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VERONESE, LAURA. "Berliner Spaziergange : archeologia della metropoli verde." Doctoral thesis, Università IUAV di Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11578/278697.
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Buccioli, Nicola, Enrico Ferri, Francesco Gasperini, and Iacopo Rosmundi. "Buenos Aires 2100. Quattro progetti per una metropoli." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/5314/.
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Nell’ambito del Laboratorio di sintesi finale “ Progetto Buenos Aires”, siamo entrati in contatto con la realtà sociale, culturale ed architettonica sudamericana, che si presenta attualmente molto complessa e dinamica.
Partendo dalle dieci conferenze tenute in Sudamerica dal demiurgico Le Corbusier nel 1929, abbiamo intrapreso un’analisi critica dei progetti proposti dall’architetto svizzero al fine di comprendere il suo approccio progettuale in relazione alle specificità urbane di Buenos Aires, Montevideo, San Paolo e Rio de Janeiro.
L’obiettivo del corso è stato poi quello di sviluppare un progetto di architettura individuale per la realtà urbana di Buenos Aires e a tal scopo, nel mese di maggio, abbiamo intrapreso un primo viaggio per comprendere direttamente alcuni aspetti legati alla “natura” della città.
Con la volontà di cogliere al meglio le articolate ed eterogenee sfaccettature che una metropoli come Buenos Aires può offrire, siamo tornati, nei mesi di ottobre e novembre, per vivere, osservare e studiare la città.
Tale esperienza ci ha permesso di acquisire una migliore visione critica e di comprendere con maggiore consapevolezza le sue molteplici sfumature.
Al fine di avviare il progetto abbiamo inizialmente svolto ricerche documentali presso la Biblioteca Nacional, la biblioteca del FADU (Facultad de Arquitectura, Disegno y Urbanismo di Buenos Aires), e la biblioteca della Societad Central de Arquitectos ed altri archivi, che ci hanno acconsentito di reperire testi e materiali essenziali non disponibili in Italia.
Il percorso è stato arricchito da una serie d’incontri e dibattiti sulla città, i suoi continui cambiamenti e le sue criticità, con architetti e professori della FADU e della Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de La Plata, quali il professor Miguel Angel Roca, Javier Fernandez Castro e Fernando Aliata.
Intrecci che hanno rappresentato un momento di riflessione importante per una visione generale dell’ambiente culturale in cui stavamo lavorando, e hanno proposto alcune chiare idee per un ridisegno generale della città di Buenos Aires e alcune suggestioni per i progetti portati avanti individualmente.
Abbiamo avuto inoltre il grande onore di esporre e mostrare i nostri primi elaborati davanti agli studenti e professori delle suddette facoltà, avviando così un momento di scambio e confronto sui diversi approcci metodologici adottati nei due paesi, al tempo stesso così lontani e così vicini.
Il coronamento di questa esperienza è stato l’incontro con due figure fondamentali nel processo architettonico argentino del secondo Novecento, l’architetto Justo Solsona e l’architetto Clorindo Testa.
La tesi si articola in cinque diversi momenti.
Il primo, a scala territoriale, propone una suggestione sui possibili sviluppi della Ciudad autonoma de Buenos Aires, mentre gli altri, sulla base di un’idea di fondo, rappresentano i progetti architettonici sviluppati individualmente.
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Bulagna, Elisa <1989>. "Leggere la metropoli: i giornali gratuiti a Shanghai." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4369.
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La tesi si basa su una ricerca svolta a Shanghai tra Luglio e Ottobre 2013, riguardo alla distribuzione dei giornali gratuiti in città. Ci si è concentrati principalmente sulle edizioni gratuite distribuite lungo le diverse linee di metropolitana, raccogliendone quarantacinque numeri.
La tesi si sviluppa in quattro capitoli: il primo tratta in linea più generale la situazione del giornalismo cinese in questi ultimi 30 anni, a partire dalle nuove tendenze sviluppatesi dopo il 1978.
Il secondo si concentra invece sui giornali gratuiti, sulla loro nascita e il loro successo e sviluppo a livello mondiale e poi, più nello specifico, in Cina e a Shanghai.
Il terzo e il quarto capitolo sono invece un'analisi tecnica, stilistica e contenutistica più dettagliata di due delle testate gratuite distribuite lungo la metropolitana a Shanghai: lo 时代报 (Shidai Bao) e il 新民地铁 (Xinmin Ditie). Il primo è un quotidiano pubblicato dal Lunedì al Venerdì, mentre il secondo è un settimanale pubblicato ogni Venerdì.
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LETIZIA, FEDERICO. "Legible Exodus. Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, Madelon Vriesendorp e Zoe Zenghelis : studio, ridisegno e rilettura di un’opera seminale." Doctoral thesis, Università IUAV di Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11578/286418.
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La prima pubblicazione di “Exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture” (Giugno ‘73) precede di pochi anni la fondazione, da parte degli stessi autori, dello studio OMA.
Oggi le considerazioni teoriche e le immagini di “Exodus” meritano ancora l’attenzione di quanti si interrogano sul futuro delle città, della disciplina e dell’ambiente antropico in senso più ampio.
Poliedrico, capace di stimolare trasversalmente curiosità e immaginazione degli osservatori, “Exodus” è stato più volte analizzato dalla critica con molteplici chiavi di lettura (filosofiche, letterarie, antropologiche, politiche, sociali), ma non sempre da un punto di vista strettamente architettonico.
L'obiettivo di questa ricerca è l’approfondimento dello studio in tal senso.
Il metodo usato si basa sull’analisi dei documenti.
I risultati permettono di stabilire l’origine formale di alcune architetture (o parti) di “Exodus” che figurano nello schema planimetrico complessivo come citazioni di opere esistenti o progetti inediti.
Al tema del muro, utilizzato spesso come strumento interpretativo esclusivo nella decodifica di “Exodus”, la ricerca consente di affiancare il tema dell’infrastrutturazione del territorio.
La rilettura proposta consente infine di ricollocare l’oggetto studiato all’interno del suo contesto storico arricchito da un nuovo livello di dettaglio analitico, svelando collegamenti inediti tra “Exodus” e altre ricerche contemporanee o distanti nel tempo.
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Muzzupappa, Silvia. "Il fascino di Barcellona, una delle metropoli piu attrattive d'Europa." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/14160/.
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Barcellona è una delle metropoli più visitate dai turisti di tutta Europa. Partendo dalle testimonianze di alcune persone che vi hanno trascorso del tempo per studio o per svago vado delineando i tratti salienti del suo successo. Un successo la cui origine è da ricercarsi non solo nella sua storia ma anche nella sua evoluzione più recente.
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González, Rojas Esteban Ramiro. "Proyecto Metropoli: Plan de Inversión Inmobiliaria en Chile y Australia." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2011. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/102644.
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Magíster en Gestión para la GlobalizaciónMetrópoli Ltda. es una sociedad de inversiones inmobiliarias creada a fines del 2009. Los 2 socios cuentan con más de 10 años de experiencia en el mundo inmobiliario y participan en otras 3 sociedades del rubro. Metrópoli se creó con el fin de capitalizar las utilidades emanadas de las otras sociedades y para aprovechar las oportunidades y capacidades que se cuentan a nivel de consultor y “bróker” inmobiliario. El proyecto consiste en invertir en un portafolio de propiedades estratégicas tanto en Chile (CL) como en Australia (AU). La selección de los países fue en base a criterios ampliamente desarrollados en la literatura de inversiones inmobiliarias: experiencia, redes, complementariedad y seguridad. El plan se basa en la constante e inevitable necesidad de las inmobiliarias por contar con suelo “maduro” para desarrollo de edificios (CL: 450 proyectos/año, AU: 300 proyectos/año). Este suelo es la “semilla” y mayor “ventaja competitiva” de una Inmobiliaria y a la vez es la partida más cara de un proyecto (CL: 15% - 25% de la venta y AU: 20% y 30% de la venta). La oportunidad de Metrópoli está en “ser pioneros” en la detección de suelo, comprando a valores de M2 construidos y posteriormente vendiendo a las inmobiliarias a precio de M2 de suelo, obteniendo ganancias brutas de capital de entre un 180% - 200% en CL y de entre un 160% -180% en AU. Así, se desarrolló una propuesta de valor focalizada en los propietarios vendedores y se construyó una estrategia de compra-venta focalizada en la captación profesional. Finalmente, se evalúo la viabilidad económica en un plano de 10 años, obteniendo un período de recuperación de inversión de 6 años, una TIR total de 73% y un VPN total de CLP $2.207millones. Además se realiza un análisis de riesgo bajo un escenario de postergación de ventas de 2 de cada 5 casas y tasa de descuento del 30%, obteniendo un período de recuperación de inversión de 7 años, un TIR total de 57% y VPN total de CLP $1.388 millones. En conclusión, se observa una alta rentabilidad esperada para el proyecto lo cual sugiere ejecutar el plan de negocios evaluado.
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Giordano, Denis. "Lavorare nell'economia informale: i meccanici di strada nella metropoli parigina." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/367597.
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La presente tesi di dottorato intende inscriversi nel filone delle ricerche rivolte alle forme di lavoro che si esprimono nell'economia informale. E' ˆstato adottato un approccio etnografico focalizzato sulle pratiche lavorative, a partire da una prospettiva che vuole concentrarsi sulle modalità concrete con cui gli attori costruiscono, giorno dopo giorno, le condizioni sociali del loro agire e riescono a condurre il loro lavoro confrontandosi con le difficoltà quotidiane.
L'€™ambito dell'economia informale, con le sue caratteristiche specifiche e le difficoltà d'accesso che lo contraddistinguono, non è stato finora molto considerato a partire da un'€™attenzione rivolta in profondità alle forme di pratica lavorativa intraprese dagli attori che qui agiscono. Il lavoro di ricerca intende situarsi in questo interstizio ancora scarsamente considerato, andando ad esplorare un'€™attività specifica dell'€™economia informale, non per indagarne le dinamiche generali e le linee d'andamento e sviluppo, ma per approfondire le condizioni situate che permettono ad un'attività economica e di lavoro di manifestarsi.
Dati anche i presupposti teorici orientati all'analisi della dimensione concreta, minuta e situata delle pratiche lavorative messe in atto dagli attori nel corso del loro agire quotidiano, mi sono concentrato su di un'attività  e un territorio particolare: la meccanica di strada nella metropoli parigina. La ricerca si è articolata grazie ad un'€™intensa esperienza di lavoro sul campo, che mi ha dato modo di sperimentare attivamente le pratiche lavorative dei meccanici di strada. Ho dunque intrapreso un percorso d'€™immersione nel contesto prescelto per la ricerca, seguendo una partecipazione osservante delle azioni quotidiane che ha trovato nel corpo del ricercatore un ulteriore strumento d'indagine utile al fine di saggiare le condizioni di lavoro dei meccanici di strada.
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CALANDRA, DI ROCCOLINO GIACOMO. "La piazza della metropoli : Alexanderplatz a Berlino, ruolo urbano e composizione." Doctoral thesis, Università IUAV di Venezia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11578/278629.
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MENELAO, Veronica. "Sogno di prigioniero. Tre sentieri tra Architettura e Comunicazione." Doctoral thesis, La Sapienza, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11573/917372.
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LONGHI, DAVIDE. "Fast|est cities. Modelli, strumenti e futuro delle metropoli asiatiche, il caso coreano." Doctoral thesis, Università IUAV di Venezia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11578/278151.
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BONINI, LESSING EMANUELA FANNY. "La corporate spezzata : per una critica dei sistemi informativi e identitari nella metropoli." Doctoral thesis, Università IUAV di Venezia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11578/278252.
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Folin, Lodovico <1974>. "Sinfonia incompiuta di una metropoli: San Paolo del Brasile tra il 1930 e il 1950." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/327.
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Suppia, Alfredo Luiz Paes de Oliveira 1975. "A metropole replicante de metropolis a Blade Runner." [s.n.], 2002. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285071.
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Orientador: Lucia NagibDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Metropolís, dirigido por Fritz Lang em 1926, é um filme fundador que criou uma estética própria e influenciou inúmeras realizações posteriores. Blade Runner, dirigido por Ridley Scott em 1982, cita e reelabora diversos elementos de Metropolís, ao mesmo tempo em que se apresenta como um dos filmes mais representativos da década de 80. Esta dissertação de mestrado realiza uma minuciosa análise dos dois filmes e suas inter-relações, partindo do princípio de que Blade Runner apresenta características estéticas, narrativas e ideológicas já tratadas no Metropolis de Lang, em 1926, mas com "fôlego" redimensionado aos anos 80. A dissertação se organiza em torno de três eixos principais: a cidade, a metalinguagem e as alegorias. No 1° capítulo da dissertação são analisadas as fontes estéticas que deram origem às metrópoles futuristas de Fritz Lang e RidIey Scott. O foco se dirige para a arquitetura, elemento relevante em ambos os filmes, a ponto de a cidade ganhar status de protagonista. A reflexão sobre a articulação entre tempo e espaço na metrópole dá ensejo a meditações sobre elementos como o gótico, o kitsch, o expressionismo,o futurismo, o film noir, etc. No 2º capítulo, "Os Olhos da Metrópole ou As Mídias dentro da Mídia", emerge o tema da metalinguagem, ou como são tratadas as questões da mídia e das tecnologias de comunicação (fotografia, cinema e vídeo), tanto por Lang quanto por Scott. Neste capítulo ganha destaque a discussão acerca dos simulacros, tema presente em ambos os filmes estudados. No 3º e último capítulo, o foco incide sobre como se constroem as lendas de Metropolis e Blade Runner, com o propósito de identificar o discurso ideológico ou a crítica social contidos nos personagens e na ação desses dois fIlmes, dos quais, sobressaem aspectos como a religião, o tema do duplo e discursos político raciais. Na conclusão são amarradas as proposições levantadas nos capítulos anteriores, com vistas a associar Metropolis e Blade Runner a projetos respectivamente moderno e pós-moderno de sociedades do futuro
Abstract: Metropolís, directed by Fritz Lang in 1925-6, is a foundational film which launched a new aesthtetics and became extremely influencial. Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott in 1982, quotes and re-elaborates several elements of Metropolis, becoming one of the most representative movies of the 80's. This Master's dissertation cames on a detailed analysis of both films and their inter-relations, departing from the idea that Blade Runner presents aesthetic, narrative and ideological issues already approached by Lang in 1926, but under a perspective of the 80's. This dissertation is structured around three axes: the city, the metalanguage and the allegories. Thus, in the 1st chapter of the thesis, "The Architecture of the Metropolis: Metropolis, 2026; Los Angeles, 2019", the aesthetic sources of Lang's and Scott's futuristic metropolis are analysed. In focus is the architecture, an element so relevant in both films that the city acquires the status of protagonist. The reflection on the articulation between time and space in the metropolis is followed by meditations on elements such as the gothic, the kitsch, the expressionism, the futurism, the film noir, etc. The 2nd chapter, "The Eyes of the Metropolis or The Media inside the Mediun", deals with the issue of the metalanguage, lookíng at how the media and communication technologies (photography, cinema and video) are approached by Lang and Scott. Special attention is given to the discussion on simulacra, present in both the films. The 3rd chapter, "Constructing the Legend", explains how the legends of Metropolis and Blade Runner are constructed. The aim is to identify the ideological discourse and the social critique suggested by the characters and the action of both fIlms, taking into consideration aspects such as religion, the double and racial and political speeches. The conclusion ties up the arguments raised in the previous chapters, finally associating Metropolis and Blade Runner respectively to modem and postmodern projects of future societies
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Piccoli, Fabio <1976>. "La metropoli, la comunicazione e la persona anziana: uno studio di caso su un "luogo" metropolitano." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/233/1/Tesi_Fabio_Piccoli.pdf.
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Piccoli, Fabio <1976>. "La metropoli, la comunicazione e la persona anziana: uno studio di caso su un "luogo" metropolitano." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/233/.
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Licciardi, Lorenzo. "Urbanità globale, confini digitali. Inquadrature e miniature di Berlino nel romanzo Teil der Lösung (2007) di Ulrich Peltzer." Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10556/1927.
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2012 - 2013Urbanità globale, confini digitali: inquadrature e miniature di Berlino nel romanzo Teil der Lösung (2007) di Ulrich Peltzer è il titolo del mio lavoro di ricerca condotto sulla letteratura tedesca contemporanea, in particolare sulla letteratura della metropoli, attraverso l’esempio del romanzo Teil der Lösung di Ulrich Peltzer. Il mio studio critico-letterario è focalizzato sulla città di Berlino ed è perciò inscindibile dalla storia recente della capitale tedesca, distrutta nella seconda guerra mondiale, divisa poi dal Muro e infine ricostruita, prevalentemente, secondo i criteri architettonici e urbanistici delle città globali. La globalizzazione è una questione centrale per il discorso sull’urbanità postmoderna, ed implica l’intreccio di diversi aspetti sociologici, geopolitici, economici, che hanno reso necessario un confronto interdisciplinare con studi non letterari, indispensabili alla comprensione e definizione del tema-città. Tra i diversi fattori ricavabili dall’osservazione del contesto urbano contemporaneo (tecnocrazia e digitalizzazione, egemonia dei linguaggi massmediatici, ri-urbanizzazione funzionalizzata al consumo e al turismo), gli argomenti nodali che affiorano nell’opera di Peltzer qui presa in analisi risultano essere la privatizzazione del suolo pubblico della città e la videosorveglianza digitale, fenomeni che determinano la nascita di nuovi confini sul suolo delle grandi metropoli odierne, tra le quali Berlino si è inserita rapidamente negli anni dopo la caduta del Muro. Il metodo e il fuoco scelti per questa ricerca si adattano a una forma letteraria affatto particolare, che fa da prologo a Teil der Lösung: il primo, breve capitolo del Großstadtroman di Peltzer, intitolato Sony Center, è infatti identificabile come Großstadtminiatur, una miniatura testuale in cui si concentrano le tematiche e le strutture formali del romanzo, e in cui viene messo in scena, allo stesso tempo, un microcosmo dell’urbanità globalizzata. Di conseguenza, l’oggetto primario di questo studio sono le poche pagine d’apertura di Teil der Lösung, da cui è stato possibile estrarre un cospicuo insieme di riflessioni e spunti analitici, sia su un piano puramente letterario, sia per quanto riguarda il discorso sulla metropoli contemporanea. La tesi si divide in tre parti: la prima, La metropoli Berlino nella letteratura di Ulrich Peltzer, introduce la categoria letteratura della metropoli; discute le problematiche relative alla storia peculiare di Berlino e all’odierna fisionomia della città; presenta quindi la poetica di Peltzer, improntata ad uno sguardo attento sul presente e sulla dimensione sociologica della vita urbana; infine, anticipa alcuni aspetti generali del prologo Sony Center come miniatura di Teil der Lösung e, insieme, dell’edificio Sony Center come microcosmo simbolico della metropoli globalizzata. Nella seconda parte, Parte del problema: città privata, città digitale, viene delineata la costituzione di nuovi confini sulla superficie della metropoli, in virtù della privatizzazione dello spazio pubblico e della digitalizzazione della vita urbana, da cui derivano forme di controllo ed emarginazione sociali. Implicazioni non marginali che risultano da questo discorso sono la virtualizzazione dell’esperienza e della percezione della città e la diffusione delle immagini digitali come linguaggio dominante. La terza parte, Elaborazione critica di una tecnica letteraria, propone un confronto con i modelli della letteratura della metropoli del primo Novecento ed espone nel dettaglio la poetica e la tecnica di Peltzer, indagandone l’approccio critico alla scrittura letteraria e le diverse soluzioni formali attraverso cui l’autore produce la sua particolarissima miniatura urbana. [a cura dell'autore]
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Benvegnu, Carlotta. "Nelle officine della circolazione : un’etnografia del lavoro logistico tra il Grand Paris e la metropoli diffusa veneta." Thesis, Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080030.
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Les entrepôts de la logistique, secteur charnière entre production et consommation, ne produisent pas une marchandise en particulier, mais un flux de marchandises. Partant du constat que le secteur, en forte croissance ces dernières années, a été le plus souvent étudié par les sciences sociales de manière globale, l’objectif de la thèse est d’analyser de manière intensive deux entrepôts logistiques appartenant à la même entreprise dans deux contextes nationaux et régionaux différents, le nord-est de l’Italie et la région parisienne. Plusieurs interrogations traversent cette enquête. Comment les entreprises multinationales de logistique s’adaptent-elles au contexte juridique, économique et social dans lequel elles opèrent et comment participent-elles à le transformer ? Quels sont les personnels mobilisés ? Quelles sont leurs conditions et pratiques de travail ? L’analyse porte donc sur l’organisation du travail, sur les effets des politiques de recrutement et de gestion sur les expériences sociales des ouvriers migrants et locaux, sur les interactions entre salariés et entre groupes, ainsi que sur les pratiques de résistances formelles et informelles. La recherche s’appuie sur une enquête ethnographique dans les deux entrepôts, ainsi que sur une série d’entretiens biographiques. La thèse se situe au croisement d’une sociologie du travail et d’une sociologie des organisations, d’une sociologie des mobilisations collectives et de la segmentation du marché de l’emploi, d’une sociologie des classes populaires, et plus secondairement d’une sociologie des espaces urbainsZipper between production and consumption, the logistics warehouses, rather than a specific good, product a flow of commodities. The sector has been growing fastly in the last years, and it is usually studied from a global perspective within social sciences. The aim of this thesis is to elaborate an in depth analysis on two warehouses of the same multinational logistics company within two distinct national and regional contexts: the Italian North-East and the Paris metropolis. The thesis is structured around many research questions: How do the logistics multinational companies adapt to the juridical, economic, and social context where they operate? How do they contribute to its transformation? Which recruitment policies do they apply? What are the practices and the working conditions? The analysis is then focused on the organization of the labour process, on the specific effects that the recruitment policies and the labour-force management produce on the social experiences of local and migrant workers, on the interactions and relationships between groups within the workplace, as well as on the formal and informal resistance practices played by the workers. The research is based on an ethnographic enquiry inside the two warehouses and on a series of biographic interviews. The thesis is at the crossroad between different sociological approaches: sociology of work and organizations, collective mobilizations and the segmentation of labour market, popular classes and, to a lesser extent, sociology of urban spaces
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Benvegnu, Carlotta. "Nelle officine della circolazione. Un'etnografia del lavoro logistico tra il Grand Paris e la metropoli diffusa veneta." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424828.
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Abstract: In the Workshops of Circulation: an Ethnography of Logistics Labour between Greater Paris and the Venetian Widespread Metropolis.
Zipper between production and consumption, the logistics warehouses, rather than a specific good, product a flow of commodities. The sector has been growing fastly in the last years, and it is usually studied from a global perspective within social sciences. The aim of this thesis is to elaborate an in depth analysis on two warehouses of the same multinational logistics company within two distinct national and regional contexts: the Italian North-East and the Paris metropolis. The thesis is structured around many research questions: How do the logistics multinational companies adapt to the juridical, economic, and social context where they operate? How do they contribute to its transformation? Which recruitment policies do they apply? What are the practices and the working conditions? The analysis is then focused on the organization of the labour process, on the specific effects that the recruitment policies and the labour-force management produce on the social experiences of local and migrant workers, on the interactions and relationships between groups within the workplace, as well as on the formal and informal resistance practices played by the workers. The research is based on an ethnographic enquiry inside the two warehouses and on a series of biographic interviews. The thesis is at the crossroad between different sociological approaches: sociology of work and organizations, collective mobilizations and the segmentation of labour market, popular classes and, to a lesser extent, sociology of urban spaces.Abstract: Nelle officine della circolazione.Un'etnografia del lavoro logistico tra il Grand Paris e la metropoli diffusa veneta. Dentro ai magazzini della logistica, settore cerniera tra produzione e consumo, ad essere prodotta non è una merce in particolare, ma un flusso di merci. Il settore, che ha conosciuto un forte sviluppo durante gli ultimi anni, è generalmente studiato dalle scienze sociali da una prospettiva globale. L'obiettivo della tesi è analizzare in maniera approfondita due magazzini della stessa multinazionale logistica in due contesti nazionali e regionali distinti, il nord-est dell'Italia e la metropoli parigina. La tesi è attraversata da più domande di ricerca. Come si adattano le multinazionali logistiche al contesto giuridico, economico, sociale in cui operano e come partecipano a trasformarlo? Quali politiche di reclutamento mettono in campo? Quali sono le pratiche e le condizioni lavorative? L'analisi si sofferma quindi sull'organizzazione del processo lavorativo, sull'effetto delle diverse politiche in materia di reclutamento e gestione della manodopera sulle esperienze sociali di lavoratori locali e migranti, sulle interazioni e sui rapporti tra gruppi all'interno dei posti di lavoro, nonché sulle pratiche di resistenza formali e informali messe in campo dai lavoratori. La ricerca si fonda su unâindagine etnografica nei due magazzini nonché su una serie dâinterviste biografiche. La tesi si situa dunque allâincrocio tra la sociologia del lavoro e delle organizzazioni, delle mobilitazioni collettive e della segmentazione del mercato del lavoro, delle classi popolari e, in minor misura, della sociologia degli spazi urbani.
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Alexandrino, Pereira Morgado Carla Sofia. "Protagonismo de la ausencia. Interpretación urbanística de la formación metropolitana de Lisboa desde lo desocupado." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/6959.
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La ausencia es el protagonista contemporáneo de las metrópolis. No obstante, ante la invitación de varios autores se verificó que no se había interpretado todavía una metrópoli concreta averiguando las circunstancias de ocurrencia de los espacios desocupados. Había que justificar que los espacios desocupados realmente determinan varios estadios de evolución urbanística hacia una condición efectivamente metropolitana y elegir una metrópoli donde esa premisa fuera incuestionable, lo que sucede en la de Lisboa, que se constituye alrededor de un gran espacio central desocupado: el Estuario del Tejo. El transcurso de la investigación determinó un abordaje de estructura muy simple y extraordinariamente flexible.La reflexión sobre la formación metropolitana de Lisboa desde lo desocupado se organizó en cinco momentos significativos en los que a partir de tres claves - el agua, la tierra, la creación artificial-se identificaron morfologías de espacios desocupados, utilizando los mismos criterios conceptuales, expresados según idénticos criterios cartográficos. Razonando los motivos y las formas de ocupación y el modo cómo se interrelacionan se caracteriza no sólo la metrópoli de Lisboa actual sino tendencias inmediatas de desarrollo.
Además, se pudo verificar como los tres elementos se relacionaron entre sí caracterizando el estado territorial así como cada uno, a lo largo del tiempo, se fue adaptando a las circunstancias de la propia formación metropolitana:
1. 1860 | el fundamento de la metrópoli: las formas del agua y de la tierra eran en este período las más determinantes de la formación urbanística, resultando directamente de ellas la creación artificial que definitivamente marcó las evoluciones subsecuentes;
2. 1940 | la base infraestructural de la metrópoli: el territorio donde se estaban empezando a formar las pautas de la futura metrópoli de Lisboa se transforma a partir de las grandes líneas infraestructuradas, con particular incidencia para el ferrocarril y el puerto de Lisboa;
3. 1965 | el espacio máquina: empezó a formarse una conurbación pre-metropolitana así como la explotación intensiva del territorio, implicando una funcionalización del espacio expresada en las formas de máxima producción;
4. 1992 | una metrópoli de oportunidades: se estaba ante el primer estado realmente metropolitano cuando se asistió a una renovación de las oportunidades del suelo comparativamente al período anterior;
5. 2001 | una transformación supra-metropolitana: la integración en las redes de rangos superiores determinó una reducción aparentemente homogénea del espacio desocupado lo que contribuye para un paisaje indiferente y de pocos referentes urbanos.
El análisis de cada período mostró una estructura territorial en progreso, desde su fundamento hasta su condición actual de integrante en una formación supra metropolitana. Resultó que a cada estado correspondió una lectura perfectamente autónoma pero cuya secuencia temporal explica la actual configuración de la metrópoli de Lisboa desde los espacios desocupados y permite enunciar algunas tendencias de evolución. El conocimiento progresivo de la formación de la metrópoli permitió justificadamente cualificarla en cada momento, mostrando que el espacio desocupado es su determinante esencial en el territorio de Lisboa.
Esta contribución tiene un particular interés porque propone una interpretación innovadora de un territorio concreto a partir de la caracterización del espacio que no se ocupa, fundamentándose en una metodología propia.
La utilización de algunas técnicas GIS aplicadas a un territorio específico permite constituir una cartografía inédita sobre el tema, con potencialidades de uso futuro, así como un detallado archivo cartográfico sobre el territorio en estudio. La metodología y conclusiones pueden, eventualmente, ser aplicadas a la interpretación de otras metrópolis.
Absence is the contemporary protagonist in the metropolis. Nevertheless, no author has attempted to interpret a concrete metropolis from this point of view, examining the circumstances in which unoccupied spaces occur. It would be necessary to show that unoccupied spaces really determine the various stages of urban development that lead to an effectively metropolitan status and also to choose a metropolis where this premise is unquestionable. Such a premise is true of Lisbon, which is formed around a large unoccupied central space: the Tagus Estuary. The progress of the research determined a simply and extraordinarily flexibly structured approach.
Analysis of the metropolitan formation of Lisbon around the unoccupied is based on five significant moments in which three principles - water, land, and artificial creation - are used to identify morphologies of unoccupied spaces, using the same conceptual criteria, expressed according to identical cartographic criteria. Considering the motives and forms of occupation, as well as how they inter-relate with each other, the metropolis of Lisbon is not only described, but trends for future development are also outlined.
This reading matrix made it possible to establish an analytic criterion which was coherent at all stages of metropolitan development discussed here. In addition, it was possible to see how the three elements related to each other, characterising the territory as a whole, as well as how each element over time has adapted to the circumstances of the metropolitan formation itself:
6. 1860 | the founding of the metropolis: the shapes of water and land were the main factors determining formation, resulting directly in the artificial creation which definitively marked later development of the ways of occupying territory;
7. 1940 | the infrastructural base of the territory: the territory where the lines of development of the future metropolis of Lisbon were taking shape was transformed by large-scale infrastructures, particularly the railways and the port of Lisbon;
8. 1965 | the machine-space: a pre-metropolitan conurbation began to be formed, and territory began to be more intensively exploited, involving functionalisation of space expressed in maximum-productivity forms;
9. 1992 | a metropolis of opportunities: this was when Lisbon first achieved real metropolitan status, with renewal of land-use opportunities in comparison with the foregoing period;
10. 2001 | a supra-metropolitan transformation: insertion into larger networks has led to an apparently homogeneous reduction of unoccupied space, which contributes to an undifferentiated landscape and few urban reference-points.
Analysis of each period showed a territorial structure under construction, from its foundation to its current status as part of a supra-metropolitan formation. Each stage has been dealt with in a completely autonomous reading but the time-sequence explains the present configuration of the Lisbon metropolis around unoccupied spaces, and allows us to draw some conclusions concerning the trend of future development. Progressive knowledge of the formation of the metropolis has made it possible to describe and classify it at every stage, showing that unoccupied space is the essential determining factor in the territory of Lisbon.
This study is particularly interesting because it proposes an innovative interpretation of a concrete territory starting from a discussion of a space which remains unoccupied, based on a specific methodology.
The use of some GIS techniques applied to a specific territory also led to the production of new cartography on this theme, with potential future use, together with a new detailed cartographic archive on the territory under analysis. The methodology and conclusions may be used to interpret other metropolitan realities
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Grigolini, Zeno <1989>. "Imprenditorialità e occupazione nelle città metropolitane: analisi economica delle principali metropoli europee e del loro impatto sull’innovazione imprenditoriale." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/9846.
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L’obiettivo di questo tesi è analizzare come l’ambiente metropolitano agisca favorevolmente sullo sviluppo e sull’innovazione imprenditoriale. La tesi è composta da quattro capitoli. Nel primo, dopo aver chiarito il significato e la tipologia dei fattori della localizzazione, saranno affrontati gli effetti localizzativi indotti dai cicli storici: un excursus temporale dalle prime rivoluzioni industriali, quando la localizzazione era principalmente dovuta alla vicinanza delle fonti energetiche, fino ad oggi, dove la localizzazione dipende da un mix di fattori dinamici legati in particolar modo al ruolo attivo della città, capace di concentrare al suo interno il maggior numero di attività imprenditoriali. Il secondo capitolo è incentrato sul ruolo della città metropolitana e spiega come la globalizzazione abbia contribuito ad accrescere il potere delle città nel corso degli anni, generando una forte competizione tra le metropoli per attrarre imprese e investimenti. Nel terzo capitolo si sottolinea come l’innovazione, prodotta dalle imprese, sia un fattore fondamentale per alimentare il processo di sviluppo. Viene analizzata l’importanza del capitale umano, della sua accumulazione e delle esternalità derivanti da esso. Nel quarto ed ultimo capitolo si propone la costruzione di un’analisi economica delle principali aree metropolitane europee interpretando il valore dell’innovazione imprenditoriale e la sua relazione con lo spazio metropolitano.
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Ferraro, Alessia. "L'immagine di Parigi nell'opera di Ludwig Boerne." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423619.
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Ludwig Börne, German publicist writer of Vormärz liberal orientation. He was unjustly banished by critics, who always sees him like a poor copy of Heine and imprisoned him in the stereotype of the Jacobin revolutionary interested only in political events . The comparison with the policy is one of the most important aspect of his work, but is not the beginning for starting an investigation on the writings of the author. Börne's exquisite sensitivity goes beyond the political fact, being able to understand the deepest dynamics of the social and cultural climate in the incipient modernity, which were positive as well as negative, often ambiguous and contradictory. In these years Paris was, with its 700 0000 inhabitants, the largest metropolis in Europe and the most important symbol of the progress. The French capital had always attracted the attention of intellectuals and artists from all over Europe, including many Germans. These intellectuals had also produced a series of writings on Paris, published later in Germany, especially letters and travel accounts, which had finally given birth to a so-called Parisliteratur. In these texts Paris was outlined according to the aspects that had aroused the interest or the sensitivity of the authors: Forster went there for political reasons during the French Revolution and analyzed their structures and caught the centralizing aspects. Kleist mentions it in private letters, he suffers from the alienating, depersonalizing and dehumanizing power of the big city. Börne himself went there twice, to return definitively a third: he proves to have a complex and ambivalence relationship with the metropolis, and just this is the particularly interesting element of Börne.
Börne undergoes a great fascination for the opening of Paris about the modernity and progress, which, in the eyes of a German, accustomed to far more modest urban reality, makes it a city of the future from every point of view: social, political, cultural economic, architectural, urban. However, he is also able to show the deviations that these dynamics can produce, echoing to the Rousseau's thought, and anticipating with some insights to the thought of Marx, Benjamin and Simmel. In the face of such deformations Boerne retracts and reacts with rejection: the big city drives him to seek isolation and to create a several intellectual barriers between himself and the city, in fear to be overpowered or contaminated. This is why in many of his writings he appears detached spectator of the city, which is reduced to an object of analysis, and is never experienced in its vitalityLudwig Börne, scrittore pubblicista della Germania del Vormärz di orientamento liberale, e' stato ingiustamente trascurato dalla critica, che da sempre non vi vede che una debole controfigura di Heine e col tempo lo ha imprigionato nello stereotipo del giacobino rivoluzionario interessato solo ai fatti politici. Di certo il confronto con la politica costituisce uno dei perni fondamentali della sua opera, ma una visione che ne faccia l'unico punto di partenza per un'indagine sugli scritti dell'autore appare riduttiva. La raffinata sensibilita' di Börne va ben oltre il fatto politico in sè, riuscendo a cogliere e rielaborare letterariamente molti aspetti centrali, positivi come anche negativi, spesso ambigui e contraddittori della temperie sociale e culturale dellâepoca, in cui andava dispiegandosi la nascente modernità. All'epoca in cui scrive Börne il simbolo del progresso è incarnato da Parigi, che con i suoi 700 0000 abitanti, è la più grande metropoli d'Europa. La capitale francese aveva sempre attirato l'attenzione di intellettuali ed artisti da tutta Europa, compresi molti tedeschi. Questi intellettuali avevano poi prodotto una serie di scritti su Parigi, pubblicati poi in Germania, soprattutto lettere e resoconti di viaggio, che avevano alla fine dato vita ad una cosiddetta Parisliteratur. In questi testi Parigi viene di volta in volta tratteggiata secondo gli aspetti che avevano destato l'interesse o impressionato la sensibilità di chi la visitava: Forster, che vi si reca per motivi politici durante la rivoluzione francese, ne analizza le strutture e ne coglie gli aspetti accentratori. Kleist, che ne parla nelle lettere private, la subisce come una realtà alienante, depersonalizzante e disumana. Börne stesso, che vi si reca due volte, per tornarci definitivamente una terza, mostra di avere con la metropoli un rapporto complesso e caratterizzato dall'ambivalenza, e per questo particolarmente interessante. Börne subisce una grande fascinazione dallâapertura di Parigi verso la modernità ed il progresso, che, agli occhi di un tedesco, abituato a realtà urbane ben più modeste, la rende una città del futuro da ogni punto di vista: sociale, politico, culturale, economico, architettonico, urbanistico. Tuttavia, egli riesce anche a mostrare le storture che tali dinamiche possono produrre, riecheggiando un pensiero di matrice roussoiana, ed avvicinandosi con alcune intuizioni al pensiero di Marx, di Benjamin e di Simmel. Di fronte a tali deformazioni, Börne si ritrae e reagisce con il rifiuto: la grande città lo spinge a cercare l'isolamento e ad innalzare una serie di barriere intellettuali tra sè e la metropoli, nella paura di venirne travolto o contaminato. Per questo in molti dei suoi scritti egli appare spettatore distaccato della città , che viene ridotta ad oggetto d'analisi, e non viene mai esperita nella sua vitalità
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Costa, Arkana Kelly Silva. "Loteamentos fechados e serviços ambientais = a apropriação da natureza em empreendimentos de alta renda na região metropolitana de Campinas." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/258549.
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Orientador: Simone Narciso LessaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo
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Resumo: Os loteamentos fechados são uma das formas de ocupação do território que mais têm se repetido na expansão das cidades brasileiras. Estes empreendimentos oferecidos, por vezes de forma ilegal, têm representado cada vez mais uma promessa de melhor qualidade de vida urbana a partir da adoção de um estilo de vida exclusivo e justificado por uma eventual fuga da violência urbana. Diante deste quadro nos questionamos sobre a dimensão do impacto ambiental destas estruturas urbanas no território e meio ambiente das cidades. Esta pesquisa baseia-se na hipótese de que o impacto da proliferação dos loteamentos fechados nas áreas metropolitanas interfere tanto nas áreas urbanas quanto nas rurbanas em sua sustentabilidade. Baseado nisto, temos como objetivos específicos: analisar os loteamentos fechados como um produto do mercado; tipificar como esses empreendimentos interferem na estrutura territorial da região metropolitana de Campinas; observar como se dá a oferta de serviços ambientais e quais substitutos são gerados no processo de apropriação da natureza. Com isso busca-se identificar de que forma as diferentes tipologias destes empreendimentos, estabelecem relações entre si formando um mosaico no território e como estas relações interferem na sustentabilidade dos serviços ambientais. Para a obtenção destes objetivos a metodologia utilizada foi descritiva e analítica, com a realização de uma caracterização dos loteamentos fechados instalados na RMC, bem como uma análise que foi elaborada seguindo três escalas distintas de investigação: metrópole, municípios e condomínios
Abstract: The gated communities are one type of territory occupation that more have been repeated in expansion of Brazilian cities. These housing development, have represented, each time more, a promise of better quality of urban life with adoption of a life style exclusive, that are justified by an eventual escape of the urban violence. This research is based on hypothesis that the impact of the proliferation of gated communities interferes in urban and rurbans areas of metropolitans territory. This thesis have as objectives: to analyze the gated communities as product of market; to observe how these enterprises intervene with the territorial structure of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas- MRC, state of São Paulo - Brasil; to observe like the environment services are offered and how substitutes services are generated in the process of appropriation of the nature. Had used like methodology one descriptive and analytical process, with the accomplishment of a characterization of the gated communities installed in the MRC, as well as an analysis that was elaborated following three distinct scales of inquiry: metropolis, cities and gated communities
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Bellino, Luigi. "Politiques et outils de planification territoriale sur l'insécurité urbaine en Italie : le cas du plan stratégique de l'aire métropolitaine de Bari." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30094.
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Cette thèse propose une étude de l’évolution des politiques et des outils d’aménagementdu territoire sur l’insécurité urbaine, à l’aune du cas du Plan Stratégique Métropole Terrede Bari (PSMTB), qui comprend 31 communes de la Région Pouilles, en Italie.L’insécurité constitue une question cruciale pour les villes. L’unsafety, qui inclue desaspects de la marginalité urbaine, n’est pas sans renvoyer au système des perceptionsindividuelles et collectives. Si dans le passé l’Etat était le garant de la sécurité, leprocessus de globalisation et les poussés à décentralisation en ont considérablement réduitle rôle. Dès années 1990, les Maires italiens, bien que dépourvus de « pouvoirs »effectifs, sont considérés comme les responsables de la sécurité locale. Dans d’autres paysont été élaborés des outils de « prévention », qui sont peu utilisés en Italie, mais quisollicitent pour autant une évaluation critique. Alors que les solutions visant l’insécuritéurbaine ne produisent que de modestes résultats, les banlieues en quête d’identité sontl’objet de politiques d’inclusivité sociale, qui se déclinent par des outils d’aménagementaxés sur la requalification et la régénération urbaines, d’une part. D’autre part, laplanification stratégique se réfère à une échelle métropolitaine dénommée Area Vasta. Sibien le PSMTB a inclus la question de la sécurité, à l’égard d’un territoire où le rôle de lacriminalité est devenu envahissant, sa mise en place a fait recours à des financementscommunautaires, lesquels d’après nous en ont pénalisé ses aboutissements. Notrehypothèse est que le PSMTB, n’a pas une projectualité stratégique et est une occasionmanquée pour la réalisation d’un plan de la sécurité urbaine de l’aire métropolitaine deBariThis study proposes to reconstruct the evolution of the politics and the tools of urbanplanning concerning urban insecurity by studying the Strategic Plan of the Bari MetropoliArea (PSMTB), including 31 municipalities in the Italian Apulian Region. Insecurityconstitutes a fundamental question for the cities. Unsafety, which includes severalconditions of urban degradation, also refers to individual and collective perceptions. If, inthe past, the State guaranteed security, the globalized processes and the tending towardsthe administrative decentralization, have, in part, diminished the role of the State. Sincethe 1990s, the Italian mayors, though not having any effective “power”, do have theresponsibility for the local security. In other countries, “models” of prevention have beendeveloped, but seldom applied in Italy, which, however, should be considered withcritique. While the solutions regarding security have produced modest results, in theperipheries with no “recognition”, urban politics have begun to show interest in thepopulation by applying urban requalification projects and regeneration programs.Furthermore, strategic planning refers to the scale of Area vasta. The PSMTB hasincluded the question of urban security in a territory where organized crime is pervasive.Its Plan has a tight connection with the EU’s financial aid; however, this has penalized itssuccess. Our hypothesis is that the PSMTB, in the end, was not strategic after all. It hasconstituted a lacking opportunity for a virtual plan of urban security on the metropolitanscale
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Dixon, John. "Metropolis afflatus/." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/artsp/28.
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Thesis (B.F.A.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009.Project advisor: Kathryn McCormick. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Jan. 21, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Bird, Lawrence David. "«Saving Metropolis»: body and city in the «Metropolis» tales." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40706.
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The image of the destruction of the city has a long history, and resonates disturbingly with current events. It seems to question the very possibility of creating an architecture – that is, of giving the world a form and thereby a meaning. This thesis charts mutations of that imagery as it emerges in three visual narratives punctuating the last century: the "Metropolis" tales. These are Fritz Lang's film of 1926, Tezuka Osamu's manga or graphic novel of 1949, and the 2001 work of anime or Japanese animated film by director Rintarô. Despite their differences, these tales exhibit a fundamental overlap of concern: each deals in its own way with crises in modern conditions of life, crises articulated not only in the imagery of the city but also in that of the broken bodies central to it. The thesis argues that this imagery, hovering at the brink of and ultimately passing beyond the line of apocalypse, articulates an undiminished human yearning to engage in a life project. In our time this yearning, this desire, takes on a new form in which the city and the body adopt a precarious and problematic relationship to their image. But perhaps the seeming instability of this condition as articulated in disrupted bodies and cities is a more faithful reflection of the fundamental human anxiety reflected in myth, and the more foundational destructuring involved in our perception and making of the world, than any whole and healthy body, than any utopia.L'image de la destruction de la ville a une longue histoire et évoque aussi malheureusement des événements récents de l’actualité. Cette thèse retrace les transformations de cette imagerie dans trois récits visuels qui ont marqués le siècle dernier :
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Reid, Margaret. "Melodrama : metropolis : modernity." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2011. http://research.gold.ac.uk/6541/.
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The principal aim of this thesis is to extend current understandings of the dynamics of stage melodrama, as it was practised on the stages of the minor theatres in London during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, specifically by exploring the ways in which the genre represented, mediated, inflected, processed and systematised the experience of life in the new metropolis. A critical methodology has been employed in this study that is best described as hybrid, combining elements of cultural materialist analysis with a more performance-oriented mode of textual analysis. Where appropriate, reference is made to surviving publicity surrounding original productions such as playbills and reviews and, in order to locate the work within a concrete culture of production and consumption, to available data on the minor theatres in which it was performed. The theoretical underpinning of this study draws on a range of existing arguments surrounding the relationship between melodrama and modernity, but also on the work of urban theorists and cultural historians who have identified the metropolis as a significant catalyst in the formation of modernity. After outlining the conceptual framework and reviewing existing literature in the field, chapters continue with discussions of the emergence of proletarian protagonists in melodrama and their relationship with developing notions of metropolitan class consciousness; melodramatic representations of metropolitan space and the dynamics of movement through that space; nostalgic stagings of the rural past; melodrama’s relationship to Simmelian notions of metropolitan ‘mental life’; and the synergies between melodrama, the spectacular, and metropolitan culture. The overall aim is to add to current understanding of how melodrama interpreted the shifting physical forms and subjective and social experience of the early nineteenth-century city, but also how the city itself shaped, limited and enabled the forms of expression adopted by melodramatists.
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Kusi-Mensah, Kwaku. "Challenges encountered by functionally illiterate consumers in the Kumasi metropolis, Ghana." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359229.
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This study is concerned with how illiteracy impact consumers when navigating through the market place to have their needs met.These effects are researched in the Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The overall goal of the thesis is to investigate the problems that functionally illiterate consumers encounter when navigating through the Marketplace.The results show that functionally illiterate consumers at the Kumasi metropolis do face problems when navigating through the market place and that these problems are related to the retail marketing mix such as product, price, place, people, promotion and process.
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Vana, Gerhard. "Metropolis : Modell und Mimesis /." Berlin : Mann, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/33178727x.pdf.
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Matteo, Miguel. "Alem de metropole terciaria." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285409.
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Orientador: Jorge Ruben Biton TapiaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia
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Resumo: A Região Metropolitana de São Paulo ¿ RMSP ¿ vem passando, nos últimos 20 anos, por um período marcado por uma profunda alteração em sua estrutura do emprego, com trabalhadores do setor terciário sobrepujando, em quantidade, aqueles ocupados naindústria, o que faz supor que o setor secundário esteja sendo substituído por um terciário dinâmico. Novas informações, trazidas à luz no final dos anos 90, contudo, mostram que a indústria da RMSP é um setor que evolui continuamente, conferindo dinamismo à economia do Estado e do País, mas com características diferentes dos períodos precedentes. A aceleração dos processos de terceirização e automação desloca ou suprime trabalhadores industriais e intensifica o relacionamento entre a indústria e os serviços, mas mantém o nível de produção. A alteração de sua estrutura básica é resultado de uma evolução histórica do desenvolvimento industrial brasileiro, que carrega consigo todas as contradições do desenvolvimento capitalista, sofrendo com as constantes crises macroeconômicas e crescendo em episódios de prosperidade econômica. Essas transformações, vistas do ângulo de um processo histórico, apresentam muito mais continuidades do que rupturas. Entender a indústria da RMSP como um processo evolutivo é o eixo central deste estudo. Sua hipótese central é a de que a metrópole paulista é, ainda, uma região que tem seu dinamismo econômico conferido pela indústria, e não pelos serviços. A interdependência entre indústria e serviços, fundamental para o aumento da produtividade industrial, tem sido acompanhada por uma reestruturação dos nexos territoriais da economia da Região Metropolitana com a do restante do Estado. O processo de reestruturação da indústria paulista faz com que o território adjacente à RMSP e que já dispunha de acumulação precedente, de tradição manufatureira e de mão de-obra qualificada, se agregue ao território produtivo metropolitano, formando com ele uma vasta área industrial, responsável por cerca de 40% da produção do país e fundada em processos de alta performance
Abstract: For the past 20 years, São Paulo Metropolitan Area ¿ SPMA ¿ has undergone a period of profound changes in its job structure. The number of workers emploied in the service sector has been overtaking that of industrial workers, which could indicate the replacement of the manufactoring by dinamic services. However, new information brought to light in the end of the 1990¿s show that, even though the manufacturing sector of SPMA has different characteristics from previous periods, it evolves continuously, bringing dynamism to state and country¿s economy. The acceleration of tertiarization and automation processes tranfers or suppresses industrial workers and intensifies the relationship between industry and services, but it also maintains the level of production. The alteration of its basic structure results from a historical evolution in Brazilian industrial development, which carries all the contradictions of capitalist development, such as the struggle against constant macroeconomic crises and the growth in economic prosperity episodes. These transformations, seen from the historical process angle, show much more continuities than ruptures. Understanding SPMA industry as an evolutionary process is the central reference of this study. Its main hypothesis is that the economic dynamism of SPMA still results from industry, and not from services. The interdependence between industry and services, which is crucial for the growth of industrial productivity, has been followed by new territorial arrangements between SPMA¿s economy and that of the rest of São Paulo State. In the process that reorganizes São Paulo¿s industrial structure, the adjacent territory, which has already had preceding accumulation of manufacturing tradition and skilled labour, is aggregated to SPMA productive territory, forming a vast industrial area that is responsible for about 40% of Brazilian production and is based on high performance processes
Doutorado
Teoria Economica
Doutor em Ciências Econômicas
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Hott, Robert Shawn. "Re-tooling an American metropolis." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2010. http://digital.lib.usf.edu/?e14.3368.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of South Florida, 2010.Title from PDF of title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 155 pages. The content of this file may cause problems when attempting to access it through some versions of the Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. Recommended browsers for accessing this file are Internet Explorer 8, Opera, Safari, or Chrome on Windows; Firefox, Opera, or Safari on Macs. Includes bibliographical references.
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Seethala, Mallik. "Experimental evaluation of Enhanced Metropolis Sampling /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1251897121&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Dahlin, Johan, Fredrik Lindsten, and Thomas B. Schön. "Particle Metropolis Hastings using Langevin Dynamics." Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-93699.
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Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo (PMCMC) samplers allow for routine inference of parameters and states in challenging nonlinear problems. A common choice for the parameter proposal is a simple random walk sampler, which can scale poorly with the number of parameters. In this paper, we propose to use log-likelihood gradients, i.e. the score, in the construction of the proposal, akin to the Langevin Monte Carlo method, but adapted to the PMCMC framework. This can be thought of as a way to guide a random walk proposal by using drift terms that are proportional to the score function. The method is successfully applied to a stochastic volatility model and the drift term exhibits intuitive behaviour.CADICS, CNDS
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Santos, Isaac Rodrigues 1976. "Mobilidade, trabalho e segregação : região Sudoeste da metrópole paulistana." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287769.
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Orientador: Regina Célia Bega dos SantosDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências
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Resumo: Esta dissertação discute a problemática da mobilidade urbana na metrópole paulistana, tendo como recorte espacial de análise a região Sudoeste, cujos municípios têm diferenças entre si no que diz respeito à disponibilidade de meios de transporte e de integração entre os modais, fenômeno que resulta em maior e menor mobilidade das pessoas que circulam diariamente pelo espaço urbano metropolitano, sobretudo em relação ao trajeto da moradia para o trabalho e vice versa. Sendo assim, os únicos beneficiados com um sistema de transporte desigual, do ponto de vista qualitativo entre os diversos lugares, sem dúvida são os empresários, que reproduzem seu capital de forma continua, sendo que o trabalhador paga alto preço para circular pela região metropolitana. Assim, a mobilidade é um dos elementos mais essenciais para o desenvolvimento da sociedade e para que haja uma apropriação efetiva do espaço urbano, sobretudo por parte dos mais pobres, para que haja, de fato, uma vivência plena no espaço urbano
Abstract: On this Master Thesis it will be discussed the issue of urban mobility in the metropolis of São Paulo, focusing the analysis to the Southwest region, whose municipalities have differences among themselves regarding to the availability of ways of transport and integration between modes, a phenomenon that results in higher and lower mobility of people circulating daily around the metropolitan urban space, especially towards to the route of their houses to work and vice versa. Therefore, the only benefited from an unequal transportation system, from a qualitative point of view among different locations, doubtless are the entrepreneurs who reproduce their capital continuously, because of the high prices paid by simple workers to circulate the around the metropolitan area. Thus, mobility is one of the most essential elements for the development of society and in order to create an effective appropriation of urban space, especially for the poorest people, and, in fact, provide a full experience in urban space
Mestrado
Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial
Mestre em Geografia
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Ahn, Soo H. "Metropolis : music score for the film directed by Fritz Lang ; Scoring Metropolis : the development of my compositional practice." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2017. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/31449/.
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This commentary documents the compositional process of writing film music for the classic expressionist silent film Metropolis (Lang, 1927), using MIDI-based orchestral sound resources. Metropolis was chosen from within other possibilities, such as Battleship Potemkin or Nosferatu, not only due to the belief that the film’s surreal eerie mood and machine-like characters could be represented well by the Second Viennese School’s musical style that I intended to adopt, but also due to a judgment that leitmotivic transformation and use of themes as character links fit into a work so rich with characters’ showing subtle psychological states. I set out to compose an original orchestral score for Metropolis with the idea in mind, that film music should contribute to the audience’s integration with the drama and reinforcement of dramatic tensions by strategically supporting the film’s plot and narrative, and that an agreeable conceptual blending between film and music would be crucial to a successful composition. For this task, a thorough review of the leitmotif and related literature about music semiotics and meanings, together with a brief discussion of the MIDI sampler orchestra, proved to be necessary. Metropolis, a pioneering masterpiece of sci-fi, which contains a gloomy portrait of the futuristic world, encouraged me to experiment with the diverse possibilities not only of the leitmotif, but also of kaleidoscopic sound originating from various combinations of virtual instruments of the MIDI sampler orchestra and ultimately to show my musical process. The document traces the leitmotif as a primary compositional device for thematic manoeuvre in both film composers’ scores and major scholars’ discussions; it also incorporates current scholarly research about music semiotics and meanings, which has guided choices in each stage of my compositional process. I have revealed how I applied such lessons as Ennio Morricone’s microcell technique, Danny Elfman’s transformation approaches to thematic material, Howard Shore’s reflection of meaning onto music, and Ilan Eshkeri’s use of themes as character links to my Metropolis. I organized the main character’s associate themes using microcell and transformation techniques and contextualised them as character links. For instance, I produced tunes for cold-hearted characters, such as Rotwang, robot Maria, and high buildings, with the twelve-tone technique, poignant dissonances through interval-classes 1 and 6, recursive rhythmic patterns, or their combinations; I also adopted two distinct types of an octatonic scale to describe contrasting personalities of the two characters and a chord based on 2nd intervals to express the moment when Rotwang’s evil reaches its zenith. Metropolis serves not only as an artistic repository for numerous symbols, but also as a web of leitmotifs towards musical and filmic unity.
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Alturk, Emre. "Xxl, Metropolis As The Object Of Architecture." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604898/index.pdf.
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Beginning with its historical setting, architectural discourse conceived city as its ultimate object, as the ultimate extension of the composition: the largest building. It relentlessly aimed to link its &ldquopure&rdquo
object&mdash
building&mdash
to the city either by locating the two within the general processes of material production or through analogies. Yet, despite such continuity, architecture&rsquo
s relationship with the city was conceived as the projection of an internal economy onto the city and remained unilateral. Architecture operated from the small scale to the large scale, radiating its &lsquo
specificity&rsquo
through the city via building. It became obvious in the late 20th century that it was not the &lsquo
architectural specificity&rsquo
to penetrate into modern metropolis but vice versa. Being a complex agglomeration of cultural systems&mdash
including design itself&mdash
metropolitan multiplicity resists the determination of significance of built environment through the specific codes of any institutionalized practice. Acknowledging such a complex system of relationships, namely &ldquo
metropolitan non-design,&rdquo
this study offers a reassessment of &lsquo
architectural design&rsquo
within the contemporary &lsquo
metropolitan condition.&rsquo
Departing from the disjunction(s) between the significance attributed through design and its appropriation through metropolitan non-design, work at hand aims to elaborate a new mode of &lsquo
architectural intervention&rsquo
compatible with the metropolitan instability. Through a cross-examination of Rem Koolhaas&rsquo
s &lsquo
Delirious New York&rsquo
and OMA&rsquo
s &lsquo
Parc de la Villette,&rsquo
concepts such as &lsquo
program,&rsquo
&ldquo
void,&rdquo
&ldquo
Bigness&rdquo
and &lsquo
architectural scale&rsquo
will be reassessed. Moreover, the goal is to replace the conception of architecture-metropolis relationship that is formulated through a duality with one that is conceived in terms of interacting, contiguous signifying structures.
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Williams, Anthony Ronald. "Dramatic interpretations of the metropolis, 1821-1881." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298108.
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Griffiths, C. C. "Prosecuting fraud in the metropolis, 1760-1820." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2017. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3012313/.
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The inspiration for this thesis comes from a recognition of the problems in prosecuting financial crime in the modern day. In exploring how fraud was prosecuted from 1760 to 1820, this thesis seeks to contextualise modern prosecutorial failings into a longer history of the struggles to define and address fraud and deceptive practices. It also seeks to contribute to existing research into historical financial crime by providing a detailed history of fraud offences and the settings in which these offences had been previously enforced. This thesis will answer three central questions: what offences made up ‘fraud’ by the early nineteenth century? – Who was prosecuting these offences? – and, how was fraud being prosecuted at this time? The first of these questions seeks, for the first time in the literature, to identify and trace fraud offences to the nineteenth century. This thesis will then identify who was prosecuting fraud, and then how they prosecuted fraud in order to explain how fraud offences were shaped through enforcement and how this impacted upon the development of fraud offences. In asking these three central questions, this thesis will provide a lens through which to explain how, and for whom, the criminal justice system operated in the eighteenth century. This thesis explores and categorises all fraud trials heard at the Old Bailey between 1760 and 1820 and builds on these records by using a range of greater and lesser known sources including City of London officials’ notes, government financial records, and more obscure materials of contemporary practitioners. By tracing the prosecution of fraud from the lowest to the highest criminal courts in London, this thesis provides an holistic overview of the choices available to prosecutors of fraud, and explains why so many fraud trials were heard within the senior courts rather than the summary courts. This explanation is made possible by the application of structuralist theories which explain why particular social and economic groups prosecuted fraud offences at such a high level, and how the criminal justice system operated to assist such prosecutions.
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MacCarroll, Christian D. (Christian David). "Micro-home ownership in a mega-metropolis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33063.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-51).
As a means to keep pace with today's globally networked society, the home is reconceived as a portable, transformable device that adapts and reconfigures itself to coexist within a range of changing terrains. Ownership will no longer act as a geographical constraint limiting world-wide, long-term travel. Mobile housing affords one the means to explore the landscape without sacrificing the sense of place and permanence provided by "home". Analogous to the work of Archigram, "homes" of the future will have the ability to migrate according to the needs and desires of their populations. This thesis explores the possibilities of transformational, mobile architecture that delivers a diverse range of settlement options. As a means of demonstrating the flexibility of this concept, this micro-home will be incorporated into the social and technological framework of the modem metropolis and examined at both the urban scale of the city and at the micro-scale of the individual.
Christian D. MacCarroll.
M.Arch.
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Kessler, Frank. ""Metropolis" de Fritz Lang esthétique ou esthétiques ? /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37606487t.
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Stevens, Nicholas John. "Land use planning and the airport metropolis." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60298/1/Nicholas_Stevens_Thesis.pdf.
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Australian airports have emerged as important urban activity centres over the past decade as a result of privatisation. A range of reciprocal airport and regional impacts now pose considerable challenges for both airport operation and the surrounding urban and regional environment. The airport can no longer be managed solely as a specialised transport entity in isolation from the metropolis that it serves.
In 2007 a multidisciplinary Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP 0775225) was funded to investigate the changing role of airports in Australia. This thesis is but one component of this collaborative research effort. Here the issues surrounding the policy and practice of airport and regional land use planning are explored, analysed and detailed.
This research, for the first time, assembles a distinct progression of the wider social, economic, technological and environmental roles of the airport within the Australian airport literature from 1914 – 2011. It recognises that while the list of airport and regional impacts has grown through time, treatment within practice and the literature has largely remained highly specialised and contained within disciplinary paradigms.
The first publication of the thesis (Chapter 2) acknowledges that the changing role of airports demands the establishment of new models of airport planning and development. It argues that practice and research requires a better understanding of the reciprocal impacts of airports and their urban catchments.
The second publication (Chapter 3) highlights that there is ad hoc examination and media attention of high profile airport and regional conflict, but little empirical analysis or understanding of the extent to which all privatised Australian airports are intending to develop. The conceptual and methodological significance of this research is the development of a national land use classification system for on-airport development. This paper establishes the extent of on-airport development in Australia, providing insight into the changing land use and economic roles of privatised airports.
The third publication (Chapter 4) details new and significant interdependencies for airport and regional development in consideration of the progression of airports as activity centres. Here the model of an ‘airport metropolis’ is offered as an organising device and theoretical contribution for comprehending the complexity and planning of airport and regional development. It delivers a conceptual framework for both research and policy, which acknowledges the reciprocal impacts of economic development, land use, infrastructure and governance ‘interfaces’.
In a timely and significant concurrence with this research the Australian Government announced and delivered a National Aviation Policy Review (2008 – 2009). As such the fourth publication (Chapter 5) focuses on the airport and urban planning aspects of the review. This paper also highlights the overall policy intention of facilitating broader airport and regional collaborative processes. This communicative turn in airport policy is significant in light of the communicative theoretical framework of the thesis.
The fifth paper of the thesis (Chapter 6) examines three Australian case studies (Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra) to detail the context of airport and regional land use planning and to apply the airport metropolis model as a framework for research. Through the use of Land Use Forums, over 120 airport and regional stakeholders are brought together to detail their perspectives and interactions with airport and regional land use planning. An inductive thematic analysis of the results identifies three significant themes which contribute to the fragmentation of airport and regional and land use planning: 1) inadequate coordination and disjointed decision-making; 2) current legislative and policy frameworks; and 3) competing stakeholder priorities and interests.
Building on this new knowledge, Chapter 7 details the perceptions of airport and local, state and territory government stakeholders to land use relationships, processes and outcomes. A series of semi-structured interviews are undertaken in each of the case studies to inform this research. The potential implications for ongoing communicative practice are discussed in conclusion.
The following thesis represents an incremental and cumulative research process which delivers new knowledge for the practical understanding and research interpretation of airport and regional land use planning practice and policy. It has developed and applied a robust conceptual framework which delivers significant direction for all stakeholders to better comprehend the relevance of airports in the urban character and design of our cities.
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Förschner, Anja. "Paul McCarthy und die Entertainment-Metropole Los Angeles." Diss., lmu, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-133457.
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Killoran, John B. "The virtual squatter, homesteading in the electronic metropolis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0017/NQ38247.pdf.
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Laliberté, Michèle. "Le Metropolis de Lang-Moroder : examen d'une rencontre." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61669.
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Epp, Eduard. "The Arcadian metropolis : towards a sustainable urban form." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69773.
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Our own American past has an invaluable lesson to teach us: a coherent, workable landscape evolves where there is a coherent definition not of man but of man's relation to the world and his fellow man. sk{81} rm John Brinckerhof JacksonThis thesis endeavors to give evidence of the Arcadian vision, of a synthetic view of nature and humanity, as it has been understood in the evolving settlement patterns of American civilization over the last 350 years. This thesis suggests that the Arcadian vision is still very much a part of the American psyche and awaits reinterpretation. Evidence is given of how this reinterpretation is already taking place in the urban landscape of America. It also suggests how the Arcadian vision may provide significant clues to realizing meaningful urban and suburban growth into the 21st century expressed in a sustainable urban landscape.
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Wolff, Hans [Verfasser]. "Die Grundlagen der Organisation der Metropole / Hans Wolff." Münster : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, 2004. http://d-nb.info/1141577410/34.
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Simke, Ann-Christine. "Berlinische Dramaturgien : dramaturgical practices in the German metropolis." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8194/.
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This thesis consists of three substantial case studies exploring the work of dramaturgy departments at three different theatres in Berlin during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: at the Deutsches Theater Berlin under the directorship of Max Reinhardt at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer under the directorship of Peter Stein during the 1960s and 1970s, and at the Maxim Gorki Theater in the first season of Shermin Langhoff and Jens Hillje’s directorship in 2013/14. The study locates dramaturgical practices within a wider cultural and political field – from metropolitan culture in Wilhelmine Berlin to the anti-authoritarian theatre movement in West Germany and finally to contemporary debates on postmigrant theatre and cosmopolitanism in the reunified Germany of the twenty-first century. It applies a mixed-methods approach that focuses equally on performance analyses as well as analyses of historical documents such as theatre journals and theatre programmes. In its holistic approach to the practice of dramaturgy, it seeks to make a contribution to scholarship on dramaturgy in historical as well as contemporary perspectives.
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Rowlings, Andrew J. "Sustainable energy options for the future airport metropolis." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/93363/1/Andrew_Rowlings_Thesis.pdf.
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Growth in aviation has resulted in large airports that can be described as Airport Metropolises. This thesis reviews a variety of sustainable energy options that are suitable for such airports, and presents a decision support framework that can be used to guide decision makers towards the adoption of sound sustainable energy projects and practices. The thesis demonstrates use of the decision support framework via a number of case studies and outlines a methodology which could be incorporated within a Decision Support System.
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Bryant, Emi. ""I am Michi!" identity politics in Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2006. http://thesis.haverford.edu/174/01/2006BryantE.pdf.
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Westgate, J. Chris. "Staging the metropolis : theater, politics, & the American city /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Hess, Christian A. "From colonial jewel to socialist metropolis Dalian 1895-1955 /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3237564.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed December 13, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-443).