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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"urban reforms"”.
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Migrants and the Brazilian boom-city: Manaus from 1850 to 1940
… exports. It also helped finance Rio de Janeiro’s urban reforms, and the construction of railroads in Brazil’s Southeast region. Limited at the beginning, by the 1880s international demands for rubber increased due to new processing technologies pioneered by companies such as Goodyear for a huge …
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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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From empire to dependence: the evolution of Turkish underdevelopment
… has allowed the necessarily limited scope of his reforms to pass relatively unnoticed. This hagiography has been matched by the equally irresponsible attacks of mechanical Marxists who have attempted to depict Atatürk as a mere petty bourgeois reformer.</p> <p>In this study we have tried to apply …
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Material Virtuality: Remaking Rio de Janeiro’s Past and Present through Digital Media
… contributes to scholarship that explores Rio’s urban and cultural history (Sevcenko 2003; Needell 1987; Carvalho 2018). In so doing, it adds to literature exploring how the screens of digital media form an integral and constitutive part of the space of contemporary cities (McQuire 2016; Degen …