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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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Why, what, and how? case study on law, risk, and decision making as necessary themes in built environment teaching [PDF]
, 2009 The paper considers (and defends) the necessity of including legal studies as a core part of built environment undergraduate and postgraduate curricula.
Anderson R. C. +21 more
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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 +2 more
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Surrealist Curation: Urban Domesticity Through the Surrealist Poetics of Analogy
European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2020 The tactic of surrealist poetic analogy forms the surrealist curation that functions as an agent that occupies, engages, and ultimately transforms the city and its built environment that surrounds us.
Ke Sun
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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
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Land, 2019 In recent years, a new era of interventionism has emerged targeting the development of African cities, manifested in ‘fantasy’ urban plans, surging infrastructure investments and global policy agendas.
Murtah Shannon
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Digital play and the actualisation of the consumer imagination [PDF]
, 2007 In this article, the authors consider emerging consumer practices in digital virtual spaces. Building on constructions of consumer behavior as both a sense-making activity and a resource for the construction of daydreams, as well as anthropological ...
Denegri-Knott, Janice, Molesworth, Mike
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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
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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 ...
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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
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