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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.
Guy, Simon, Henneberry, John, Rowley, Steven   +2 more
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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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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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Urbanity: Influences of Urbanness, Structure, and Culture

Social Science Research, 2001
Abstract 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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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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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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