The urban environment is the physical and social habitat for almost half of mankind in the present day world. In ‘developed’ regions such as Europe even almost three quarters of the population live in towns and cities. This urban environment has…
In recent years, within the fields of urban geography and urban studies, increasing attention has been paid to the multidimensional concept of urban deprivation. The majority of work on this topic has focused on British and U.S. urban areas with less…
This thesis explores the relationship between urban restructuring and working-class communities in the context of post-industrial neoliberalism. While working-class communities were the bedrock of classical sociological analysis in the industrial…
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…
The present doctoral thesis, "The Image of the Urban Landscape", aims to acquire knowledge of the city as a complex dynamic entity, submitted to the parameters of change and time, and the imperatives of culture. It does not pretend to analyse the…
This thesis investigates the impact of attempts to stimulate private sector involvement and investment in the urban regeneration process, looking at the case of urban regeneration institutions operating, and policies implemented, in disadvantaged…
The idea of a “historic city” is a rather recent phenomenon. As a conceptual framework, it evolved over the course of the 1970s and 1980s from the intellectual foundations of modernist urban design. This is especially well illustrated in East Berlin,…
In a globalizing world, with borders becoming blurred and international competition increasing, cities need to be constantly aware of their own international competitive position. Whereas enterprises can strengthen their position through takeovers,…
This thesis posits that throughout history, the Western city has been made and understood according to a shared image of the cosmos. It argues that though the contours of this cosmos have changed over time and place, collectively held understandings…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary investigation of the indeterminate political role played by the inhabitants’ spatial practices of misuse in the social production of urban space in contemporary Istanbul. My argument is that both established…
The bases of the present dissertation from the point of view of the sources are historical and biographical. The study of the people of al-Qayrawän, which is largely dependant on the study of the Tabagat, has been carried out with a view to…
We are living in a transition period with regard to the way that urban space is being organized. Old patterns are beginning to be replaced by new ones ecause in Canada these changes are being experienced most intensely is Vancouver, this city was…
In 1988 cities and townships received $39.1 billion, or 25.9% of their total general revenues in the form of intergovernmental aid from the federal and state governments... Despite the importance of these programs their effects are often unclear.…
In the past three decades, one of the major trends in metropolitan areas has been the substantial increase in the size of the suburban population. Until the most recent decade, blacks were not a significant part of this trend. In the decade of the…
The aim of this work is to question the notion of space that underlies the claimed ‘spatial turn’ in geographical and social theory. Section 1 examines this theoretical literature, drawing heavily on Soja as the self declared taxonomist of the genre,…
This thesis presents a study of the influence of urban street configuration on the pattern of commercial office rents in Berlin. The hypothesis is that there is a relationship between the two, and that the alteration of the street network with…
The main purpose of this study is to contribute to the field of urban modeling by identifying factors associated with the location of infill housing development in declining American cities. The focus of this research is on the institutional factors…
The object of knowledge of this research is the changing role of Public Space in Latin American cities and its potential to become a main actor in the restructuring of the city to achieve social and environmental objectives. The issue is extensive…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was America’s first great city, but it fell on especially hard times after the mid-1960s. The urban crisis became the catch-all name for these hard times across America. The confluence of race riots, suburbanization, urban…
Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, has been influenced by Chinese culture, French colonization, war with the US, socialism from the USSR, and more recently, connection to the global capitalist market. The city today exposes a great dynamic mixture of…
