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Liveable City from an Economic Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Landscape Planning, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide an overall image of what a liveable city is. Starting from the theoretical aspects presented in the first part of this work, and ending up with the practical ones, an attempt was made to provide an answer to the ...
Daniela Antonescu
doaj  

Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Shifting Core and Slipping Foundation: An Uncertain Future of Landscape Architecture in European Universities [PDF]

, 2010
Faced with the dual and often conflicting necessity to be scientific and design practices the discipline of landscape architecture today is challenged to re-examine its core and intellectual foundation.
Koh, J.
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of spatial characteristics and influencing factors of the flow network of highly educated talents from national and local perspective

Scientific Reports
Based on dynamic monitoring data on China’s population, by using complex networks, spatial analysis and mathematical measurement, this study reveals the spatial characteristics and influencing factors of the network of flows of highly educated talents in
Wentian Shi, Wenlong Yang, Xueying Mu, Fan Yang   +3 more
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Sex in the city: the rise of soft-erotic film culture in Cinema Leopold, Ghent, 1945-1954 [PDF]

, 2015
Since the 1990s, film studies saw a disciplinary shift from approaches favoring a textual and ideological analysis of films to a broader understanding of the socio-cultural history of cinema under the banner of new cinema history.
Biltereyst, Daniël, Van de Vijver, Liesbeth   +1 more
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation

Findings
In the postwar United States, cities used downzoning policies to limit construction, often for the sake of preserving neighborhood aesthetics and protecting property values.
Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel
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The Aesthetics of the Social Rule of Law: The Case of Parque Biblioteca España in the City of Medellín

, 2023
Eduardo Andrés Perafán Del Campo
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The Aesthetics of Mural Works in Subway Stations in Egypt in Light of the Cultural and Historical Heritage and Geography of the City. [PDF]

, 2023
Shimaa Ahmed
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