in Chinese cities?". It is articulated by two …
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Civic Tinkering in a Small City: Imaginaries and Intersections of Art, Place and Marginality
… Moreover, cities undertake various kinds of identity projects: on-going, dynamic processes through which spaces are produced and reproduced by conscious strategies of place making and identity building (Nyseth & Viken, 2009). Such initiatives are concerted efforts to establish or extend a …
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Irresistible Media City Life: Media Architecture Participates in the Urban Public Spaces and the Construction of Environmental Visual Imagination in China
… growing incorporation of digital screens into urban public spaces. Digital screens transforms building facades into dynamic media elements that influence public perception and redefine the function of these spaces. This phenomenon, known as media architecture, is explored for its capacity to …
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UN2 : reconfiguring the world city
… its organizational apparatus as well as its urban identity. In reflecting on the UN as both site and subject, this project considers the realities of contemporary bureaucracy and reinterprets the tectonics and organistic rhetoric of the original complex's designers.
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Urban Stitch
… civilization rivers are strongly linked to the identity and vitality of cities. they provide water, means of transportation, spaces for urban expansion, and a defined boundary which contributes to the identity of a city. Rivers are often the raison d'etre of cities, and their inhabitants have an …
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Urban mediator : future infrastructure network for the village in the city
… in the 70s in China, it leads to an inevitable urban phenomenon - village in the city. These villages become the remanents to the city which will be demolished and reconstructued in the future. Adding social value to the villages towards the city or reforming the villages cannot solve the …
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Imagining a New Belfast: Municipal Parades in Urban Regeneration
… the tropes of multiculturalism and European identity are repeated as aspirational ideals for Belfast's regeneration. The parades display, and in doing so reify these ideals as a temporary reality. Longer-term effects of the parades are difficult to determine, but they may potentially change …
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Rural men in urban China: masculinity and identity formation of male peasant workers
This thesis explores male peasant workers’ identity formation in contemporary post-Mao China. It is a qualitative study of 28 male peasant workers. Adopting an interpretivist perspective, this thesis uses a multi-method approach, including life histories, ethnography and discourse analysis. A …
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Achilles and The Batman on the Plane of Immanence: Deconstructing Heroic Models
… 20th century concepts of the metropolitan and urban identity. The secret identity of the comic book hero is an important, modern, perhaps even postmodern answer to the problems the unchanging hero most often encounters within his own society.</p>
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Sheng : the mixed language of Nairobi
… manner does Sheng provide its speakers a new identity?With respect to question one, the core lexicon, like Russenorsk's, Trio-Ndjuka's and Michif's, manifests a nearly fifty-fifty split in Sheng (52% Swahili; 48% other), making it a mixed language lexically.As for question two, the analysis …
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Composite City: Towards A Theory of the Composite Urban In Contemporary Multi-/Ethnic Literature
… theoretical, and literary representations of the urban. The space of the city has been a predominant figure in literary conversations, namely because the city is a particularly robust space for considering the renegotiations of identity. As Saskia Sassen notes, the “Western city of today …
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The Identity and International Relations of Orkney and Dublin in the long Eleventh Century
… in Chapter Four, it is argued that a hybrid urban identity may have been more significant and more prevalent than a Scandinavian one in Dublin. Unlike Dublin, Orkney remained, in many respects, on a cultural axis that stretched from Norway to Iceland. The definitions of ‘diaspora’ set out by …
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Assessing sustainable urban forms in Erbil city of Iraq
… system for the analysis of the sustainable urban form. Subsequently, there is still a noticeable gap regarding the relationship between these dimensions and the patterns and the layout of built environments in the Middle East in general and in Iraq in particular. Intense and rapid economic …
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Arquetipos de una identidad urbana : cafés y bares montevideanos - (1900 a 1960)
“Arquetipos de una Identidad Urbana” propone investigar sobre un conjunto de obras pertenecientes a los programas arquitectónicos CAFÉ / BAR / CAFÉ Y BAR / ALMACÉN Y BAR / ALMACÉN Y BAR + VIVIENDA, sobre su esencia y las imbricaciones con las circunstancias que las rodean. Se trata de obras que no …
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Developing a Framework for Urban DNA Analysis
… evolve the way they do? Is there an underlying urban DNA essence shaping their uniqueness? This research started with these fundamental questions and introduces the concept of urban DNA to explore them—not as just a metaphor but as a grounded framework that explains how cities evolve based on …
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The architectural implications of passive solar cooling systems in hot-arid climates
… and the second is its multi-dimensional urban identity. The city is a mixture of African, Arab, and European influences and resembles at the same time an oasis in the middle of the desert. The research follows two distinct but closely related paths. The first is the study and analysis of …
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The river Neva and the imperial façade: Culture and environment in nineteenth century St. Petersburg Russia
… of agendas of the Emperors and the new urbanites. The river is a site of struggle between state efforts at technological, social, and cultural control, and a burgeoning city population determined to claim the river as their own through work and leisure as they formed a new urban …
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