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… Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City examines how ordinary citizens (businessmen, … article “Ladrones de Luz: Policing Electricity in Mexico City, 1901-1918” on power theft published in the Hispanic … Palisades: Technology in the Making of Santa Fe, Mexico City,” which interrogates the role of technologies in …

… sites of Huế, Vietnam. This research explores how the city's urban fabric reflects local aspirations for belonging … at the Huế Museum of Fine Arts, highlighting the city’s unheralded local architectural sites to the public. …

… emphasis on Kumasi, Ghana’s second most populated city. Tony interrogates the transformation of West African …

… Rwanda to shut down more than 700 churches in its capital city, allegedly for building safety, hygiene and noise … than 1,300 churches in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, a city of nearly 1.2 million people. “Are these boreholes that … quoted criticism about the number of churches in the city. “I don’t think we have as many boreholes. Do we even …

… research focuses on the political ecology of Mexico City, with a specific eye towards how designers can work … between water management and urban morphology in Mexico City. She uses architectural and ethnographic research … multiple geographic areas and temporal moments in Mexico City, as a way to offer innovative solutions for its urban …

… Games” is the story of how the young Greek state and the city of Athens developed rapidly to a point at which they … and Literary History” presents the life and culture of the city of Athens across the centuries, explaining how the modern city copes with its ancient heritage. Sir Michael …

… is titled Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia (Routledge, 2010). Rebecca M. Brown is … Associate Professor of Geography at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is interested in capitalist … Landscapes and on the board of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. Since 2006 Hosagrahar has …

… Yale University Saturday, April 30 9:00 am – 10:30 am: THE CITY IN PUBLIC CULTURE Rebecca M. Brown, Johns Hopkins University The City, From a Different Angle: Revisioning the Urban in …    11:00 am –12:30 pm: DESIRE AND BELONGING IN THE CITY Lisa Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania Public Space …

… and from 1994-2008 the Dorothy Epstein Professor of the City University of New York. She serves on the Executive … Religion, Culture and Society: The Case of Cuba; The City and the World: New York’s Global Future, The Wars on … Epstein Professor de Historia y Derechos Humanos de la City University of New York. Es miembro del Comité Ejecutivo …

… The department defines and implements social policy in a city of over 7 million residents and is responsible for … programs for the Venezuelan migration crisis, as the city of Bogotá has received 30% of the almost 1 million … worked as the Secretary of Women’s Affairs in the city of Bogota and participated in the design of a teenage …

… the topic “Urban Crime and Social Spatial Structure of City” is relevant in relation to the criminogenic situation … the research will aid in forecasting potentially dangerous city spaces, also in urban planning for the creation of safer …