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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Baghdad the City of Cultural Heritage and Monumental Islamic Architecture

Disegnare con, 2020
The urban form of Baghdad city has changed as the complexity of its systems has increased. The traditional urban form of the historic core of Baghdad (Old Rusafa) has been influenced by social, cultural, and religious factors. Baghdad old centre has much
Mazin Al-Saffar
doaj  

MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lightning protection in the monumental buildings

Bezpieczeństwo i Technika Pożarnicza, 2010
В статье обсуждена проблематика проектирования внешней противомолниевой инсталляции, которая инсталлируется на памятниках архитектуры, в которых находятся электронные устройства. Охрана объекта заключается в его оборудовании во внешнюю противомолниевую инсталляцию, которая будет охватывать также радиоустановки наружу здания и полное обеспечение всех ...
Dłużniewski, Artur, John, Łukasz
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Building a Monument to the “Truth about War”: ISÔKO’s Monument in Rwanda and in Toronto

, 2013
This thesis tests the limits of applied theatre production by examining performances of Colleen Wagner’s play The Monument by ISÔKO: The Theatre Source, an intercultural Canadian-Rwandan theatre company. I detail how ISÔKO challenged discourses that normalize the notion of forgiveness when they performed at makeshift theatres in Rwanda (2008-2011) and ...
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Measuring levelling up in a many‐dimensioned world: an application to the United Kingdom

Fiscal Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The analysis of regional growth or levelling up in income, health and human resources is a challenge as it involves measuring growth multidimensionally with ordered categorical variables. The lack of a cardinal measure and the ambiguity inherent in its arbitrary cardinalisation is the source of the problem.
Gordon Anderson, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay   +1 more
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Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Philibert Weenink   +2 more
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