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Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space
This chapter provides a detailed and systematic analysis of Henri Lefebvre’s oeuvre, focusing on how he developed his theory of the production of...
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Sociability in Cultural-Based Urban Regeneration Projects
This chapter introduces the definition of the social dimension of public places; it sheds light on the two poles of the influence of the physical...
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Urban Identity, Human and Environment
The previous chapter mainly focused on defining the notion of urban identity and how it is perceived at multiple levels and with various purposes. In...
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The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb
The territory of Tipasa, an iconic UNESCO landscape that comprises the ancient city of Mauretania and its Royal Mausoleum, has never been...
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Echoes of Urban Displacement: Unveiling Lingering Consequences
Urban displacement is a violent and traumatic experience for affected households and communities, regardless of its underlying cause or location....
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Conceptions of Space and Theories of Spaces
Space concepts are presented in the diversity of social space constructions and relationships and a synthesis is proposed. Social space encompasses...
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Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 2): Landesque Capital and Long-term Resource Management Strategies
Pre-Columbian food production in the Maya Lowlands was long characterized as reliant on extensive, slash-and-burn agriculture as the sole cultivation...
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Comparison of Landscape Transformations in the Japanese Archipelago and the Brazilian Amazon
Amazonia and the Japanese Archipelago differ greatly as historical-ecological regions owing both to different cultural trajectories and dissimilar...
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Spatial Dimensions
The spatial study included desk research regarding various historical, theoretical and regulatory aspects, as well as a review and analysis of...
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Houston, Informal City
Houston is widely known as the only major city in the United States without zoning. It is also considered among the most ethnically diverse...
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What Are Great Cities?
The discussion of what makes a great city starts with an examination of the standout cities of the time in terms of the quality of what they...
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Shored curfews: Constructions of pandemic islandness in contemporary Sri Lanka
This paper explores COVID-19 pandemic biopolitics in Sri Lanka through tropes of “islanding” and segregation by discussing how notions of island...
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Space: Representing, Producing, and Experiencing Space in Theme Parks
This chapter is dedicated to the spatial dimension of theme parks and investigates their being within and structuring space. It first conceptualizes...
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Towards a Lefebvrian Methodology for Empirical Research
This chapter suggests a coherent methodological framework for empirical research that takes Lefebvre’s tripartite spatial dialectics as a starting...
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Pop-ups and Public Interests: Agile Public Space in the Neoliberal City
Both ‘temporary urbanism’ (in Europe) and self-organized ‘tactical urbanism’ (in North America) are claimed to have a range of public benefits. These...
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Overcoming Obstacles to the Integration of Informal Actors in Accra’s Open-Air Marketplaces
Urban open-air markets are indispensable institutions in the global South. Yet they are most often confronted with formidable environmental problems...
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First-Class but not for Long: Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Water Bricolage in Accra’s Kiosk Compounds
This paper explores the micro-geographies of water access in the context of a first-class residential neighborhood of Accra served by the city’s...
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Introduction
The Introduction argues that the ‘Anthropocene’ and critiques of it rely on a geo-logic of the ‘cene’ that strands those seeking a different spatial...
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Same, Same but Different? The ‘Right’ Kind of Gardening and the Negotiation of Neoliberal Urban Governance in the Post-socialist City
This chapter analyses the ways in which different urban gardening forms relate to neoliberalisation processes in the post-socialist city. Based on...