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Narrative, Identity, and the City
2018Raul P. Lejano offers a boldly original synthesis of narratology, psychology, and human geography. This helps him articulate his two main insights: that our identity as individuals, though not completely determined by sociocultural factors, nevertheless profoundly reflects our embeddedness in particular places; and that the way we think of, or would ...
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Identity of Cities and City of Identities
2020This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city branding strategies and urban regeneration methods. Due to rapid globalisation, the notion of identity has become scarcer, more fragile, and inarguably more ...
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Identity of Cities and City of Identities: Examples
2020Location matters, identity dictates: Bilbao, Manchester, Athens, Glasgow; derelict shipyard to global cultural centre, rainy post-industrial city to thriving service centre, smog bowl to Olympic host, and post-industrial poor relation to culture capital of Europe.
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2020
It is always difficult to explore, navigate through, and experience cities that lack identity or are identity-less. Some cities have little to offer in terms of their uniqueness, and some offer more in various ways. This argument is brought into discussion in later parts of this chapter.
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It is always difficult to explore, navigate through, and experience cities that lack identity or are identity-less. Some cities have little to offer in terms of their uniqueness, and some offer more in various ways. This argument is brought into discussion in later parts of this chapter.
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2013
In the age of globalisation, urban populations have been concerned by the intensification of urban change, being overwhelmed by the pace and scale of change imposed on localities from the outside, eroding local identities at the expense of alien ideas and forces.
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In the age of globalisation, urban populations have been concerned by the intensification of urban change, being overwhelmed by the pace and scale of change imposed on localities from the outside, eroding local identities at the expense of alien ideas and forces.
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Municipal Identity and City Interests
Political Behavior, 2021What are the behavioral consequences of municipal identity? A long tradition of public policy theory has emphasized how municipal policymaking is shaped by local residents’ shared interest in the prestige, power, and economic growth of their cities. A separate tradition of social identity theory shows that perceived membership in politically salient ...
Sophie Borwein, Jack Lucas
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Environment and Behavior, 1978
It is suggested that for each of the role-related identities of an individual, there are physical dimensions and characteristics that help to define and are subsumed by that identity. In addition, there is a general place-identity for each individual which reflects his or her unique socialization in the physical world.
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It is suggested that for each of the role-related identities of an individual, there are physical dimensions and characteristics that help to define and are subsumed by that identity. In addition, there is a general place-identity for each individual which reflects his or her unique socialization in the physical world.
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Border cities: contested identities of the European city
European Review, 2005Much of the rich urban culture of Central and Eastern Europe was abruptly interrupted in the course of the 20th century, leaving towns and cities literally disconnected from the international urban network. Many cities also became border cities in a metaphorical sense, because their geographic position and the prestige of their institutions as well as ...
ED TAVERNE, COR WAGENAAR
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Identity and Marketing of Cities
2009Cities are acquiring a key geopolitical importance in the shaping of world-wide flows and exchanges, playing a key part in modern socio-economic relations within the framework of the world order termed globalization. Urban areas are the nodes where networks of various types of interchange come together: economic, social, cultural, communications and ...
Norberto Muñiz-Martínez +1 more
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