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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"urban literature"”.
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European urbanism in Caracas (1870s-1930s)
The research focuses on the transfer of European urban ideas into Caracas, from Antonio Guzman Blanco's urban reforms in the 1870s to the proposal of the 1939 Plan Monumental de Caracas, devised under the guidance of the French urbanist Maurice Rotival. Considering that the emergence of urbanism …
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Racial and Relational Urbanisms: The Spatial Politics of Afro-Colombian Emplacement in Bogotá
Urban studies have often neglected the racial-colonial grounds on which space-power and space- subjectivity articulations operate in Latin America. This dissertation addresses that gap by exploring the city of Bogotá as normatively mestizo, epistemically white and factually blind to racialised …
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Peri-urban development in Africa: a Kenyan case study
Studies of African urban development have used the term “peri-urban" to refer to residential development at a city’s edge. No one, however, has developed a precise definition of peri-urban areas which guides this research. This study attempts to define peri-urban areas using an urban economic model …
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Becoming otherwise: two thousand and ten reasons to live in a small town
… past few decades have seen a 'cultural turn' in urban planning, and public art has become an important component within urban design strategies. Accordingly, public art is most commonly encountered in the urban literature as commissioned public sculptures. Simultaneously operating are a range of …
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Differentiated use and value of river and riparian ecosystem services and local perspectives on future safeguarding: A case study of the upper Mutale sub-catchment, Limpopo River Basin, South Africa
… rural community, which is more commonly found in urban literature on nature-based approaches. Further, environmental literacy is important to pair the community's grey infrastructure preferences for increased water accessibility with nature-based solutions to prevent future grey infrastructure …
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Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac, Paul de Kock and Zola
… I argue that the movement of panoramic literature under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and its influence on the nineteenth-century urban novel must be re-imagined in the context of the proto-sociological movement of positivism. Existing criticism on panoramic literature typically views …