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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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Discriminatively Trained Latent Ordinal Model for Video Classification
, 2017 We study the problem of video classification for facial analysis and human action recognition. We propose a novel weakly supervised learning method that models the video as a sequence of automatically mined, discriminative sub-events (eg.
Sharma, Gaurav, Sikka, Karan
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Teaching Olympic values through Olympic Education
, 2015 Rad i predavanje govore o povijesti Olimpijskih vrijednosti i Olimpijskoga obrazovanja te načinima i mogućnostima njihove provedbe u obrazovnim sustavima.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Marketplaces, crucial sites for low‐income populations as sources of affordable goods and social interaction, are at a critical juncture. They are experiencing decline due to the rise of shopping centres and neglect by public authorities, while at the same time being rediscovered as tourist attractions, sources of profit and tools for urban ...
Francesca Ru
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Grounds for Argument: Local Understandings, Science, and Global Processes in Special Forest Products Harvesting [PDF]
, 1997 In posing the question Where are the pickers? , Love and Jones suggest that the shifting paradigm in forestry is real and that academia is not leading the shift.
Jones, Eric, Love, Thomas
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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ACROSSThis article examines, filtering through the core beliefs of the Humanistic Movement, correlations of the Olympic Games, tracing their development from their origins in Ancient Greece to their modern revival and transformation.
Gheorghe BRANIȘTE +2 more
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The Olympic transport legacy [PDF]
, 2010 This article examine sustainable transport provision for the London 2012Olympics and its intended legacy role in economic and social regeneration across East London. It concludes that ultimately, legacy success will depend on the ability to adapt to, and
Ieromonachou, Petros +2 more
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Olympism, Olympic Values and Transgender Athletes: A Difficult Coexistence
The Olympic Games are considered as the ultimate event, the embodiment of excellence, respect and inclusiveness, but the issue of transgender people’s participation in sports has become a subject that threatens the equilibrium between equity, tolerance, and honesty.
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