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SMART CITY CONTROL ROOMS: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Smart city control rooms are prominent components of the smart city discourse. They embody a long‐standing dream to visualize and manage multiple urban processes in real time through the collation of data flows. Previous research has produced important insights into the design, construction and operation of these facilities.
Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen, Jonathan Metzger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research on the Effect of Anti-Piracy Policy on Online Novel Platforms [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
Data from five major categories of Qidian Chinese websites from October 2021 to December 2022. (Fantasy, Urban, Qihuan, Martial Arts Hero, Xianxia) Panel data of the top 50 novels in the monthly vote list, using the staged Difference-in-Differences (DID).
Yang Shenglin
doaj   +1 more source

Watery words : language, sexuality,and motherhood in Joyce's fiction [PDF]

, 1980
The idea of a dangerous, dirty, or lifegiving stream of water, bodily fluids, or even words -- as if words were the essence of life itself -- recurs throughout Joyce's work and becomes the prevailing, dominant metaphor of Finnegans Wake.
Splitter, Randolph N.
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Fantasy

Urban fantasy, the genre of fantastic literature in which magic and monsters meet modern society, is fairly young but has old roots. Stefan Ekman’s book, Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, examines the genre in depth, including its inherent social commentary, its historical development, and its interplay between modernity and the ...
openaire   +4 more sources

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

Intertextuality in A. Salnikov’s novel “Occulttreger”

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
The features of the use of intertextual references in A. Salnikov’s novel “Occulttreger” are examined. The goal is to study the intertextual connections of the novel with works of various types of art (literature, music, cinema).
Daria L. Kulikova
doaj   +1 more source

Les nouvelles logiques spatiales du port de Barcelone : tourisme de croisière, aménagement et paysage

Études Caribéennes, 2011
The new spatial logical of Barcelona‘s port. Cruiser tourism, planning and landscape.As part of the management of urban banks to increase the Barcelona cruise shuttle, the catalan capital advantage of its amenities inherent to become the first ...
Patrice Ballester
doaj   +1 more source

Thug Realism: Inhabiting Fantasy in Urban Tanzania

Cultural Anthropology, 2002
One of the more compelling developments in contemporary sociocultural anthropology is its increasing attention to "the imagination." From the most spectacular fantasies to the most mundane reveries, imagining the world as it is and as it might be seems to be a rapidly expanding form of activity.
openaire   +2 more sources