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Informal and revolutionary feminist placemaking. [PDF]
Front SociolUrban spaces, often emerging outside formal, recognized boundaries, underscore the pivotal role women play in shaping these environments. Despite the enduring influence of patriarchal and hierarchical structures that render these spaces overtly gendered,
Mehan A.
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On-Premise Signage and Placemaking: Aiding Lively Streetscapes to Maintain Signage Visibility
Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding, 2023 Placemaking is an initiative with roots in the 1960s and 70s to enhance public life in the urban setting. This complex notion requires multiple disciplines, flexibility, and a human-centric approach toward development.
Robert Dalton, Sahand Abbasi, Seojoo Han
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Tourism and the city: towards new models?
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2016 Globalisation and new information technology are bringing significant changes to tourism. Tourism experiences are now increasingly being co-produced by tourism companies, tourists and local residents.
Greg Richards
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Revisiting the “Model of Place”: A Comparative Study of Placemaking and Sustainability
Urban Planning, 2019 The literature on sustainability policies and placemaking strategies reveals the inadequacy of both concepts to address current urban issues suggesting the need for new approaches.
Ensiyeh Ghavampour, Brenda Vale
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Riverside Placemaking outside Big Cities—The Case Study of Three Polish Rivers
Land, 2023 Most placemaking activities have both tangible and intangible aspects. However, the most significant division line comes from the driving force behind the process, which can be either top-down formal actions or bottom-up informal ones.
Dawid Soszyński +1 more
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When in Doubt, Go to the Library? Libraries & Rural Creative Placemaking
Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2020 As rural communities confront increasing challenges and escalating social problems, a variety of interventions have been proposed, including creative placemaking. Creative placemaking is a bottom-up approach to cultural policy development (Redaelli, 2018
B. Kathleen Gallagher
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Urban ScienceThis article explores the extent of ECoCs (European Capitals of Culture) as placemaking laboratories. Methodologically, this study employed a mixed-methods approach.
Mădălina Glonți, Nicolae Popa
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Social Media + Society, 2023 While Dubai, the small emirate in the United Arab Emirates, tends to be associated with luxurious social media images of elite social actors, startling architecture, and consumer status symbols, this study addresses migrant, domestic, and service workers’
Zoe Hurley
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Urban Planning, 2021 The active use of modern technology has affected the relationship between people and place. The “digital environment” and the “digital community” are becoming an increasingly important factor in people’s daily life, leading to a loss of belonging to a ...
Chih-ming Shih +12 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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