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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"urban practices"”.
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Storytelling for a changing world: Comics as agitprop
<p>This essay imagines fictional storytelling and urban practices of maintenance, repair, and care as interrelated to one another. They are both practices engaged in building a better world. Urban scholars like Gautam Bhan, Shannon Mattern, and David Harvey propose the city as a space for …
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Reflecting on urban resilience based on analyses of al-Zaa’tari Camp for Syrian refugees in al-Mafraq, Jordan
… spaces? This research sheds the light on the urban practices that emerge within refugee camps. In doing so, it recognizes spaces of refuge as urban agglomerations. It also acknowledges the life-producing actions of refugees which challenge equating them as mere objects of humanitarian …
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Water urbanism in Lagos: A case study of Makoko community
This research aims to establish water urbanism as an adaptable approach toward managing rapid urbanisation challenges in developing coastal cities. This study explores the growth of water urbanism in informal waterfront settlements as an ecological strategy that can be used to develop rich urbanism …
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Effect of Relationship Marketing Tactics on Customers’ Loyalty in Commercial Banks in Geita District, Tanzania
… use a variety of relationship marketing tactics/ practices to gain customer loyalty and these include application of service quality dimensions, enhancing their brand name with slick (innovative), promotional campaigns (value offers) and competitive pricing strategies. The study recommended that …
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A living pharmacy : the practice of Kastom medicine in Honiara
Honiara, is a young urban setting where individuals from different ethnic groups and islands are creating their own urban culture. The practices of traditional healers in Honiara occur in a context where little action has transpired to integrate kastom medicine into the national health system. …
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Heritage movements in the postcolonial city: Contestations between middle-class activisms and urbanisation processes in Kolkata
… and processes as produced through middle-class urban activism in Kolkata, India. It locates the increasingly important position acquired by heritage within urban developmental processes of the postcolonial Indian city by focusing on three aspects. First, it unpacks the modalities of an urban …
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Alternative Urbanism Between The Formal And Informal: Investigating The Transformative Potential Of Small Urban Interventions In Neoliberal Cairo
… research interest in community-based small urban interventions that have been activating and reshaping urban spaces in many cities around the world. The study engages with the arguments regarding the transformative potential of these alternative modes of intervention discussed in the …
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Writing Barcelona: reflections on city planning and urban experience, 1854-1888
… the articulation and the reception of the new urban model that transformed the city of Barcelona between 1854 and 1888. Through an interdisciplinary approach that includes the analysis of literature, visual culture, and specific proposals of urban planning, I examine how the conception and the …