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Villa 31: Regeneration as a Consequence of Social Urbanism
The contemporary urgency of understanding informality and its methods of intervention has driven a growing academic interest in the topic. For a long...
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Public Aspects of Colonial Urbanism on the East African Coast
This chapter is focused on the colonial period on the coast of East Africa, mainly in what is today Kenya and Tanzania. The period is defined...
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Public Spaces in Context with Colonial Urbanism in Morocco
This chapter deals with the period of the French Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956), namely its first decade, and the influence of French colonial...
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Understanding Urbanism
By 2050 almost 70 per cent of the world’s people are predicted to live in cities. This chapter begins with a discussion about the difference between...
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European Medicine for American Urbanism
In this chapter I examine the work of Victor Gruen and Eliel Saarinen, two architects who left Europe in the early part of their careers and led...
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The City and the Abandonment of Public Space. Between Neoliberal and Citizen Urbanism
This text reflects on the cityCities and the influence of urban neoliberalismNeoliberalism in the destruction of historical and culturalHeritage...
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Trickle-out Urbanism: Are Johannesburg’s Gated Estates Good for Their Poor Neighbours?
In 2015, the billionaire Douw Steyn launched a mixed-use megaproject 27 km north of downtown Johannesburg. Plans for Steyn City include 10,000...
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Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz
The concept of low-density urbanism has developed in archaeology over the past 20 years to characterize settlements that display the same types of...
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Neo-liberal urbanism and sustainability in Turkey: commodification of nature in gated community marketing
Neoliberalism arose as a project to reinforce the power of capitalism against the working class in the post-1970 period and created unequal...
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Repair & Do-it-yourself Urbanism: Good Practice in London und Berlin
Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, inwieweit die Aktivierung und Weiterentwicklung der breiten Palette kommerzieller wie nichtkommerzieller...
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Bioregional Planning and Biophilic Urbanism
In recent times, bioregionalism has been rediscovered in the environmental movement, the territorialist movement (in Italy), the natural resource...
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Diversification of Urbanism in the Process of City Region Transformation
This chapter focuses on the implications of the socioeconomic crisis, brought about by the COVID-19 outbreak, for future planning approaches for the...
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Climate Urbanism Towards a Critical Research Agenda
This book argues that the relationship between cities and climate change is entering a new and more urgent phase. Thirteen contributions from a range...
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Slum Tourism: Towards Inclusive Urbanism?
This chapter takes slum tourism as niche tourism and relates it to two cases of art-led chengzhongcun tourism in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Instead of...
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Persist or Perish. The Dynamics of Irrigated Agriculture in Urbanising Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) is one of the fastest urbanising cities in sub-Saharan Africa, which has implications for its food security. Based on...
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The Urban Biography of a Mauritanian City: Microstratigraphic Analysis of the Eastern Quarter of Tamuda (Morocco)
The lack of vertical stratigraphic sondages and open area excavations constitutes a challenge to understanding Mauritanian urbanism. This makes the...
