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TRANSFORM – Governing the Smart City by Projects [PDF]
, 2014 With the recent ascendance of a sociology of public policy instruments (Le Gales & Lascoumes 2007), particular interest has been devoted towards understanding the emergence of the project as broadly indicative of wider transformations in strategic urban ...
Collon, Heidi +5 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Segregation measures and spatial autocorrelation - Location patterns of immigrant minorities in the Barcelona Region [PDF]
, 2005 Given the important growth of immigrants in Spain it would be interesting to study its distribution throughout the urban area. Statistics suggest different large traditional indices allowing to quantify the segregation of minority population groups ...
Hoberg, Karen +2 more
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Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy +2 more
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Urbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2013 A cidade de Belém no Pará passou por ampla reforma urbana no período de 1890-1911. Dentre os sujeitos que participaram deste processo de modernização da cidade, estão o Intendente Antônio Lemos e o engenheiro Francisco Bolonha. Neste artigo apresento uma
Adriana Modesto Coimbra
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Risk Propensity as a Function of Personality and Identity
Youth, 2023 Previous research has indicated a relationship between risk propensity and the Dark Tetrad personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism).
Reilly Branch, Steven L. Berman
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Urban geography: urban growth machine [PDF]
, 2009 Urban growth machine is an influential thesis of urban politics that suggests the objective of growth unites otherwise pluralistic interests in relation to a city.
Rodgers, Scott
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'Ibadan - a model of historical facts': militarism and civic culture in a Yoruba city [PDF]
, 1999 The article focuses on an historical relationship between the political institution of chieftaincy and civic pride in Ibadan, a Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria.
Watson, Ruth
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
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Urbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2013 Neste artigo, são analisados os planos diretores realizados pelo Centro de Pesquisa e Estudos Urbanísticos (CPEU), da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo.
Renata Monteiro Siqueira
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