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Global ideas and cultural responsiveness: why new towns in Israel and Brazil are not the same
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In this paper, the authors explore how local culture may curb the homogenizing forces of globalization in the diffusion of planning ideas, given that the built environment is constructed both physically and cultu...Abstract:
This paper explores how local culture may curb the homogenizing forces of globalization in the diffusion of planning ideas. Given that the built environment is constructed both physically and cultu...read more
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城市设计 = Urban design
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that urban design is concerned with the design of the buildings, places, spaces and networks that make up our towns and cities, and the way people use them.
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Crossing Borders. International Exchange and Planning Practices
TL;DR: Patsy Healey and Robert Upton (Eds), Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, RTPI Library series, London and New York, 2010, 368 pp, ISBN-10: 0415558476, 978-0415558471 This edited book aims t
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Urbanism: Imported or Exported? Native Aspirations and Foreign Plans
TL;DR: Nasr and Volait as mentioned in this paper discuss the import and export of city building and planning ideas between the metropoles and the colonies (and occupier and occupied societies) and highlight the impact of colonialism and foreign occupation on cities in the Mediterranean area.
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Transnational Urbanism Revisited
TL;DR: The authors revisited the research optic proposed in Transnational Urbanism to take stock of the field Social relations "from the middle" are conceived in two distinct ways in the field Transnationalism "from in-between" refers to actors who mediate between transnational actors "from above" and "from below" 'Middling transnationalism' refers to the transnational practices of middle-class social actors Both are useful and potentially complementary Research on transnational urbanism is aware of the socially situated subjectivity of human agents while also providing a way to study spatially distanciated
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Comparative Planning Cultures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate urban planning across the world and in different cultures, including fascinating international case studies, and bring together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating International case studies.
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The universal and the contingent: Some reflections on the transnational flow of planning ideas and practices:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect on the way planning concepts, techniques, instruments and the general idea of planning itself flow from one place to another, particularly in the context of the transnati...
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Crossing Borders : International Exchange and Planning Practices
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the travel of the American Neighbourhood Unit to India and explored the use of the concept of planning concepts for sustainable urban transport in Central and Eastern Europe.