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2016-04-08
This thesis critiques the Creative Class's attraction to urban "authenticity" through the lenses of phenomenology and affect theory, particularly drawing on Deleuze, to interrogate its role in the gentrification of urban spaces. It argues that the Creative Class’s gentrification of New York City...
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The role of place promotion and urban image in the development and marketing of rapid mass transit systems (RMT)
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McLellan, Andrew Nicholas Rowswell
For many cities, the improvement or development of rapid mass transit (RMT) systems offers benefits to the local population and environment, and contributes to efforts to compete with other centres. This thesis considers the motivations for the contemporary development and marketing of RMT in...