563 20 11648 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Vale, Lawrence J. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Moga, Steven Thomas Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Description An account of the resource This dissertation is an urban environmental history of the low-lying American slum. Using qualitative research methods, I investigate the historical phenomenon of topographically based, socio-economic segregation in cities, and how urban actors first created these places then remade them. I examine six low-lying urban neighborhoods in the United States: "The Bottoms" in Columbus, Ohio; "Frog Hollow" in Hartford, Connecticut; "The Flats" in Los Angeles, California; "Black Bottom" in Nashville, Tennessee; "Swede Hollow" in St. Paul, Minnesota; and, "Foggy Bottom" in Washington, D.C. The first part of the thesis examines how land and factory owners, real estate developers, and speculators made urban lowlands into residential districts nicknamed bottoms, hollows, and flats beginning in the late nineteenth century. I argue that the deliberately incomplete implementation of urban interventions such as sewerage, water supply, and flood protection created interstitial spaces for stigmatized residence. Considered potentially threatening strangers, foreign immigrants, black migrants, and poor country whites were forced down into the lowlands, which functioned as containment zones within the internal structure of the city. The second part of the thesis details three modes of remaking the lowlands: slum clearance, zoning, and big projects. Late nineteenth century attempts to remove residents and eliminate slums encountered resistance from voters and city officials due to concerns that displaced undesirables would move into their city spaces. By the 1920s, zoning helped to ease middle and upper class fears of invasion by promulgating rules to protect neighborhoods of single-family homes. After 1937, the federal government funded resident removal and physical redevelopment through public housing, highways, and the urban renewal program, erasing the old lowland slums. The history of urban lowlands highlights the low-lying landscape as an urban nexus point, revealing an inherent conflict between urban actors over containment of the poor versus the redevelopment of stigmatized districts. Planners intervene in this conflict, and assist in the repeated remaking of desirable and undesirable city spaces. The thesis draws connections among physical planning, social inequality, natural processes, and urban space in lowlands of unique interest to scholars and practicing planners in an era of renewed interest in the environment of cities. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62137 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/958 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/976df9d1f50098926d5ebb72e6291f23.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource urban environment, slum, disadvantaged district, residential segregation, poverty, zoning, urban renewal, slum clearance, urban project Title A name given to the resource Bottoms, Hollows and Flats : Making and remaking the lower section of the American city Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ribbeck, Eckhart. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Montejano Castillo, Milton Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource The objective of this work is to document the spatial and functional differentiation of informal settlements, thereby using Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico City as a case study. As an interpretation reference of such differentiation, the growth stages of settlements were used. Still, the major finding of this research is, that the evolution and resulting characteristics of such settlements can be better understood, if the phenomenon of informal urbanization was considered from the perspective of the concept of a City framework. Nevertheless, the qualities of this new type of urban agglomeration can be considered unique so that it differs strongly from the conventional idea of city. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/volltexte/2008/3575/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/959 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/37395b94fd9cc8da827b9d6b25ee2b0c.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universität Stuttgart Subject The topic of the resource informal settlement, urban form, spatial analysis, urbanisation Title A name given to the resource Processes of consolidation and differentiation of informal settlements : Case study Ciudad Nezahualc√≥yotl, Mexico City Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Healy, Chris. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Morris, Brian John Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001 Description An account of the resource The broad argument underpinning this thesis is that a feature of contemporary city life deserving further critical attention is that of the ‘extraordinary everyday.’ I coin this term as a way of identifying and describing an increasingly common place articulation or ‘interface’ between the extraordinary (that is, the production and experience of spectacle and intense affective states within the context of technologically mediated, contemporary urban space), and the everyday (the seemingly banal routines and structures that organise our day to day existence in a consumer society). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/628 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/960 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/24736982616b496345950e6b40559882.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Melbourne Subject The topic of the resource urban culture, urban life, urban sociology, festival, urban society, urban space, walking Title A name given to the resource Journeys in extraordinary everyday culture : Walking in the contemporary city Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Phillips, Martin. Supervisor Smith, Richard. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mould, Oli Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource There have been recent contributions to the world city literature and the new economic geography literature that have focused on city connectivity and practicebased research, through concepts such as city actor-networks, relational geographies and project-led enquiries. As this literature is developing, this thesis aims to analyse and contribute to it by providing an empirical focus in two main themes that have so far been marginalised in these literatures – the city of Sydney, and the cultural industries. An alternative conceptualisation of world cities, namely ‘new urbanism’, which employs Actor-Network Theory, will be utilised in this thesis to ask the question, what are the actants of Sydney’s cultural industries (specifically the film and TV production industry), and how are they enrolled to create the spacing and timing of Sydney’s actor-networks? By answering this question, this thesis will contribute to the knowledge in three ways: theoretically, by adding weight to the alternative concepts of new urbanism and relational economic geographies; empirically, by studying two themes that have been hitherto underdeveloped in the existing literature; and methodologically, through new developing empirical agendas that cover the quantification of Sydney’s world city network and ANT-inspired ethnographic, ‘project-based’ enquiry. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4509 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/961 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/ee7a86ec1478778a9a5f34271772d69f.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Leicester Subject The topic of the resource world city, global city, actor-network theory, cultural industry, economics Title A name given to the resource Sydney : Brought to you by world city and cultural industry actor-networks Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Wallis de Vries, J. G. Promotor Zeijl, G .A. C. van. Promotor Boyer, M. Christine. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Moya Pellitero, Ana María Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007 Description An account of the resource 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 city as an object, through a factual and quantified observation. It is unquestionable that the city is a material construct built on political, economical, and social parameters. However, the city is also a "mental event", acknowledged by sensory experiences within the parameters of space and time. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://repository.tue.nl/625254 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/962 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/87e1ba8c30c21e4b2e8e60513f6f4739.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Subject The topic of the resource image, perception, urban space, architecture, urban landscape, urban sociology, film Title A name given to the resource The image of the urban landscape : The re-discovery of the city through different spaces of perception Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sanyal, Bishwapriya. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mukhija, Vinit Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Description An account of the resource This dissertation analyzes the slum redevelopment strategy introduced by the state government of Maharashtra (India) in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). The strategy involves demolishing the existing slums and building on the same sites at a higher density, new, medium-rise apartment-blocks including entirely cross-subsidized housing for the original slum dwellers. Slum redevelopment is distinctly different from the two prevalent conventional strategies with respect to slums in developing countries - slum clearance and slum upgrading. Interestingly, the strategy appears to enjoy considerable support of slum dwellers, NGOs, private developers and politicians. The study focuses on a single slum redevelopment case - the Markandeya Cooperative Housing Society (MCHS) - to show how the state government amended the land development regulations to enhance the potential land values and allowed the slum dwellers to share in the high development values. This analysis of the role of the State in promoting a new housing strategy and providing crucial support in implementation contributes to our understanding of housing policy in three ways. First, it provides insights into slum redevelopment as an alternative housing strategy. It analyzes the problems faced and the solutions innovated in the implementation of this strategy. It argues that despite slum redevelopment's shortcomings, the strategy may be superior to other alternatives, especially if the State can provide implementation support. Second, it identifies non-traditional issues, often overlooked in housing improvement that may help make slum upgrading programs more successful. Contrary to the conventional focus only on private property rights, the dissertation argues for policy to be based on a differentiated view of property rights (including common property rights) that also considers the property values, the physical structure of the property-holdings and the interplay among these issues. Third, the study reveals the complexities involved in housing production for low-income groups and demonstrates that enabling housing provision, even with the participation of private sector agents, requires an active government role. Paradoxically, enabling may require four levels of seeming contradictions - both decentralization and centralization; both demand-driven and supply driven development; both private as well as public investment; and both deregulation and new regulations. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8959 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/963 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/acd7e3673caf16891c62bbd6dc1c7e98.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subject The topic of the resource slum, inhabitants, participation, urban renewal, slum clearance, slum redevelopment, slum upgrading, housing Title A name given to the resource Squatters as developers? : Mumbai's slum dwellers as equity partners in redevelopment Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ferrier, C. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Muller, Vivienne Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2005 Description An account of the resource Imagining Brisbane focuses on a number of narratives set in Brisbane and published between 1975 and 1995. The major narratives are Jessica Anderson's The Commandant and Tirra Lirra by the River, David Malouf's 12 Edmondstone Street and Johnno, Susan Johnson's Messages from Chaos, Janette Turner Hospital's The Last Magician, Jay Vemey's A Mortality Tale, Rosie Scott's Lives on Fire, Nick Earls' Zigzag Street, Venero Armanno's Romeo of the Underworld, and Andrew McGahan's Praise and 1988. The study examines, principally through textual analysis, the ways in which Brisbane as a city is actively constituted by the narratives (Donald, 1997: 187) as they explore the links between identity and place. The focus here is not to compare the real to the fictional city, rather to analyse how the fictional representations invite us to see the city (183). This being said, the narratives themselves often deal with events, developments and geographies of place that have been part of the "real" that has shaped Brisbane's history. In broad terms the narratives are involved in a deliberate and self-conscious naming of specific sites, spaces and topographical markers of Brisbane; they emphasise the importance of the spatial in the formation of subjectivity and they examine the gendered nature of the relationships between space and subjectivity with a strong emphasis on the body. The dissertation also addresses issues fundamental to the ways in which the narratives might be seen to constitute a regional discourse; to this end the thesis raises questions in relation to patterns and motifs that emerge in common in the texts, and considers the ways in which they participate in particular cultural mythologisings of the city. To frame and investigate the issues, the study draws on a range of theoretical concepts offered by cultural geography, gender analysis and theories of the city, particularly those concerned with the spatial. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184595 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/964 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/d9212d0abdfe9cb3b0e986600f744949.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The University of Queensland Subject The topic of the resource imaginary, literature, identity, representation, gender, urban culture, urban space Title A name given to the resource Imagining Brisbane : Narratives of the city 1975-1995 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Barns, Ian. Supervisor Thiele, Beverly. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Narayanan, Yamini Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource The broad purpose of ‘In A City Like Delhi’ is to make an argument in favour of the positive link between spirituality and sustainability. Sustainability, at its core, requires an ethical commitment, and the thesis proposes that spirituality may be that vital means through which sustainability may be truly animated, in theory and in practice. The thesis is particularly preoccupied with considering the yet fully unrealised competence of spirituality to enrich the understanding and practise of sustainability in the urban space. To this end, it uses a very particular case study to make a modest exploration of such a conceptual association – the city of Delhi. The concept of sustainability, as articulated in the West, is primarily a secular notion. While international religious and spiritual organisations have taken up the sustainability challenge, the reverse is less true – sustainability planning is rarely conducted in a dialogue with religious or spiritual institutions and resources. In this context the case study of an Indian megacity to examine the relationship between religion, spirituality, secularism and development, is particularly interesting. The thesis explores, as one example of the potential interface, how Hindu spirituality as interpreted by Mahatma Gandhi, may usefully inform a spiritual philosophy to enliven a sustainability consciousness in Delhi. The theoretical speculations of the thesis are grounded in the local context by seeking the perspectives of twenty primary informants from Delhi who are all associated with various levels of planning and implementing development in the city. I specifically chose my interviewees from secular development backgrounds (rather than religious and spiritual representatives) because this would enrich critical understanding of how spirituality may be viewed within a secular sustainability discourse. I use their views on spirituality, sustainable development, and any affinities between the two notions to balance my own perspective, derived from both my research and my personal experience of the city of my birth. The interviews gave added depth to the environmental, economic and social challenges confronting the city of Delhi, which were already evident in the literature review. Additionally however, the interviews confirmed the hypothesis that sustainable development and spirituality together could have a productive, coherent and an even inseparable grounding union in Delhi and that spirituality may be vital in facilitating that essential shift in consciousness that a sustainable mindset requires. These findings are crucial to any study or strategy considering comprehensive sustainable development for Delhi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/743 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/965 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/5bf0551822714a0217c8f3964b00ef26.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Murdoch University - Perth (Australie) Subject The topic of the resource spirituality, religion, sustainable development, sustainable city, urban planning, urban environment Title A name given to the resource In a city like Delhi : Sustainability and spirituality Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Pixley, Jocelyn. Supervisor Jones, Paul. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nash, Christopher John Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Description An account of the resource This thesis examines the relationship between media reporting and Sydney's construction as a global city over the period 1983-2008. Following Friedmann, Sassen and others it views globalisation as a process of consolidation in command and control functions in the global economy, financed through the massive creation of liquidity via expanding debt, and enabled by producer services located in a network of ‘global cities’. Theoretically, it considers major debates in urban sociology and the sociology of journalism and seeks to reconcile approaches in the two fields to achieve a theoretically coherent framework for analysis that can encompass the changing political economy of Sydney and the ways in which media representation is related to this process. In globalisation studies it examines the meta-theoretical post-industrial/ network society arguments associated with Bell and Castells, and compares them with the neo-Marxist spatiality theses associated with Harvey and Arrighi, and Foster and Magdoff on financialisation. It then discusses the global cities literature in the context of Australian urban studies. In media sociology it starts with the debate about source-journalist power relations. Following Schlesinger and Benson, it offers a critical evaluation of Bourdieu's field theory. It then adopts a framework drawing on Bourdieu, together with Harvey and Lefebvre on spatiality and Gell on temporality, to consider the complexity of dynamic power relations between journalists and other sources of power. There follow two complementary empirical case studies of communication contests over (i) debt-induced growth in the Sydney residential real estate market and (ii) the demutualisation of the largest Australian general insurer, NRMA Insurance Group Ltd. The case studies examine the differing field relations of journalistic reporting and investigation of those activities in select newspapers. It argues that the journalism was deeply engaged with and/or influenced by the interests and activities of its sources in the primary field of concern, with power being exercised in both directions but overall in the structural interests of powerful sources, though not necessarily in their personal interests. The thesis concludes with an assessment of Bourdieu's field theory in the light of the analyses, and advocates a more reflexive understanding of relations within and among fields, particularly with respect to orthodoxy/heterodoxy, autonomy/heteronomy and symbolic violence. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/50802 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/966 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/c492cbef24a4d589982eb4620f79c46d.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of New South Wales - Sydney (Australie) Subject The topic of the resource media, journalism, global city, world city, urban sociology, globalisation, Bourdieu Pierre Title A name given to the resource Fields of conflict : Journalism in the construction of Sydney as a global city 1983-2008 Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hulsbergen, E. D. Promotor Drewe, P. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nasrallah, Rami Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource This research documents a twelve-year dialogue between Palestinian and Israeli academics, professionals and activists on the Jerusalem issue. The continuing dialogue, with its various and many stges, and the resulting urban content product, constitute a unique case study that sheds light on the dynamics of the conflict, most especially on its urban spatial, political and functional aspects and on possible future scenarios, including those which could help to resolve the conflict. The multidimensional approach of the study provides a view of the ethno-national conflict in Jerusalem that is richer than the usual focus on political and geopolitical aspects of the conflict. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid:a71a07b6-d0ff-4f6d-be03-d14aea18bf9c/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/967 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/fd85e765f32d3a79cf23101c87327d16.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available TU Delft Subject The topic of the resource urban conflict, urban history, peace, urban planning, urban segregation, city at war, city politics, urban space Title A name given to the resource Urban peace-building patterns and future scenarios : The case of Jerusalem Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kramer-Wahington, Helgard. Referee Gordesch, Johannes. Referee Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ohadi, Mansour Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Description An account of the resource The following research survey results which are being presented in this volume contain four chapters: In Chapter One, the geographical situation of Tehran, the history of its existence, etymology, and demographics, as well as their development and growth have been surveyed. Chapter Two is mainly concentrated on demographics and has been organized around demographic aspects, the socioeconomic specifications of the population and the relevant factors on the development of the society in this city. In Chapter Three the results from Tehran's population growth is presented in different aspects. The population pressures on the land and restrictions on the expansion of Tehran from a geological point of view, population growth affecting on housing qualitative and quantitative indexes, education, water consumption and sewage treatment have all been considered and surveyed. Finally in Chapter Four, an estimation of ratios from population growth factors including fertility level, birth and death rates have been studied. Based on the available information, the population of Tehran until 2006 AD can be projected. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/diss/receive/FUDISS_thesis_000000000239 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/968 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/d36251570b4f12bd681e7d48e441bee1.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Freie Universit√§t Berlin Subject The topic of the resource urban sociology, urban history, demography, urban society, urban growth Title A name given to the resource Tehran from the aspect of sociology : History, demography, the present, and perspectives of the Iranian metropolis Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Samuels, Rob. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Osmond, Paul William Hughes Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource The motivation for this research is a perceived gap in knowledge regarding the complex relationships between the physical form of the urban environment; its environmental performance as expressed through stocks and flows of materials and energy (urban metabolism); and its experienced physical and psychological qualities (urban ambience). The objective is to develop a practical methodological structure which, through investigating the relationships between these domains, may help inform the evaluation, design and development of more sustainable human settlements. One expression of this apparent knowledge gap is the ambiguity around the classification of urban form and identification of a suitable taxonomic framework to support analysis. Urban morphological research and practice is critically reviewed to derive a rigorous definition of the “urban structural unit” (USU) to facilitate the subdivision and description of urban form across spatial scales. Application of this construct to a study site in Sydney, Australia provides the basis for subsequent exploration. Investigation of theoretical and applied perspectives on urban ecology, metabolism and design enables distillation of a utilitarian set of structural, functional and ambience properties of the USU. A variety of quantitative methods pertinent to evaluation of these properties is systematically examined to derive a streamlined analytical methodology, integrating hemispherical image analysis, space syntax, isovist and material accounting methods within the USU framework. The efficacy of this methodological “toolkit” is tested in the final, empirical stage of the research, focussing mainly on the campus of the University of New South Wales. Determination of a range of material, microclimatic, ecosystemic, fractal, syntactic and isovist metrics provides a preliminary quantitative description of the campus USU in terms of its interrelated metabolic and ambience properties. This is further explained and interpreted through multivariate statistical analysis. The results suggest that the USU represents a robust framework for urban evaluation, and application of a relatively parsimonious suite of analytical methods enables a useful initial examination of the relations between significant aspects of urban form, metabolism and ambience. The outcomes of such an evaluation can directly inform built environment practice from a sustainability perspective, and also highlight areas for more detailed investigation. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/42119 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/969 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/4a7d38ae45bae67cf2357c36b61c19ed.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of New South Wales - Sydney (Australie) Subject The topic of the resource urban form, flows, sustainable development, atmosphere, ambience, urban morphology, urban metabolism Title A name given to the resource An enquiry into new methodologies for evaluating sustainable urban form Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Vellinga, M. Promotor Dieleman, F. M. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Paiva Aranda, Antonio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Description An account of the resource Large cities in the world confront an interesting dilemma: more democracy and therefore fragmentation of their governments into small agencies, or better performance in an integrated world system of cities and therefore better co-ordination of government functions. Fragmentation or co-ordination? ‘Relevance of Metropolitan Government’ explores this dilemma through a detailed study of two cities in Latin America: Caracas in Venezuela, and Monterrey in Mexico. The book also introduces a method to evaluate co-ordination arrangements and gives recommendations to deal with the double question of democracy and performance faced by cities in an integrated world. In the first chapters the book sets up a theoretical framework to discuss issues of metropolitan government in the case studies Caracas and Monterrey. Chapter 2 deals with the insertion of the study within the contemporary debates about metropolitan government and metropolitan governance. In this chapter the choice for the analysis methods and the case studies is made clear. Chapter 3 deals with the specific profiles of Caracas and Monterrey, which are presented as representative cases of capital cities and export cities in Latin America. Chapter 4 through 7 review the co-ordination levels of a pair of metropolitan functions (physical planning and urban public transport) in these cities. This part of the study is based on empirical data, ranging form interviews and document analysis made in place in these Latin American cities. Chapter 4 and 5 are dedicated to Caracas and chapters 6 and 7 to Monterrey. On chapter 8 conclusions of the study are drawn in regard to the basic statements and research made of the first part of the book. The main findings are, the existence and resilience of good co-ordination efforts in both of the case studies, the need for more political support for metropolitan government implementation and the existence of sensible bottlenecks—mainly political—in the establishment or progress of government reform. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0725-133222/UUindex.html http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/970 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/eea527d4482069cebb1aa62341ef4c0a.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universiteit Utrecht Subject The topic of the resource governance, local authorities, urban geography, urban planning, political sciences, city politics, urban policy, transport Title A name given to the resource Relevance of metropolitan government in Latin American cities Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kempen, R. van. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Permentier, Matthieu Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource In recent years attention of both academics and policymakers alike for neighbourhood reputations has increased greatly. This rise in interest is related in part to the need among policymakers to understand what types of neighbourhoods are popular living environments, what types are not (and why), and what types of neighbourhoods are most likely to acquire a negative reputation. In academic literature, attention has been paid to both the concept of reputation and the material and psychological consequences of living in a neighbourhood with a poor reputation. Conceptually, reputations can be expected to be related to neighbourhood characteristics. Evidence of this relationship is limited to mostly descriptive accounts of poor neighbourhoods. Other studies have investigated the consequences of living in stigmatised neighbourhoods on the psychological wellbeing of residents and on the material consequences. There has been little research that explicitly studies how neighbourhood reputation affects the behaviour of residents, although there have been indications that residents adjust their behaviour according to the reputation of their neighbourhood. Two types of responses were studied: the intention to leave the neighbourhood and expression of concerns with the neighbourhood through residents’ participation in the neighbourhood. To gain a better understanding of the reputation concept and its relationship with neighbourhood characteristics, we collected our own survey data regarding neighbourhood reputations from 1,389 residents in 24 neighbourhoods in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The results showed that residents and non-residents differed markedly in their ratings of individual neighbourhoods. There is quite a strong relationship between neighbourhood characteristics and reputation; the social characteristics of a neighbourhood (socio-economic status and ethnicity) are particularly strongly linked to its reputation, whereas physical and functional factors are ? particularly among other city residents ? less closely related Furthermore, our study has shown ? through logistic regression modeling ? that the behaviour of residents is influenced by the reputation of the neighbourhood. Residents who hold a negative perception of their neighbourhood’s reputation are more likely to plan to leave the neighbourhood than are residents who hold a positive view of the reputation. This effect exists can be explained by looking at the importance of neighbourhood status for the personal identity and self-worth of individuals. If people believe their individual status suffers from membership of a group (in this case, based on their residential neighbourhood), they may decide to disassociate themselves from this group by moving out of their neighbourhood. We also found that people who hold a negative reputation perception are less likely to attend city-initiated meetings concerning the neighbourhood. These results are important, because they give insight into not only the mechanism responsible for changes in the socio-spatial structure of the urban landscape, but also into the stability of urban neighbourhoods. We therefore suggest that future research on moving intentions and neighbourhood participation should include perceived reputation as an important variable. After all, we have shown that doing so enhances our understanding of the mechanisms that induce people to move out of their neighbourhood (in addition to other important variables). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2009-0406-200420/UUindex.html http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/971 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/cbda1dc646688471e786f364d48e47a3.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universiteit Utrecht Subject The topic of the resource reputation, neighbourhood, living environment, inhabitants, behaviour, status, participation, urban society, economics, residential mobility Title A name given to the resource Reputation, neighbourhoods and behaviour Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lary, Diana. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Perrins, Robert John Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1996 Description An account of the resource The city of Dalian, on the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in China's Northeast ('Manchuria'), underwent rapid development during the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1905 and 1945, Dalian and its environs were administered by Japan as part of the Guandong Leased Territories. This study examines Dalian's history during the initial period of Japanese rule, and places it within the broader context of Chinese urbanization. Although Dalian was governed by the Japanese administrators of both the leasehold and the South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu), this study emphasizes that the city was only 'leased' to Japan and that Dalian's Chinese inhabitants played as equally an important role in its history as did the foreign rulers. One of the major themes of this history of Dalian is the periodization of Japanese imperialism in China, and specifically 'Manchuria.' The traditional view of both Chinese and Western historians, (that the September 18 Incident of 1931 marked the start of Japan's aggression in the Northeast), is challenged since the Guandong leasehold had been under Tokyo's direct control since 1905. Subtle shifts in the severity of Japanese rule occurred during the subsequent four decades, but the origins of Japan's expansion in China clearly began around the turn of the and not in the 1930s. The key to understanding Dalian's history is the concept of 'contractually limited formal imperialism,' or leasehold colonialism. Within a chronological framework that traces the shifts in degrees of formal Japanese control, this work examines the issues of Chinese labour, the rise of Chinese nationalism, and the development of the region's economy. This dissertation traces Dalian's growth and evolution between 1905 and the 1931 Manchurian Incident utilizing a variety of contemporary sources including documents of the Guandong and Mantetsu administrations, Chinese and Japanese newspapers, American consular reports, and British Foreign Office documents. These primary materials are incorporated within a comprehensive review of recent scholarship by Chinese historians working in the People's Republic. The result is an account of Dalian's history in which the Chinese factor is returned to a story which until now has largely emphasized the Japanese 'side of the coin.' Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2011-07-28T09%3A49%3A52Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=24137824&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/972 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/c04a8e66463ca4fa1ee5ebf98cc9927e.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available York University Subject The topic of the resource urban history, urbanisation, imperialism Title A name given to the resource Great connections : The creation of a city, Dalian, 1905-1931 : China and Japan on the Liaodong Peninsula Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Meyer, V. J. Promotor Bekkering, H. C. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pinzon Cortes, Camila Eugenia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource This dissertation discusses the importance to study the form of the contemporary urban landscape. It shows how mapping is the tool by which the formal logic of the contemporary city can be uncovered. Through mapping, the urban landscape can be understood as systems of overlapping layers. This observation in terms of overlapping layers allows covering different scales from the block until the region. Finally, it is shown how mapping is simultaneously a research tool and a design approximation to the studied urban reality. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid:e9f69c50-ce09-4e14-87a0-50b24d46bc6d/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/973 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/d04b1b629c99e22ca00e747b044c7ed6.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available TU Delft Subject The topic of the resource urban form, cartography, urban landscape, urban morphology Title A name given to the resource Mapping urban form : Morphology studies in the contemporary urban landscape Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ray, Brian K. Advisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Podmore, Julie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999 Description An account of the resource At the end of the nineteenth century, St. Lawrence Boulevard, popularly known as 'the Main', attained mythical status in Montreal. Due to its particular location in the social and cultural geography of Montreal, the Main, which symbolically divides the working-class Francophone east and the Anglophone bourgeois west, has developed as a mixed-use commercial artery, an eclectic border zone of a bilingual, multi-ethnic city. The heterogeneous character of the Main is reflected in its material landscape---with its old and now largely re-used garment sweat-shops and labour halls, theatres of the red-light district, cafes, and the shops and restaurants of the mid-twentieth century immigrant shopping corridor. Shaped by the diversity of the populations that came to live, work, protest, shop or be entertained in these sites, it is an example of the social and cultural diversity of the metropolis. Such heterogeneous sites have often been interpreted as liminal spaces, but this research demonstrates that the construction and experience of the Main as a border zone have rarely been gender neutral. While physical, social and cultural heterogeneity are components of this landscape, these sites also attest to the importance of gender relations in the experience of the Main as a place of work and social life and, ultimately, as a space of representation. Its border status has often been represented through discourses and images of 'marginal' womanhood, articulated in terms of social, occupational, political, sexual and/or ethnic identity. Many of its locales, moreover, have been sites where women entered urban public life in contentious and distinctive ways. As a place that highlights the social and cultural heterogeneity of a supposedly 'divided' city, the Main is an ideal site from which to explore how ethnicity, language, class, occupation and sexual identity intersect with gender in the experience and representation of urban life. This thesis examines how a multiplicity of female gender identities have been defined and contested along the Main over the past century. It contributes to a broad literature on geographies of gender, difference and urban public cultures through an analysis of the relationships between feminist spatial metaphors and the material production of urban space. Through a series of events that move through time and sections of St. Lawrence, I examine how portions of the landscape of this boulevard have been marked by the enactment of specific sets of gender relations and forms of representation that became central to civic debates regarding gender. I argue that the construction and experience of the Main as a border zone has involved the production of specific relations of gender, alterity and space. A variety of qualitative methods and archival sources are used to illustrate the importance of representations of gender to the production of this place and to illustrate how women have experienced and made use of material sites to express their specific occupational, cultural, religious, social or sexual identities. This thesis demonstrates the crucial role played by the border zones of urban public cultures in the construction of female identities that depart from dominant gender norms in the expression of social, cultural and sexual differences. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36682&silo_library=GEN01 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/974 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/b3482ad0c359d81c5e06613301007f0e.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available McGill University Subject The topic of the resource women, gender, urban segregation, diversity, urban culture, urban space, urban geography, street Title A name given to the resource St. Lawrence Blvd. as third city : Place, gender and difference along Montréal's 'Main' Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Reid, Barton Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Description An account of the resource 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 chosen as the most appropriate place to conduct a case study into the transformation which is affecting the institutional and cultural logic for the organization and production of urban space. While the generation of new spatial norms within the local state became the empirical focus for this investigation, several conceptual challenges were also posed because of the reductionist and deterministic nature of the intellectual frameworks that are being used to comprehend change. Particularly in the planning field, a framework was required which avoided these problems. That is why political economy--and within political economy, one approach to the study of change known as regulation theory--was chosen to guide this inquiry. From regulation theory three organizing constructs--a regime of accumulation, mode of regulation and mode of urban development--were used to construct a periodization scheme in order to track the evolution of urban development in Vancouver during the late-twentieth century. Two patterns were identified. The first one was characterized by low-density suburban development where a regime of land-extensive accumulation prevailed, and the existence a mode of regulation which was governed by modern norms for the organization of space. In Vancouver, this mode of urban development became the dominant institutional logic for the production of urban space between 1945 and 1973. After 1973, this logic was replaced by another one. In contrast to the first mode of urban development, this second pattern was characterized by a regime of land-intensive accumulation, where densification became more prominent. Moreover, there was a change in the mode of regulation, as modern norms for the organization of space were replaced by postmodern ones. In Vancouver, the intermingling of these two patterning forces has established a hybrid form of urban development which has resulted in the creation of the first medium-density urban region in North America. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1607 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/975 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/cf36984706cfb727530e46c9610fdd4d.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of Manitoba Subject The topic of the resource urban change, density, urban politics, urban space, urban planning, urban development, urban form, post-modern city Title A name given to the resource The political economy of densification, looking for signs of the postmodern city; a case study of urban transformation in Greater Vancouver Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Verstraete, G. E. E. Promotor Dijck, J. F. T. M. van. Promotor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rennen, Ward Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007 Description An account of the resource Large international events like the Olympic Games put cities on the world map. CityEvents, place selling in a Media Age addresses the question how cities have been raising their profile internationally by hosting large international events throughout the twentieth century. It explores this question by introducing the CityEvent model. This model allows for the study of large international events from a threefold perspective, analytically integrating the roles of the media, host cities and event owners with each other. By means of this model, developments and transformations in the hosting of events are reconstructed in relation to historical developments in the media. This thesis provides a history of event-based place selling and simultaneously offers insights into the hosting of current and future events. The cities of Amsterdam, Berlin and Helsinki, both as hosts of the Olympic Games and as European Capitals of Culture, feature as case studies. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://dare.uva.nl/aup/en/record/309649 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/976 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/f77153a839e59d29798440fb38d3ea9b.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universiteit van Amsterdam Subject The topic of the resource Olympic Games, European Capital of Culture, event, media, tourism, city marketing Title A name given to the resource CityEvents : Place selling in a media age Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Autres serveurs Description An account of the resource Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Crévilles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elden, Stuart. Supervisor Iveson, Kurt. Supervisor MacLeod, Gordon. Supervisor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robinson, Wilfred Iain Thomas Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Description An account of the resource The thesis addresses the research question “What is transient and what endures within Japanese urban space” by taking the material constructed form of one Japanese city as a primary text and object of analysis. Chiba-shi is a port and administrative centre in southern Kanto, the largest city in the eastern part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Region and located about forty kilometres from downtown Tokyo. The study privileges the role of process as a theoretical basis for exploring the dynamics of the production and transformation of urban space. Three aspects of temporal experience identified by Giddens – routine, biographical and institutional time – are adopted as a framework for considering how the dynamics of social reproduction are expressed in terms of transience and durability within urban form. A methodology is developed to explore the changing interrelationship between six conceptual ‘entities’ – the individual, household, dwelling, establishment, premises and site. Metrics are identified for each to facilitate a consistent analysis over time of the changing relationship between these based on a formal diachronic longitudinal survey. An analysis of the spatial transformation of the material form of the city between 1870 and 2005 was completed based primarily on recording the changing use over time of about 4,500 sample points. The outcome of the study is presented in five substantive chapters. The first considers characteristics of the layout of neighbourhoods and dwellings that have endured largely through their close association with processes of social reproduction. The following four chapters examine chronologically the evolution of the city, documenting transformations in urban form and their expression in terms of changing use of volumes of space, the characteristic infrastructure, premises and dwelling types, and how these relate to broader trends in Japanese history. The final chapter summarises the interrelationship of these transformations and draws some conclusions concerning what promotes transience and durability in an urban environment. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/405/ http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/977 http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/archive/files/3d74746f1ade6917de93380b326a00df.jpg Language A language of the resource en Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Durham University Subject The topic of the resource urban space, processes, transience, durability Title A name given to the resource Transience and durability in Japanese urban space Type The nature or genre of the resource Thesis