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URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND URBAN POLICY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
During the last decade, in many European countries and cities, area-based Urban Development Programmes have been initiated, in response to major problems of poverty and social exclusion.
Tosics, Ivan   +5 more
core   +1 more source

What is the gender of a city? Odonyms and spatial genderization: An example of the City of Novi Sad [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2020
Observing the city as a system of signs - the names of streets, monuments, architectural elements and entities through which the state and other institutions of power reflect the desired social narratives, including gendered reading of the ...
Jakovljević-Šević Tijana
doaj   +1 more source

TOPONIM WILAYAH KOTA PEKANBARU: ETNISITAS, PENGGUNAAN BAHASA, DAN CAMPUR KODE

open access: yesParadigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya, 2023
Urban areas have developed rapidly in terms of demography and culture. This is because urban areas attract people who are searching for higher income and a better life than those in rural areas. Demographical and cultural development in urban areas often
Satwiko Budiono   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The flexible urban grid: adaptation, expansion and evolution in Philadelphia's city block morphology

open access: yes, 2023
This study examines the evolution of Philadelphia’s city block morphology between 1683, when the city was planned by William Penn, and 1900, when urban expansion abandoned the grid. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative assessment.
Brent Ryan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Calculating population density for MOLAND in the Dublin urban area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The EPA-funded Urban Environment Project seeks to apply MOLAND, a cellular automata based model, to predict a range of urban impacts in the Greater Dublin Region from 2006 onwards.
Foley, Ronan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The city through the prism of names (book review: Urban Toponymy: Modern Naming Policies and Practices: Monograph, by M.V. Golomidova, R.V. Razumov, A.V. Dmitrieva, et al., ed. by M.V. Golomidova, S.O. Goryaev. Yekaterinburg, Ural University Press, 2023, 216 p.)

open access: yesНеофилология
The monograph by Russian researchers from Yekaterinburg and Yaroslavl, dedicated to the analysis of urban naming theory and the practical implementation of its principles in the formation of Russian urban toponymy in a systematic diachronic perspective ...
V. I. Suprun
doaj   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

Faire territoire : logiques de la dénomination des communes nouvelles françaises

open access: yesL'Espace Politique
This paper aims at geographically analyze the names of the 778 new municipalities (“communes nouvelles”), created in France between 2012 and January 1, 2021.
Gabriel Bideau, Frédéric Giraut
doaj   +1 more source

Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

The renaming of streets in post-revolutionary Ukraine: regional strategies to construct a new national identity

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2018
After the 2014 revolution, a massive renaming of toponyms related to the communist ideology took place in Ukraine. The results of this renaming help understand the essentiality of Ukrainian delayed post-socialist and post-colonial transition and, in ...
Olexiy Gnatiuk
doaj   +1 more source

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