The aim of this thesis is to examine the affects of mobile communication practices on urban public places, particularly on meeting places in urban space. The contribution of mobile communication technologies into daily practices and rapid penetration of them into everyday-life is quite obvious in the last decade. The inevitable presence of mobile phones in everyday-life practices encourages urban researchers to consider their impacts on urban social context and consequently on urban public places. The objective of the research is to understand the incompatibility between the existing urban image and the mental image of mobile society. Mobile phones enable people to organize meetings independent from the scheduled program. This device not only increases the mobility of the user within the city but also enhances the individual&rsquo / s ability to develop coherent cognitive maps / because it gives the freedom of choice to pick-up the location for &ldquo / meeting places&rdquo / . For instance, beside landmarks, paths have been given new identities by mobile society. An increase in the number of indoor or outdoor meeting places (some being entirely random in selection), contributes to the cognitive maps and thus to the identity of the city. This stands as a contradicting argument to the classical understanding of the city and its parts, which is by and large accepted to be based on visual experiences. The predetermined and limited components (nodes, landmarks) which help individuals meet (and socialize) are now modest items of a larger inventory of settings. This thesis is aiming to analyze the behavioral and perceptual changes that derive from mobile communication practices. Through this research, the architectural and spatial qualities of the old and new inventories of meeting places are also a part of the study to reveal the differences, if any.

To a large extent, natural phenomenon like earthquakes, floods, lanslides and etc may seem &ldquo / natural events&rdquo / which are out of human control. In fact, the sociopolitical structure is the main cause of earth tremors which turn into disasters. What is notable and striking is that, because of institutional and social vulnerabilities and little or misguided efforts for disaster loss mitigation, natural events may turn into disasters resulting negative and devastating consequences. Institutional vulnerabilities connote a lack of local administrations&rsquo / capacity for disaster mitigation planning, furthermore awareness for accreting local stakeholders for disaster loss reduction. Social vulnerabilities, refers to miss-knowledge and lack of awareness for disasters in the society. In Turkey, it is hard to say that there has never been efforts for disaster loss reduction, whereas / the main focus of the state agencies has been on post-disaster emergency relief, literally wound healing for decades. Generally speaking, localities which experience a disaster may encounter significant losses in development, hence a significant decrease in local capacities which takes enormous resources to restore. The housing stock and urban fabric, which inherit an historical background weaved by missguided disaster policy that only focus on post-disaster emergency relief phase, pictures the extent of the problem in Turkey. In addition, both &ldquo / institutional errors which lead to underachievement in disaster policy and practice&rdquo / and &ldquo / opportunities for building robust and resilient forms of institutions&rdquo / come into local agenda. Errors, which might have been altered by long term and comprehensive modes of local planning for disasters, may lead to underachievement by local agents. To achieve such a model, we are in need to carry out qualitative and quantitative data collecting and analyzing techniques in different phases. The two analysis techniques are in-depth interviews (IDI) and drawing Concept Maps that will be conducted in the analyses process with local respondents selected by snowball technique.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the effects of gated communities in the increasing fragmentation of urban space and in the increasing polarisation among different classes in the Turkish context, more specifically in the capital, Ankara. Since the case study is based on an upper-middle class suburban gated community, first, suburbanisation &ldquo / as a wave of urbanisation&rdquo / is analysed. Then, the debates about the middle class and the transformation that this social stratum has undergone are discussed. Later, the formation of gated communities around the world and in Turkey are analysed within the general framework of the transformation of the urban sphere. Finally, the theoretical arguments are scrutinised by incorporating the findings of the case study carried out in Angora Houses. In this study Angora Houses is concluded to be a gated community which is &ldquo / fortified&rdquo / for the preservation of an upper-middle class lifestyle rather than for security concerns and which reproduces socio-spatial inequalities among Ankaraites rather than standing as only the expression of them.

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Home-based work employing information and communications technologies (telework) is held up in contemporary academic literatures, policy formulations and the popular media as the cure to a panoply of contemporary problems, particularly the difficulties of combining caring responsibilities and careers. This thesis takes up the question of how teleworkers talk about and practise home-based business. It pivots on the exploration of the simultaneity of parenting, partnering and paid work for home-based business people. The 'teleworking tales' of eleven home-based entrepreneurs form the heart of the thesis, as they discuss their negotiation of 'home' and 'work' where the usual temporal and spatial boundaries between these arenas are removed. While previous studies assume that telework is 'family-friendly', most do not investigate the perspectives of other family members on the effect of home-based business on their households and relationships. This thesis speaks into this silence in the literature by contextualising telework within family relations, including as participants the partners, children and child care workers of the eleven home-based businesswomen and men, interviewing thirty people in all. Three strands of analysis regarding discourses of the organisation, domesticity and entrepreneurship were pursued in relation to these 'teleworking tales'. It was found that these 'tales' were told differently by teleworking women and men, the women focusing on the untenable nature of continued organisational employment as women and mothers, while the men established home-based businesses because of declining employment security and redundancy. In the midst of these constituting relations, the discursive injunction to be a 'fit worker' and a 'good parent' had different implications for the women and men; where as the women negotiated home-based entrepreneurship through domesticity, the men navigated their way around domesticity in order to maintain a singular focus on their businesses. The effect of the cross-cutting axes of domesticity and entrepreneurship significantly curtailed the opportunity for teleworking to represent a new crafting of the relationship between 'home' and 'work' as teleworkers negotiated the simultaneous demands their families and businesses made upon them. It was also the case that home-based businesses were a source of pleasure and of productive forms of power which encouraged home-based entrepreneurs to watch over and discipline themselves. The research unfolds as both a warning and a promise with regard to the 'choice' to telework, in terms of what is 'chosen' and how that is 'controlled'. It is particularly a contribution to current debates regarding the complex patterning of gendered and familial practices which continually fragment the freedoms promised by the discourse of entrepreneurship.

280f. / Submitted by Suelen Reis (suziy.ellen@gmail.com) on 2013-04-11T18:12:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Jean Araujoseg.pdf: 3152859 bytes, checksum: 3ef45787638eccde5ba291aa36d1b9c1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná(dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-05-09T14:12:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Jean Araujoseg.pdf: 3152859 bytes, checksum: 3ef45787638eccde5ba291aa36d1b9c1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-09T14:12:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Jean Araujoseg.pdf: 3152859 bytes, checksum: 3ef45787638eccde5ba291aa36d1b9c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / FAPESB / Este estudo tem por finalidade investigar o processo de desenvolvimento urbano implementado pelos grupos de elite da cidade da Bahia durante a segunda metade do século XIX e a primeira metade do século XX, permitindo compreender a configuração da cidade no início do século XXI. Tal processo foi impulsionado por um discurso modernizador que procurou efetivar, mediante uma política de controle social, a prevenção de enfermidades, a intervenção na estrutura física da cidade e a implantação da campanha de normatização para o uso pelos habitantes da cidade tanto do espaço público quanto privado, em especial, pelas camadas populares. Tem início, então, a produção do espaço capitalista que acontecia por intermédio de novas relações sociais, no movimento da vida, da natureza e da artificialidade, principalmente, no processo de construção de representações sobre os domínios do espaço citadino, constituindo, portanto, uma ferramenta essencial para os pensamentos e as ações voltados à produção e reprodução do capitalismo. Além de meio de produção, o espaço também constitui meio de controle, dominação e poder. A produção do espaço urbano na cidade da Bahia, a exemplo de outras cidades brasileiras e européias, seguia cada vez mais um parâmetro de segregação social, em que os grupos de elite, impulsionados pelo discurso de modernização, determinavam sua conformação, excluindo abertamente as camadas populares. / Salvador

The city s inhabitant is able to find in the quarter, different ways to know the urban environment as individual. The quarter shows through simple actions the familiar practices of living as collective neighborhood s relationships. However these actions also reveal different perspectives to valorize the places. Considering this presupposition this research explore the quarter, as an important way to understand the relationship between the man and his urban environment. At this sense, the research uses an image s mental analyses of the place. Through its construction is also explore the importance for understand the fundamental elements for evaluative environments. In order to illustrate this propose, the present research brings results based in the Levada´s district, Maceió, Alagoas. This district passed for the last forty years through transformations that caused the decadence of the area. Although the changes, its presents, until today, an active dynamic that emphasizes to neighborhood as the city. At the same way, shows its importance as an empirical study of the space s elements of the relationship between the man and his urban environment. / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas / Enquanto habitante da cidade, o indivíduo pode encontrar no bairro diversas possibilidades de se relacionar com o meio. Tais possibilidades podem ser percebidas através do simples cotidiano, expresso em práticas familiares que remetem tanto ao espaço individual do morar, quanto ao coletivo das relações de vizinhança. No entanto, estas possibilidades também revelam formas de domínio do ambiente, maneiras pelas quais uma parcela do espaço urbano pode se tornar conhecida e até valorizada em meio a um todo. É partindo deste princípio que este trabalho explora o bairro como uma forma de compreender melhor as relações entre o homem e seu meio citadino. Para tal, recorre-se a uma análise da imagem do lugar, cuja construção é relevante na compreensão de elementos considerados fundamentais, principalmente para processos de revalorização do espaço. Neste sentido, este trabalho contempla o bairro da Levada, em Maceió, Alagoas. Este lugar que durante quarenta anos esteve fortemente associado às principais festividades da cidade, presencia hoje um período de decadência que se caracteriza, sobretudo, pela degradação e desvalorização imobiliária. Entretanto, mesmo com as mudanças, o bairro ainda possui uma dinâmica bastante ativa que o ressalta tanto para seus moradores como para a cidade. Assim, enquanto estudo de caso ele se torna algo de grande valia para a compreensão das inquietações coletivas acerca da imagem do lugar.

En s’inscrivant dans le champ de la sociologie urbaine, ce travail de thèse s’interroge sur les conditions d’émergence du changement social dans l’espace urbain. Comment passe-t-on d’un état sociétal à un autre ? L’espace urbain étant à la fois un cadre matériel et un cadre social en interaction, ce travail tente de montrer que l’action urbaine, en définissant un ensemble de démarches qui exercent un contrôle sur la physionomie des espaces, et en tentant de corriger leurs déséquilibres et leurs dysfonctionnements, est l’instrument de la mise en place d’un nouvel ordre social sur un territoire. En s’appuyant sur l’exemple d’une action urbaine, le renouvellement urbain, ce travail se propose d’en faire une lecture sociologique en observant et en analysant ce qu’il préconise pour changer le cadre spatial pour ensuite rendre compte de ses effets sur la réalité sociale. L’intérêt de la recherche est d’observer un processus, au moment même où il se développe, en mettant en exergue ses conditions d’apparition sur un territoire. La réflexion porte sur la manière dont l’espace conçu et pensé rencontre l’espace vécu et pratiqué. / This thesis, set in the field of urban sociology, explores the conditions favoring a modification of the social order in the urban space. How do new structures impose themselves thus transforming the social reality into a new one ? The urban space having at the same time a material and a social content interacting with each other. This work intends to demonstrate that urban action is an instrument which creates a new social order, because this process implies a control on the aspect of spaces by trying to correct their potential imbalances and defects. Following the example of a urban regeneration, this work sociologically observes and analyses the propositions made to change the urban space and the effects it has on the social reality. The interest of this research is to observe a process at the same time it is being developed. The aim of the study is to show how the space that has been conceived and thought beforehand meets the space where one lives.

The aim of this study is to investigate the relevance of social class in relation to general support for the Labour Party both within a national and localised context, with a specific focus placed upon the area of North-West Cumbria. This is achieved by following the research hypothesis that states that the party since the emergence of New Labour, is with their classless brand, more effective on a political level than their collectivist Old Labour predecessor. Such analysis, using a mixture of primary and secondary methods, is framed within a three-themed research phenomenon. The phenomenon begins via the first theme ‘Class/Identity’ which defined the extensive atomised shift in perceived class categorisation in contemporary Britain. The analysis of the latter then links to the second theme ‘(Labour) Party’ which evaluates such shifts to that of Labour support, ranging from the historic ‘Old’ and ‘New’ eras to the present ‘Post New’ incarnation. This primarily states how the rise of the New Right inspired New Labour to modernise their core political message to accommodate the new atomised class culture, so as to gain broader levels of support. The research phenomenon concludes with the third theme ‘Geography (North-West Cumbria)’ which explores how such class atomisation affected Labour support on a broad locational basis, particularly within North-West Cumbria. The thesis findings generally concur with the research hypothesis since the New Labour brand was somewhat successful in rural areas which hitherto had been deemed unattainable by Old Labour. Such findings, be it nationally and/or locally, are a symptom of contemporary class times where political allegiance has become less ideologically centred, and more brand-orientated and homogeneous. This thesis structure also makes a contribution to qualitative methods research as it provides a template of how such a research hypothesis and phenomenon can be theoretically and practically integrated.