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Modern Socio-economic Problems of Mass Tourism in Cities [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Periegetica, 2018
Large streams of tourists are one of the major problems of modern tourism, especially from the perspective of the most attractive cities and regions of Europe and the world.
Józef Komorowski
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City Identity As A Personality Identity Parameter

open access: yesEuropean Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2020
The purpose of this article is to present the urban environment as a parameter of personal identity, to review the main factors of urban identity that correlate personality parameters and the formation of its value system, to consider the possible relationship between urban and individual personality identities.
A. I. Vinogradova   +3 more
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Shared Identity as Social Capital in The Chinese Javanese Relations in Malang City, Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article discusses the relations between Javanese and the Chinese identity in Malang City, Indonesia. How the perception of the two communities and how the social capital construct personal and social (shared) the identity of people's with different ...
Astutik, Juli, Ramadhoan, Ruli Inayah
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The Green Ring of Tradition and Culture in Łódź as an example of a strategic plan to protect and shape the landscape of a former industrial city

open access: yesOchrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego, 2023
Natural and cultural heritage co-create the cultural landscape, forming the basis of both local and larger sense of identity. Therefore, protecting and shaping these resources is the major task of currently living generations.
Maria Dankowska
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Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short stories, Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,
Maszewska Jadwiga
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Ambiguity and Abjection: Residents’ Reactions to a New Urban Casino

open access: yesCritical Gambling Studies, 2021
While the social and economic costs and benefits of new gambling locations have been studied extensively, less is known about how new venues are experienced in view of city residents’ spatial and sociocultural identities.
Paula Piritta Jääskeläinen   +2 more
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Writing the City, Narrating Identity

open access: yesAmerican, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2020
Ivana Dragoş
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Organizing for individuation: alternative organizing, politics and new identities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Organization theorists have predominantly studied identity and organizing within the managed work organization. This frames organization as a structure within which identity work occurs, often as a means of managerial control.
Coupland, Christine   +2 more
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Images of Polish Cities in Promotional Visual and Verbal Symbols. What Logos and Slogans Say about Desired Image of the Polish Cities?

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Philosophica, 2022
Advertising is one of the commonly visible elements of the urban landscape (real and virtual). It also does not require proof that advertisements of cities as such are also part of their “cityscape.” Since at least the nineteenth century, cities have ...
Anna Adamus-Matuszyńska, Piotr Dzik
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The eventization of leisure and the strange death of alternative Leeds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The communicative potential of city spaces as leisure spaces is a central assumption of political activism and the creation of alternative, counter-cultural and subcultural scenes. However, such potential for city spaces is limited by the gentrification,
Anna Richter   +29 more
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