By exploring the usage of Ibirapuera and Carmo parks, the two largest and most attended municipal public parks in S?Paulo, this thesis aims to discuss the role public parks play within socio-spatial constitution of urban public life. Furthermore, our…
Public space is a component of our physical environment which has an important role in city life. This thesis is primarily about investigating public space and public realm in the historic city centre of Damascus in order to understand the potential…
In this thesis I investigate Francis Brett Young’s Birmingham portrait in his North Bromwich novels, showing it to be a valid interpretation, though biased to suit the anti-urban prejudices of its author. Chapter One sets Young in his biographical…
Understanding the pre-modern Muslim-Arab city of the Levant within our embodied modern framework of reference and in the absence of classical texts explaining urban theory within its culture highlights epistemological differences, which endemically…
Les biens fonciers, c’est-à-dire les terrains, représentent une ressource première non reproductible et physiquement limitée. Les biens fonciers correspondent aussi à un facteur de production, indispensable à la…
The dissertation analyzes recent urban transformations through the lens of space wars. The main focus is on investment flows in the commercial property market, changes in urban governance and changes in social geography, and how these three aspects…
This thesis is an investigation of sociological, documentary and literary texts whose central concerns are the social conditions in London during the period 1880-1899. London is chosen as a focus because during this time it was perceived as being in…
This dissertation, Inhabiting the City: Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas, asks how multiple modalities of citizenship arise in order to facilitate working-class and middle-class strategies to negotiate formal and informal structures of rights and…
The study focuses on community participation among the poor of Bogotá, Colombia. It explores the changing relationships between poor communities, local politicians and the city government before and after the institutional reforms and changing…
This thesis is a social history of Bombay city in the first quarter of the twentieth century. It explores material changes in urban life consequent upon the impact of modernity and the varied range of contestations of the colonial order which they…
Bizerte et sa région : étude de géographie historique est un essai de monographie régionale d’une entité de l’extrême nord-est de la Tunisie dans la longue durée (de la deuxième moitié du VIIe siècle jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle). Outre la réalisation d’un…
À la fin des années 1990, les élus et les agents de la communauté urbaine de Lyon qualifient les modes d’action de cette institution de "gouvernance", de manière à souligner son action d’"animation" de politiques auxquelles participerait la "société…
Situated at the intersection of economic restructuring and crime control, this thesis explores the practices and policies of economic regeneration, community safety and policing in the city of Glasgow. In particular old-industrial cities and regions…
Since 1970, oil has given the Arab Gulf cities the opportunity to break regional and international records in urban development and economic growth, experiencing dramatic changes in the political, economic and socio-cultural domains, and especially…
This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through ‘invited spaces’ offered by the government and ‘claimed spaces’ created by the poor. The study questions how increased contributions to poverty…
L’objectif de cette thèse est d’appréhender les impacts de l’organisation des Jeux olympiques d’été de 2004 sur l’organisation, l’aménagement et l’équipement d’Athènes et la région de l’Attique. Mon plan de travail s’établit en trois phases qui…
La ciudad histórica de Puebla (México) es un asentamiento desarrollado durante el primer tercio del siglo XVI en una área de 6.9 km2 que se caracteriza por su traza ortogonal además por su arquitectura civil y religiosa representativa de diferentes…
Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is one of the fastest growing urban agglomerations in Africa and projected to become a megacity (i.e., a city with more than 5 mil. inhabitants) by 2025. Rapid urban growth under poverty has outstripped the capacities of…
The associations between urbanization and economic development are first reviewed for the developing world. Special attributes of Middle East urbanization are then considered and levels of urbanization compared in most Middle Eastern nations. Next,…
Turner's (1965,1967,1968) study of Lima's squatter settlements led to the view that uncontrolled settlements of the Third World cities are mainly a manifestation of the desires for housing ownership by people who are well integrated in the city and…
