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Cadernos MetrópoleNeste artigo, revisitamos as narrativas construídas sobre as migrações internas no Peru e a explosão urbana de Lima na segunda metade do século XX, de modo a investigar a sua permanência e destacado protagonismo – sobretudo em comparação com outras ...
Beatriz Silveira Castro Filgueiras
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Subaltern imaginaries of localism: constructions of place, space and democracy in community-led housing organisations. [PDF]
, 2013 The localism strategies of the UK government provide a suite of ‘rights’ for community organisations that licence place-based political imaginaries with the intent to construct the community as a proxy for a smaller state.
Bradley, Q
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Conformal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Cylindrical Geometry Perspective
Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.Cylindrical reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are explored for low‐complexity beam steering using one‐bit meta‐atoms. A multi‐level modeling approach, including optimization‐based synthesis, demonstrates that even minimal hardware can support directive scattering.
Filippo Pepe +4 more
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Trans-Pacific Imaginaries and Queer Intimacies in the Ruins of Middlesex [PDF]
, 2018 Taking up Roland Barthes’s concept of the “third meaning,” Kojima analyzes the character of Julie Kikuchi, the Japanese American love interest of the grown-up Cal. Taking Julie seriously as a character beyond mere plot contrivance and cultural reference,
Kojima, Dai
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Time, Politics and Homelessness in Contemporary Japan [PDF]
, 2017 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Vij, Ritu
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Adapting to informality: multistory housing driven by a co-productive process and the People’s Plans in Metro Manila, Philippines [PDF]
, 2020 Faced with an ever-increasing demand for land in Metro Manila, as well as with the domination of standardised low-income housing models, the local civil society and the urban-poor sector embarked on the development of an alternative shelter approach in ...
Galuszka, Jakub
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability labels can help support consumers select more socially and environmentally friendly options, thereby enhancing returns for conscientious producers and promoting the transition to a more sustainable food system. However, consumer confusion regarding labels' meaning undermines their effectiveness.
Monika Hartmann +4 more
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Daya, 2018 Gentrification is a concept that has been applied essentially to urban areas except on its analysis of public spaces. Our approach is focused on a special way of analyzing gentrification in non-residential areas.
Marcela Blacio-Valdivieso
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Urban space and the posthuman imaginary [PDF]
, 2018 This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries on 28.09.18, available online: https://www.routledge.com ...
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