Year: 2015
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Urban Sociology at MIT
Urban Sociology in Theory and Practice Introduction to core writings in urban sociology. Examines key theoretical paradigms that have comprised the field since its founding. Explores the nature and changing character of the city and the urban experience in the US and abroad, providing context for development and application of planning skills and sensibilities as…
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Crítica ao pensamento positivo
Vivimos en sociedade. É posible que o o comportamento individual fose o factor máis determinante do destino das persoas en sociedades primitivas. Pero vivir en sociedade implica está sometidos a unha serie de forzas externas ao individuo e que teñen que ver coas estruturas sociais, políticas e económicas que compoñen dita sociedade. Normas, ao cabo,…
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Conectores para dar un sentido lógico a la secuencia de los párrafos.
• Para…. • De acuerdo con… • En ese sentido…. • Con respecto a lo antes mencionado….. • De igual forma….. • También…… • Nombre (autor). Concibe…. Opina…. Establece…. Plantea…. • En tal sentido….. • Con respecto a lo antes planteado…. • No obstante…. • Lo cual…. • Por tanto…. • En otro orden de…
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Limits of revitalization schemes based on urban megaprojects
“The allegued Bilbao Miracle and Its Discontents” by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría (The Cooper Union) and part of the book: Megaprojects: A Worldwide View (Research in Urban Sociology, Volume 13) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.27 – 59. See abstract: This chapter outlines and explains the development of the Abandoibarra megaproject, focusing in particular on the key…
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“Governing Boom/Bust communities”, interesting research project at University of Alberta
Overview Rapid growth and decay of rural communities has been a hallmark of Western Canadian development for decades. This is not necessarily problematic, and it may not be desirable to impose a rigid sustainability paradigm, but in many cases it has interfered with communities achieving desired outcomes and has resulted in environmental degradation. The link…
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Polish-German Border Towns: Models of Transnationalism?
Funded by the British Academy this project investigates the transformations of public space in interface areas of the German-Polish ‘twin towns’ of Frankfurt-Slubice, Guben-Gubin and Görlitz-Zgorzelec along the Oder-Neisse border. Despite modest populations, the border towns have major symbolic value for two nations attempting to write a new chapter in a modern history marked by…