This thesis is an examination of the ways in which city-life photography can provide insights into the structuring conditions of urban spectatorship during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To this end, the thesis will involve a survey of some of the uses of photography in the representation various cities during this period. However, the aim of this survey is not simply to collate a range of 'images of the city'. Instead, the central theme of this work is a discussion of the ways in which photography structures our perception. Fundamental to this discussion is a reformulation of what constitutes a photographic archive. It is as a means to redefining this archive that the notion of the gaze which will be employed to refer both to structures of subjectivity and vision and to particular regimes of representation. As a consequence of this reading, the archive will not be defined in terms of individual photographers, styles or genres. Instead, it will be read as a structure of repetition and displacement, of identity and difference: in short, as a system of signification which both offers and denies positions of security, knowledge and pleasure to the viewer. As a means of pursuing this reappraisal of the archive the thesis will be organised around a series of readings of texts from post-structuralist and psychoanalytical theory as well as from critical commentaries on urbanism, modernity and social space. Following from these readings will be an analysis of photographs with reference to the intersection of the psychical and the social which will not be cited as two distinct registers of experience but will instead be seen as being mutually inflected. It is within this theoretical framework that photographs will be viewed as images which both summon and disrupt the presence (as stable identity) of the viewer and the presence (as unmediated literal transcription) of the objects and scenes which they represent.

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Tom Randolph, the narrator of this short novel, is a recently divorced university instructor. The setting of the novel is inner-city Dallas, where Tom has leased an apartment after leaving his suburban home. Frustrated by a tenacious affection for his former wife Sharon and disgust at her remarriage to a drunken ranch laborer, Tom marries a muddled eighteen-year-old girl, .Faye. When Faye is abducted, Tom assents to Sharon's request to return to him. Tom buries an unrecognizable corpse he thinks is Faye, and Sharon's new "husband" (a bigamist) is killed in a brawl. After Tom and Sharon's remarriage, Faye reappears as a street-corner missionary.

The purpose of this play is to dramatize the fable of a city mouse and her cousin in the country, and the differences in their lifestyles. Through visits to each other's respective homes, the mice discover that there is more to life than what their own environment has to offer.

Orientador: Cláudio Silveira Amaral / Banca: Eduardo Romero de Oliveira / Banca: Fernando Guillermo Vázquez Ramos / Resumo: A pesquisa apresenta como objeto de estudo o conceito de direito à cidade e suas manifestações nos movimentos sociais urbanos contemporâneos tomando como recorte a ocupação do antigo Hotel Santos Dumont localizado na Rua Mauá número 340, no bairro da Luz na cidade de São Paulo. O direito à cidade pode ser entendido sob duas óticas diferentes entre si, no entanto, uma definição não exclui a validade da outra no contexto das disputas pelas cidades tanto no plano físico como na esfera do simbólico. A primeira destas óticas está atrelada a um recorte de acesso aos comuns urbanos, nesse sentido, é possível inserir no histórico da busca por este direito os movimentos populares por moradia, educação, mobilidade urbana, saúde, cultura, etc. Outro entendimento possível situa o direito à cidade na esfera do simbólico, e está mais ligado à origem do conceito. Embora as lutas pelo direito à cidade sejam anteriores, o termo chega ao nosso vocabulário na obra-manifesto homônima escrita pelo filósofo francês Henri Lefebvre no final da década de 1960. Em linhas gerais, para Lefebvre o direito à cidade pode ser entendido como o direito de transformarmos o espaço urbano, aproximando-o dos desejos de nossos corações. / Abstract: The research presents as an object of study the concept of the right to the city and its manifestations in contemporary urban social movements taking as a cut the occupation of the former Hotel Santos Dumont located at Rua Mauá number 340, in the neighborhood of Luz in the city of São Paulo. The right to the city can be understood from two different perspectives, but one definition does not exclude the validity of the other in the context of disputes over cities on both the physical plane and the sphere of the symbolic. The first of these optics is linked to a cut of access to urban commons, in this sense, it is possible to insert in the history of the search for this right popular movements for housing, education, urban mobility, health, culture, etc. Another possible understanding places the right to the city in the sphere of the symbolic, and is more connected to the origin of the concept. Although the struggles for the right to the city are earlier, the term comes to our vocabulary in the homonymous manifesto written by the French philosopher Henry Lefebvre in the late 1960s. In general, Lefebvre's right to the city can be understood as the right of transforming urban space, bringing it closer to the desires of our hearts. / Mestre

There is a substantial amount of studies concerning the economic, social and political facades of the gender issue, further supported by gender - space discussions. The main aim of this study, however, is to make a survey and analysis of ladies&#039 / clubs established and supported by Greater Ankara Municipality / in order to define their problematic. The study intends to discover and analyze the policies and legislation developed by the administration about Ladies&rsquo / Clubs, to map their distribution in the city and the attitudes and appraisals of women participating in the activities of the clubs located at the core of the city.

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The diploma thesis observes the phenomenon of Czech journal attachements of luxury character in particular supplements ZEN, City Life, Esprit and Proč ne?! These are published together with daily press E15, MF Dnes, Lidové Noviny a Hospodářské noviny. In the theoretical part is first outlined the development of lifestyle magazines and classical daily attachments, because examined supplements are kind of combination of both these media products. The next chapter deals with the media content from the political as well as economical communication, which covertly affects media by means of advertising and public relations and thus shape public opinion according to their own interests. In the end the theoretical part focuses also on definition of advertisement and public relations. The goal of the practical part is to research using the semiotic analysis how the ideology of success is presented to readers, which is in general an attribute of political as well as economical elites. These elites secretly control media products following political economy of communication. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This thesis deals with the analysis of rhythms (Lefebvre 2004) at Prague's Rašín Embankment (náplavka Rašínova nábřeží). This thesis would also focus on the observation of the spatiotemporal changes of this place in a long term. I carried out qualitative interviews with actors who co-create the rhythms of this place with their managerial and entrepreneurial activities and added them to long-term continual visits and sensory perception of the place, along with the study of specialized historical publications. The analysis of the rhythms based on long-term participant observation was followed by an interpretation of what they actually tell us about everyday social reality of this place at specific times and how this space is produced by those rhythms. In this thesis I also used related concepts like chronotope (Crang, 2001; Osman, Mulíček, Seidenglanz, 2010, 2015) and chronopolis (Osman, Mulíček, Seidenglanz 2011, 2017). This thesis shows that nowadays the eurhythmia of this place is created by non- disruptive movement of local visitors such as walkers, runners and cyclists along the embankment, by regularly organized farmers' market and other events as well as by the flow of the Vltava river and its rhythms, by all means of transport on the local roads, bridges and the Vltava river. From the...

Wie funktioniert Stadtplanung in einem politischen Zeitalter, in dem Dialogfähigkeit eine Tugend und eine Notwendigkeit zugleich ist? Die Stadtplanung, die als institutionalisierte Technokratie zielorientierte Effektivität anstrebt und doch schwer fassbar ist, wurde zum Gegenstand ständiger öffentlicher Anfechtungen und obliegt einer immer häufigeren politischen Rechenschaftspflicht. Mit der unablässigen Forderung nach mehr städtischer Demokratie verschieben sich die Schwerpunkte und Wertvorstellungen der Stadtplanung hin zu mehr Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Partizipation und Transparenz. In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird ein pragmatischer, von der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie inspirierter Forschungsansatz verwendet, um die zum Teil widersprüchlichen Auswirkungen des planerischen Strebens nach urbaner Lebensqualität im Zusammenspiel mit den öffentlichen Maßnahmen zu untersuchen. Unter dem Einfluss einer sich neu definierenden Norm, veränderten Werten und zunehmender Bürger:innenbeteiligung wird Stadtplanung als ein Ensemble von Situationen und Ereignissen beleuchtet, welche durch das Aufgreifen aktueller Fragen die Öffentlichkeit erreichen. Durch die Gegenüberstellung von drei verschiedenen Stadtverwaltungen -–Lissabon, Wien und Zürich–- und deren politischen Hintergründe, analysiert die Dissertation empirisch die Entstehung städtischer Herausforderungen als kollektives Anliegen angesichts der verschiedenen Formen öffentlichen Handelns in der Stadtplanung. Mit anderen Worten, es werden Beispiele der Stadtplanung in einer Vielzahl von Erscheinungsformen und Konfigurationen untersucht, indem analysiert wird, wie das Vorhandensein verschiedenster Weltanschauungen zu einer gemeinsamen Expertise hybridisiert wird. Zu diesem Zweck wird die Stadtplanung nicht als eine feste Modalität betrachtet, die zu téchne oder démos gehört, oder periodisch definiert wird; sondern als öffentliche Angelegenheit und Gemeingut, wobei hinterfragt wird, wie „gutes“ städtisches Leben an der Schnittstelle von Politik, Wissenschaft und Ethik problematisiert wird. / How does city planning work in a political age where being dialogic constitutes a virtue and imperative at once? Known as institutionalised technocracy and bounded polity, city planning has come to be the object of continuous acts of public contestation, and the subject of an increasing prevalence of political accountability. With a relentless demand for increased urban democracy, the conduits and implications of city planning are reassembled into novel layers of visibility, worth, transparency and discernibility. The present dissertation endorses a pragmatist-inspired ANT-lens to examine the adverse itineraries of planning’s pursuit to achieve good city life, and what sustains its current co- constitutions as a public action. Subject to normative shifts, value variations and civic engagements, city planning is investigated as an ensemble of situations and events that involves the particular urgent attribution of problems to publics. By juxtaposing political backgrounds from three diverse city administrations –– Lisbon, Vienna, and Zurich–– the dissertation empirically inquires the emergence of urban issues as collective concerns, in the face of planning’s various modes of public action. In other words, samples of city planning across a variety of expressions and configurations are examined, by analysing how the presence of many truths are framed, counter-framed and hybridised into shared expertise. To this end, city planning is studied not as a fixed modality belonging to téchne or démos, or as a periodic abyss, but as public matter and common good, questioning how good urban living is problematised at the intersection of politics, science and ethics.