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Physical Planning in Place-Making through Design and Image Building
Madureira, Ana Mafalda - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
This paper discusses how physical planning works with place-making through urban design to support image creation in a municipality that aims to create a new image for its city. Two large-scale urban development projects in Sweden are analysed. The analysis focuses on official plans and...
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'We Are Watching You Too': Reflections on Doing Visual Research in a Contested City
Komarova, Milena; McKnight, Martina - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 1, pp. 19-19
This article focuses on our observations of two contentious Orange Order parades and nationalist protests that took place in an interface area in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in June 2011 and 2012. We apply a perspective of visual ethnography as place-making (Pink 2009) to our research experience...
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BRT TOD: Leveraging transit oriented development with bus rapid transit investments
Cervero, Robert; Dai, Danielle - In: Transport Policy 36 (2014) C, pp. 127-138
Bus rapid transit (BRT) systems have gained prominence worldwide as a cost-effective alternative to urban rail investments. However, some question the city-shaping potential of BRT, in part due to a belief it delivers fewer regional accessibility benefits than rail, but also to the social stigma...
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Place, Capital Flows and Property Regimes: The Elites’ Former Houses in Beijing’s South Luogu Lane
Cheng, Zhifen; Zhou, Shangyi; Young, Stephen - In: Sustainability 7 (2014) 1, pp. 398-421
Place is seen as a process whereby social and cultural forms are reproduced. This process is closely linked to capital flows, which are, in turn, shaped by changing property regimes. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between property regimes, capital flows...
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Urban cultural tourism: creative approaches for heritage-based sustainable development
D'Auria, Alessio - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 2/3/4, pp. 275-289
The paper has a theoretical-methodological approach: its aim is to analyse the nexus between cultural tourism and urban economies, and to foster a heritage-based sustainable development. The paper starts considering the role of heritage tourism in local development by stressing that tourism can...
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Journeys of inspiration: Working artists’ reflections on tourism
Whiting, James; Hannam, Kevin - In: Annals of Tourism Research 49 (2014) C, pp. 65-75
While much recent research has been focused on aspects of creative tourism, relatively little has paid attention to the views of creative residents. In this paper we argue that romantically informed modes of travel are important to working artists. The findings, generated through qualitative...
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A Study on eco-friendly merchandise in a resort retail environment
Patrick, Lindsey C - 2010
The purpose of this study is to determine consumer purchasing habits of ecofriendly apparel in a retail resort environment. In order to find the rationale behind purchasing decisions, this study measured sales and survey responses based on the choice of two tee shirt options, eco-friendly tee...
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A Comparison of Costs and Returns for Organic and Conventional Cabernet Sauvignon Grape Production in San Luis Obispo County
Johansen, Amanda N. - 2010
This study examined the differences in costs and profitability for established conventional and organic Cabernet … obtained from UC Davis cost studies for organic and conventional grape production in other regions of California in previous … County during the 2009 growing season.The basic costs were found the conventional costs were slightly higher than the organic …
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Profitability Comparison Study of an Organic Almond Orchard Versus a Conventionally Farmed Almond Orchard in Stanislaus County
Evers, Carl B. - 2011
This study examined the differences in costs and profitability for established conventional and organic almond orchards … established orchards for 2010, and thus ignored transition costs. Data was obtained from UC Davis cost studies for organic almonds … both orchards in the study reflected a similar management style.The basic costs were found, and the organic costs were …
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Marketing Strategies of Organic Products and a Field Research on Producers
Kılıç, Serkan; Duman, Orhan; Bektaş, Emir - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 5 (2014) 1, pp. 39-65
the demand of organic products. Thus, marketing strategies of organic products are examined for the producers in the study …. The purpose of the study is to make a guide for the producers who want to develop organic products in Turkey. For this … reason, marketing process of organic products for the producers is examined in detail and marketing strategies are presented …
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