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Taipei: City as Social Body
Who changes the meaning of an architectural site ? How does a structure acquire a new meaning or significance? Who initiates protest, and how is protest involved in changing meaning?
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Taipei and Disease
What diseases afflicted Taipei? How does disease affect the dynamics between groups in heterogeneous populations? Does it redefine roles?
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Taipei: City as Ordered Universe
What does Taipei’s grid represent? How and when did Taipei’s grid develop? Who developed it? How do “ordered” structure, lived experience, and power dynamics interact with one another in a historical setting?
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Tourism in Cairo
Why are tourists drawn to Cairo? What do they see when they go and what are they directed to see by the industry?
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Cairo: City as Real Estate
How does real estate development vary over the large area of the GCR (Greater Cairo Region?) How does tourism influence real estate markets?
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Nanjing: The City as Real Estate
How have the location, size, and shape of architecture in Nanjing been determined by local and central state regulations? How have they been determined by the real estate market? How were the two related? What is the logic of chaiqian (demolition-relocation)?
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War in Nanjing
How has war affected the history of Nanjing? How have memories of war been interpreted locally, nationally, and internationally?
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Tourism and Urban Branding in Dubai
In what circumstances did facilities and entertainments for travelers first appear in Dubai? How has tourism affected the cityscape or local economy?
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Dubai: The City as Ordered Universe
Does Dubai have a single overall plan? When was it made and with what aims? What does Dubai’s development illustrate about the city?
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Natural Disaster in Vienna
For the vast majority of Vienna’s history, the adjacent Danube was little more than a slow-moving marshland that periodically flooded, causing the course of the river to shift and changing land into water and water into land.
