A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Research in Music Johannesburg 2016 / This research explores the influence that inner city redevelopment in Johannesburg has had on both its music scenes and the identities of those participating in the music scenes, particularly young participants from Johannesburg’s suburbs who did not interact with the city before its redevelopment. Understanding the city’s history as well as the current lived and imagined divides between its suburbs and inner city illuminates its fragmented nature and informs the significance of the presence of suburban youths in today’s inner city music scenes. Personal and collective narratives gathered from participants of these inner city music scenes provide insight into the city’s spatial, social, and musical transitions, adding subjective voices to the city’s complex and ever-evolving history. The use of culture-led regeneration (within cultural clusters), as a model of redevelopment, has aided in the success of attracting new audiences to the inner city once eschewed by suburbanites, providing grounds for new experiences and interactions within an increasingly diverse social sphere. Due to this, the music’s diversity within these spaces is expanding too. The role of music – and in particular, alternative music – in enticing suburban youths to the inner city requires an understanding of why ‘alternative’ (or arguably, creative) people are often drawn to urban spaces, and in doing so, often become main contributors to the accomplishments and successes of redevelopment initiatives. Examining social interactions and relationships within the inner city, in comparison to those in suburban Johannesburg, exposes a unique and highly valued manner of communal bonding amongst participants that is often tied to involvement in similar music scenes. The experience of the inner city, the experience of music in the inner city, and the experience of a community of like-minded people within the inner city all combine to create new discourses about Johannesburg, as well as impacting on the identities and experiences of those contributing to these discourses. Transforming city. Transforming music. Transforming people. / GR2017

Lau Kin-wai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-109). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / 論文摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Introduction: Reading Joyce and Eliot with Baudelaire in View --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One： --- The City in Literary Representation / Chapter 1. --- The City and its Streets in a Literary and Cultural Context --- p.8 / Chapter 2. --- "Writing (about) the Modern City: ""Joycity"" and Eliot's Cities" --- p.15 / Chapter Chapter Two： --- The City and the Flaneur / Chapter 1. --- Origins and Characteristics of the Baudelairean Flaneur --- p.21 / Chapter 2. --- From Baudelaire to Joyce and Eliot --- p.25 / Chapter Chapter Three： --- In Search of the Joycean/ Eliotian Flaneur / Chapter 1. --- Voices in the City: Personae and Their Perspectives --- p.31 / Chapter 2. --- Literary Reincarnation and the Tradition of Flanerie --- p.33 / Chapter a. --- Stephen and Daedalus --- p.35 / Chapter b. --- Prufrock and Dante --- p.39 / Chapter c. --- Bloom and Odysseus --- p.43 / Chapter d. --- Tiresias as Ancient and Modern --- p.46 / Chapter Chapter Four： --- Flanerie and Two Faces of Unreality of the City / Chapter 1. --- Cities as States of Mind --- p.49 / Chapter a. --- Eliot's Unreal City 1 --- p.50 / Chapter b. --- Joyce's Unreal Dublin 1 --- p.56 / Chapter 2. --- Wandering in the City with the Dead --- p.61 / Chapter a. --- Eliot's Unreal City II --- p.63 / Chapter b. --- Joyce's Unreal Dublin II --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Flanerie in a Wider Context of the Society / Chapter 1. --- Flanerie as an Asocial Act --- p.72 / Chapter 2. --- The Flaneur and the Familiar Stranger --- p.82 / Chapter 3. --- The Erotic as Sociality --- p.85 / Conclusion： Flanerie and the Emergence of a Critical Vision --- p.95 / Works Cited --- p.101

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Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral--Freiburg i. Br., 1989) under the title: Fragmented images. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-357) and index.

Thesis--Paris III, 1977. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-592).

[pt] A proposta desta dissertação é a de explorar, através de crônicas de António Lobo Antunes, as relações entre o homem urbano contemporâneo e seu espaço de viver, buscando salientar e apontar a relevância de seus textos, na compreensão destas relações, para a elaboração de um esboço dos tempos atuais. O autor imprime em seus textos o cenário do seu tempo; ou seja, este universo abrange as gerações nascidas em meados do século XX, que cresceram após a Segunda Grande Guerra que foram e são testemunhas da morte de ideais políticos e sociais e do surgimento de um sujeito descentrado e sem eixo, com seus antigos valores alterados e suas referências escasseadas, numa nova sociedade regida por um mercado capitalista em constante expansão. Estas mutações que se refletem - através da arquitetura e do urbanismo - nos espaços e ambientes vividos por esse indivíduo são captadas com precisão pelo olhar peculiar do autor em suas crônicas. Sua percepção, especialmente observadora do desconforto e desajuste do homem contemporâneo, faz com que, ao explorar a vida urbana lisboeta, ultrapasse as fronteiras culturais e locais dessa cidade, para atingir qualquer leitor contemporâneo. / [en] The proposal of this dissertation is to explore, throughout António Lobo Antunes´s chronicles, the relations between the urban contemporaneous man and his living space, inquiring to emphasize and point out the importance of his texts, to the apprehension of those relations, on the elaboration of a nowadays sketch. The author print out in his texts the scenery of his own time, that is, this universe embraces all the generations borned on the middle of the XX century, who grew up after the 2º Great World War and were and still are witnesses of the death of politicals and socials ideals and appearance of an individual uncentered and without a main axle, with the scarceness of his references and his old values changed, into a new society managed by a continuous expanding capitalist market. Those mutations, which are reflected, trough architecture and urbanism, into the spaces and environments lived by this individual, are captured with precision by the unique look of the author in his chronicles. His perception and specially observation of the uncomfortableness and unreguleness of contemporaneous man, when exploring Lisbon urban life, exceeds cultural borders of this city reaching any nowadays reader.

A lo largo del trabajo entonces notarán un análisis constante desde el corazón mismo de la observación, así, son las categorías y definiciones surgidas desde el terreno mismo las que interpelan al lector y promueven una lectura activa y no pasiva, son las grietas de la propia naturaleza de lo observado, los limites que toda participación observante conlleva y lo complejo de reflejar una realidad siempre en movimiento, lo que hará las veces de puntales de acceso al texto. El trabajo está dividido en tres segmentos. El punto de partida son nociones más o menos fijas que sirvan de soporte para el surgimiento de las categorías de la segunda parte, las cuales darán paso a un zoom out que permita tener un plano general de lo analizado y reverberar aquello que podría haber sido omitido en la primera y segunda parte, así como presentar matices dentro de ellas. / Trabajo de investigación

“How does one develop an appropriate urban Christian Spirituality?” is the question this study asks. First, I develop a rigorous, yet open, theoretical framework with which to describe Christian Spirituality’s complexity: a description focused primarily on constraining the markers of Biblical Spirituality and City Spirituality. Within the limits placed on the complex system of Christian Spirituality, I begin exploring various, mostly minor, tropes of urban biblical spiritualities in the “Old” and “New” Testament. From these analyses, I evince the implications of these biblical spirituality tropes for the current city theater, and also construe a set of questions evaluating the appropriateness of mitigating urban communities. The study culminates in an imagined ideal mitigating urban community named an ekklesiastes: a wisdom teaching technology of urban meaning, complexity, and resistance. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)