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Revisiting Jane Jacobs’s Urban Complexity in Global Sustainability City Discourse

Architecture_MPS, 2021
Since the 1990s, a recurrent trope of the ‘global sustainable city’ has emerged in popular and professional discussions of globalization, sustainable development and urban innovation.
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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“Un lugar donde poder jugar”: espacio público e infancia = “Um lugar para brincar”: espaço público e infância = “A place to play”: public space and childhood

Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2023
Nas últimas décadas, uma tendência geral tem sido observada nas cidades ocidentais no sentido de cada vez menos uso dos espaços públicos por crianças. Embora, do ponto de vista psicológico, sejam amplamente conhecidas suas consequências negativas para as
Rodríguez, Alba Crusellas
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Walking Through Housing History: Creative Histories Beyond the Classroom

History, EarlyView.
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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Exploring resident-empowered meetingplaces in Dutch neighbourhoods: by Jane Jacobs Walking Action-research methodology

, 2016
The ‘Jane Jacobs Walk’ organization as one of the Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) heritage initiative supported three Jane Jacobs Walks of certified Fred Sanders in the period 2011 - 2014 in Amsterdam neighbourhoods.
Sanders, F.C., Sanders, F.C. (author)
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Auf den Spuren von Jane Jacobs: Über Trottoir-Ballett, Bevölkerungsbeteiligung und Vielfalt [PDF]

Am ersten Maiwochenende nehmen weltweit Tausende Menschen in verschiedenen Städten an einem Spaziergang zu Ehren von Jane Jacobs teil. Doch wer war eigentlich Jane Jacobs?
Teixeira Pinho, Joana, Lutz, Henriette
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THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT, ERANDI BARROSO OLMEDO, FRITZ‐JULIUS GRAFE   +2 more
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Critical voices from the 1960s: Jane Jacobs and the Epistemological Critiques to the Technocratic Planning Model

, 2018
During the 1960s, different critical voices emerged with regard to the main gaps of rational comprehensive planning, or as we will define it, technocratic planning (what Jacobs calls ‘modern, orthodox city planning’), voices highlighting the ...
C. Pacchi
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