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2023
An exploration of the dramatic transformation of London's financial district after 1945, viewed at four spatial scales: city, street, facade, interior. In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World
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An exploration of the dramatic transformation of London's financial district after 1945, viewed at four spatial scales: city, street, facade, interior. In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World
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Journal of Urban History, 2014
This article examines the racialization of urban space in early twentieth-century Bangkok. After a general strike in 1910, the Siamese monarchy represented itself in urban space as the leaders of a sovereign nation with a racial Other in its midst.
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This article examines the racialization of urban space in early twentieth-century Bangkok. After a general strike in 1910, the Siamese monarchy represented itself in urban space as the leaders of a sovereign nation with a racial Other in its midst.
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2015
This chapter explores past and contemporary practices developed to reduce climatic stress in urban areas. The concept of urban climate design captures a set of measures advanced to mitigate adverse atmospheric effects of growth, morphology and socio-economic metabolism in urban areas.
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This chapter explores past and contemporary practices developed to reduce climatic stress in urban areas. The concept of urban climate design captures a set of measures advanced to mitigate adverse atmospheric effects of growth, morphology and socio-economic metabolism in urban areas.
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Built City, Planned City, Virtual City: the City Museum
Planning Perspectives, 2012"Built city, planned city, virtual city: the city museum" is he name of an Italian research project reasserting the role of urban historians and the historical and humanistic disciplines in defining the scope and content of the city museum.
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The Pagan City, the Christian City, and the Secular City
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017This essay, given as the first of three lectures comprising the Charles E. Test Lectures at the Madison program at Princeton in May 2017, initiates the project of defending T. S. Eliot’s suggestion that the future of Western societies will be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism.” The essay attempts to give an account of ...
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Urban Studies, 2006
Can the contemporary city qualify as the topos of the good life, as it has in classical literature on human emancipation? As geographical entities, cities are hardly discernible places with distinct identities. They have become an endless inhabited sprawl without clear boundaries and they have become sites of extraordinary circulation and translocal ...
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Can the contemporary city qualify as the topos of the good life, as it has in classical literature on human emancipation? As geographical entities, cities are hardly discernible places with distinct identities. They have become an endless inhabited sprawl without clear boundaries and they have become sites of extraordinary circulation and translocal ...
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Scientific American, 2011
A diagram is presented which demonstrates measures cities can use to be more environmentally friendly such as harnessing wave power, installing storm-surge gates, and heating water with solar energy.
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A diagram is presented which demonstrates measures cities can use to be more environmentally friendly such as harnessing wave power, installing storm-surge gates, and heating water with solar energy.
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2015
Cities today are products. The urban experience is commodified into marketable items by urban entrepreneurs. Urban administrations, city marketers, politicians, local businesses and other actors all over the world are developing entrepreneurial strategies to sell their city.
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Cities today are products. The urban experience is commodified into marketable items by urban entrepreneurs. Urban administrations, city marketers, politicians, local businesses and other actors all over the world are developing entrepreneurial strategies to sell their city.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2019
The city is where translation takes place across a wide variety of idioms, regional variants and languages which are not necessarily ‘foreign’ one to the other, but share common references and in some cases a common sense of entitlement to the city. Meanwhile, it puts pressure on translation as a clearly bounded concept, making it a wide category of ...
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The city is where translation takes place across a wide variety of idioms, regional variants and languages which are not necessarily ‘foreign’ one to the other, but share common references and in some cases a common sense of entitlement to the city. Meanwhile, it puts pressure on translation as a clearly bounded concept, making it a wide category of ...
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2016
This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions. With contributions from leading scholars, and case studies from the Global North and South, from small to large scale cities, this book ...
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This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions. With contributions from leading scholars, and case studies from the Global North and South, from small to large scale cities, this book ...
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