This thesis will explore solutions to the affordable housing crisis in West Baltimore by providing affordable housing options for low income residents. By investigating the history of housing discrimination and neighborhood inequity, this thesis seeks to understand the reasoning…
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This dissertation is an ethnography of the everyday paradoxes and politics of race between Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent and their non-Chinese counterparts, focusing specifically on the ways in which “Chinese-Indonesians” are racialized and ethnicized at intimate spaces…
This dissertation examines the complex and contradictory expectations, regulations, and logics that govern neoliberal development in Dakar, Senegal. More specifically, I draw transnational migration and foreign investment into the same ethnographic framework to consider how urba…
Regenerative agriculture (RA) is a set of farming and land management practices intended to support or enhance soil health and carbon sequestration potential of soils while producing food, fiber, or other agricultural products. It has received broad acclaim from scholars, corpor…
This study examines the relationship between public sexual activity and the transformation of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870) and early Third Republic (1870-1940). It argues that prostitutes and male homosexuals were central to the city's everyday life. Urban administ…
The visualization of space has been central to the history of Beirut, which is also a vitally important node in the landscape of Arab media. This study critically examines the historical relationship between media technology and urban space in Beirut to critically reflect on vis…
The following thesis explores construction policy discourses within the context of the United Kingdom (UK). The research was deemed both important and necessary as the construction sector represents a major portion of the UK economy, accounting for approximately seven per cent o…
The aim of this dissertation is to discuss the image of the city of Diyarbakır as emerging from Kurdish and Turkish literature throughout the twentieth century. Diyarbakır city represents a highly contentious place in socio-political and cultural terms for the Kurdish vis-à-vis …
Las Vegas is one of the least understood famous places in the world. Outsiders seldom recognize that hundreds of thousands of people make their home there. In the minds of these residents, however, Las Vegas has a multifaceted personality. Using an ethnographic approach, I devel…
The Southern California cityscape is characterized by urban sprawl, an ever-expanding and homogenized pattern of development. Complicating matters, (over)regulated standards for form, function, and uniformity lack respect for the landscape’s genius loci, or sense of place. Infor…
This dissertation uses changes in Shanghai’s urban geography as a lens to study the processes and meanings of urban revolution for the daily lives of workers in the 1950s. Using a large body of archival documents, I focus especially on the construction of so-called Workers’ New …
This dissertation examines the explosion of the cultural field in Venezuela during the 1970s oil boom through the lens of nature-society relations. I argue that cultural production was an agent of state-led ecological transformation and, at the same time, a space where artists a…
Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in contemporary planning and governance. While the theoretical debates on post-politics and the wider frame of post-foundational political…
Wozu Raum? Welche Bedeutung haben räumliche Formen und raumbezogene Semantiken für den Aufbau, die Stabilisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Strukturen?Am Beispiel des modernen (Städte- )Tourismus stellt sich das Buch diesen Fragen und zeigt, dass Raum hier unter anderem als M…
Wozu Raum? Welche Bedeutung haben räumliche Formen und raumbezogene Semantiken für den Aufbau, die Stabilisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Strukturen? Am Beispiel des modernen (Städte-)Tourismus stellt sich das Buch diesen Fragen und zeigt, dass Raum hier unter anderem als M…
Angesichts der sich seit Jahren zuspitzenden Lage auf den Wohnungs- und Immobilienmärkten ist Gentrifizierung zu einem der wichtigsten Begriffe geworden, um die gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen in den Großstädten zu beschreiben. Die Beiträge des Bandes liefern aktuelle Diagnosen…
Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities. It looks at the socio-climatic implications of density and takes a more holistic approach to sustainable…
This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary appro…
In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. "Concepts of Urban-Environmental History" aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues which have shaped recent debates in the field. They addres…