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Chennai is the largest metropolitan city in South India (8.7 million in 2011) and the provincial capital of the large state of Tamil Nadu (population 72 million in 2011). Before that, under British rule, the city was the capital of the... more
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      GeographyUrban PlanningSustainable Urban EnvironmentsUrban Studies
Chennai is the largest metropolitan city in South India (8.7 million in 2011) and the provincial capital of the large state of Tamil Nadu (population 72 million in 2011). Before that, under British rule, the city was the capital of the... more
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      GeographyUrban PlanningSustainable Urban EnvironmentsUrban Studies
Chennai is the largest metropolitan city in South India (8.7 million in 2011) and the provincial capital of the large state of Tamil Nadu (population 72 million in 2011). Before that, under British rule, the city was the capital of the... more
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      Urban PlanningSustainable Urban EnvironmentsUrban StudiesUrban Governance
This report concerns the extent to which participatory spatialized knowledge construction1 and learning are conducive to dealing with challenges of strategic domains of urban development; such as economic growth, reducing social... more
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      Urban PlanningUrban GovernanceUrban Planning in IndiaUrban Planning development, infrastructure and municipal governance challenges in South Africa
This article examines the flow of spatial knowledge in different locations and territorial scales, focusing on the geographies of regional planning and its transplantation in the work of two Israeli planners, Arie and Ursula Oelsner. We... more
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      Human GeographyDevelopment StudiesIsrael StudiesAfrica
Different forms of spatial knowledge (expert, tacit, sector and community knowledge) are a strategic resource in urban development. Research methods concerning participatory data collection and analysis that elicit and integrate the... more
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      Urban PlanningUrban StudiesUrban GovernanceSpatial Knowledge
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      PsychologyEducational TechnologyAnimationDesign education
In Italia l’insieme dei cambiamenti socio-economici e tecnologici recenti hanno contribuito ad una profonda trasformazione dei comportamenti d’acquisto e delle pratiche di consumo tradizionali. Questa si manifesta in modo evidente anche... more
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      GovernanceUrban RegenerationSpatial KnowledgeRetail Planning
Chennai is the largest metropolitan city in South India (8.7 million in 2011) and the provincial capital of the large state of Tamil Nadu (population 72 million in 2011). Before that, under British rule, the city was the capital of the... more
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      GeographyUrban PlanningSustainable Urban EnvironmentsUrban Studies
Abstract Reading space means understanding, analyzing or evaluating a certain space. Yet spatial legibility differs from the concept of reading. Legibility is one of the principles of urban design. Legibility means the possibility of... more
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      Human Behavioral EcologyArchitectureEnvironmental PsychologySpatial cognition
Initiatives for implementing geospatial information databases are being implemented across Indian cities. This essay explores one such initiative implemented by a metropolitan planning agency, the Chennai Metropolitan Development... more
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      Urban PlanningUrban Design (Urban Studies)Urban GovernanceUrban Planning in India
A lot of information on the web is geographically referenced. Discovering and retrieving this geographic information to satisfy various users needs across both open and distributed Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) poses eminent research... more
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      Information RetrievalOntologySpatial AnalysisSemantics
Chennai is the largest metropolitan city in South India (8.7 million in 2011) and the provincial capital of the large state of Tamil Nadu (population 72 million in 2011). Before that, under British rule, the city was the capital of the... more
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      GeographyUrban PlanningSustainable Urban EnvironmentsUrban Studies
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      Graph TheoryGeneralizationRoute DescriptionSpatial Knowledge
Chennai is the largest metropolitan city in South India (8.7 million in 2011) and the provincial capital of the large state of Tamil Nadu (population 72 million in 2011). Before that, under British rule, the city was the capital of the... more
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      GeographyUrban PlanningSustainable Urban EnvironmentsUrban Studies
Different forms of spatial knowledge (expert, tacit, sector and community knowledge) are a strategic resource in urban development. Research methods concerning participatory data collection and analysis that elicit and integrate the... more
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      GeographyUrban PlanningUrban StudiesUrban Governance
Different forms of spatial knowledge (expert, tacit, sector and community knowledge) are a strategic resource in urban development. Research methods concerning participatory data collection and analysis that elicit and integrate the... more
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      GeographyUrban PlanningUrban StudiesUrban Governance
Ce livre a pour ambition de réexaminer la relation entre savoirs géographiques et empires à la lumière des travaux les plus récents, posant ainsi les jalons d'une histoire spatiale des empires. Croisant les approches et les focales... more
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      Historical GeographySpatial PracticesColonialismHistory of Cartography
Dans le sillage d'Edward W. Said qui définissait l'impérialisme comme un " acte de violence géographique, par lequel la quasi-totalité de l'espace mondial est explorée, cartographiée et finalement annexée ", la géographie est apparue... more
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      Historical GeographyHistory of ScienceHistory of Social SciencesFrench colonialism
Initiatives for implementing geospatial information databases are being implemented across Indian cities. This essay explores one such initiative implemented by a metropolitan planning agency, the Chennai Metropolitan Development... more
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      Urban PlanningUrban Design (Urban Studies)Urban GovernanceUrban Planning in India
This report concerns the extent to which participatory spatialized knowledge construction1 and learning are conducive to dealing with challenges of strategic domains of urban development; such as economic growth, reducing social... more
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      Corporate GovernanceUrban PlanningBrazilUrban Development
Initiatives for implementing geospatial information databases are being implemented across Indian cities. This essay explores one such initiative implemented by a metropolitan planning agency, the Chennai Metropolitan Development... more
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      GeographyUrban PlanningDigitizationUrban Design (Urban Studies)
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      GeographyHuman GeographyDevelopment StudiesIsrael Studies
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      Urban PlanningWayfindingTransportation Systems and PlanningSpatial Knowledge
Chennai is the largest metropolitan city in South India (8.7 million in 2011) and the provincial capital of the large state of Tamil Nadu (population 72 million in 2011). Before that, under British rule, the city was the capital of the... more
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      Urban PlanningSustainable Urban EnvironmentsUrban StudiesUrban Governance
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      Urban PlanningUrban Design (Urban Studies)Urban GovernanceUrban Planning in India
In parallel with the technological developments dominating usage of digital tools in science and education, caused the transform of knowledge in new ways. The reflection of these integration is seen in design discipline as its active role... more
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      Design educationCognitive StyleSpatial KnowledgeDigital Tools
Raum und Wissen stehen in einem komplexen Verhältnis zueinander. Raum kann als ein Produkt von kollektiv verhandeltem und praktiziertem Wissen betrachtet werden. Zugleich stellt Raum einen wichtigen Bezugsrahmen für die Konstitution von... more
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      Spatial AnalysisSociology of KnowledgeSpace and PlaceArchaeological Method & Theory
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      Urban PlanningWayfindingMap designTransportation Systems and Planning