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Urban agriculture in Kathmandu as a catalyst for the civic inclusion of migrants and the making of a greener city

Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2020
This research explores the opportunities offered for the creation of a green city on the recently secured Bagmati riverbanks in Kathmandu, which is subject to rapid inward migration from landless rural farmers. The research asks what architectural theory
Maurice Mitchell, Amara Roca Iglesias
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Methods for Uncovering Discourses That Shape the Urban Imaginary in Helsinki's Smart City

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
In modern urban environments the technologies that are basic to everyday life have become further embedded in that life. Smart cities are one example of the acceleration of technological change in order to engage with urban sustainability challenges ...
Sara Zaman, Sara Zaman, Corinna Hertweck, Corinna Hertweck   +3 more
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Cultural value perception in the memorable tourism experience [PDF]

, 2013
Tourism management curriculum, if its ultimate objective is to give an introduction to the modern trends in tourism management and marketing and to prepare future destination managers, must inevitably incorporate – together with all their theoretical and
Horvath, Zsuzsanna
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Hos in the garden: staging and resisting neoliberal creativity [PDF]

, 2016
This article takes up the challenge of extending and enhancing the literature on arts interventions and creative city policies by considering the role of feminist and queer artistic praxis in contemporary urban politics.
McLean, Heather
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Global technology companies and the politics of urban socio-technical imaginaries in the digital age: Processual proxies, Trojan horses and global beachheads

Environment and Planning, 2021
In this paper, we take the concept of ‘new urban spaces’ as our jumping off point to engage with the efforts of Alphabet/Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs to cultivate a new integrated digital and infrastructural urban space on the Toronto waterfront.
M. Hodson, A. McMeekin
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Elijah Anderson’s “Iconic Ghetto” as Transatlantic Template? Problematic Traveling Imaginaries, Future Scripts, and Postindustrial Ruhr Cities

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2020
This article explores the presence and function of American templates of the stereotypical “ghetto” in the transnational urban imagination, taking the cities of the German Ruhr region as an example.
Chris Katzenberg
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Imaginaires de l’abandon et pratiques touristiques à Détroit : des marges urbaines entre stigmatisation et valorisation

Mondes du Tourisme, 2022
This article analyses the articulation between repulsive spatial imaginaries and tourist practices based on the case of Detroit, Michigan. An emblematic space of urban crisis and decline, Detroit is now undergoing a selective redevelopment that feeds ...
Aude Le Gallou
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Critical Semiotic Analysis and Cultural Political Economy. [PDF]

, 2004
A case is made for cultural political economy (CPE) by exploring the constitutive role of semiosis in economic and political activities, economic and political institutions, and social order more generally. CPE is a post-disciplinary approach that adopts
Jessop, Bob
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Port-City Transition: Past and Emerging Socio-Spatial Imaginaries and Uses in Rotterdam’s Makers District

Urban Planning, 2021
This article explores old and emerging socio-spatial imaginaries and uses of Rotterdam’s Makers District. The district comprises two urban harbors—Merwe Vierhavens and Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij—historically in use as bustling trade, storage ...
Maurice Jansen, Amanda Brandellero, Rosanne van Houwelingen   +2 more
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On handling urban informality in southern Africa [PDF]

, 2013
In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
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