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Libraries in urban cultural politics

Journal of Documentation
Purpose There are few studies that delve into decision-making within library policymaking. Libraries are rarely a political priority, and this study provides insight into the rationales behind these large library investments. Design/methodology/approach
Sunniva Evjen, Ragnar Andreas Audunson, Eeva-Liisa Eskola   +2 more
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Experiences from the Urban Computing Impact on Urban Culture

2012 16th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, 2012
In this paper we present CLIO an urban computing system used to form and interact with the collective city memory, formed by shared citizens' recollections. Our goal has been to study the impact of such a system on the urban culture and in particular how it alters the city, the perception of people about the city and the communication among people.
Eleni Christopoulou, Dimitris Ringas, Michail Stefanidakis   +2 more
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Creativity, Culture and Urban Strategies: A Fallacy in Cultural Urban Strategies

European Planning Studies, 2012
Two fields of knowledge have been of special importance for the emergence of culture-led urban planning in Norwegian cities: one concerns the understanding of the potential of culture as an economic driving force in urban regeneration, while the other focuses on the emergence of the concept of the “creative class” and has drawn attention to the ...
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Cultural Planning for Urban Spaces: Cultural Turn of Contemporary Urban Planning

Advanced Materials Research, 2013
Urban cultural crisis becomes a common phenomenon under the background of current globalized wave and rapid urbanization; the traditional city planning emphasizes on shaping material spatial form and lacks deep understanding and respect towards city culture, leading to the loss of city characteristics. It mainly because the cultural values of the urban
Ling Huang, Wan Min Zhao
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Urban History, Culture and Urban Ethnography

City & Society, 2000
Three instances of Louise Tilly's influence on and engagements with anthropology are discussed: first, her work on families, households, and women's work; second, her critique of anthropology for descriptions lodged in "the ethnographic present" rather than in real past and present events; third, a call for documenting political process and collective ...
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THE EFFECTS OF URBAN CULTURE ON URBAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

2023
Today, the urban scale is at least as decisive as the national scale in discussing the facts such as economic growth, innovation, technological progress, human resources, power and management issues. The crisis that global capital entered after the 1970s, was tried to be overcome with new urban policies that made cities compete with each other.
KARAMAN, Uğur, KARASU, Mithat Arman
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Perspectives on Urban Culture

1993
The early urban sociologists, especially those associated with the Chicago School, were intent on probing the forms of social interaction found in cities. Borrowing the concept of sociation from Simmel they examined the informal social relations which existed in different parts of the city and which underpinned everyday life for various social groups ...
Mike Savage, Alan Warde
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Urban Cultural Policies

1996
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The Culture of Urban Control

2013
The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era explores and analyzes the growth and expansion of the United States’ largest single-site urban jail system. Through an analysis of a United States Federal Court initiated consent decree this research provides a narrative of criminal justice policy, politics and legal maneuvering ...
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Urbanization of Athens: An Urban Center without Urban Culture?

Journal of Economics & Management Research
This article examines the rapid urbanization of Athens during the 1950s–1970s (from 1.500.000 to 2.650.000 people) focusing on internal migration from rural Greece, the transfer of rural culture to the capital, and its consequences for the development of urban culture.
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