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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging Change: Increasing Access to Arts Education in Rural Areas [PDF]

, 2017
In 2015, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) received funding in the first round of collective impact grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to launch the pilot initiative, Leveraging Change: Improving Access to Arts Education in Rural ...
Lisa Donovan, Maren Brown
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Street Cries and Public Space Noise Abatement in 19th‐20th Century Barcelona

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on Barcelona, this paper explores the historical and contemporary dynamics of street cries that allow traders to attract customers and make themselves heard in public spaces. While still common in marketplaces in southern Europe, there is a growing trend towards silencing these street cries in the name of reducing urban noise levels ...
Maria Lindmäe
wiley   +1 more source

Activism for Socialist Industrial Heritage in Romania: The Carbochim Project Controversy

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This study aims to better understand activism in the Romanian post‐socialist society during a struggle to preserve the socialist industrial heritage of Carbochim, in Cluj‐Napoca, Romania. From an urban activist perspective, we present a failed heritagisation process because of commercial‐oriented real estate development, but that enables
Oana‐Ramona Ilovan, Adriana Măgeruşan, Paul Mutică, Smaranda Todoran   +3 more
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When Artists Break Ground: Lessons from a Cleveland Neighborhood Partnership [PDF]

, 2014
This report is a review and lessons from the Artists in Residence program, a collaboration between CPAC and Northeast Shores. The organizations invested $2.2 million in a 3-year period into artist-neighborhood relationships in the Waterloo area in North ...

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A study exploring learners' informal learning space behaviors, attitudes, and preferences [PDF]

, 2013
What makes a successful informal learning space is a topic in need of further research. The body of discourse on informal space design is drawn from learning theory, placemaking and architecture, with a need for understanding of the synergy between the
Ahern Kathryn J., Bea Turpin, Bennett Scott, Bennett Scott, Boys Jos, Briden Judi, Bryant Joanna, Clark Kate, Deborah Harrop, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Dugdale Shirley, Fleming Ronald L., Fried Foster Nancy, George Gene, Gibbons Susan, Gibbons Susan, Hunley Sawer, Jamieson Helen, Jamieson Peter, Jinnings Burruss W., Kennedy Mike, Lefebvre Henri, Lewin Kurt, Lippman Peter C., Littlefield David, O'Connor Richard A., Oblinger Diana, G., Payne Geoff, Pine Joseph B., Robson Colin, Sheffield Hallam University, West Christopher   +31 more
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The Social Equity of Spatial Compactness Varies by Context: Evidence From Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This paper examines the relationship between urban compactness and social equity across three UK cities. Using a multidimensional compactness framework and multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR), it analyses how demographic characteristics relate to spatial compactness at a fine scale.
Tianrui Sun, Cristian Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Building Community: Making Space for Art [PDF]

, 2011
Examines the role of the arts in communities; artists working in community development, education, health, or environmental fields; and contemporary art spaces in community planning and revitalization ...
Maria Rosario Jackson
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Place attachment and attitudes to landscape change for tree planting and net zero

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1280-1296, May 2026.
Abstract To reach net zero by 2050 the Paris Agreement on Climate Change recommended tree cover expansion and tree planting to support Nationally Determined Contributions. We use place attachment in the context of historical events to explore landscape change and attitudes towards tree planting.
Sheena Carlisle, Susan Baker, Euan Bowditch, Natasha Constant, Tom Finch, Melissa Minter, Alix Syder   +6 more
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People, Land, Arts, Culture and Engagement: Taking Stock of the Place Initiative [PDF]

, 2014
This report serves as a point of entry into creative placemaking as defined and supported by the Tucson Pima Arts Council's PLACE Initiative. To assess how and to what degree the PLACE projects were helping to transform communities, TPAC was asked by the

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