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Analysis of Urban Culture and Urban Design

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2012
Urban culture is a city soul, it's development is continuity, regional and highly inclusive. Deep thinking and analysis of the contact between urban culture and urban design,guide the city to create a perfect urban image, is the development aspirations of the times.
Y. S. Wang, X.S. Yang
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Culture Stories:Understanding Cultural urban Branding

Planning Theory, 2007
This article argues for a narrative approach to the study of urban branding and planning and presents an analytical framework for understanding narratives and place. The notion of the `representational logics of urban intervention' captures this idea that urban branding interventions are guided by certain representations and embedded in certain norms ...
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Urban Nightlife Cultures

2019
This chapter reviews various policy-related aspects of urban nightlife, such as technological and “soft” surveillance, moral panics, and gender, to deepen our understanding of how governance, cultures, and economies of urban nightlife produce the mediated city. More specifically, it shows that technologies and practices of communication are an integral
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Urbanization and Urban Cultures

2013
Urbanization and the creation of distinctive urban cultures are amongst the most dramatic social transformations in modern African history. This chapter considers the emergence of the field of African urban studies in the late colonial period, as sociologists began to research new forms of town life, and traces the development of a fully fledged urban ...
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Urban Culture, Urban Cultural Landscape

2014
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the relationship between the concepts of “culture” and “cultural landscape,” both regarding the actual urban space. As the semantic spheres of these terms overlap, there are many other almost similar approaches, but tributary to specific areas—as “cultural geography,” “cultural anthropology,” “cultural ...
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The urban university and urban culture

The Urban Review, 1978
We have briefly described an urban university in contrast to the traditional university, and we have recommended several strategies for changing the traditional university. The urban university plays a much more important role in the intellectual life of the urban community.
William L. Blizek, Robert B. Simpson
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CULTURE AND URBAN MENTAL HEALTH

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2001
The previous panoramic view provides sufficient evidence that cultural understanding of urban realities and expressions of their impact on mental health are necessary for a successful approach to mental health in cities. The issues go beyond understanding how urban realties and cultural issues differ in New York from Jakarta; every city has a variety ...
G, Caracci, J E, Mezzich
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Development Cultures and Urban Regeneration

Urban Studies, 2002
The importance of levering private finance and investment into urban regeneration is a central consideration of policy. Attention has focused on institutional investors' motives for holding regeneration investments and on how they might be encouraged to put more money into inner-city areas.
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Irish Urban Cultures

American Ethnologist, 1997
Irish Urban Cultures. CHRIS CURTIN, HASTINGS DONNAN, and THOMAS M. WILSON, eds. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1994. xi + 271 pp., tables, notes, references, index.
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