Future Shift for ‘Big Things’: From Starchitecture via Agritecture to Parkitecture
This article analyses three recent shifts in what called the geography of ‘Big Things’, meaning the contemporary functions and adaptability of modern city centre architecture.
Philip Cooke
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Scaling temperature‐dependent dispersal rates to metacommunity dynamics: An experimental test
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Changes in community structure under shifting thermal regimes depend on how both local population dynamics and regional dispersal respond to temperature. Processes underlying dispersal, such as movement speed and demographic density dependence, are constrained by ...
Keila Stark +3 more
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Slakthusområdet : a design according to Jane Jacobs [PDF]
Slakthusområdet i södra Stockholm står inför stora förändringar. Sten Nordin, ett borgarråd i Stockholms kommun, har gjort lösa löften till företag som IKEA och IKANO för att låta dem etablera sina varuhus, hotell och liknande i området.
Lindblom Ågren, Hedvig
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A History of ‘Religious History’
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Projeccions documentals sobre Jane Goodall i Jane Goodall Institute
Projeccions documentals sobre la persona i el treball de Jane Goodall amb els ximpanzés salvatges i sobre les accions que realitza l'Institut Jane Goodall (IJG) a l' Àfrica4266 ...
Goodall, Jane, Jane Goodall Institute
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Walking Through Housing History: Creative Histories Beyond the Classroom
Abstract How might walking be used to support a creative and historically informed approach to learning about public health, environmental health and housing and take students beyond the traditional confines of the classroom? In this article, we discuss the development and delivery of a North London walking tour close to a university campus.
Zoë Hendon, Jill Stewart
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Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary by Alice Sparberg Alexiou [PDF]
Believing it would only impede her own writing, urban theorist Jane Jacobs refused to assist her would-be biographers. As a result, journalist Alice Sparberg Alexiou's Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, inspired by Jacobs's stands against powerful figures ...
Perkins, Kristin L.
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki
Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
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Application of Jane Jacobs’ Theory in the Analysis of the Borders of Territory Monitoring in Urban Spaces from Citizens’ Points of View in Bandar Abbas [PDF]
This research explored the social and cultural dimensions of monitoring urban spaces with a particular focus on the mental approaches and behavioral patterns of citizens in Bandar Abbas, Iran. Upon utilizing a descriptive and analytical methodology, data
Amirhamzeh Shahbazi +2 more
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