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Tony Man Yiu Chiu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-227). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Acknowledgments --- p.i / Abstracts --- p.ii / Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables and Figures --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Topic --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Questions --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Data and Methodology --- p.7 / Chapter 1.4 --- Plan of the Thesis --- p.9 / Chapter Part I --- Theoretical and Empirical Background / Chapter Chapter 2. --- URBAN STRUCTURE IN A GLOBAL CITY: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS --- p.10-43 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Global City Thesis --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Global City and Urban Industrial Structure / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Global-City Theories of Industrial Change --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Industrial Location Approach --- p.18 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- A Recapitulation --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3 --- Global City and Urban Business Structure / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Global-City Theories of Office Location --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- A Recapitulation --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4 --- Global City and Urban Social Structure / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Global-City Theories of Urban Social Structure --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Problems Reinstated --- p.36 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Mapping of Urban Structure in a Global City: A Reappraisal of Urban Ecology --- p.38 / Chapter 2.5 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.42 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- HONG KONG: FROM AN INDUSTRIAL CITY TO GLOBAL CITY --- p.44-69 / Chapter 3.1 --- Post-war Industrial Development (1950-1975) --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2 --- Industrial Restructuring (1975-91) --- p.51 / Chapter 3.3 --- Is Hong Kong a Global City? --- p.57 / Chapter 3.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.66 / Chapter Part II --- The Geography of Growth and Decline / Chapter Chapter 4 --- URBAN INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE: LOCATIONAL PATTERN OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES1971-1989 --- p.70-118 / Chapter 4.1 --- Spatial Pattern of Manufacturing Industries --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2 --- Decentralization of Manufacturing Industries / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Decentralization in the Seventies --- p.78 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- New Town Development and Industrial Decentralization --- p.83 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Decentralization in the Eighties --- p.85 / Chapter 4.3 --- Spatial Difference of Production Scales --- p.86 / Chapter 4.4 --- Locational Dynamics of Manufacturing Industries --- p.92 / Chapter 4.5 --- A Recapitulation --- p.102 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- URBAN BUSINESS STRUCTURE: LOCATIONAL PATTERN OF PRODUCER SERVICE ACTIVITIES --- p.119-169 / Chapter 5.1 --- Spatial Development of Office Centres in Hong Kong / Chapter 5.1.1 --- General Distribution of Office Centre in Hong Kong --- p.122 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Overall Distribution --- p.123 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- A Decentralized CBD? --- p.127 / Chapter 5.2 --- Locational Dynamics of Producer Service Activities --- p.132 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Banking Sector --- p.133 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Other Financial Institutions --- p.135 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Insurance --- p.137 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Real Estate and Business Service --- p.138 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- Import and Export Trading --- p.141 / Chapter 5.3 --- A Brief Note on the Factors of Decentralization --- p.143 / Chapter 5.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.147 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- URBAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE: RESIDENTIAL DIFFERENTIATION IN A GLOBAL CITY --- p.168-210 / Chapter 6.1 --- Methodological Issues in Factorial Ecology / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Factorial Ecology --- p.170 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Some Unresolved Methodological Problems --- p.172 / Chapter 6.2 --- A Factor Analysis of the 1996 By-Census Data / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Method of Analysis --- p.174 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- An Analysis of Urban Structure in the whole Territories of Hong Kong --- p.175 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- An Analysis of Urban Structure of Hong Kong and Kowloon --- p.177 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- A Comparison of Urban Structure from 1981 to1996 --- p.181 / Chapter 6.3 --- "Mapping of Urban Structure in Hong Kong and Kowloon," --- p.183 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- An Overview of the Post-War Urban Structure 1950-1980 --- p.184 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- "Mapping of Spatial Structure of Hong Kong,1996" --- p.188 / Chapter 6.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.196 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- CONCLUSION / Chapter 7.1 --- Spatial Dynamics in a Global City: A Summary View --- p.211 / Chapter 7.2 --- Limitation of this Thesis and Future Research Direction --- p.213 / REFERENCE --- p.217 / Appendix 1 Classification of TPUs into District/Areas for Chapter 4-5 --- p.228

Local governments are adopting both the rhetoric and practices of market-based governance interventions. Imported into these cities are public relations and marketing tactics to sell cities to internal and external audiences alike. Public communication in these cities went from a public information focus hinging on a just-the-facts approach to a public relations and marketing focus on selling and image generation to please customers. Acute attention to image generation leads to the metaphor of municipalities presented in this research - as public relations and marketing firms. Private sector public relations (PR) and marketing firms gain results for their clients, usually in the form of consumer consumption. A city acting as a public relations and marketing firm puts priority on the image-generation potentials of nearly all its governance functions to sell a commodity to customers. To illustrate this, a six-point model was devised of PR and marketing tactics used in cities operating as public relations and marketing firms: branding, media relations, in-house publications, use of volunteers and outside organizations as PR tools, aesthetic and affective appeal, and sustainability and going green. A city using all six is a fully realized PR and marketing firm, as it adopts, adapts and executes the tactics in meaningful ways. An over-reliance on image-generation (PR and marketing) versus substance (information) pushes public organizations through Baudrillard's four phases of the image. The image of the city becomes dissociated with reality, and the government operates in a simulation of itself. This research uses Qualitative Media Analysis (Altheide, 1996) supplemented by a discourse analysis method created for this research - Baudrillardian Discourse Analysis. / Baudrillardian Discourse Analysis examines market-based, consumer-driven, postmodern language found in public organizations because of the governance changes mentioned earlier. Implications for public administration include: developing a model of organizations for other scholars to examine; introducing a discourse analysis method; and showing realizations of postmodern critiques and impacts of market models on cities. / by Staci M. Zavattaro. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

The Conservative party ruled Colombia from 1886 to 1930. During this period, a coterie of grammarians, poets, and theologians consolidated political power by appealing to literature as a form of rhetorical expertise. The Liberal party took power in 1930 and would hold it until 1946. Recent scholarship has argued that during this period Liberal intellectuals defended the political authority of literary expertise even as they endorsed a modernizing program. Although these charges of hypocrisy are well founded, they tell a limited version of the history of the so-called Liberal Republic, failing to take into full account the work of intellectuals at the edges of the Liberal party’s patronage network. This dissertation considers a series of writer-journalists—including Luis Vidales, Luis Tejada, José Antonio Osorio Lizarazo, José Joaquín Jiménez, and Arnoldo Palacios—who were active in Bogotá between 1920 and 1950. It examines their essays, chronicles, novels, and poems in newspapers and magazines, and less often in books, to argue that they elaborated a new function for literature in Colombia, appealing to the genres of urban journalism and the emerging discipline of urban sociology in order to transform literature into a form of social investigation.

The focus of this study is the formation of 'community' in contemporary greenfield master planned estates.The project is cast against the historical backdrop of modern utopian place-making, and the idea that a particular permutation of urban design, infrastructure and social programs can produce an ideal of community: of connectivity, social support and social identity. A further ambition of contemporay urban design is the marketable idea of securing a physical and social space. The thesis comprises four parts. Part I presents the theoretical framework of the thesis, a task which incorporates a review of theoretical concepts and of the relevant literature. Part II discusses methodological issues, the research design and research process, before providing background information needed to support the following empirical chapters. Part III comprises these empirical chapters and sets about detailing and analysing data captured through the comparative case study of Harrington Park and Garden Gates. The final section of the thesis provides an interpretation of the empirical and research data. It draws conclusions as to the character of the Master Planned Community (MPC)and the dynamics which contribute to its contemporary character. It concludes by attempting a tentative theory of the MPC. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Thesis (M.Des.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Design. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-61). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR38805

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Women's Studies. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 397-426). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR45999

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2009. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Social Sciences, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographies.