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SURFACE TENSIONS: Roads, Potholes and the Embodied Politics of Driving in Urban India
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I draw on the embodied experience of driving into potholes and on bumpy roads in Hyderabad to show how pockmarked roads become a terrain on which political sensibilities are shaped. Drawing on ethnographic material collected over six years, I analyze how potholes shape driving dispositions in a city that is attempting to brand ...
Sneha Annavarapu
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Since the 1980s and 1990s, art has played a pivotal role in urban planning, especially when instrumentalized within large‐scale urban renewal operations. This instrumentalization has been broadly linked to public policy schemes and public–private partnerships, often involving the implementation of spectacular cultural centers positioned as ...
Claudia Seldin
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Urban sign. The polis furnished [PDF]
, 2013 Just as the linguistic sign, defined by Saussure, is like a double-sided coin: significant + meaning, so the city can be defined by this dichotomy, that is, on the one hand is composed of matter and, second, to function or content. We travel the city as
Cabezas-Jimenez, Maria del Mar
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores various forms of archives—such as institutions, collections, records and cities—as urban commons. It highlights the importance of community and institutional collaboration in curating archives to promote learning, discovery and well‐being through grassroots initiatives, transforming archives and their urban settings into ...
Gozde Yildiz, Francesca Bianchi
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An Aesthetic Reading of Narrative Elements and Their Impact on Al-Jawahiri\'s Prose [In Arabic]
زبان کاوی کاربردیMohammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, the Iraqi poet, is considered one of the most prominent poets of the twentieth century, and many studies have been written about his poetry. However, less attention has been given to his prose.
Hasan Meghyasi, Riad Manshad Nazzal
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Several randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have demonstrated that delivering approach bias modification (ApBM) during residential alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment helps prevent post‐treatment relapse. However, few studies have examined ApBM's efficacy for AUD in outpatients.
Joshua B. B. Garfield +6 more
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Landscape Visual Aesthetics Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement of Street Pedestrian Spaces in Mountainous Cities—Case Study on the Historic Downtown of Jinan, Shandong Province [PDF]
, 2022 AN Qi +3 more
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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