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Who were the urban gentry? Social elites in an English provincial town, c.1680-1760 [PDF]
, 2011 This paper explores the identity and social worlds of the ‘urban gentry’ of Chester as they developed from the late seventeenth to the mid eighteenth century.
Stobart, Jon
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Urban Places as Aesthetic Phenomena: Framework for a Place-Based Ontology of Urban Lifeworld [PDF]
Topoi, 2019 AbstractUrban places are of central significance for cities both as built structures and as centers of everyday life. Due to the emergence of various design-led place-making policies and practices, “urban place” has largely become a marketed and branded product.
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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past [PDF]
, 2014 Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-
Alves, Susana
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Tree-squares in Anatolia : what does an emergent public space mean? [PDF]
, 2015 Urban places, besides their physical characteristics, are regarded as grounds where personal or collective meanings are created and accumulated. An individual can capture the meaning of a place, or create new meanings by relying on his/her own feelings ...
Cihanger Medeiros Ribeiro, Duygu
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Urban geography: urban growth machine [PDF]
, 2009 Urban growth machine is an influential thesis of urban politics that suggests the objective of growth unites otherwise pluralistic interests in relation to a city.
Rodgers, Scott
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The Appropriation of Space [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, I study some aspects of urban environment using the concept of non-place intro- duced by Marc Augé in 1995. I first define the concepts of space, place and non-place.
Bruchansky, Christophe
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Rural to Urban Population Density Scaling of Crime and Property Transactions in English and Welsh Parliamentary Constituencies [PDF]
, 2016 Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most rural to heavily urban ...
Hanley, QS, Lewis, D, Ribeiro, HV
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Religion and urban regeneration: a place for faith? [PDF]
, 2004 The British government has identified 'faith communities' as a neglected resource in urban regeneration. This article first explores the context of official support for faith involvement in urban and neighbourhood policy and identifies the assumptions ...
Furbey, R., Macey, M.
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Giving urban policy its 'medical': assessing the place of health in area-based regeneration [PDF]
, 2006 How does regeneration affect health and how have successive urban policy evaluations sought to measure such impacts? This article draws on a systematic review of national-level evaluation documentation relating to government-funded, area-based ...
Atkinson, R. +3 more
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Adaptive BehaviorWe draw on insights from ecological psychology, explorative architecture, and psychiatry to provide an analysis of basic trust in relation to urban places. We use the term basic trust to refer to the attitude of certainty we express when we act in skilled, often unreflective, habitual ways in the living environment.
David Habets +3 more
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