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“Concentration? or dispersion? - a critical question to the Olympic city”-
In the long history of the Olympic movement, how to cluster and to locate competition stadia required for the Olympic Games them in an urban area have been a critical question for the Olympic city. In particular, after 1960s when the Olympic Games increased in size and required the huge numbers of competition venues, each [...]
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Mediations of “Green City” Conceptions
In the context of increasing environmental depletion I address how the construct of the “Green City” is mediated between the different realms of policy regulation, territorial boundaries and physical buildings.
My research incorporates two sets of issues. On the one hand I consider the lack of precise definitions of some key terms, disputable ascriptions of being [...] -
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From Flash Art to Flash Mob:an analysis of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
In relation to my thesis topic which explores social and cultural regeneration through art and architecture focusing on Tate Modern London, I will explore how the Turbine Hall has created a new paradigm of public space and assess the site in relation to the cultural, social and global. Through my research I will ask if [...]
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Writing a multi-ethnic street - the question of imagination
Writing is a process of exploration and a process of communication; both a finding out and a revealing. In his book ‘Telling about Society’, Becker (2007) raises the issue of the interpretive space created between the writer and the reader and in the matter of representing society, he considers the form and purpose of different [...]
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Shattered Mirrors: The Urban Imaginary in Violent Cities
This paper is interested in the connection between the urban imaginary – what Italo Calvino describes as a city’s “mirror image” in Invisible Cities – and urban experience, especially in the case of violent cities. The paper traces theoretical understandings of the urban imaginary, drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s construction of ‘monumentality’, Alev Cinar and Thomas [...]
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Walking Cities in Sound
How do we experience navigating urban space in times of ubiquitous mobile media such as cell phones, ipods or GPS? There is a strong but often unarticulated link between navigating space and sound: we listen for cars before crossing streets or choose an ipod soundtrack for the way to work. The “sonic turn” (Porcello, 2007) [...]
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Finding New Chinatowns: The Contemporary Immigrant Experience in the Contemporary Urban Region
Theorising the immigrant experience has, historically, considered this to be an essentially urban experience. I seek to explore how contemporary immigrants and immigrant communities in the American suburb are developing new individual and group identities through the daily experiences – shopping, eating, socialising and schooling – which they both construct and draw upon.
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How does the spatial configuration of a rapidly-growing city impact on urban insecurity? A case study of Bamako, Mali
The developing world is urbanising rapidly, and also suffers problems of security. How will the former affect the latter? We know enough about the causes of insecurity to predict that economic and social characteristics of contemporary urban growth—particularly increased income and welfare inequalities and social fragmentation—will likely exacerbate insecurity. But beyond those [...]
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Local Government in the Urban Age
This paper argues for both a more precise and a more fluid understanding of the organization of city governments, in particular in the so-called “global” cities investigated by the LSE’s Urban Age. The paper does so by providing a systematic overview of the different dimensions along which urban governments are designed, with specific reference [...]
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Planning on the Line: Linearity and Disciplinarity
The idea of the linear city and the design propositions through which it has been elaborated have not received sufficient historiographic attention, especially as regards their relationship to the formation of the discipline of city planning. Though distinctively linear city form is not unique to the modern era, the intentional, explicit, systematic – in a [...]
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