Cities and Culture
The rise of the quasi-public space and its consequences for cities and culture
... There is a long history to the notion of providing public spaces in cities, often linked to the notion of the agora, symbolising democratic processes (Sennet, 1999). Furthermore, public spaces have commonly been a ...
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Sport and Canadian culture in the Border Cities, 1867 to 1929.
... Americans lived in counties close to the border; Kent and Wentworth contained over 2,000 each, Simcoe, on the other hand, had only 921 compared to York's nearly 7,000.3 is apparent that the number of Americans in Essex ...
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The art of systems: the cognitive-aesthetic culture of portal cities and the development of meta-cultural advanced knowledge economies
... One possible reason for the coincidence of form-creation and portal activity is that the portal city and the sea region are navigators’ domains. This is meant not just in the obvious sense that these places are mariners’ ...
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European Cities of Culture and Cultural Months
... Graz chose to intensify existing cultural activity over a six-week period: Cracow June 1992 organised a large international arts festival, the first of its kind in the city, covering mus[r] ...
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Cities in civilization: culture, Innovation and urban order
... or New York in the earl y twentieth century and Los Angeles at the mid-century, or London again in the 1980s; tho ugh we can legitimately include a much smaller city like Stockholm or in[r] ...
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From smart cities to wise cities
... middle of their city and, simply by virtue of their presence, they have an impact on urban and regional developments as well as the local civic culture (Goddard and Vallance 2013). However, many universities do ...
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On the Internet of Things, smart cities and the WHO Healthy Cities
... of culture, creativity, knowledge but mainly fairness and well-being; a place where people live near where they work; a city self-sufficient in energy; a zero emission city and a city hyperconnected to the ...
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City festivals: Creativity and control in staged urban experiences
... he Culture Festival was founded in the vacuum that was left by the Water Festival with the explicit aim not to replicate the mistake, so when decisions are made about the Culture Festival it seems the Water ...
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Creative city concept in local economic development: the case of Finnish cities
... creative cities, as creativity, culture and the arts have a generally positive meaning throughout the ...large cities has led to megaprojects, such as the renewal of harbour areas and transformations ...
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Sana'a, Structure, Historical Form, Architecture and Culture
... Arab cities that refer to Sabba'i and Humanities ...old cities on caravan roads that crossing from south to the north and not like the modern cities that planned and implemented in accordance with ...
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Cities: The cultural dimension
... in cities. Food culture, especially a diverse range of ethnically themed restaurants, in addition street food and farmers’ markets has been a major transformation of city ...inner cities 34 ...many ...
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Political culture and social networks in Russia since 1991: an empirical analysis
... affiliation63 Another good example is Hahn, who was conducting case studies in Russian cities and seeing the beginnings of a civic culture in Russia as far back as 1988; his study [r] ...
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Regaining the culture of cities
... projects, cities and landscape, we must keep the urban degradation of the world we live in uppermost in our ...area, culture and ...the culture of cities, the culture of the ...the ...
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Eurofocus: a newssheet for journalists. Weekly No. 2/95, 16-23 January 1995
... In order to assess the activities undertaken in the framework of the European cities of culture programme 10 cities so far, on the one hand and, on the other, of the "European cultural m[r] ...
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Full text (PDF)
... Geographies, cities are places with both specific landscapes and soundscapes that are directly perceived by people, fans or music consumers or intermediately perceived and consumed through visual channels as ...
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Cities at the centre: core cities 2002
... wins’ culture to one that places more emphasis upon medium and longer term ...regional cities has been instrumental to the long-term success of French ...regional cities that are similarly capable of ...
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Culture and Economic Growth of Cities; Evidence from Liberia
... how culture interacts with economic events and conditions and how it plays its role in the economic growth and development of an area (Ramsden ...of culture was the book written by Baumol and Bowen, which ...
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Cities, Global Cities and Glasgow - Some Reflections
... The ability to cope with the consequences of growth and success often means overcoming a third challenge - governance deficits. It is part of the day job for city leaders to be mired in vertical and horizontal government ...
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Articles | British Journal of Community Justice
... One of the downsides of performance management and target-setting is that priorities can get skewed, with a focus on what can be measured rather than what should be measured. League tables and performance bonuses can ...
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Malay culture acculturation: the existence and the globalization
... The Malay arts in Riau Province are a cultural element where the acculturation emerges in huge scope, is complicated and takes aquiet long time. Malayarts arein various fields,such as singing, dancing, theater. Each art ...
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