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Cultural Planning for Urban Spaces: Cultural Turn of Contemporary Urban Planning
Advanced Materials Research, 2013Urban 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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The China Quarterly, 2005
over the past decade, urban residents have experienced a consumer revolution at multiple levels. in terms of material standard of living, sustained economic growth has dramatically increased spending on discretionary consumer purchases and urbanites have enthusiastically consumed globally branded foodstuffs, pop-music videos and fashion.
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over the past decade, urban residents have experienced a consumer revolution at multiple levels. in terms of material standard of living, sustained economic growth has dramatically increased spending on discretionary consumer purchases and urbanites have enthusiastically consumed globally branded foodstuffs, pop-music videos and fashion.
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Urban History, Culture and Urban Ethnography
City & Society, 2000Three 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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Urbanity: Influences of Urbanness, Structure, and Culture
Social Science Research, 2001Abstract Our objective is to explore the adequacy of traditional structural explanations for the often-documented association between size of place and urbanity traits and to raise the possibility that cultural factors, too often neglected in urban sociology, play an important role in this relationship.
Charles R. Tittle, Harold G. Grasmick
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2019
Abstract This chapter argues that the density of law-courts deeply conditioned the way in which townspeople engaged with legal institutions in late-medieval towns. The proximity of so many legal institutions may have made it easier for townspeople to sue in the jurisdiction best suited to their litigation; but more important than any ...
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Abstract This chapter argues that the density of law-courts deeply conditioned the way in which townspeople engaged with legal institutions in late-medieval towns. The proximity of so many legal institutions may have made it easier for townspeople to sue in the jurisdiction best suited to their litigation; but more important than any ...
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Urban visions: from urban planning culture to landscape urbanism
Planning Perspectives, 2017In his foreword to Urban Visions: From Urban Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism, Rafael Moneo celebrates the book as a valuable reminder of those studies in urbanism, a compendium of singular m...
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Creativity, Culture and Urban Strategies: A Fallacy in Cultural Urban Strategies
European Planning Studies, 2012Two 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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CULTURE, SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN REGENERATION [PDF]
Revista Economica, 2014 Concerns about the conflict between economy, development on one hand and urban cultural heritage on the other hand, have made the urban development to be lately one of the most important themes at European level. Also, another issue of concern is social equity, aiming to strike a balance between economic development and equal access to culture for all ...
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