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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
