This dissertation presents a much needed theoretical framework for the study of the potential impact of environmental design on the residentially based local community. Through an assessment of the current state of the literature, the major problems impeding the progress of this…
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The study examines the spatial transformation from local practice in the Palestinian village around the beginning of the 20th century to discursive forms of expression in the Palestinian refugee camp a hundred years later. It looks at the reflection of the small-scale egalitaria…
This research addresses a question of major significance for many, if not most countries around the world that seek to bolster their economies through heritage tourism: to what extent is it possible to sustain the congruity and integrity of historic sites without degrading them …
Records are the principal semiotic technology of modern government, but scholars rarely give them the attention that bureaucrats do. The dissertation focuses on "graphic artifacts"--materials such as files, maps, letters, visiting cards, lists, reports, and office manuals--used …
The urban form of cities is continuously changing and its final form reflects the life and character of its people. The physical setting, the political and socioeconomic environments, the cultural behavior of the society, as well as the administrative system, are factors that af…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Malaysian state's attempt to transform the physical space and demographic character of a predominantly Malaysian Tamil neighborhood and the effects of large-scale development projects on local communities in urban Kuala Lumpur. F…
This dissertation presents an analysis of peri-urban settlement and urban social policy as played out in the aftermath of the Second World War in Kenya's third largest city, Kisumu. Based on over two years of ethnographic and archival research, it outlines the emergence of Manya…