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The discipline of urban geography as a specialized and integral part of geography has shown strong development only since the end of World Uar II. Very few articles published in this field antedate this period, but since the end of the war a great proliferation of urban studies has been made. This bas been in keeping with the rapid growth of urban areas since that time, in contrast with earlier development. However, even in this short period of twenty years, the approach to urban geography has undergone great changes. [...]

The present work is an attempt to analyze the traditional settlements of Chinese water towns with a particular emphasis on their urban structure and housing or the house form. / The historical background of the area is briefly discussed. Waterways and towns' developments, as well as examples of urban structure of the water towns are presented. The water towns' urban constituting elements, waterways, streets, bridges, quays, public squares are analyzed. The general principles of houses are studied, and case studies of typical houses are also included. / Finally, conclusions based on the study are presented.

This dissertation explores the influence of European and Mesoamerican traditions of urbanization on the plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, a sixteen- seventeenth-century dramatist born in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain. The objective of this dissertation is to study the analogy between urban designs and their representation in theatre from the Ancient Greece until the Golden Age Spanish Theatre. As we acknowledge the influence of the urban configuration on the mentality of that particular period, we also seek to explain how the surrounding reality becomes like an ideological postulate with the passing of time. By analysing and defining the cities from the Ancient Greece to the period known as the Baroque, we aim at defining the new form taken by their inherent spatial notions when they merge with those of the ancient historic capital of the Mexica empire, that is, Mexico-Tenochtitlan. As the two worlds were coming into contact, the changes as well as the exchange of cultural legacies and urban experiences endowed the author's town of birth with a new way of communicating, which was at the same time both Spanish and non-Spanish. This allowed the author to write plots where the urban setting would not determine all the characters' actions and reactions, as was the case with the Golden Age dramatists in Spain.

Partant du constat de l'importance du sujet pour le peintre futuriste a une epoque ou les avant-gardes europeennes tendent a l'abstraction, la presente etude demontre que la ville fut un theme capital dans l'elaboration de l'esthetique futuriste. En effet, les peintres italiens ne cherchaient pas tant a depeindre l'apparence, l'aspect visible de la ville qu'a apprehender de facon conceptuelle les idees-forces qui en emanaient. A travers l'entite "ville", ils revelerent les concepts inherents au monde moderne et en etablirent les equivalents plastiques. / Ainsi, c'est a travers le sujet de la ville que s'expriment les idees-forces les plus originales du mouvement, telles que la modernolatrie, le dynamisme universel, la vitesse, le devenir, la transformation, l'unanimisme et le simultaneisme, illustres dans trois chapitres intitules 'La ville montante', 'La ville electrisee' et 'La ville simultanee'. Geux-ci demontrent comment certains motifs recurents du cadre urbain comme les echafaudages des chantiers de construction, les lampadaires, les foules ou les bolides sont transcendes par ces idees-forces. La representation de la ville par les futuristes ne releve pas simplement de la description mais d'un programme d'abord politique puis esthetique: l'avant-garde italienne a cree une nouvelle conception du beau, a revele la beaute de la ville moderne et des valeurs qui lui sont inherentes.

Despite the growth of secondary cities, there is still little written about these intermediate cities in the literature. This thesis addresses this gap by examining the growth of Puntarenas, one such secondary city in Costa Rica. / Within the framework of dependency theory and an historical background, this case study examines several factors which have affected the development of this city over the last three decades. An undiversified economy based on fishing, migration patterns, and Puntarenas' dependent relationship with the capital, San Jose, are analyzed in depth. / The study, which is based on interviews, statistical data, and published literature, suggests that although there has been some effort to limit the concentration of resources in the centre of the country and to develop secondary cities, these cities continue to be neglected by central powers and, for the most part, are only taken into account when they serve the interests of the centre.

Thesis (D. Miss.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-123).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 347-399). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=1&did=1251837401&SrchMode=1&sid=24&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1195577142&clientId=5220