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Chen, Tong M. S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Twin cities : cyberspatial qualities of contemporary Tokyo." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65042.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-152).
The cityscape of contemporary Tokyo is undergoing a dramatic transformation caused by a proliferation of technology, such as the rapid mass transit network and the advanced telecommunication system. On the one hand conventional urban design criteria such as physical proximity and spatiotemporal consistency are challenged or even rendered obsolete; on the other hand many new characteristics of the city are being established, and some of them have become prominent criteria in comprehending today's Tokyo. In order to apprehend this process of transformation and its impact on the city's form, and eventually to respond to the new situation, it is necessary to identify those unconventional characteristics brought to Tokyo by the proliferation of technology. In this thesis those peculiarities of contemporary Tokyo are pinpointed through a process of analogy with cyberspace, which bears tremendous resemblances to Tokyo. Contemporary Tokyo is found to contain two cities: the visible chaotic city and the invisible ordered city. In the visible city, the intonation of criteria used to form the mental image of a city is transformed; time is given importance over space; schizophrenia is a persistent theme; the boundary between human and machine is blurred; hierarchies and distinctions among objects are eliminated through codification. In the invisible city, the pattern of city's evolution is prescribed as piecemeal decentralized spontaneous growth; each node contains all the information of the whole system - the part equals the whole; connectivity becomes the prominent feature of a place - it promotes concentration and deconcentration simultaneously, and replaces Euclidean geometry with topology; layers of matrices cast ubiquitous control and circumscription over the whole city. The two cities rely on one another yet never compromise with each other; together they lay down the affordances and constraints of the city, and give it a new form. Both the visible city and the invisible city are the offspring of the Japanese culture of congestion, of which a full embrace or a total rejection will only cause lament.
by Tong Chen.
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Ramey, David Michael. "Neighborhood Violent Crime in Contemporary Latino Destination Cities." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275414603.
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Chadha, Anupa. "Major Indian cities under conditions of contemporary globalisation." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7794.
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This is a study of India's major cities and how they are faring under the conditions of contemporary globalisation. This contemporary globalisation is a part of the economic globalisation that took place in India especially after 1991, when the new economic policies were incorporated. These new economic policies were targeted at making India integrate into the larger world economy by introducing more open trade. The sectors that received major attention under the new policies were industrial and the services sector as a whole with particular emphasis on producer services (banking and insurance). As a result of liberalisation and privatisation of these sectors many new producer services firms came up in major Indian cities. Therefore, the main focus is on the inter-city relations based upon the type of advance producer services firms that are operating from these cities. Also it looks at the nodes that the major Indian cities form in larger world city network.
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Bremer, Jonathan Eddy. "Rusk's elasticity and residential income segregation in contemporary American cities." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217386.
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David Rusk claims in Cities Without Suburbs that elastic American cities are less segregated than other American cities. I demonstrate through statistical analyses that there is a strong correlation between Rusk's elasticity (an index comprised of a central city's annexation history since 1950 and its population density) and his income segregation index. The statistical correlation between these two variables is stronger than between Rusk's segregation index and any other variable I test, including city age, size, regional location, and black population percentage. I then consider several hypotheses that may explain these correlations and propose that the continuous annexation of peripheral, developing land by a central city prevents the incorporation of affluent suburbs. Suburban boundaries, especially those of affluent suburbs, function as population sorting mechanisms, which segregate migrant households by socioeconomic status and life-style. I ascertain that only rapidly growing, unbounded central cities prevent or ameliorate segregation by being elastic.Department of Urban Planning
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Paek, Seung Han. "Urbanism, Signs, and the Everyday in Contemporary South Korean Cities." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1404664900.
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Duker, Hanna. "Recovering the experience of place and nature in contemporary cities." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6087.
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This project has its origin in my interest in the relationship of nature and sense of place to contemporary cities, and it is informed by the idea that the process of settlement making over time has disengaged these elements from urban life.
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Özaslan, Nuray. "Historic urban fabric : source of inspiration for contemporary city form." Thesis, University of York, 1995. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2457/.
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Boughton, Zoë Collette. "Phonological variation in contemporary standard french : a tale of two cities." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401835.
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Roy, Avik. "Interpreting a contemporary urban vernacular for cities : --the case of Delhi." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78984.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-264).
The broad aim of this thesis is to investigate whether the regulatory environment in an urban setting can be utilized to nurture appropriate urban forms. The word 'form' here includes both physical characteristics, and the use of the resultant urban artifacts and spaces by people. The thesis argues that appropriateness and 'good fit' in urban form can be best addressed through an understanding of the common denominator which organizes urban life, i.e. urban meaning perceived as a shared sensibility. In search of this elusive and somewhat nebulous sensibility, a redefinition of the word 'vernacular' has been broached and developed as the pivotal theoretical construct. Consequently, the conception of a contemporary urban vernacular has formed a daunting preoccupation, and this has been further expanded to include the delineation of urban 'types' which evolve, mature, and differentiate, influenced greatly by the processes of control and change. As Nelson Goodman notes,' ... knowing cannot be exclusively or even primarily a matter of determining what is true. Discovery often amounts to finding a fit.' He goes on to add that this fit is a result not of belief but of the advancement of understanding. This thesis will attempt to develop an understanding of peoples' relationship with their city environment, with the eventual object of enhancing the fit between urban vernacular 'types' and control mechanisms which regulate them. In almost any city, especially those of the third world, urban form is an outcome of processes, both within and outside of institutionalized regulatory mechanisms. This is, in turn, a result of the complex interplay of social, economic and political forces. It is beyond the scope of this thesis to address these issues comprehensively. Therefore the focus will be on developing an approach which relates urban vernacular types, to the issues of attitude and lifestyle, the mechanics of control, the articulation of roles and tasks within society, as they are expressed through the built form. I have tried to illustrate some of the arguments developed in the first part of this thesis through a case analysis of an urban vernacular type in Delhi, the capital of India. An initial foray has also been made to develop a method for field research in urban vernaculars. The hypothesis forwarded is that by understanding the nature of socio-politico-administrative control. i.e. - the formal regulatory framework, the informal processes and tacit conventions - and vernacular types (people and places), as well as the relationship between the two, it is possible to arrive at an effective orientation for regulation which could nurture appropriate urban forms that would be supportive crucibles for living.
by Avik Roy.
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Yarker, Sophie Katharine. "Belonging in Byker : the nature of local belonging and attachment in contemporary cities." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2619.
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This study is about how we live in cities. It is about the nature of the relationships we have to the places in which we live, whether we feel a sense of attachment and belonging to local communities and what the nature of these attachments might be. Specifically it asks what are the characteristics of local belonging and attachment in cities today? What circumstance shape and influence these attachments and how are they affected by processes of urban change? Despite drawing on sets of literature from across the social sciences, the research demonstrates the value of a geographical lens in analysing these questions by demonstrating both the social and spatial nature of an individual’s sense of belonging. Located primarily within literatures from human geography, the work of this thesis seeks to move this discussion forward from relational discussions of mobility in everyday life, by acknowledging the importance of both place and mobility for understanding and explaining attachment and belonging. Based on the exploration of local belonging and attachment in a local community in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, two conclusions were reached. Firstly the nature of local attachments as being characterised by sets a set of three characteristics; comfort and confidence, commitment and contribution, and irony and critical distance and secondly, the basis of such attachments as unfolding as a process within the materiality of everyday life in place, pointing to both the territorial and relational nature of such attachments. In doing so, the research argues for an understanding of attachment to place as a process with affective dimensions as well as spatial practice within the everyday and secondly, to recognise the agency or the desire to belong as part of these active negotiations. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the potential for an understanding of the place of local belonging within human geography debate, reiterating the value of a complimentary understanding of both territorial and relational approaches to place.
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Mututa, Addamms Songe [Verfasser], and Kai [Akademischer Betreuer] Wiegandt. "Contemporary African Cities in Postmillenial African Films / Addamms Songe Mututa ; Betreuer: Kai Wiegandt." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1204880522/34.
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Mohamed, Tarek Abdelsalam. "Architectural identity in eastern Arab cities : developing an assessment method with particular reference to the Aga Khan awards." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270437.
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Moonen, Tim. "World cities, worlding subjects : a post-phenomenological approach to politics in contemporary urban space." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687609.
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This project offers a post-phenomenological approach to politics in urban space. Its contribution is to ask , and answer, what becomes of the subject in designed environments in the contemporary global city. Its interdisciplinary motivations are located at the intersection between politics , geography and philosophy . More specifically it extends the engagement between the political study of governmentality, the geographical exploration of embodied everyday life in cities, and the philosophical inquiry into ontology and subjectivity. The project develops a specific post-phenomenological account of world, applying the concepts of foam, affect, habit and event to re-describe how urban spaces are negotiated and practiced. The research site is the city of London, whose initiatives around liveability, innovation and resilience comprise a shared policy framework in many global cities. It uses the method of performative ethnography, supported by interviews with users, designers, architects and policymakers, across a handful of selected spaces in central and East London. It uses ontological insights to explore the politics and ethics of worlds rather than human subjects.
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Mandeli, Khalid. "Public spaces in a contemporary urban environment : multi-dimensional urban design approach for Saudi cities." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1195.
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Contemporary spatial planning policy and practice for regulating urban growth and urban space have led to fragmentation in the layout of modern residential areas in many countries. This fragmentation, together with the structural change that societies around the world have experienced in the last three to four decades, has created transitory and impersonal public spaces that not only deprive inhabitants of the socialisation associated with traditional communities but which also contribute to the breakdown of one of the mechanisms of behaviour control and crime prevention (i.e. natural surveillance combined with self-policing). As these spaces become less identified, residents’ perceptions of vulnerability to criminal and sub-criminal activities, as well as the actual level of antisocial behaviour, have increased. In addition, residents are exposed to higher levels of risk from traffic, noise, air pollution, and other urban hazards. Therefore, awareness of risk and fear of the outdoor environment are heightened and become common in the rhythms of the everyday lives of residential environments. Consequently, individuals (or at least those within certain sectors of society) have withdrawn from public life, and life in general has become more insular, inward-looking and home based. Our problem is that public spaces within modern residential areas in Jeddah have changed from being embedded in the social fabric of the city to being part of fragmented urban settings. These spaces have not only reduced socialisation for inhabitants, but have also become a public burden and a continuous drain on urban life. This research draws on an exploratory and explanatory investigation to understand how the current state of these spaces came about. For this purpose, we have dissected the different actions undertaken by the stakeholders involved in public space provision. This has the further aim of developing multi-dimensional intellectual approaches to inform urban design principles for the future provision of this amenity. Broadly speaking, the investigation –– which was carried out using a mixed method as its research strategy –– allows us to argue that the contemporary practice of public space provision does not create places that might foster community interaction and enrich socio-cultural life in this context. Moreover, the key argument of this research is that the quality of public spaces within modern residential areas can be effectively enhanced by public participation in the maintenance and management of these spaces. Some recommendations for the future provision of this amenity are offered
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Luo, Feng, and 洛楓. "The image of the city in contemporary Chinese poetry." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31210168.
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Saar, Amy L. "Solitary Women Wanderers: Urban Stories of Resistance in Contemporary Spanish Women's Narrative." Thesis, view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113027.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-219). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Böttcher, Hannah Lili [Verfasser]. "Sydney and Berlin - Cities of Silence and Absence : A psychogeographical reading of contemporary non-fiction texts / Hannah Lili Böttcher." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1136319328/34.
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Katz, Ivanna. "Understanding the Contemporary Character of Braamfontein Johannesburg: Towards a renewed understanding of urban renewal in cities in the South." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31417.
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Work on urban renewal internationally focuses on a vast range of topics, including gentrification, increased criminalization of poverty, rent-seeking behaviour, and neoliberal urbanism. These arguments tend to centre the interests and actions of certain actors, prioritize certain forces (such as economic ones), and thus tend to predict a particular set of outcomes. In adopting a southern urbanist epistemology, and Jennifer Robinson’s reimagined comparativism through a reconceptualized 'case’, this research shows how predominant assumptions regarding the drivers and outcomes (both social and physical) of urban renewal do not necessarily apply in the case of Braamfontein, an instance of urban renewal in Johannesburg, a post-apartheid city in the south. The findings examined here include policy narratives and empirical referents to culture-led strategies of urban renewal and ways in which they speak less to market-orientated objectives, and more to socio-political ones; how the findings in Braamfontein speak to literature on gentrification, studentification, and youthification, showing that urban renewal and gentrification are not the same processes, and that studentification does not necessarily lead to youthification or gentrification; how attempts to suppress informal trade have led to the proliferation of iterant strategies on the part of hawkers, and have in turn led to enhanced relationships between informal traders and the formal economy; and, finally, how the presence of communities self-identifying as foreign or gay are shown to be driven by forces other than those that the literature typically predicts.
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Baixinho, Alexandra Duarte. "Cruise ships and post-industrial port cities' dynamics : an experimental sensory ethnographic approach to contemporary social, spatial and material interactions." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/17829/.
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This thesis proposes an experimental sensory ethnographic approach to investigate the phenomenon of cruise ship tourism, from an ashore perspective, with cruise terminals and their surroundings as key nodes to my research. My focus is on how these aquamobilities – as I designate them - are performed in, interact with, and co-produce, the places visited. The main aim of this thesis is to contribute with liveliness (Back, 2012a; Back and and Puwar, 2012) to visual sociology scholarship, and to bring further knowledge on an understudied mobilities phenomenon. Walking, photographing, and doing sound recordings, were the main practices mobilized in the (uneven) engagement with field places, complemented with participant observation, interviews and informal conversations. My multi-sited fieldwork was based in Lisbon (for six months), Barcelona (for three months), and included shorter periods in Tilbury, Dover, Bergen/Oslo, and Le Havre. A set of visual and aural materials gathered along this journey, key along the research process are, also, part of this thesis, as alternative, evidential and evocative, paths to knowledge. Theoretically, this work is framed by the new mobilities paradigm (Urry, 2000; Sheller and Urry, 2006b; Sheller, 2014), but further critical social sciences literature is mobilized, mostly with regards to post-industrial port cities and their waterfronts (Hoyle, 1994, 2000; Sieber, 1991; Chaline and Malta, 1994; Schubert, 2008), and to cruise ship tourism (Wood, 2002, 2006; Weaver, 2006; Chin, 2008; Clancy, 2008). Based on my empirical research, I will problematize the common understanding of infrastructures as fixed and immobile prevailing in the new mobilities paradigm (Hannam, Sheller, and Urry, 2006), arguing that cruise terminal infrastructures are rather elastic, dynamic, and partly mobile infrastructures. This research foregrounds both the everyday practices and long-term transformations that cruise aquamobilities are bringing to post-industrial port-cities – through new social, material, spatial and temporal dynamics.
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Shectman, Stanislav. "Cuisine Worlds: Professional Cooking, Public Eating, and the Production of Culture in Contemporary Moscow." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/199925.
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the individuals, groups, and institutions that comprise Moscow's contemporary restaurant industry, this dissertation explores the production and consumption of Moscow's postsocialist culinary culture and landscape. Approaching cuisine as both a social product and a cultural process, I examine the agents and avenues of the local globalization of culinary culture. In my analysis, these "agents" include restaurateurs, chefs, cooks, professional associations, and educators and educational institutions, among others. I attend to the various meanings, practices, and contexts of their work, as well as to the political, aesthetic, and performative dimensions of cooking, cuisine and restaurants. I also examine how Russian consumers engage with and make sense of Moscow's emerging culinary culture and restaurant scene. I see these producers of cuisine and restaurants as authors of the capital's postsocialist consumer landscape and intermediaries between the local and the global. Articulating global culinary culture into local contexts, these cultural producers redeploy contemporary and historical culinary practices, aesthetics, and forms as representations of culture on both local and global stages. I call these practices culinary strategies and argue that they are vehicles through which new social actors struggle over the meanings and values at stake in the marketization of Russian society. Cuisine and restaurants are thus contested sites for the construction of Moscow as a world-class city and the production, dissemination, and negotiation of community, nation, identity, and class. I suggest that cuisine and restaurants play important roles in processes of globalization, serving as sites for reproduction and contestation of global hegemonies of form. Drawing on and expanding work in the anthropologies of food, visual communication, postsocialism, and globalization, my project suggests how ethnography and micro-analysis of the visual, sensual, performative, and structural dimensions of cultural production can open critical understandings of the complex and shifting interactions between local, national, and global contexts.
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Wakefield, Megan Louise. "Informal peer learning between contemporary artists in Bristol and selected UK cities outside London : how do contemporary artists learn from their peers outside of formal education and what motivates them to do so?" Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2013. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23035/.
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This research has been carried out as part of a collaborative doctoral award with partners Spike Island Art and Design Centre and University of the West of England. It employs a mixed methods approach, including participatory action research, reflexive practice and semi-structured interviews to explore artists’ peer learning in the context of literature from education theory, network theory, philosophy, art theory and sociology. It takes as research participants, artists from the Spike Associates Group, Spike Island, Bristol, and artists from self-organised groups and organisationally facilitated membership groups in several UK cities outside London. It found that peer interactions between artists are particularly significant in times of transition when peer learning pivots on mutual recognition, countering isolation, nurturing self-determination and accessing resources. The construction and reconstruction of practitioner subjectivities and practice identities is a significant peer learning process, often incorporating the initiation of spaces where practice identities can be temporarily suspended. Artists engage with artist-led groups in subtly different ways to organisationally facilitated membership groups. Participation in the former enables experimentation with roles and competencies in a fluid environment where a sense of shared purpose and ownership prevails. The latter are utilised less as ‘communities’ and more as resources to be exploited and graduated through. Informal conversation is a vital site of learning and a catalyst for practice and peer critique, although an important staging post against which to measure practice trajectories, is often problematic due to tensions arising from the need for challenge as well as support. Aspiration towards reciprocity, hospitality and generosity represents a common ethics of entanglement. However, this breaks down where there are conflicting beliefs about what constitutes exchanges of equivalent value. Visibility is a highly valued commodity amongst artists and they look to their peers for strategies to make practice visible to appropriate parties and to gain a clearer overview of regional and national artistic networks and communities. Much previous research on informal learning has been conducted in the fields of work-based learning or community education. This thesis provides a much-needed microanalysis of learning processes that occur in temporary communities that are at the same time social and professional spaces. It makes valuable tacit processes visible in these situations, and the research findings can be used to initiate, adapt and inform learning programmes in arts centres, self-organised groups and other informal settings.
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Vorng, Sophorntavy. "Status City: Consumption, Identity, and Middle Class Culture in Contemporary Bangkok." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5771.
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Doctor of PhilosophyFollowing decades of sweeping social change, a 'new' Thai middle class emerged to become the main agents of the mass demonstrations which have rocked Bangkok for the better part of the past four years. Yet, the academic literature reveals a marked paucity of data on the urban middle class, and on Bangkok's systems of stratification. This dissertation addresses this lacuna with research based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok. My investigations suggest that an indigenous spatial-symbolic matrix, encapsulated in centralising and hierarchising mandalic principles, continues to inform both cultural understandings of stratification and the socio-spatial structure of Bangkok. However, traditional status distinctions are now pervaded by the idiom of material wealth introduced by the forces of global markets. Today, life in Bangkok is framed by a hierarchy of affluence which echoes the numerical precision of the premodern sakdina system of status differentiation. Accordingly, I argue that the notion of the 'urban-rural divide' popularly used to describe the conflict obscures a more complex reality in which city and countryside are linked by reciprocal relations within both urban and national systems of status and class. This is clearly discernable in the nature of everyday interclass relations in Bangkok which have been exacerbated by contemporary diminishment and marginalisation of upcountry Thais by the urban middle classes. It is an incendiary dynamic that has been exploited to tremendous effect in the current political power struggle. I demonstrate that the middle class is significantly stratified internally, and explore how middle class culture and identity are drawn in large part from their understandings of status practices of elites. Much of this takes place in the public spaces of the city's scores of shopping malls, which articulate a local vernacular of prestige where hierarchical power relations are inscribed in urban space. Structural constraints and the societal privileging of wealth and connections are constant challenges to middle class aspirations for upward mobility, and the Bangkokian middle class harbours no illusions of Thai society as a meritocracy. This disenchantment has been channelled into a churning politics of resentment with demonstrably explosive potential. Ultimately, however, I argue that middle class discontent will contribute little to reform while the majority of individuals feel their only avenue for social mobility is to negotiate a pre-existing system of stratification which many perceive as unjust.
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Holliday, Penny. "The shifting city : a study of contemporary fictional representations Of Melbourne's inner and outer suburban spaces." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103101/4/Penelope_Holliday_Thesis.pdf.
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This project explores the complexity of Melbourne’s inner and outer suburban spaces as portrayed within contemporary Melbourne fiction. The study is a textual analysis of the works of several Melbourne writers whose writings feature their city’s suburbs as significant sites in the exploration of the relationship between identity and place. I argue that Melbourne, as a city of suburbs, is a paradigm worthy of writerly and critical attention. The fictional texts are Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap (2008), Sonya Hartnett’s Butterfly (2009), Steven Carroll’s novel The Time We Have Taken (2007) and Wayne Macauley’s novel Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe (2004).
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Martinho, Ana Sofia Pacheco. "A gastronomia como ferramenta para uma cidade criativa. Projeto de uma cooking factory." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Arquitetura de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5754.
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Rodolpho, Patrícia. "A fotografia urbana contemporânea : uma herança das imagens da cidade (1960-1990)." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284545.
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Resumo: Esta tese trata sobre a imagem da cidade na fotografia urbana contemporânea, considerando-a como uma herança das tradições de representação da cidade que se desenvolveram após o advento do dispositivo fotográfico, na primeira metade do século XIX. Neste sentido, objetiva-se estabelecer a relação entre os campos de conhecimento da Arte e da Fotografia a fim de compreender os desdobramentos da construção de uma representação fotográfica da cidade, sobretudo entre as décadas de 1960 a 1990. Com esse propósito, discute-se a noção de fotografia contemporânea, uma categoria que, apesar de ainda indefinida, está presente nas abordagens realizadas pelos pesquisadores que constituem o referencial teórico analisado. Em especial, investiga-se o interesse, por parte de artistas e fotógrafos alemães e norte-americanos, de uma aproximação visual com elementos geralmente qualificados como banais triviais ou ordinários do cotidiano urbano
Abstract: This Thesis disserts on city images in urban contemporary photography as a heritage of the city representation tradition, developed after the advent of the photographic device in the first half of the 19th century. Our objective is to establish the relationship between the knowledge of Art and Photography to understand the evolving of the photographic representation of the city, mainly between the 1960's and the 1990's. With that in mind, the concept of contemporary photography is discussed. The category, although still undefined, is present in the researched bibliography. The interest showed by German and North American photographers and artists in a visual approach to elements usually considered trivial or ordinary in the urban day to day was particularly investigated
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Reis, Ana Carla Fonseca. "Cidades Criativas: análise de um conceito em formação e da pertinência de sua aplicação à cidade de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16139/tde-08042013-091615/.
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No arco da última década e meia, uma confluência de fatores de impacto mundial tem originado novos entendimentos e organizações de ordens econômica e urbana. Insere--se nesse quadro a eclosão dos debates acerca da \"economia criativa\" e, de forma mais recente, da \"cidade criativa\". No Brasil, ainda há parca bibliografia a respeito de ambos os temas e dos benefícios que poderiam gerar ao contexto urbano. A presente tese responde fundamentalmente a duas questões: caracterizar o que seria uma cidade criativa e analisar se São Paulo pode ser caracterizada como uma. Para tanto, unem--se neste trabalho revisão conceitual; cunhagem de um conceito norteador de cidade criativa; experimentação de sua aplicabilidade a três cidades; e uma análise prática da aderência desse conceito à cidade de São Paulo, sob dois recortes: de forma abrangente; e de modo aprofundado, tendo as artes plásticas contemporâneas como instrumento de estudo.Over the past fifteen years, a convergence of factors of global impact has motivated new understandings and organisations of economic and urban order. This is the background leading up to the emergence of the \"creative economy \" and, more recently, the \"creative city\". In Brazil, the bibliography of both subjects is still scarce, the same applying to their potential benefits to the urban context. The present thesis aims to respond fundamentally to two questions: to draw the features of a creative city and to analyse if São Paulo could claim to be one. Therefore, this work encompasses a conceptual review; the proposal of a driving concept of creative city; an experimentation of its suitability to three cities; and a practical analysis of its adherence to the city of São Paulo, at two levels: comprehensive and in--depth, using contemporary art as a tool for analysis.
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Galesso, Sílvia. "Prosa de combate, amor à prova: contratempos de uma cidade aberta." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15814.
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Previous issue date: 2009-05-08This work aims at establishing a conversation with the prose of Marçal Aquino, a contemporary Brazilian author. As happens in all conversations, it involves the exchanging of experiences, memories and inventions. The stories told by this author lead us to reflect upon our current way of life: Are we hardened by the daily struggle for survival? If the spotlight is on productivity, is there any room left for creativity? With our minds focused on efficiency, what is the role of the written language? Pen strokes in a city of concrete. As we track down our existential conditions and differences, some people may hide, others come forward, and still others are summoned. These are the building blocks of this research, which entails relations of proximity and distancing, connections and empty spaces, underlying facts, readings and texts. The main objective of this work is to bring out the many possibilities of life present in Marçal Aquino s work. Thus, the focus is on discovering more pen strokes, rather than giving answers, for answers make us reproduce the given model, whereas pen lines are indications of the life found in his writings and which can impel us towards our own pursuits
Este trabalho é uma conversa com a prosa de Marçal Aquino, autor da literatura brasileira contemporânea. Como toda conversa, dá-se num vai-e-vem de experiência, memória e invenção. As histórias contadas por esse autor levam a pensar os modos de vida contemporâneos: com a luta pela sobrevivência, como estaríamos embrutecendo? Com a atenção retida à produtividade, por onde vão os gestos inéditos? Com a preocupação voltada para a eficiência, qual a força da escrita? Rastros em uma cidade asfaltada. Ao rastrear nossas condições e variações de existência, uns interlocutores se escondem, alguns aparecem, outros são convocados e, assim, esta pesquisa se constrói nas relações de proximidade e distanciamento, nos encadeamentos e vãos, nas entrelinhas de acontecimentos, leituras e escrita. A intenção deste trabalho é perceber as possibilidades de vida que atravessam a obra de Marçal Aquino. Portanto, o foco deste estudo está menos em encontrar resoluções do que em ver mais pegadas, pois as primeiras fazem-nos reproduzir o que já está dado, é caso encerrado, enquanto as últimas são indícios de que vidas passam por ali e nos empurram a uma perseguição viva
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Patterson, Arnecia. "Concrete Evidence: A Collection of Poems Versifying the City." Dayton, Ohio : University of Dayton, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1260112007.
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Thesis (M.A. in English) -- University of Dayton.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed 4/12/10). Advisor: Albino Carrillo. Includes bibliographical references (p. 34-36). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center.
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Ziganshina, Madina. "Art-Map: concept of moving curatorial project and its practical realization in Aveiro." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15905.
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Mestrado em Criação Artística ContemporâneaIn this dissertation, I present the results of a project which aim was to find out and try an effective model of independent curatorial project executable in small and medium cities in Portugal. The concept of Moving Curatorial Project ARTMAP is a result of theoretical research and reflection about municipal exhibition spaces and possibility of presentation of the contemporary art in these spaces. To test if this curatorial project is realizable and if there are conditions to continue it, a first trial was implemented in Aveiro. A curated international exhibition, entitled “A Poética do Visual" occupied two municipal and two private gallery spaces and brought together 111 artists from 25 different countries. The art event was carried out in collaboration with the Municipality of Aveiro and the University of Aveiro, and involved several private cultural spaces in the city. This first experience showed that there are all conditions for the presentation of contemporary art in small and medium size locations in Portugal, and for this project to be replicated in other regions of the country.
Nesta dissertação, apresento os resultados de um projecto cujo objectivo era desenvolver e experimentar um modelo eficaz e executável de projecto de curadoria em cidades de pequena e média dimensão em Portugal. O conceito de ART-MAP (Moving Curatorial Project) é resultado de pesquisa teórica e reflexão sobre os espaços municipais de exposição e sobre a possibilidade da apresentação de arte contemporânea nesses lugares. Para testar se esse projecto de curadoria é realizável e se existem condições para continuá-lo, a primeira experiência foi desenvolvida em Aveiro. A exposição internacional, intitulada "A Poética do Visual” ocupou dois espaços municipais e dois espaços culturais privados na cidade, e reuniu 111 artistas de 25 países diferentes. O evento de arte foi realizado em colaboração com a Câmara Municipal de Aveiro e a Universidade de Aveiro. Esta primeira experiência mostrou que existem todas as condições para a apresentação de arte contemporânea nas cidades de Portugal, e que este projecto pode ser replicado em outras regiões do país.
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Wolfe, Douglas M. "Participatory liberalism : participation and contemporary liberal thought." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365520.
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Although it is widely accepted that the subject of accent is of general importance to theories of rhythm, there is considerable diversity and frequent contradiction among modern concepts of accent; there is little agreement about either a definition or a list of types. Furthermore, whilst there is Bruch of great value in modern accentology, none of the most important individual studies is wholly adequate. The broad explanatory context by which accent may be defined is metric theory, for accent is both a determinant and a function of metric structure. Ketric structure DUst necessarily be conceived as a genuinely temporal and context-sensitive process in which that which 'measures' is constantly redefined by that which is 'measured'. It therefore has both a time-span component and what may be called a 'phenomenal' component. An accent is a structural time-point; it is a time-point which is constituent of the highly specified hierarchy of metric structure. This is what the two main classes of accent, metric accent and phenomenal accent, have in common. These two classes of accent are distinct, however, in respect of their determinants and their functions. Whereas metric accents are determined by metric structure, phenomenal accents are determined by accentual events. With regard to their functions, metric accents structure coincident events, whereas phenomenal accents structure metre. Ketric accent has no sub-classes; all metric accents are of fundamentally the same kind. Phenomenal accent has eight sub-classes, each of which is defined by its determining event: attack accent, dynamic accent, initiative accent, agogic accent, tonal accent, terminative accent, registral accent, and associated accent. All of these classes logically follow from other components of the accentology and are intuitively demonstrable in especially composed musical examples.
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Motta, Guilherme Augusto Soares da. "Pensar, construir e viver a cidade Uberlândia-MG: setor sul." Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, 2015. https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/12271.
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This dissertation analyses the city in its contemporariness in particular, the South Sector of Uberlândia through particularities found in medium-sized cities (of such size and rank as that of Uberlândia). It discusses urban dispersion, searching for urbanistic guidelines towards improvement of the population s quality of life. The title of the work, Think, Construct and Live the City, reflects the structure of the text which subdivides the dissertation in its three chapters. To begin with, Think the City comprises an historic analysis of the urbanization of the city s territory and its political and economic evolution, understanding the social and spatial segregation process of the classes of income within the intraurban space of the city. Under these terms, it characterizes the contemporaneous society, its way of life and diversity of the profiles, and the reconfiguration of the centralities through the new forms of segregation. It proposes to define the concepts of urbanity, the relations with the process of segregation and fragmentation of the urban space and also understand the influence of the real estate market on the locations of the undertakings. Construct the City identifies the manner whereby the public and private agents, as well us the social movements, operate in the construction of the contemporary city, in addition to analysing a few undertakings in the region under study in order to understand, through the urban morphology, the operation of the urban design in the construction of the contemporary city and the pertinence of the urbanistic legislation. Live the City is aimed at attaining general guidelines for the urbanization and design of the city in order to generate a reflection on the ways whereby to improve the population s quality of life as well as the public spaces. The approach to this work results in a proposal for general guidelines towards the improvement of the population s quality of life in its social, economic and urbanistic aspects, further considering that any effective interference in the contemporary city should bear in mind the influence of the economic and social aspects on the urbanistic interventions, in order to carry out design projects which can be effectively established in the cities, changing the culture in force regarding the depreciation of the role of the architect and the governing improvisation in the planning processes of our cities.Esta dissertação analisa a cidade na contemporaneidade - especificamente o Setor Sul de Uberlândia, através das particularidades encontradas nas cidades médias, sua dispersão urbana, e busca diretrizes urbanísticas para melhoria da qualidade de vida da população. O título do trabalho, Pensar, Construir e Viver a cidade, reflete a estrutura do texto que subdivide a dissertação em seus três capítulos. Inicialmente, Pensar a Cidade compreende uma análise histórica da urbanização do seu território e sua evolução política e econômica, entendendo o processo de segregação sócio-espacial das classes de renda dentro do espaço intraurbano da cidade. Nestes termos, caracteriza-se a sociedade contemporânea, seus modos de vida e diversidade de perfis e a reconfiguração das centralidades através das novas formas de segregação. Busca-se definir conceitos de urbanidade, as relações com o processo de segregação e fragmentação do espaço urbano e ainda entender a influência do mercado imobiliário nas localizações dos empreendimentos. Construir a Cidade identifica a forma de atuação dos agentes públicos, privados e dos movimentos sociais na construção da cidade contemporânea e analisa alguns empreendimentos da região em estudo, a fim de compreender, através da morfologia urbana, a atuação do desenho urbano na construção da cidade contemporânea e a pertinência da legislação urbanística. Em Viver a Cidade, propõem-se diretrizes gerais para urbanização e desenho da cidade, de modo a gerar uma reflexão sobre formas de melhorar a qualidade de vida da população e dos espaços públicos. A abordagem desse trabalho resulta em uma proposta de diretrizes gerais para melhoria da qualidade de vida da população urbana, nos seus aspectos sociais, econômicos e urbanísticos, considerando que qualquer interferência efetiva na cidade contemporânea deve considerar a influência dos aspectos econômicos e sociais para as intervenções urbanísticas, a fim de efetivar projetos de desenho que possam se estabelecer de maneira efetiva nas cidades, alterando a cultura vigente de depreciação do papel do arquiteto e da improvisação regente nos processos de planejamento de nossas cidades.
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Lundberg, Karin. "Citizens and Contemporary Science Ways to dialogue in science centre contexts." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Vetenskapskommunikation, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-2536.
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The current paper presents a study conducted at At-Bristol Science Centre, UK. It is a front-end evaluation for the “Live Science Zone” at At-Bristol, which will be built during the autumn of 2004. It will provide a facility for programmed events and shows, non-programmed investigative activities and the choice of passive or active exploration of current scientific topics. The main aim of the study is to determine characteristics of what kind of techniques to use in the Live Science Zone. The objectives are to explore what has already been done at At-Bristol, and what has been done at other science centres, and to identify successful devices. The secondary aim is mapping what sorts of topics that visitors are actually interested in debating. The methods used in the study are deep qualitative interviews with professionals working within the field of science communication in Europe and North America, and questionnaires answered by visitors to At-Bristol. The results show that there are some gaps between the intentions of the professionals and the opinions of the visitors, in terms of opportunities and willingness for dialogue in science centre activities. The most popular issue was Future and the most popular device was Film.
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Maher, Simon. "The 'citizens' and 'citizenship' debates 'vernacular citizenship' and contemporary Australian politics and society /." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070821.160030/index.html.
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Koh, Adam Byunghoon. "Black Dionysus classical iconography and its contemporary resonance in Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 84 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1605135741&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Badenhoop, Sophie Elisabeth. "Calling for the super citizen : contemporary naturalisation procedures in the United Kingdom and Germany." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/9133/.
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Naturalisation procedures through which states symbolically and legally recognise noncitizens as citizens offer the most secure legal status for migrants and a means for them to evade global inequalities in the world system of nation-states. This study critically examines contemporary citizenship admission procedures in the UK and Germany following the introduction of citizenship tests, courses and ceremonies in the early 2000s. Based on a multi-sited state ethnography of both countries, this thesis argues that naturalisation does not simply separate citizens by discretionary application from citizens by automatic right of birth. Rather, citizenship admission procedures suggest a specific subjectivity, the Super Citizen, insofar as ‘new’ German and British citizens are expected to become a political, economic and cultural asset to the state. This study thus conceptualises naturalisation processes as a specific subject-formation regime created through particular problematisations, rationalities, authorities and techniques as institutionalised by the state. The analysis begins with a brief reconstruction of the genealogy of naturalisation in Britain and Germany, focussing on the emergence of the distinction between nationals and ‘aliens’ or ‘foreigners’, respectively, as well as on the legal mechanisms put in place to differentiate their access to full membership. Using a thematic analysis of qualitative interviews, observations and official documents, the study then tracks contemporary citizenship applications in four research locations in the two countries. It visits ceremony halls, classrooms and naturalisation offices and considers the perspective of a range of actors involved in citizenship admission procedures. This includes those who implement naturalisation on behalf of the state such as officials, legal advisers, teachers, politicians, and guest speakers, as well as the lived experience of the citizenship applicants themselves. The thesis concludes that naturalisation procedures in both the UK and in Germany produce the Super Citizen as a particular, neoliberal and neonational subjectivity that holds newly naturalized citizens responsible for developing a new nationalism.
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Gill, Sheila Dawn. "Who can be a citizen?, decoding the law of the land in contemporary Manitoba politics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0006/MQ46176.pdf.
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Adcock, Charlotte. "Rethinking feminism, representation & contemporary journalism : the politician, the wife, the citizen & her newspaper." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270500.
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Lewis, Rachel F. "Constructing and contesting the good British citizen : an investigation of the contemporary citizenship regime as discursive practice." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/102628/.
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The last two decades have seen major interventions in naturalisation legislation across much of the ‘industrialised’ world, with successive UK administrations introducing and refining citizenship tests, language proficiency requirements, and ceremonial performances in an explicit bid to elevate the acquisition of citizen-status from a ‘right’ to a ‘privilege’ (Home Office, 2013a). In this thesis, I draw on theorisations of the border as a geopolitical, a biopolitical, and a ‘neuropolitical’ (Isin, 2004) phenomenon, and thus conceptualise these newly-instituted ‘citizenisation’ (Fortier, 2017) processes as a political project, as part of an assemblage of bordering practices through which to heighten and manage the anxieties of the neurotic subject within the securitised state, and to realise the nation state in domopolitical terms as a home (Walters, 2004). While discourse researchers have certainly provided much important empirical insight into the strategies employed in contemporary citizenship documentation, and in the broader discursive contexts in which these citizenship regimes are situated (e.g. Wodak et al, 2009; Löwenheim and Gazit, 2009), I argue that the citizenship regime cannot be understood as wholly constituted through the linguistic practices of élite policy and media actors, but should instead be conceptualised more broadly as discursive practice: as a complex set of linguistic, material, and symbolic practices. From this premise, I situate my research within a particular local context, drawing together a data set which takes into account policy documents and testing materials, observations of testing and ceremonial rituals, and interviews with twenty actors involved in the production of the citizenship regime, including citizenship officials and recent and prospective citizens. Articulating themes across the data set, I look to the ways in which both the state and the Good citizen-subject are performed and secured within this discursive landscape, and find important moments of disruption and contestation to this dominant discursive formation.
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Basrai, Zameer. "The new citizens : a study of the architectural identity of public philanthropic institutions built by two Isma'ili communities in contemporary Bombay." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49721.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-146).
Just across the railway lines at Charni road, forming a backdrop to the Marine Drive, stands the Saifee Hospital in all its splendor. Across the city in the neighborhood of Mazgaon, nestled behind the St. Mary's school along the central railway line, and in an equal splendor, stands the Center of Excellence, Diamond Jubilee High School. Both buildings were built in the last five years. Both use a similar quantity of glass and cement plaster and establish their contemporaneity so. Both institutions were built by Shi'i Isma'ili communities, the hospital by the Bohras and the school by the Khojas. Both buildings represent a significant phase in the history of these mercantile communities in Bombay where their emergence as public philanthropists echoes the rapid increase in wealth and the creation of global diasporic networks in a liberal Indian economy. But while the Saifee hospital is cloaked in its massive pastel colored facade punctured by numerous arched windows and capped by ornamental domes, the Diamond Jubilee High School displays a playful juxtaposition of geometrical forms and volumes with dashes of color composed so as to expose structure and skin. The thesis explains how these two buildings, which have such different appearances, are comparable strategies for expressing Isma'ili communal identity. In Chapter two, I construct a detailed comparison of the two buildings with respect to their location in the city, aspects of siting, faqade, interior, spatial organization, program, client and architect teams.
(cont.) In Chapter three, I investigate and conclude that the two institutions mediate Isma'ili faith, citizenship and mercantilism in architecturally different but functionally comparable ways that respond to the complex social 'condition' in contemporary Bombay. This thesis thus studies the expression of communal identity through its patronage of public architecture. It claims that architecture is instrumental in the creation, sustenance and subversion of communal identity and is an effective social construction used to communicate within the public sphere. I argue that for post-partition Indian Muslims, to contend with their identity in a rising tide of Hindu nationalism in the country, requires mediation of faith, citizenship and in the case of the Isma'ilis, mercantilism. Isma'ili public philanthropy, I propose, is a mode for expressing this communal identity. I explain Isma' ili architectural expression as a product of a condition distinctive of contemporary Bombay, where the simultaneous marginalization of the two Isma'ili communities by the Hindus and the other Muslims, creates a space for them to perform within the public sphere.
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Soler, Alejandro. "Can We Save Video Game Journalism? : Can grass roots media contribute with a more critical perspective to contemporary video game coverage?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225392.
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Video game journalism has been accused for lack in journalistic legitimacy for decades. The historical relation between video game journalists and video game publishers has always been problematic from an objective point of view, as publishers have the power to govern and dictate journalistic coverage by withdrawing financial funding and review material. This has consequently lead to lack in journalistic legitimacy when it comes to video game coverage. However, as the grass roots media movement gained popularity and attention in the mid 2000s, a new more direct and personal way of coverage became evident. Nowadays, grass roots media producers operate within the same field of practice as traditional journalists and the difference between entertainment and journalism has become harder than ever to distinguish. The aim of this master thesis is to discover if grass roots media is more critical than traditional video game journalism regarding industry coverage. The study combines Communication Power theory, Web 2.0 and Convergence Culture, as well as Alternative Media and Participatory Journalistic theory, to create an interdisciplinary theoretical framework. The theoretical framework also guides our choice in methodology as a grounded theory study, where the aim of analysis is to present or discover a new theory or present propositions grounded in our analysis. To reach this methodological goal, 10 different grass roots media producers were interviewed at 6 different occasions. The interviewees were asked about their opinions regarding grass roots media production, their own contribution, as well how they identified journalistic coverage. It was discovered that the grass roots media producers were not more critical than traditional video game journalists. This was because grass roots media producers operate under the rules of entertainment production. It was discovered that if grass roots media producers break out of the normative rules of entertainment production, they would either loose their autonomous freedom or funding, resulting in a catch-22 situation. Furthermore, it was found that grass roots media producers did not identify themselves as journalists; rather they identified themselves as game critics or reviewers. Thus, a video game journalist is categorised as an individual that report writes or edits video game news as an occupation, with formal journalistic training. However, since neither grass roots media producers nor industry veterans in general have journalistic training, it is still unclear who is a video game journalist. Lastly, we found that grass roots media producers have little possibility to influence traditional video game journalism. The only way to increase the status of journalistic legitimacy is by encouraging journalism itself, to engage in critical media coverage. As there is a public demand for industry coverage, and journalistic legitimacy is grounded on the normative democratic self-descriptions of the profession, video game journalism needs to move beyond entertainment and engage in democratically, constructive and critical coverage.
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Kerr, Thor Antony. "Representing ecological threats and negotiating green built environment." Thesis, Curtin University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/732.
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Amid a prevalence of textual references about human-induced ecological threats in contemporary society, several studies have investigated the discursive production of such threats and their solutions by policy-making institutions. Yet, this focus on institutional discourse has suggested a less comprehensive analysis of how ecological threats are represented by engaged citizens attempting to influence environmental policy through truth-producing public conversation. Out of this context, this thesis was devised to investigate ecological threat representation in relation to social negotiation of meanings of green built environment. Specifically, it was designed to answer the question of how representation of ecological threats affects the meaning of green built environment and the practices through which this meaning is produced.Answering this question required a method of investigating the positioning, disruption, stabilization and mutual functionalization of ecological threats and proposed solutions in urban planning discourse. Theoretical insights from cultural studies, critical theory, psychoanalysis, geography and media studies were incorporated into a method of analysing various types of public and media texts about ecological threats and a proposed green built environment – North Port Quay, in Fremantle, Western Australia.The analysis found that an apparently universal global ecological threat, such as climate change, was read in heterogeneous ways; and these readings were particularly influenced by sensual experience of environmental objects. It also found that production of meaning of green built environment depended upon a subject reading solutions into an environmental narrative that mutually functionalized with any significant ecological threats read into the narrative. It found that spatially and temporally immediate threats were more meaningful and motivating than distant, future threats; and that people responded conservatively when they realized that a sensually experienced object of the environment faced immediate threat.These findings have implications for understanding the relations of imposing and resisting green zones of capital accumulation, and for understanding the separation of analysis from action in liberal democracy. The findings suggest a way out of ecological crisis through an ethics of ecological threat representation that acknowledges the operation of affective investment in practical reason. This thesis is expected to make an interdisciplinary contribution, encouraging dialogue between urban planning theory and cultural studies as well as between critical theory and studies on sustainability. It should also further understandings of the complex negotiations of both ecological threats and green built environments.
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Petracca, Maria Francesca. "Tradurre il français contemporain des cités: traduzione e commento di un estratto di La vie de ma mère ! di Thierry Jonquet." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/21380/.
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L'obiettivo della tesi è quello di analizzare come il gergo giovanile delle banlieues francesi possa essere tradotto in italiano. In particolare, dopo aver presentato tale socioletto da un punto di vista sociolinguistico, viene proposta ed analizzata la traduzione di un estratto di La vie de ma mère !. Si tratta di un romanzo noir, a sfondo sociale, in cui l'autore Thierry Jonquet utilizza ampiamente tale linguaggio per donar maggior veridicità al racconto.
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Parris, Maxine Joanna. "Engaging the public : theory and practice in Scottish public services." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20438.
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In recent times, public engagement has become an increasingly prominent feature of modern public service provision. Contemporary Public Engagement (CPE) has been characterized by the proliferation of new and innovative mechanisms with which to engage and involve the public in any process in which their input is either desired or legally required. This thesis takes a qualitative approach to exploring CPE within the context of local public services in Scotland, with the explicit aim of contribution to the development of conceptual understanding and theory. The design of this project was based on a case study of the Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership (CHP). The key empirical instruments were semi-structured interviews, a focus group, analysis of key CHP documents and participant observation by the researcher at CHP Committee meetings. This study makes three main contributions to existing knowledge. They are: a Conceptual Framework for explaining CPE within Scottish local public service provision, a Conceptual Model which is based on the Conceptual Framework and presents it at a higher level of abstraction, and the generation of substantive theory rooted in the case study data. The thesis makes two main recommendations. The first is that further comparative research should be undertaken in order to further develop and confirm the validity of Conceptual Model and substantive theory. The second is that meta-analysis should be undertaken to assist in the development of the proposed formal theory of Public Sector Reform.
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Yeung, Ho Yi Polly. "An investigation of citizenship participation of young adults with and without cerebral palsy." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1859.
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Citizenship participation by young adults has reciprocal benefits for both individuals and society. Capacity to participate in activities that positively influence the community is indicative of healthy individuals and healthy communities. While there are some studies on citizenship participation among adolescents, little empirical evidence exists regarding the meaning of, or practical participation in citizenship activities by young adults in contemporary Australia society, and particularly those who have a disability such as cerebral palsy (CP).This study investigated citizenship participation and identified factors that influenced citizenship participation in young adults with and without a disability, particularly CP. The study occurred in three phases: (1) a qualitative phase; (2) a quantitative, cross-sectional phase; and (3) a consultation phase.The aim of Phase 1 was to develop a measurement of citizenship participation based on literature and consultation with key stakeholders. Before proceeding to the item development, the ideas of how young adults in general perceived the underlying meanings of citizen participation and how they classified social and civic activities were explored through focus groups and individual interviews. A pool of 36 items was initially developed based on a critical review of participation instruments. The process of developing a suitable measurement was undertaken by item reduction, thus generating a list of 29 items. This led to the development of a self-report survey instrument of the Citizenship Inventory (CI) to measure citizenship participation. Psychometric properties of the CI were evaluated.Phase 2 involved identifying potential factors influencing citizenship participation. Supported by qualitative findings and propositions in the literature, it was predicted that citizenship participation was shaped by a number of factors labelled as civic communication, sense of place, life values and physical and social conditions, via the mediators of self-efficacy and life satisfaction. Measures of proposed independent variables and the two mediating factors identified above were then employed with a sample of 434 typical young adults, using a cross-sectional survey design. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was employed to investigate the interrelationships of the variables and for testing the goodness-of-fit. The identified variables contributing to citizenship participation in the typical young adults were used to compare against 60 young adults with CP.The results from modelling demonstrated that: 1) citizenship participation is influenced by the personal, social and environmental factors, which is multidimensional and subject to ongoing changes; 2) early positive activity participation creates later engagement in citizenship activities; 3) young adults’ social contexts are important socializing agents that promote citizenship participation; 4) young adults’ values influence civic participation; and 5) life satisfaction and self-efficacy are important mediating factors of citizenship participation.Similar to the typical young adults, young adults with CP developed their capacity for civic service and participation through social relationships and social memberships (formal and informal). The overall results suggest that that young adults with and without disabilities must be supported across many contexts – homes, jobs, social and community situations – to utilize their skills and abilities to actively participate in citizenship activities.Phase Three involved consulting key stakeholders, based on the research findings from the previous two phases, to identify key priorities for enhancing citizenship participation specifically for young adults with CP. These key priorities in turn helped shaping a framework of recommendations for future directions on how to promote and sustain citizenship participation in young adults with CP. The expert panel consisted of eight stakeholders who identified key priorities during a group discussion meeting using Nominal Group Techniques (NGT). Several key topics were evident in this list of priorities nominated by this group. Many of the ideas endorsed by the expert panel on enhancing citizenship participation mirrored the outcomes from the citizenship participation model. They stemmed from the principles of focusing on positive social networks, ongoing skills development, providing customised services, support and information, adopting a holistic lifespan perspective, and linking and providing real-world opportunities and experiences. Priorities identified were grouped into four main recommendations: (1) customise the types of services for each individual; (2) develop strategies to increase positive family and peer support; (3) young adults with a disability seen as competent community builders; and (4) building individual capacity.The present research sought to add to the current knowledge in understanding the changing experiences of citizenship participation of young adults living in Australia and whether young adults with a disability, particularly those with CP shared the same or different citizenship experiences as their non-disabled peers. Findings demonstrate that ideas about citizenship participation are not homogenous as they depend on circumstances. For young adults with and without CP, their citizenship identity is believed to be shaped by age, by societal expectations and by personal experiences. This thesis provides practical implications and a framework for service providers and policy makers that can be implemented to promote positive citizenship participation. This thesis also provides a rationale for further research to investigate other methodologies that enables researchers to explore the positioning and experiences of young adults’ participation in social and civic actions in this changing world.
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Leitão, Antonilda de Oliveira. "Contribuições do ensino religioso na educação de jovens e adultos com prespectivas cidadãs para a soociedade." Faculdades EST, 2013. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=426.
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A presente pesquisa tem como objeto de investigação o Ensino Religioso na Educação de
Jovens e adultos da Unidade Escolar Ozias Correia, Parnaíba-PI. Seu objetivo geral era
investigar as contribuições do Ensino Religioso na Educação de Jovens e Adultos com
perspectivas cidadãs para as pessoas que participam dessa modalidade de ensino. Foram
apresentados os conceitos de Educação Bancária, Cidadã, Sustentável, Popular,
Problematizadora, Libertadora, Dialógica, Política, Educação de Jovens e Adultos, e Ensino
Religioso. O apoio teórico baseou-se em: Paulo Freire, Edgar Morin, Carlos Brandão,
Leonardo Boff, Antonio Moser, Pedrinho Guareschi, Arlindo Correa e Ângela Holanda e
outros. A primeira parte da dissertação constitui-se da contextualização histórica da educação
e do Ensino Religioso com delimitação feita a partir da proposta do MOBRAL. A segunda
parte enfoca os conceitos de Ensino Religioso em sintonia com EJA, encetando o significado
e fundamentos de educação a partir do pensamento de alguns teóricos e teólogos. A terceira,
junta todas as partes a partir das análises dos dados colhidos junto aos e às estudantes da
Unidade Escolar pesquisada. Os dados fornecem elementos que afirmam a importância do ER
junto à modalidade de EJA, e a necessidade de formação específica na área para quem vai
ministrar esse componente curricular. Dessa forma, a pesquisa apresenta um contraponto para
a reflexão do ER e EJA a partir de uma abordagem que dialoga e interage com o contexto
escolar apontando para uma formação cidadã na caminhada educativa de jovens adultos.This researchs subject of investigation is the Religious Education in the education of the Youth and Adults at the Ozias Correia School Unit, Parnaíba-PI. Its general goal is to investigate the contributions of Religious Education in the Education of Youth and Adults with citizen perspectives for the people who participate in this modality of education. The concepts of Sedentary, Citizen, Sustainable, Popular, Problematizing, Liberating, Dialogic Education, Education of Youth and Adults and Religious Education were presented. The theoretical resources providing a foundation for the research were: Paulo Freire, Edgar Morin, Carlos Brandão, Leonardo Boff, Antonio Moser, Pedrinho Guareschi, Arlindo Correa and Angela Holanda and others. The first part of the thesis consists of the historical contextualization of education and Religious Education with the delimitation being set by the MOBRAL proposal. The second part focuses on the concepts of Religious Education in harmony with EJA (Education of Youth and Adults), engaging the significance and foundations of education with citizen perspectives based on the thought of some theoreticians and theologians. The third joins all the parts based on the analysis of the data collected among the students of the School Unit researched. The data furnish elements which affirm the importance of Religious Education in the modality of EJA, and the need for specific training in the area for those who teach this curricular component. In this way, the research presents a counterpoint for the reflection on Religious Education and Education of Youth and Adults based on an approach which dialogs and interacts with the school context aiming at a citizen formation in the educational journey of young adults.
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Facchi, Ljuba. "Il realismo sociale nel romanzo noir e la sfida traduttiva dell' argot: traduzione parziale e commento di "La vie de ma mère!" di Thierry Jonquet." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/16099/.
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L’elaborato propone una traduzione parziale del romanzo noir “La vie de ma mère” di Thierry Jonquet. Viene analizzata la biografia dell’autore, dai primi anni di attivismo politico fino alle esperienze lavorative nel reparto di neuropsichiatria infantile, dove si appassiona alla didattica, per poi diventare insegnante di sostegno in istituti scolastici della banlieue parigina. In quegli anni nasce la sua passione per il romanzo noir e inizia egli stesso a scrivere opere di gran successo, premiate dalla critica e tradotte in varie lingue. Tra esse, “La vie de ma mère” è stata quella che ha ispirato la realizzazione di un fumetto con la collaborazione di Jean-Christophe Chauzy, per il suo carattere estremamente realista e vicino al mondo giovanile di banlieue. L’elemento che indica di più il realismo di questa opera è l’argot: il romanzo è interamente scritto in argot, la lingua parlata dai ragazzi della banlieue, un tempo utilizzata al fine di rendere incomprensibile il loro modo di parlare, è ora invece custode dell’origine e dell’identità individuale. Dopo la proposta di traduzione, vengono analizzate le scelte traduttive compiute, strutturando il capitolo per tematiche: tradurre l’argot, tradurre le marche, la musica, i film e la tv, tradurre le razze e le religioni, tradurre il contesto socioculturale francese, tradurre la storia e la cronaca, tradurre la poesia. La metodologia adottata si è basata su un iniziale studio del genere letterario e delle tematiche sociologiche affrontate nell’opera e, in seguito, con il sussidio delle risorse in rete e della letteratura sull’argot, si è proceduto con la traduzione parziale. Si è infine giunti a ottenere una soddisfacente traduzione in italiano contemporaneo e gergo giovanile di questa opera all’apparenza impossibile da tradurre per la complessità e specificità del linguaggio e delle tematiche affrontate.
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Zamani, Mohammadamin. "Théâtre, ville et pouvoir: Pour une étude de la spatialité urbaine du théâtre à Téhéran (2009-2019)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2020. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/313327/5/Contrat.pdf.
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Cette thèse étudie la scène théâtrale et ses transformations dans le contexte socio-politique de Téhéran entre 2009 et 2019 à travers le prisme de la spatialité (Lussault, 2007). Cette période se caractérise d’un côté par l’éclosion de nouveaux espaces de représentation de diverses natures architecturales, urbaines et institutionnelles et, de l’autre, par l’apparition de nouvelles formes d’investissement et d’appropriation d’espaces urbains à des fins théâtrales par les artistes et spectateurs. Pour interroger ces mutations, cette étude analyse trois cas– représentatifs du théâtre privé, du théâtre Off Stage et du théâtre Underground – à partir d’une approche théorique qui conjugue social production of space et social construction of space (Low, 2017). Ce faisant, la présente thèse démontre qu’au-delà des dimensions esthétiques et dramaturgiques, les évolutions de la scène théâtrale à Téhéran se traduisent surtout par un changement qui touche à la spatialité urbaine du théâtre. Cela se concrétise d’une part dans la transformation de l’agencement spatial du théâtre dans la ville et, de l’autre, dans les manières dont les relations et dynamiques sociales et politiques de la ville se spatialisent dans le théâtre. Du fait de ce double processus, et dans la conjoncture socio-politique tendue et changeante du Téhéran des années 2010, l’espace théâtral, jusqu’alors quasiment cloisonné et exclu de la sphère publique, émerge en tant qu’espace public. Il devient ainsi non seulement le lieu du politique, là où se rencontrent différentes forces politiques et sociales (Balme, 2014), mais aussi l’élément principal dans les dynamiques de pouvoirs entre elles. Sa production en tant qu’entité architecturale et urbaine, son occupation, son appropriation et même ses caractéristiques et frontières sociales, symboliques et discursives font alors l’objet de luttes, débats, négociations et interventions – parmi les plus tendus voire virulents que la capitale iranienne ait connus au cours de la dernière décennie – de la part des trois forces principales présentes sur le terrain :le pouvoir autoritaire et idéologique en place, les opérateurs économiques et financiers et les citoyens, en l’occurrence artistes et spectateurs. D’un côté, les forces politiques, idéologiques et financières dominantes mettent en place la privatisation du théâtre, qui est conceptualisée ici comme une stratégie spatiale (De Certeau, 1990). Elles régulent l’espace théâtral, sa production et son utilisation au moyen de multiples processus d’exclusion, d’uniformisation et de domination politiques, idéologiques et économiques. De l’autre côté, des citoyens déploient des tactiques (De Certeau), c’est-à-dire de nouvelles formes d’appropriation de l’espace en utilisant les brèches, incohérences et interstices dans la stratégie dominante. De ce fait, des espaces urbains produits, régulés et surveillés à des fins politiques, idéologiques, voire capitalistes, ouvrent la voie à de nouvelles formes d’agencies pour des artistes et spectateurs. Tantôt ces formes se traduisent par des actes de résistance, de lutte, de contestation (le théâtre Underground), tantôt par des négociations et des compromis (les théâtres privés) ou même par des contournements et des contre-expériences (le théâtre Off Stage). Cependant, quelles que soient la forme et les conséquences de ces interactions, celles-ci ouvrent des fractures dans l’ordre politique, idéologique et économique dominant la ville et son espace. Elles rendent ainsi possibles l’émergence et la survie de formes d’altérité dans la sphère et l’espace publics.This thesis studies the theatre and its transformations in the socio-political context of Tehran between 2009 and 2019 through the question of spatiality (Lussault, 2007). This period is characterized, on the one hand, by the blossoming of new performance spaces of various architectural, urban and institutional natures throughout the city and, on the other hand, by the appearance of new forms of appropriation of urban spaces for theatrical purposes by artists and spectators. To question these mutations, this study analyses the three case studies – representative of private theatre, off stage theatre and underground theatre - from a theoretical approach that combines social production of space and social construction of space (Low, 2017). In doing so, the present thesis demonstrates that beyond the aesthetic and dramaturgical dimensions, the evolution of the theatre scene in Tehran results from a more significant change in the urban spatiality of the theatre. This materializes, on the one hand, in the transformation of the spatial organization of the theatre within the urban context and, on the other hand, in the ways in which the social and political relations and dynamics of the city are spatialized in the theatre. As a result of this double process, and in the tense and changing socio-political conjunctures of Tehran in 2010s, the theatre space, hitherto an almost compartmentalized space excluded from the public sphere, is manifesting itself as a new public space. Not only it becomes the political field where different political and social forces meet (Balme,2014), it also turns into one of the principal elements in the power dynamics among them. Its production as an architectural and urban entity, its occupation, its appropriation and even its social, symbolic and discursive characteristics and boundaries are then the object of struggles, debates, negotiations and interventions - among the most tense and even virulent ones that the Iranian capital has experienced in the last decade - on the part of the three main forces :the authoritarian and ideological power in place, the economic and financial operators and the citizens, in this case artists and spectators. On the one hand, the dominant political, ideological and financial forces are establishing the privatization of theatre, which is conceptualized here as a spatial strategy. (De Certeau, 1990). They regulate theatre space, its production and use through multiple processes of political, ideological and economic exclusion, homogenization and domination. On the other hand, citizens deploy tactics (De Certeau) that is, new forms of appropriation of space within the breaches, inconsistencies and interstices of the dominant strategy. As a result, urban spaces produced, regulated and monitored for political, ideological or even capitalist purposes immediately become the fields for new forms of artists and spectators’ agencies. Sometimes these forms take the form of acts of resistance, struggle, contestation (the Underground theatre), sometimes of negotiation, compromise (the private theatres) or even circumvention and counter-experiences (the Off Stage theatre). However, whatever the form and consequences of these interactions, they open up breaches and fractures in the political, ideological and economic order that dominates the city and its space. They thus make possible the emergence and survival of forms of otherness in the public sphere and the public space.
Doctorat en Arts du spectacle et technique de diffusion et de communication
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Larbi, Martin. "Green Urbanism in Contemporary Cities: A Socio-technical Transition Analysis." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/120462.
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Green Urbanism evokes a wide range of ideas, images, and perceptions about how cities should be planned, developed, and/or governed to create a balance between human activities and the natural environment. In recent decades, Green Urbanism has attracted considerable research interest; however, these studies are mostly focused on defining a set of criteria for its application to cities based on the experiences of Western countries. Thus, there is a lack of adequate understanding of how Green Urbanism applies to the developing world. In addition, although the whats (criteria) of Green Urbanism are extensively discussed, the hows (transition processes) have received little treatment. Therefore, this study makes two major contributions to the existing literature on Green Urbanism. Firstly, it examines how different socio-economic contexts and local dynamics influence how Green Urbanism is conceived and applied. Secondly, it assesses the drivers of and barriers to green urban transitions, and what factors in cities provide potential sources of leverage for a transition towards Green Urbanism. It will be shown that these processes are not in general linear or predictable pathways of progress, but are complex and multifactorial. The cases of Freiburg (developed country context) and Curitiba (developing country) are analysed. Lessons from this analysis are applied to Accra-Ghana (developing country) to identify potential levers for stimulating transitions towards Green Urbanism in a developing world city. The study is based on a review of literature, questionnaire surveys, key informant interviews, GIS mapping, site observations, and a review of government policies. The factors that present opportunities and/or barriers to green urban transitions are analysed through the lens of relevant transition theory, in this case the Multi-level Perspective. Findings from the study show that Green Urbanism is not only about the physical greening of cities, but also about urban sustainability. Moreover, through the theoretical lens of the MLP, it was found that contextual socio-economic factors, known as landscape pressures, are important for creating windows of opportunity for green urban transitions to unfold. However, they must be effectively articulated to generate the needed responses from social actors, and also coalesce with developments at the niche level. The study notes two potential governance models for transition, namely top down and bottom up and debates the strengths and weaknesses of both. Given that cities are different in their social, economic, political, technological, and physical characteristics etc., the study recommends that Green Urbanism needs to be responsive to the specific requirements of its application domain.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Architecture & Built Environment, 2019
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Pao, Chao Yin, and 趙英寶. "Searching for The Lost Cities－The Representation of Contemporary Taipei, Shanghai and Hong Kong." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89170004008457116188.
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This thesis studies in the East Asia contemporary cities according to Edward Soja’s Post-Modernist geographical theories. Searching for the modernized process and globalized meaning about three cities－Taipei, Shanghai and Hong Kong, I want to analysis the memory and experience but the data of number. Therefore, I read the female novelists text to control the changeable transformation of three cities. The local group memory offers us more imagination of three cities’ modernization and globalization. In Taipei, the different landscapes stock shadows together because of the political sight and cultural impact. In Shanghai, through the nostalgia narrative and daily living writing I think about the reasonable progress of globalization. In Hong Kong, during the migration and diaspora period I concern about how to deal with the new geography of marginality.
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"Space syntax analysis of Foshan historic areas in contemporary urban transformation." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896899.
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Yu, Han.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-155).
Abstract also in Chinese; appendix C in English and Chinese.
Abstract --- p.i
Acknowledgement --- p.v
Content --- p.vii
Figure Content --- p.ix
Table Content --- p.xiii
Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.2
Chapter 1.1.1 --- Rapid Transformation of urban fabric in China --- p.3
Chapter 1.1.2 --- Dilemma in conservation studies and practices --- p.6
Chapter 1.2 --- Research Definition --- p.9
Chapter 1.2.1 --- Research Questions --- p.9
Chapter 1.2.2 --- Research Methods --- p.10
Chapter 1.2.3 --- Study area --- p.11
Chapter 1.2.4 --- Objectives and significances --- p.12
Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review and Methodology --- p.14
Chapter 2.1 --- Space syntax theory --- p.14
Chapter 2.1.1 --- Foundations of syntactical model --- p.14
Chapter 2.1.2 --- Network and movements --- p.17
Chapter 2.1.3 --- Part-whole relationships --- p.19
Chapter 2.1.4 --- Syntactical studies of urban evolution process --- p.25
Chapter 2.2 --- Space Syntax Implementations --- p.28
Chapter 2.2.1 --- Basic parameters --- p.28
Chapter 2.2.2 --- Secondary parameters --- p.32
Chapter 2.2.3 --- Implementation in Depthmap --- p.34
Chapter 2.3 --- Research methodology --- p.38
Chapter Chapter 3 --- Analysis and Results --- p.42
Chapter 3.1 --- Background --- p.42
Chapter 3.1.1 --- Overview of urban development of Foshan --- p.43
Chapter 3.1.2 --- Limitations of previous studies --- p.53
Chapter 3.1.3 --- Analysis framework --- p.56
Chapter 3.2 --- Data preparation --- p.58
Chapter 3.2.1 --- Historical maps --- p.58
Chapter 3.2.2 --- Three periods --- p.59
Chapter 3.2.3 --- Historic attributes --- p.63
Chapter 3.3 --- Syntactical models --- p.64
Chapter 3.3.1 --- Generating axial lines --- p.64
Chapter 3.3.2 --- Boundary considerations --- p.66
Chapter 3.3.3 --- Space syntax parameters --- p.69
Chapter 3.4 --- Syntactical transformation of the whole street network --- p.70
Chapter 3.4.1 --- Global integration --- p.70
Chapter 3.4.2 --- Global choice --- p.76
Chapter 3.4.3 --- Relations to functional distribution --- p.79
Chapter 3.4.4 --- Findings --- p.84
Chapter 3.5 --- Transformation of district-city relationships --- p.85
Chapter 3.5.1 --- Overview of ´بdistrict´ة in different years --- p.86
Chapter 3.5.2 --- ´بDistrict´ة and ´بradius´ة --- p.91
Chapter 3.5.3 --- Syntactical characteristics of districts --- p.99
Chapter 3.5.4 --- Findings --- p.106
Chapter 3.6 --- Transformation of place-city relationships --- p.107
Chapter 3.6.1 --- Overview of ´بhistorical places´ة in different years --- p.108
Chapter 3.6.2 --- Syntactical characteristics of places in 1923 --- p.114
Chapter 3.6.3 --- Syntactical transformation of heritages --- p.117
Chapter 3.6.4 --- Findings --- p.122
Chapter 3.7 --- Summary --- p.123
Chapter Chapter 4 --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.125
Chapter 4.1 --- Conservation discussions --- p.125
Chapter 4.1.1 --- Suggestions to urban planning of historic core --- p.125
Chapter 4.1.2 --- Suggestions to urban design of historic districts --- p.129
Chapter 4.2 --- Conclusions --- p.131
Chapter 4.3 --- Research limitations --- p.132
Chapter 4.4 --- Future works --- p.133
Appendix --- p.135
Chapter A: --- Events of Foshan in the history --- p.135
Chapter B: --- Glossary of space syntax --- p.137
Chapter C: --- Glossary of Foshan --- p.139
Chapter D: --- Syntactical results of respective districts --- p.142
Chapter E: --- Syntactical results of individual heritages --- p.144
Bibliography --- p.148