Browsing UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Geography"
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Assembling place : Buenos Aires in cultural production (1920-1935)
(2009-12)In works of cultural production, interpretations of the built, natural, and social environment engage a hierarchy of readings of place. Formed by a totality of interpretations—accepted/unaccepted, dominant/subordinate, ... -
Destabilizing racialized geographies : the temporality of Blackness in Puerto Rico
(2016-05)In this thesis I analyze the way in which the de-colonial construction of Puerto Rico, and subsequent acquisition by the US as a territory, came to inform and create a whitened identity through the confinement, historicization ... -
Entrepreneurial city : race, the environment, and growth in Austin, Texas, 1945-2011
(2011-12)The primary concern of this dissertation is to give historical perspective to the idea of the creative city and the creative, or "new," "knowledge," or "postindustrial" economy that has produced this new form of urban ... -
The geography of inequality : a spatial assessment of the socio-economic dynamics of inequality in Memphis
(2011-12)Like many other cities Memphis has been hit hard by the economic downturn, but unlike other cities there are several other factors which cause the existing conditions in Memphis to be even more devastating. Memphis is one ... -
Here be dragons : imaginative geographies of online video games
(2013-05)As articulated by J. K. Wright (1947), "terrae incognitae," or unknown lands, capture the imagination and inspire an excitement to explore and learn, but with a reduction in travel times and subsequent expansions of potential ... -
Marfa, Texas : a historical and cultural geography
(2014-05)Marfa is a town in far west Texas, three hours to the nearest commercial airport and one hour from the U.S.-Mexico border. The cultural landscape of Marfa includes a historic yet dying ranching community plagued by drought, ... -
Web news in China : a new hierarchy of centrality? : an analysis of the linking pattern of China’s online news network
(2010-05)The present study explored three questions: What is the linking pattern of China’s cyber news space? What are the factors that contribute to this pattern? And what is the distribution of links in real geographic places? ...