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A City In Crisis: Communication Network, Ethics, And Power In The City Of Dallas, Sana Salma Syed
A City In Crisis: Communication Network, Ethics, And Power In The City Of Dallas, Sana Salma Syed
Planning Dissertations
The conceptual framework for this research builds on Manuel Castells's work to find the specific network configuration of actors, interests, and values that engage in their power-making strategies to operationalize a communication network and understand the roles and powers of programmers and switchers at a local level. The study explores the role and purpose of communication networks within cities from the perspective of administrators and elected officials and their responsibility to provide communication as a public good. The research design is an organizational autoethnography of the city of Dallas that incorporates various perspectives from those who were a part of …
Architects' Reflection Of Cities: Yenagoa Losing City, Lost Dream Of The Oil Rich Niger Delta, Allison John, Dimabo Fenibo, Crispin Allison, Gift Josiah
Architects' Reflection Of Cities: Yenagoa Losing City, Lost Dream Of The Oil Rich Niger Delta, Allison John, Dimabo Fenibo, Crispin Allison, Gift Josiah
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
A city's character influences behaviour while people's behaviour determines a city's character. As a development engine, the authors described cities impressions derived from media and how media caninfluence perceptions of Yenagoa, the oil rich city of the Niger Delta. The city can be described as a life support system with policies and human actions affecting a city. How Yenagoa has performed as perceived by visitors and its users 21years after. It will also include a discussion of the significance of cultural relativism in the developmental evolution of Yenagoa. It concludes by suggesting the imperative need for orientation of the Yenagoa's …