The Rebirth of the Neighborhood [PDF]
, 2013 This essay argues that new urban residents primarily seek a type of community properly called a neighborhood. “Neighborhood” refers to a legible, pedestrian-scale area that has an identity apart from the corporate and bureaucratic structures that ...
Byrne, J. Peter
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‘Of course we must be equal, but …’: imagining gendered futures in two rural Southern African secondary schools [PDF]
, 2002 Based on focus group discussions held with students at rural secondary schools in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, this paper argues that secondary schools provide important spaces for the (re)construction of gendered identities among rural girls in southern Africa.
Ansell, N
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Analysis of factors affecting the evolution of the sign system and the duality of identity in the urban context with a semiotic approach [PDF]
تحقیقات کاربردی علوم جغرافیایی, 2021 In today's urban planning, the paraphrastic processes of symbolic systems in the city, which aim to show the social and cultural meaning of the physical environment, have received less attention, and most urban contexts, regardless of significant and ...
azadeh atashpanjeh +2 more
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Significant of teritorry to increase sense of place in behavioural settlements [PDF]
, 2009 Cities have transformed collecting public places into private spaces. While in the past, public places as an urban place had a specific identity for themselves.
Adi Irfan, +4 more
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Urban Low-Income African American Men, HIV/AIDS, and Gender Identity [PDF]
, 1997 This article explores the sociocultural meanings attached to sexual behaviors and conceptions of masculinity among low-income African-American males.
Tony L. Whitehead
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Playground of gender : cross-dressing and self-mutilation as negation of gender identity in Tanja Duckers’s Spielzone (1999) [PDF]
, 2014 Although it is an outstanding example of writing life as negotiation of gender roles as well as exploration of the body as site of identity constructs, Tanja Dückers’s novel Spielzone, published in 1999, has not yet received the critical attention it ...
Dautel, Katrin
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Social Networks and Labor Market Entry Barriers: Understanding Inter-industrial Wage Differentials in Urban China [PDF]
An entry barrier in the labor market can be an important source of wage inequality. This paper finds that social networks, father's education and political status, and urban household registration status (hukou identity), as well as their own education ...
Hiroshi Sato, Ming Lu, Zhao Chen
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Predicting and simulating future land use pattern : a case study of Seremban district [PDF]
, 2007 As long as rapid urbanization which is a result of natural population growth and rural urban migration due to push and pull factors of social and economic conditions as well as the moving of urban populations from major city centres to urban fringe areas
Shamsuddin, Shamsaini, Yaakup, Ahris
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’Team GB’ and London 2012: The Paradox of National and Global Identities [PDF]
, 2010 This article explores the problems associated with ’national identity’ in the UK and examines the tensions arising between the international and local dimensions of the games through examples of domestic (UK) and international (Brazil, Chicago) media ...
MacRury, Iain, Poynter, G.
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Public perception of urban identity in post-Soviet city: the case of Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2019 This study deals with urban identity in Vinnytsia, one of the most economically vibrant Ukrainian cities, arguably known as a fiefdom of key Ukrainian power holders since the Euromaidan. Assuming that urban space may be treated simultaneously as a mirror
Anatoliy Melnychuk, Oleksiy Gnatiuk
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