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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 286-293).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 17, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

There is a growing evidence-base in the epidemiological literature that demonstrates significant associations between people’s living circumstances – including their place of residence – and their health-related practices and outcomes (Leslie, 2005; Karpati, Bassett, & McCord, 2006; Monden, Van Lenthe, & Mackenbach, 2006; Parkes & Kearns, 2006; Cummins, Curtis, Diez-Roux, & Macintyre, 2007; Turrell, Kavanagh, Draper, & Subramanian, 2007). However, these findings raise questions about the ways in which living places, such as households and neighbourhoods, figure in the pathways connecting people and health (Frolich, Potvin, Chabot, & Corin, 2002; Giles-Corti, 2006; Brown et al, 2006; Diez Roux, 2007). This thesis addressed these questions via a mixed methods investigation of the patterns and processes connecting people, place, and their propensity to be physically active. Specifically, the research in this thesis examines a group of lower-socioeconomic residents who had recently relocated from poorer suburbs to a new urban village with a range of health-related resources. Importantly, the study contrasts their historical relationship with physical activity with their reactions to, and everyday practices in, a new urban setting designed to encourage pedestrian mobility and autonomy. The study applies a phenomenological approach to understanding living contexts based on Berger and Luckman’s (1966) conceptual framework in The Social Construction of Reality. This framework enables a questioning of the concept of context itself, and a treatment of it beyond environmental factors to the processes via which experiences and interactions are made meaningful. This approach makes reference to people’s histories, habituations, and dispositions in an exploration between social contexts and human behaviour. This framework for thinking about context is used to generate an empirical focus on the ways in which this residential group interacts with various living contexts over time to create a particular construction of physical activity in their lives. A methodological approach suited to this thinking was found in Charmaz’s (1996; 2001; 2006) adoption of a social constructionist approach to grounded theory. This approach enabled a focus on people’s own constructions and versions of their experiences through a rigorous inductive method, which provided a systematic strategy for identifying patterns in the data. The findings of the study point to factors such as ‘childhood abuse and neglect’, ‘early homelessness’, ‘fear and mistrust’, ‘staying indoors and keeping to yourself’, ‘conflict and violence’, and ‘feeling fat and ugly’ as contributors to an ongoing core category of ‘identity management’, which mediates the relationship between participants’ living contexts and their physical activity levels. It identifies barriers at the individual, neighbourhood, and broader ecological levels that prevent this residential group from being more physically active, and which contribute to the ways in which they think about, or conceptualise, this health-related behaviour in relationship to their identity and sense of place – both geographic and societal. The challenges of living well and staying active in poorer neighbourhoods and in places where poverty is concentrated were highlighted in detail by participants. Participants’ reactions to the new urban neighbourhood, and the depth of their engagement with the resources present, are revealed in the context of their previous life-experiences with both living places and physical activity. Moreover, an understanding of context as participants’ psychological constructions of various social and living situations based on prior experience, attitudes, and beliefs was formulated with implications for how the relationship between socioeconomic contextual effects on health are studied in the future. More detailed findings are presented in three published papers with implications for health promotion, urban design, and health inequalities research. This thesis makes a substantive, conceptual, and methodological contribution to future research efforts interested in how physical activity is conceptualised and constructed within lower socioeconomic living contexts, and why this is. The data that was collected and analysed for this PhD generates knowledge about the psychosocial processes and mechanisms behind the patterns observed in epidemiological research regarding socioeconomic health inequalities. Further, it highlights the ways in which lower socioeconomic living contexts tend to shape dispositions, attitudes, and lifestyles, ultimately resulting in worse health and life chances for those who occupy them.

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010. / Directed by Leila Villaverde; submitted to the Dept. of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jul. 9, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-297).

This research thesis examines the emerging trends in urban social patterns in Navi Mumbai, India. Unlike the other planned cities of India, Navi Mumbai was specifically built as a planned decentralization of a large metropolitan city. The research focuses on explaining the urban social pattern of this particular case study. An urban social pattern reflects the social characteristics of the urban setting. In the case of Navi Mumbai, the government had a social agenda of promoting a social pattern based on socioeconomic distribution rather than an ethnic one. Analysis of the data provides an insight to the results of this social agenda, and provides a basis to frame new ones. Thus, the study not only addresses a basic research question, but also has policy implications. The research involves a comprehensive review of secondary source material to establish the theoretical framework for the research. The review also involves an extensive inspection of urban social patterns across the world to better contextualize this particular case study. The research puts forth a model that explains the social pattern of Navi Mumbai by social area analysis using variables, which are drawn from social aspects of any city and indigenous factors of Indian settlements. The model depends not only on statistical analysis but also on interpretation of local conditions. This research situates the emerging social pattern in geographic literature in developing countries. This research was supported in part, by a grant from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech. / Master of Urban and Regional Planning

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O período recente das gestões do Partido dos Trabalhadores no governo federal traz avanços no campo da Reforma Urbana, mas também coloca uma série de dilemas e contradições, decorrentes da estratégia implantada de acesso e exercício do poder, o chamado lulismo. Entre os agentes engajados historicamente no campo da Reforma Urbana em São Paulo e no Brasil, têm destaque os movimentos de moradia, que compõem a sua base social, o segmento organizado de população pobre que experimenta em seu cotidiano com maior intensidade as contradições urbanas que este campo discute e combate. A forma como os diversos movimentos de moradia respondem aos dilemas e contradições estabelecidos nas gestões do PT também varia e coloca interrogações sobre o alcance das conquistas obtidas. As Jornadas de Junho de 2013, por sua vez, parecem romper com um frágil equilíbrio político que havia se sedimentado e inaugurar um novo ciclo político, marcado pelo declínio da hegemonia do PT lulista, impulsionando novos agentes como o MTST, a partir de outras práticas políticas e territoriais. Nesse contexto de esperanças e frustrações, possibilidades e limitações, a questão da localização na cidade, aqui considerada como coração da Reforma Urbana, o centro de disputa no combate à segregação socioespacial, tem centralidade na análise. A União dos Movimentos de Moradia (UMM), o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Teto (MTST) e a Frente de Luta por Moradia (FLM), três importantes movimentos de moradia de São Paulo, são examinados neste trabalho, a partir do parâmetro da localização urbana na luta social, numa busca por relacionar suas estratégias políticas e territoriais. Este debate, por sua vez, traz elementos para uma reflexão maior acerca das perspectivas atuais da Reforma Urbana. / The recent period of mandates of Workers\' Party in federal government causes progress in the field of Urban Reform, but also set dilemmas and contradictions, due to the strategy of access and exercise of power adopted by them. Among the agents historically engaged in the network of Urban Reform in Sao Paulo and in Brazil, the housing movements have an outstanding role. They are the social basis of such network, the organised segment of poor population, who lives vividly in daily life the urban contradictions, which the network debates and struggles against. The way the diverse housing movements respond to the dilemmas and contradictions set in the mandates of Workers\' Party also varies and interrogates the extent of the progress. The June Journeys, occurred in 2013, seem to disturb the fragile political stability settled and unleash a new cycle, characterized by the fall of \"lulist\" hegemony and the raise of new agents, like MTST, based on other political and territorial practices. In such context of hopes and frustrations, possibilities and limits, the issue of location in city, considered by this research as the core of Urban Reform, the centre of contention in struggle against social and spatial segregation, is central in the analysis. The Union of Housing Movements (UMM), the Front of Struggle for Housing (FLM) and the Movement of Homeless Workers (MTST), three important housing movements in Sao Paulo, are examined in this study, focusing the issue of location in city, in social struggle, seeking to relate their political and territorial strategies. This debate, in turn, brings elements to a wider reflection about the current perspectives to Urban Reform.

Os movimentos populares de luta por moradia, que defendem a proposta autogestionária, atuam no Brasil desde a década de 80, e são protagonistas da recente construção legal e institucional da política urbana e habitacional brasileira. Os programas Crédito Solidário e Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades, frutos de uma trajetória de mobilização e pressão desses movimentos, reconhecem a atuação de entidades sociais, cooperativas e movimentos populares como agentes promotores de empreendimentos habitacionais, com recursos públicos federais. O acesso à terra urbanizada e bem localizada para a habitação popular tem estado na pauta dos movimentos de reforma urbana que para isso têm desenvolvido ações diretas, como ocupações e mobilizações públicas, iniciativas legislativas e ações institucionais, como a participação em conselhos de políticas públicas. Entretanto o conjunto de instrumentos colocados à disposição da sociedade para regular o uso do território ainda não foram efetivamente implantados. Assim, a ausência de política fundiária, em nível local e nacional aliada à abundância de recursos públicos e privados disponíveis para o setor da construção civil e a financeirização da produção da moradia e da cidade fazem com que a busca por áreas disponíveis para a produção habitacional de interesse social seja cada vez mais difícil. Tal tarefa se torna ainda mais árdua para os movimentos sociais. O Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida consagra um modelo de produção habitacional calcada em um modelo único de acesso, através da aquisição, ainda que com subsídios expressivos, da propriedade individual da casa, que se torna, imediatamente, produto de mercado, com um aparato normativo adequado a esse objetivo. Configura-se assim um conflito entre a proposta de política habitacional autogestionária formulada no âmbito dos movimentos e as condições estabelecidas pelas políticas de habitação e solo urbano. O enfrentamento deste conflito se constitui hoje em campo fundamental de atuação dos movimentos. / The housing social movements, that defend the collective self-managed agenda, act in Brazil since the 80´s and are protagonists of the recent legal and institutional construction of the urban and housing policies in Brazil. The public housing programs Crédito Solidário (Solidary Credit) and Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades (My House My Life Entities), outcomes of a trajectory of mobilization and pressure of these movements recognize the performance of cooperatives, social organizations and popular movements as promotional agents of housing enterprises with federal resources. The access to the well located urban land for the popular housing has been in the agenda of movements for urban reform that have developed direct actions, as public occupations and mobilizations, legislative initiatives and institutional actions, as the participation in public policies councils. However, the set of instruments available to the society to regulate the use of the territory had been not effectively implanted yet. Thus, the search for available areas for houses of social interest is even more difficult in the absence of land policies, in a local and national level, added to the abundance of available public and private resources for the civil construction sector as well as the financialization of the housing and city production. Such a task becomes even more arduous for social movements. Minha Casa Minha Vida enshrines a model of housing production based on a single model of access to the individual property of the house by acquisition, although with considerable subsidies, which becomes immediately a commodity and to this end entails an adjusted normative apparatus. A conflict is configured between the proposal of collective self-managed housing policies as formulated by the movements and the conditions established for the urban housing and land policies. Facing this conflict constitutes today the main field of action for the movements.