Scholarworks@UAEU - Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses: BRIDGING BORDERS: EXPLORING PLACE ATTACHMENT AS SPATIAL LIVED EXPERIENCES OF EXPATRIATE COMMUNITIES IN DUBAI, UAE
Home > Electronic Theses and Dissertations > THESIS_DISSERTATION_DEFENSE > 2025-2024 > DISSERTATION_DEFENSES > 47 Gopika Balakrishnan, United Arab Emirates University Follow 11-6-2025 6:00 PM F1 - 1124 Dissertation Defense Doctor of Philosophy in Architectural Engineering College of Engineering Architectural Engineering Dr. Sahera Bleibleh Place Attachment, Everyday Urban Experience, Spatial Behavior, Expatriate Communities, Migration, Dubai, UAE Dubai, a global city where expatriate communities make up the majority of the population, offers a unique context to explore how urban environments are both shaped by and shaping people’s experiences. With rapid growth of migration and deep cultural diversity, the city exemplifies how top-down planning and bottom-up lived experiences interact to influence how individuals form emotional and spatial connections to place. This dissertation investigates the concept of place attachment through the lens of spatial behavior, lived experience, and inh
Scholarworks@UAEU - Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses: BRIDGING BORDERS: EXPLORING PLACE ATTACHMENT AS SPATIAL LIVED EXPERIENCES OF EXPATRIATE COMMUNITIES IN DUBAI, UAE --> Skip to main content Home About FAQ My Account < Previous Event Next Event > Home > Electronic Theses and Dissertations > THESIS_DISSERTATION_DEFENSE > 2025-2024 > DISSERTATION_DEFENSES > 47 Dissertation Defenses BRIDGING BORDERS: EXPLORING PLACE ATTACHMENT AS SPATIAL LIVED EXPERIENCES OF EXPATRIATE COMMUNITIES IN DUBAI, UAE Presenter Information Gopika Balakrishnan , United Arab Emirates University Follow Date of Defense 11-6-
saved by
related reading
- The New Frontier of Belonging - by Tina He - Fakepixelsfakepixels.substack.com
- Architectures of the (Un)inhabitable — Disembodied Territoriesdisembodiedterritories.com
- Saskia Sassen /// The global city: the de-nationalizing of time and space - chtodelat.orgchtodelat.org
- Living with Robots, Life with Robots: Human-Robot Coexistence in Japanpurl.stanford.edu
- Epistemology and Decolonial Politicssocietyandspace.org
- Architecture, urbanism, design and behaviour: a brief review – architectures by Dan Locktonarchitectures.danlockton.co.uk
- Co-creation of urban agriculture through participatory processes in residential building environment: Insights from Finland - University of Helsinki Research Portalresearchportal.helsinki.fi
- Ben's Research Syllabusbencuan.me
- *Reflective Disequilibrium*: What does migration to the United Arab Emirates tell us about labor mobility?reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com
- i went to the dubai they try to hideyoutube.com
- Wandering Back and Forth in The Sea of Books and Cultural Holdings – In Searching of Indigeneity, Positionality, and Self-identity – Taiwan Insighttaiwaninsight.org
- The Anti-Brief – Rewriting the Brief, Societal Design for a world that makes senseanti-brief.org