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Les ambivalences d’un rêve urbain : filmer les villes du Golfe

Arabian Humanities, 2019
Based on the study of local Gulf cinema, Western cinema and South‑Asian diasporic films, this study aims to analyze the visual grammar used by film directors to interpret the new urban environment of the Oil states in the Gulf.
Thomas Richard
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Imagens e narrativas da Coimbra turística: Entre a cidade real e a cidade (re)imaginada

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2008
At a time when we witness growing tourist fascination for towns and cities, this article seeks to understand how Coimbra presents itself to the outside world, to tourists and visitors. With the historical and monumental town having become one of the main
Carina Sousa Gomes
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Future Urban Imaginaries:

, 2022
The book this chapter appears in is available on Open Access at: https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463727037 Brunel Research Development Fund; University of ...
Degen, M, Ward, I
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Urban Interiority and the Spatial Processes of Securitisation in Medellin

Interiority, 2018
Medellín, Colombia, a city best known for its violent history and subsequent radical transformation, hosts multiple political forces of varying degrees of legitimacy.
Christina Deluchi
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The representation of Quito’s southern neighborhoods in the last mayoral election. Isotropy deficit or shortage of respect?

Íconos, 2020
The last mayoral election in Quito produced a totally unexpected outcome, which contradicted all polls published before the election. Early attempts to explain the results centered on the voting patterns of the city´s southern neighborhoods, which ...
Alfredo Santillán
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The mobile internet in the wild and every day: Digital leisure in the slums of urban India [PDF]

, 2015
The wild and the everyday point at once to twinned aspects of life and, in this article, to a technological imaginary drawing upon the use of the mobile internet in urban slums of India.
Arora, P.A. (Payal), Rangaswamy, N. (Nimmi)   +1 more
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Authors Challenge Existing Paradigms

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2022
Review of the book: Jo-Anne Dillabough and Jacqueline Kennelly. (2010). Lost Youth in the Global City: Class, Culture and the Urban Imaginary. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415995580 (paperback).
Jeena Owens
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A 'Performative' Social Movement: The Emergence of Collective Contentions within Collaborative Governance [PDF]

, 2012
The enmeshment of urban movements in networks of collaborative governance has been characterised as a process of co-option in which previously disruptive contentions are absorbed by regimes and reproduced in ways that do not threaten the stability of ...
Aldbourne Associates, Austin J. L., Barnes M., Barnes M., Barnes M., Barron A., Bell C., Bengtsson B., Beresford P., Butler J., Butler J., Butler J., Butler J., Card P., Castells M., Clapham D., Clarke J., Cochrane A., Cole I., Cress D. I., DCLG, DCLG, DCLG (Department Of Communities and Local Government), Dwelly T., Flint J., Fyfe N., Gibson-Graham J. K., Goodlad R., Grayson J., Hamel P., Hart C., Hirschman A., Hirschman A., IRIS Consulting, Jenkins J. C., Kavoulakos K.-I., Leitner H., Lowe S., Mayer M., McAdam D., McKee K., McNay L., Melucci A., Melucci A., Millward L., Mueller C., National Tenants Voice Project Group, Newman J., Nicholls W., Paddison R., Piven F. F., Pruijt H., Quintin Bradley, Richardson A., Riseborough M., Simmons R., Sullivan H., Swynegedouw E., Tarrow S., Taylor V., Taylor V., Tilly C., Townsend J., TSA (Tenant Services Authority), Zald M.   +64 more
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Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics: Critical Inquiries from Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021
The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to temperate peoples due to the hostility
Anita Lundberg, Kalala Ngalamulume, Jean Segata, Arbaayah Ali Termizi, Chrystopher J. Spicer   +4 more
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La mise en paysage du Front de Seine : de la ville du futur à la ville durable (1960-2010)

Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2013
The Front the Seine is an emblematic project of the modernization of Paris in the 1960s. Over the last years, it underwent an extensive renovation, under the label of sustainability.
Marie-Madeleine Ozdoba
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