In order to articulate meaning in cities and architecture, I propose a framework of enacted architecture that considers the built environment in everyday spatial practices. Building on Henri Lefebvre's work, we know architecture in terms of…
Community coalitions aim to facilitate changes in community outcomes and conditions by addressing problems and determinants of health and well-being. Although there is increasing support for community coalitions, there is limited evidence of their…
This dissertation explores the relationship between urban space and urban text according to the principles outlined by the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics in the 1980s and 90s. While the Petersburg Text in V.N. Toporov's formulation has become a…
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…
Historical research has provided scholars with a strong foundation for understanding the sport-city nexus in American culture. These studies have focused primarily on two distinct eras. The first links the rise of modern sporting and leisure…
This dissertation examines socio-spatial exclusion in Mexico City’s Historic Center. Specifically, how new power structures are struggled over and negotiated in people’s everyday lives. This work centers on a recently implemented entrepreneurial…
This dissertation focuses on the Roman city of Augusta Emerita, modern Mérida, Spain, as a case study for understanding changes in the culture, economy, and society of Hispania in late antiquity. The evidence presented here shows that some of the…
C’est principalement par le cinéma que nous connaissons et partageons le réel des villes, même celles dans lesquelles nous vivons. Par le cinéma, nous découvrons plus de villes que nous n’en visiterons jamais. Nous connaissons des villes que nous…
Un engouement pour la réhabilitation des rivières urbaines se manifeste actuellement au travers de nombreux projets d'aménagements paysagers de berges fluviales. Cette construction contemporaine des paysages fluviaux influe sur l'imaginaire et les…
Este estudio se insiere en una temática de "individuo y sociedad". El debate se plantea a partir de jóvenes de una universidad brasileña, en Río de Janeiro, en su relación con los colegas de carrera, el ambiente social y la cultura estudiantil de la…
The thesis seeks to determine the relationship between community feeling and political activity in one interwar town, Northampton. It is argued that localism continued to be an important dimension of social and political experience in this period for…
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…
After World War Two, American cities began to break down. Their housing and industrial infrastructure fell into disrepair, and efforts to improve cities, including urban renewal and highway construction projects, only exacerbated the existing…
This study examines Cleveland Protestants and the changing social order from 1898 to 1940. It argues the establishment of the Federated Churches of Cleveland was one of several Protestants' responses to the expanding pluralistic societal order. Its…
This study explores the production of urban architectural space and investigates how the art of parkour attempts to (re)appropriate the spaces of the city. It interrogates the reflexive and continuously (re)negotiated relationship of power and…
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 purpose of this study is to understand variations in the municipal use of subsidies to attract and / or retain traditional department stores to CBDs in cities in the United States. The approach taken is urban regime theory, which claims that…
An urban growth model is conceptualized as a metropolitan change model consisting of multiple scales: global, regional and local. The baseline model operates in a free trade environment, in a space initially without consideration of the regulatory…
On August 29, 2005, a large tropical cyclone, named Hurricane Katrina, made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Despite following a track that mostly missed New Orleans, Katrina drowned this city by causing the failure of a protective…
It is the writer's contention that there are existing weaknesses in the empirical literature on ghetto riots. One of the most serious weaknesses rests in the fact that many of the theories and/or assumptions put forth in attempts to explain aspects…
