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Obesity/Fatness and the City: Critical Urban Geographies

Geography Compass, 2012
Abstract There has been increasing emphasis on the built urban environment within anti‐obesity policy in the UK and elsewhere in the global north as part of a shift away from a model of individual responsibility to focus on so‐called ‘obesogenic environments’.
Bethan Evans, Lee Crookes, Jon Coaffee
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Women In The City: Feminist Analyses of Urban Geography

Australian Geographical Studies, 1990
Four different sites of gendered social practice are identified as major concerns of socialist feminist urban geography: the home or domestic sphere; the paid workplace; the city's built environment; and localities. Literature about each is described and reviewed Theoretical implications of the feminist reading of urban geography are then considered in
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Following the infrastructures of empire: notes on cities, settler colonialism, and method

Urban Geography, 2019
This paper investigates urban life through the contested formation of settler colonial infrastructure. Trespassing nationalist narratives, it ‘follows the infrastructure’ across imperial space, time and struggle, illuminating the extraordinary power of ...
Deborah E. Cowen
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Hypochondriac geographies of the city and the new urban dystopia

City, 2002
This paper questions the 'peculiar epistemological framework of problems' (p. 107) through which the city has come to be considered in the academic and policy arena, in politics of both the Left and Right, and in urban sociology, planning, architecture and other areas of urban study.
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The Political Geographies of Urban Polarization: A Critical Review of Research on Divided Cities

Geography Compass, 2012
Abstract This article aims at providing a review of various streams of literature dealing with the spatial fragmentation of cities. In the last two decades many different contributions emphasized the growing fragmentation of the urban environment; the idea of “divided city” covers a multiplicity of approaches, methodologies and field ...
Allegra Marco, Casaglia Anna, Rokem Johnatan   +2 more
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Cities in Shade: Urban Geography and the Uses of Noir

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2005
This paper historicizes American cities after the Second World War through the rich motif of noir literature and film. But, in doing so, the paper is also a critical consideration of noir's work in urban studies. Noir has been drawn, often usefully but also unfortunately, away from its referents, from the terrain that it most directly summons but also ...
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Britain's Cities: Geographies of Division in Urban Britain

Capital & Class, 1999
Introduction. 1: Urban Restructuring and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain's Cities: An Overview - Michael Pacione. THE STRUCTURAL CONTEXT OF URBAN DIVISION. 2: Global Restructuring and Local Impact- John Lovering.3:National Economic Policy in the United Kingdom- Rob Imrie 4:National Social Policy in the United Kingdom- David Byrne 5: Urban ...
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The Structure and Dynamics of Cities: Urban Data Analysis and Theoretical Modeling

, 2017
M. Barthelemy
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Geography’s blind spot: the age-old urban question

Urban Geography, 2021
Jessica M Finlay, Brandon Marc Finn
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The City and the Urban Networks: the Contribution of Italian Urban Geography

2010
Il saggio discute il contributo della geografia urbana italiana allo studio del fenomeno ...
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