Negotiating a vocabulary for urban infrastructure, or, the WPA meets the teenage mutant ninja turtles

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The cultural impact of urban technology can be seen in literature and movies, though it has not been adequately explored. During the large New Deal expansion of urban infrastructure, the New York City Federal Writers' Project began 'Underneath New York' to make the infrastructure understandable to children through metaphor but it was never finished. Now, the urban infrastructure has become a male domain in literature and movies which place anything from floating crap games and fugitives to teenage mutant ninja turtles under cities such as New York.

Sewer systems, Portrayals, Municipal engineering

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Household determinants of fuelwood choice in urban Ethiopia: a case study of Jimma town

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A study was conducted to investigate why some urban households use more fuelwood than others. Cross-sectional survey data from 200 house holds in the Jimma town of Ethiopia were used. Findings indicate that the association between per capita income and per capita fuelwood consumption is non-linear.

Ethiopia, Logging, Fuelwood, Usage, Influence, Income, Report

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Benjamin's 'Flaneur' in Japan: urban modernity and conceptual relocation

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Walter Benjamin's 'Flaneur' evokes an urban landscape of Japan as otherness, thus exposing the self-importance of the West. Two interpretations by Kellermann and Wackwitz offer Japanese life as cultural translations or bridges from East to West.

International aspects, Criticism and interpretation, Benjamin, Walter, City and town life, Urban life, Flaneur (Book)

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