The open urban studies journal (Vol. 2, 2009)
, gouvernance, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, participation, société urbaine, métropole, géographie urbaine
Abstract from the publisher : The Open Urban Studies Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in the field of urban and regional studies. Topics covered include the: theory, methods, planning, development, analysis, design, policies and programs applied to urban studies. The Open Urban Studies Journal, a peer reviewed journal, aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments and research in the field. The emphasis will be on publishing quality articles rapidly and freely available worldwide. Contents : Comparative Research on Urban Political Conflict: Policy Amidst Polarization - Scott A. Bollens The Partnering Society: Governmentality, Partnerships and Active Local Citizenship - Magnus Dahlstedt Drivers of Agglomeration: Geography vs History - Francisco J. Goerlich and Matilde Mas Peru’s Participatory Budgeting: Configurations of Power, Opportunities for Change - M.A. Hordijk Human Capital in Large Metropolitan Areas in the United States - William Sander
The open urban studies journal (Vol. 1, 2008)
, économie, développement urbain, aménagement de l'espace, patrimoine, conservation, film, mémoire, mixité sociale, interaction sociale, politique culturelle
Abstract from the publisher : The Open Urban Studies Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in the field of urban and regional studies. Topics covered include the: theory, methods, planning, development, analysis, design, policies and programs applied to urban studies. The Open Urban Studies Journal, a peer reviewed journal, aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments and research in the field. The emphasis will be on publishing quality articles rapidly and freely available worldwide. Contents : Creative Cities and the Film Industry: Antalya’s Transition to a Eurasian Film Centre - Bahar Durmaz, Tan Yigitcanlar and Koray Velibeyoglu Spatial Strategies of Urban Development: Rescaling and Territorialization in Post Reform China - J. Shen Conservation Plans – A Model for Economic Exploitation - I. Schnell and B. Barzilay Political Power, Collective Memory, and American Central Cities: The Discourses of the Conservative Elite’s Counter-Memory of the City - A.J. Jacobs Together or Separate in the Neighbourhood?: Contacts Between Natives and Turks in Amsterdam - Peer Smets and Nicoline Kreuk
City and region : German journal of urban studies (No. 2, 2001)
region, région, gouvernance, environnement, territoire, mondialisation, Fürst Dietrich
From the introduction by Dietrich Fürst : "In Focus" in the second issue of the German Journal of Urban Studies is the problem of how collective needs for economic and ecological action cut across city boundaries in interdependence with the region (Läpple 1999; Sieverts 1997), and what impact this interlinkage has on regional governance. Are traditional structures for cross-municipality problem-processing still adequate or are improved forms needed? Contents : Dietrich Fürst - Introduction: City and Region Dieter Läpple - City and Region in an Age of Globalisation and Digitization Heidi Fichter and Timothy Moss - From Urban Environmental Protection to Regional Sustainability Strategies Arthur Benz - From Associations of Local Governments to "Regional Governance" in Urban Regions Alfred Katz - Regional and Intermunicipal Cooperation – Practice Report on the Ulm/Neu-Ulm Region Dietrich Fürst - City and Region – The Difficulty of Making Regional Self-Governance Sustainable Jörg Bogumil - Party Competition, Constraints to Negotiate and Economisation – Changes in Municipal Decision-Making : the Example of North Rhine-Westphalia Peter Marcuse - After September 11, Urban Life will not be the Same Dietrich Fürst teaches in the Institut für Umwelplanung at Leibniz Universität Hannover.
German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
(Re)reading the African urban landscape : Postamble (Vol. 4, No. 2)
, paysage urbain, littérature, film, photographie, espace urbain, santé, Africa, Afrique, O'Shaughnessy Emma Vivian
From the editorial by Emma Vivian O'Shaughnessy : We hope that this edition of postamble presents avenues through which readers can imagine a different type of urban language, one that accommodates the differences between all the world’s cities and one that has the capacity to deconstruct or dismantle the bifurcations traditionally established within the discourse of ‘the west’ and ‘the rest.’ This language must enable us to access and understand African cities, in all their manifestations. We do not seek to dismiss the harsh realities of most of Africa’s urban centres, the suffering of many of its peoples, nor the ways in which the distribution of power and wealth in African cities and states reflects the dominant world order. However, what we do seek to do here is to prompt an engagement with African urban discourse, to portray the routes that many have taken as they try to assess and redefine the potentials, as well as the pitfalls, of the African urban landscape. At the same time, we hope to contribute to this moment in urban history, where a new form of urban discourse and a powerful response to established world orders is emerging from spaces like Africa. Contents : (Re)reading the African urban landscape - Emma Vivian O'Shaughnessy African urban discourse : Invisible and reflexive practice in African cities - Emma Vivian O'Shaughnessy Walking the city : Movement and space in Peter Abrahams' 'Mine Boy' - Megan Jones Recreating the African city in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying - Megan Cole Paustian 'Diseased dystopias'? HIV/AIDS and the South African city in 'Yesterday' and 'Tsotsi' - Rebecca Hodes Crisis averted - Clare Butcher Twin town - Svea Josephy Soft city - Emma O'Shaughnessy Book reviews Emma O'Shaughnessy is a graduate student in English language and literature at the University of Cape Town.
University of Cape Town Centre for African Studies
London, Londres, Londinium, histoire urbaine, archéologie, Ancient Rome, Rome antique, Merrifield Ralph
Extract from the preface : This book is a synthesis of many people's studies of the origin and early history of London, of which I have endeavoured to make a coherent story. Our knowledge of this subject has been vastly increased in recent years by archaeologists who have rescued and interpreted the buried material evidence. Contents : Preface 1. London before the Roman conquest 2. The Claudian invasion and the beginning of Londinium 3. The first Londinium, its death and rebirth 4. The transformation of Londinium, AD 70 - 125 5. Londinium in its heyday 6. The hinterland of Londinium 7. Londinium in the Antonine and Severan periods 8. Londinium in the third century 9. Londinium in the fourth century 10. From Londinium to London The late Ralph Merrifield was an archaeologist and museum curator who wrote several definitive works on the history of Roman London.
The making of global cities : A symposium and research agenda
ville mondiale, world city, global cities, mégapole, urbanisation, mondialisation, néolibéralisme
Abstract from the publisher : Increasingly, mega cities located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have become the focus of policy makers and scholarly research. These regions are the locations of the bulk of the world’s largest cities; now house the majority of urban residents worldwide; are experiencing historically unprecedented scales and rates of urbanization; and often do not fit within conventional models of the modern capitalist city. Rapid urbanization is a consequence of rural deprivation, industrialization, shifting cultural norms, increased ease of mobility and communication, shifting development discourses, and globalized flows of commodities, investment capital and labor. The largest such cities are often referred to as ‘mega’ cities—a term that has come to also connote mega challenges, of the sort which cities in the global North have overcome (congestion, shanty towns, pollution, poverty and the informal economy), or so it is often presented. While ‘mega’ has taken on negative connotations, it has become desirable to become a ‘world’ or ‘global’ city, joining the ranks of such places as Tokyo, New York or London. Such dreams and ambitions have long existed, lying behind continual attempts by states to clean up and modernize their cities, but have taken new forms during the past two decades of neoliberal globalization. Opinion makers and supra-national institutions in the global North have been promoting a neoliberal model of global urbanism, specifying a set of governance, planning and policy prescriptions that are supposed to guarantee that all cities will modernize and all urban residents can eventually prosper, including those in the South. For example, the recently, the World Bank has taken up the challenge of modernizing mega cities in the global South. It has rescaled its development strategies (e.g., structural adjustment, poverty reduction, good governance, fiscal prudence, stakeholder participation) downward from the national to the metropolitan scale, seeking to turn mega-cities into global cities through market-led urban development policies that are circulating as best-practice models across the globe, thereby informing and influencing visions and practices of urban transformation and urban life. The social, political, and ecological consequences and limits of such models and practices necessitate careful examination, however. Dependency theorists and post-colonial scholars alike have criticized this univalent vision of development for its dismissal of local alternatives and its representation of the global South as backward. In this alternative view, solutions for the evident problems of ‘mega’-cities should not simply be conceived in terms of more first-world development models and strategies. Indeed, these first-world models and strategies have hardly been a panacea for the many problems that mega-cities in the global South exhibit. This symposium takes up these concerns by addressing the following questions: * What is the genealogy of urban models of global capitalism? How have global North perspectives on development, politics and society shaped urban development models, conceptions of poverty, civil society, urban living, and legitimate livelihood strategies in the global South? * What processes, constellations of actors, practices, and institutions have facilitated the accelerated flow and rapid transfer of global North models of urban transformation and living across cities in the global South? * What are the social, political, and environmental consequences and limits of such models? In terms of social consequences, this involves, for example, examining the types of urban displacement that are emerging within global South metropolises. It involves asking why some social and ethnic groups are gaining greater access to ‘world-city’ services such as 24/7 clean water and electricity, safe housing, and secure livelihoods, while others are not. * What alternative imaginaries, theories, and practices are already present within or emerging from global South metropolises, and what is their potential for more just and sustainable cities and urban living? Exploring this question will involve examining contestations and local experimentations with alternative development models and practices, particularly those led by civil society organizations, as well as the visions and practices of marginal populations in cities of the global South. Papers : AbdouMaliq Simone - "Remaking Urbanization in a new Global South” Sue-Ching Jou and Hsin-Ling Wu - "Urban Restructuring and Neoliberal Urban Politics: 'Landing' the Mega-Projects in Taipei” Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore - "Recombinant workfare, across the Americas” Bhuvaneswari Raman and Solomon Benjamin - "Introduction to Contesting Spacialities in Globalized Terrains" Bhuvaneswari Raman - "Contested Spaciality and Locality Specific Networked-Non Compliance" Solomon Benjamin, University of Toronto, "Do Everyday Institutional contestations erode the neo-liberal Urban Reforms Agenda?" Matthew Gandy - "Landscapes of disaster: Water, modernity and urban fragmentation in Mumbai” Anant Maringanti - "Between the city and the slum” Yildirim Senturk - "The Public Cities against the World Cities: Constructing Alternative Public Spheres within Cities”
Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota
The African city centre re(sourced) : African Perspectives 2009 congress
Africa, Afrique, centre-ville, espace urbain, forme urbaine
Abstract from the publisher : , is it a historical core, a business district or no physical location at all? Food for a lengthy palaver. Out of the central theme, three sub-themes were distilled to enable in-depth debate: (1) the African City Centre in contemporary global context, (2) the (historic) identity of the African City Centre and (3) the future life of the African City Centre. It is on these three sub-themes that entries were called-in. Entries... range from art work, film, architectural projects to scientifically reviewed academic papers. These are included in the following presentation. Papers : Master keynote address : Imagining Urban Futures - Heinrich Wolff Economic heterogeneity and the return of the central city - Abdumaliq Simone Refereed papers : The woes of a 'straight jacketed' central business district: The case study of Odum, Kumasi - S.O. Afram and G.F.A. Olympio Meanings and perceptions of the built environment peri-urban areas of Maputo, Mozambique - Jorgen E Andersen The indigenous urban tissue of Addis-Ababa - A city model for the future growth of African metropolis - Jörg Baumeister and Nikolaus Knebel Agency in an African city. The various trajectories through time and space of the public market of Kinshasha - Luce Beeckmans Recentering the city: An anthropology of secondary cities in Africa - Filip De Boeck, Ann Cassiman and Steven van Wolputte The urban market: Social and spatial configurations in the African city - Garret Gantner Working on cities: an Experience from Kumasi, Ghana. A design studio for architects and urban managment students - Ellen Geurts 'Cities without slums'? Global architects of power and the African city - Branwen Gruffydd Jones coffeemanifesto: sampling instant and slow spaces in the African city - Hannah le Roux Planned and unplanned towns in former Portuguese colonies in sub-saharan Africa: an analysis of Silveira's Iconografia - M.C. Matos, T.B. Ramos and L.P. Costa Narrating urban acupuncture - Bärbel Müller Diagnoses on Cairo City, reflective analysis of Ramses square - Ayatollah Musa and Robert H.C. van Kats UniverCity-centre: the university as an anchor and its capacity for democratizing urban space - Caroline Newton The evolution of the Kibuga into Kampala's city centre - analysis of the transformation of an African city - Barnabas Nawangwe A search for specificity: learning from Africa - Liz Ogbu Ethical positions in Built Environment education - Mark R.O. Olweny and Charles L.M. Olweny Ile-Ife: a cultural phenomenon in the throes of transformation - Cordelia O. Osasona, Lee O. Ogunshakin and David A. Jiboye African city: towards a new paradigm - "chameleonic" urbanism for hybrid cities - DMLS Viana Xilunguine, Lourenço Marques, Maputo – structure and agency in urban form: past, present and future - Paul Jenkins Refereed Posters : Learning from Earth - Caitlin Martusewicz Garden City Settlements - Garret Gantner Between Land and Water - Giovanni Vio Working on Cities - Imanuel Sirron-Kakpor Modernism vs Capitalism - Paulo Moreira
3rd international workshop on post-communist urban geographies : Actors shaping urban change
post-socialist, post-communist, postsocialiste, postcommuniste, Europe de l'Est, Eastern Europe, mutation sociale, mutation urbaine, capitalisme
Organisers' description : The 3rd International Workshop on Post-communist Urban Geographies. Actors Shaping Urban Change carries on the tradition established by two earlier workshops held in Lund (2005) and Stockholm-Tallinn (2007) with the aim (1) to draw together scholars interested in post-communist cities in order to discuss leading edge urban research in the region, and (2) to experience post-socialist urban change first hand through conference excursions. Papers : Gábor Hegedűs - The social geographical study of gated communities in most populous Hungarian cities outside Budapest agglomeration Albrecht Kauffmann - Migration movements within the Russian Federation and changes in the distribution of its urban population Michael Gentile, Sara Ferlander and Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen - Experiences from carrying out a large survey in a small city : The Stakhanov health interview survey 2009 Anneli Kährik and Kadri Leetmaa - Residential preferences towards suburban living in post-socialist metropolies Oleg Golubchikov and Nicholas Phelps - Post-socialist post-suburbia? Growth machine and the emergence of 'edge city' in the metropolitan context of Moscow Kadri Leetma, Kristi Anniste and Isolde Brade - Hidden new residential areas in the Tallinn metropolitan area : Soviet summer home settlements in residential suburbanisation Liviu Chelcea - Gentrification as primitive accumulation : Property rights, the market and the State in a postsocialist city during the 1990s Natalia Onyshchenko and Anastasia Ryabchuk - Marginalization of working class in post-soviet urban space : The case of Bilshovyk plant and shopping cenre Tuari Tuvikene - From socialist city to capitalist city? The persistence of socialist places : The case of garage areas Dominik Weiss - Keeping the bubble alive? The effects of urban renewal and demolition subsidies in the East German housing market Panait Laura Ioana - Art and public space in Romania after 1989 : Screaming loud for re-conquering the city? Anna-Liisa Unt - Design by use : The transformation of Tallinn culture and sports arena Linnahall and its surroundings Nadir Kinossian - Local politics and development choices in the city of Kazan, Russia Joseph Salukvadze and David Gogishvili - On the geography and typology of building construction in Tbilisi : Before and after the crisis Elena Trubina - Hosting international events in a time of global crisis : Place-making and recentralization Lajos Boros - Growth coalitions in post-socialist urban development - the case of Hungary Ionela Iacob - Goth subculture in contemporary Romania Maria Prieto - Everyday Sarajevo : Reassembling public housing and collective memory
, analyse spatiale, aménagement de l'espace, forme urbaine, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, ségrégation résidentielle, pauvreté, logement social, transport, exclusion, Vaughan Laura
NB : This is the author's pre-print version of a special issue of Progress in Planning (Vol. 67, No. 3, April 2007). The published version of this text can be found on the ScienceDirect journal page.
Urban governance : Innovation, insecurity and the power of religion
, gouvernance, sécurité, religion, politique urbaine, société urbaine
Organisers' description : The Tenth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality were held in Berlin from 18 - 23 March 2009 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). The Roundtables addressed the chances and challenges that the “new urban age” entails. With particular focus on different forms of innovative urban potential, on security governance, and on the power and influence of religion, discussions centered around current developments and governance strategies found in large urban agglomerations unprecedented in size and growing at an accelerated pace. Governance and innovation workshop : Matthias Becker - “Emerging Stakeholders in China’s Urban Governance: The Case of Guangzhou Development District in the Pearl River Delta” Rani H. S. Daoud - “Promoting Urban Governance within a Context of Crisis: Innovative Approaches in Response to Urban Challenges and Promotion of Local Governance in the Palestinian Territory” Daniel Hailu - “Religion and Urbanization in Ethiopia” Rolien Hoyng - “Beyond Wires and Roots: Embedding the Information Society and Displacing Culture in Turkey” Deljana Iossifova - “Managing the City of Difference: (B)ordering Space in Shanghai” Sanjay Kumar - “Urban Governance: Innovation, Insecurity and the Power of Religion” Joanna Phua - “Visual and Sensorial Innovations in Urban Governance: The Singapore Landscape Spectacle” Rolf Rauschenbach - “Urbanity as the Space for Postconventionality – How Religions May Innovate Cities and Themselves” Friederike Schröder - “New Analytical Approaches to Urban Governance in China: The Identification of Governance Modes in the Process of Changing Urban Strategies in Guangzhou” Iryna Sofinska - “’New look’ in Urban Governance of Ukraine: a Clear Perspective for XXI Century” Olga Sooudi - “Connoisseurs of Urban Life: Aesthetic Practices and Creative Production among Japanese Migrant-Artists in New York City” Katharina Sucker - “Metropolitan Cultures and Cultural Myths: The Production of Urban Images under the Influence of Globalization. An Investigation in Gated Communities in Istanbul since the 1990s” Daniela Vicherat-Mattar - “Urban Development Flanked by Religion and Politics: Reflections from the Belfast History” Security workshop : Massoud Ansari - “A Comparative Study of How Churches in the West Became Positive and Constructive Agents of Change and Whether Mosques and Madrassas in the Muslim World Can Similarly Transform” Upendra Choudhury - “Smart Urban Government in New Age Terrorism: Lessons from Mumbai” Omar Dewachi - “Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Urban Governance and Transnational Laboratories of Intervention of Displaced Iraqis in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon” Carlos Iván Fuentes - “The Applicability of International Humanitarian Law to Situations of Urban Violence” Maria Grazia Galantino - “Urban Security in Rome: Governance with Government?” Clarissa Huguet - “Drug Trafficking, Militias, Police Violence and State Absence – Is There a Way to Build Citizenship in Cities Like Rio de Janeiro?” Mohammed Ibahrine - “Innovation, Insecurity and the Power of Religion” Rivke Jaffe - “Between the Street and the State: Criminal Governance Arrangements in Urban Jamaica” Eduardo Moncada - “Public Goods and Private Interest: Citizen Security in the Developing City” Akachi Odoemene - “Agony in the Garden: Incongruity of Governance and the Travails of Port Harcourt City, Nigeria” Gideon Rossouw - “Xenophobia at the End of the Rainbow: Explaining Anti-Foreigner Violence in the Context of Limits to the South African ‘Rechtsstaat’” Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera - “Surveillance, Territory and the Rule of Law in Mexico City” Helmer van der Heide - “About ‘schwarze Sheriffs’ and ‘Kiezläufer’” Religion workshop : Irene Becci - “Liminals and Marginals: Creating Religious Identification in an Eastern District of Berlin” Synnøve Bendixsen - “Connecting the Local, National and Transnational Powers of a Religious Youth Organisation in Berlin” Marian Burchardt - “Belonging and Success: Religious Vitality in an African Metropolis” Nelly Elias - “Between Faith and Community: The Choice of Christianity by the FSU Immigrant Adolescents in Israel” Murat Es - “Alevis in Cemevis: Religion and Secularism in Turkey” Diana Nogueira de Oliveira Lima - “Prosperity Theology: On the Meaning of Material Success in Contemporary Urban Brazil” Tuomas Martikainen - “From the Celebration of Diversity to the Scandal of Maximalist Religion” Sylvia Meichsner - “Constructing Hope. The Role of Secular Saints in Mexico” Gustavo Morello - “Global Cities, Modern Religions and People’s Lives” Hassan Juma Ndzovu - “Muslims’ Relations with Politics of Nationalism and Secessionism in Kenya” Godwin Onuoha - “Trans-National Religious Identities and Contemporary ´Forms of Exit/Inclusion` in the Nigerian Public Sphere” Samadia Sadouni - “Somalis in Johannesburg: Muslim Transformations of the City” Ethan Philip Sharp - “Plotting the Paths of Justice: Urban Growth, Security Governance and Evangelical Revivalism in Mexico” Kerstin Steiner - “National Identity and Religious Harmony – Secularism the ‘Singaporean Way’: The State and the Muslim Minority in Singapore” Leilah Vevaina - “Excarnation and the City: The Tower of Silence Debates in Mumbai” Wilson Will - “Hope and Religion in the Inner-City U.S. Hospital: The View from Chaplaincy”
Collective identities, governance and empowerment in megacities
, aménagement urbain, gouvernance, mégapole, politique urbaine, identité, conflit urbain, architecture, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine
Organisers' description : The Eighth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality on “Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities” took place from 11 – 16 June 2008. An international essay competition was organized in summer/autumn 2007 to address and to analyze issues relating to different forms of urban fragmentation and processes of identity (re-) configuration. Competition participants were also invited to explore best practices by state, municipal and civil society actors to cope with corresponding conflicts and difficulties and to reflect on new civilizing arrangements resulting from civic engagement in the urban context. In response to the call for papers, the Foundation selected 45 young(er) scholars to participate in three workshops and panel discussions held at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and the Humboldt-University Berlin. Social structures in megacities workshop : Mariana Cavalcanti - “From Shack to House to Fortress: The Favela Dwelling as a Total Social Fact" Zvikomborero Theodore Chadambuka - “Urban Dwellers and Politics: The Case of Operation Murumbatsvina, Harare, Zimbabwe” Neslihan Demirtaş - “The Impacts of Neoliberal Policies and Identity Politics on Low Income-Settlements in Turkey: The Case of Boğaziçi Gecekondu Neighbourhood of Ankara” Alberto Martin Di Peco - “Crossing Greater Buenos Aires with Rallyconurbano” Yannan Ding - “Handling Emergency in Megacities: A Case of South China under Snow Storm in 2008” Ajay Gandhi - “Vernacular Citizenship and Everyday Governance Amongst India’s Urban Poor” Esther Hérnandez-Medina - “A Tale of Two Cities: Mexico City, São Paulo and the Chances for Citizen Participation in Latin America’s Megacities” Clarissa Huguet - “Uncontrolled Urban Growth and COAV – Is There a Relationship between Rapid Urban Growth and the Involvement of Children and Youth in Armed Violence?” Astrid Ley - “Moving Targets as a Coping Strategy: Re-thinking Emergent Patterns and Relations of Organized Urban Poor Groups” Colin McFarlane - “Sanitation in Mumbai’s Informal Settlements: Governance, Infrastructure and Cost-Recovery” Oliver Schwedes - “Mobile Cities - Reinventing Urban Mobility” Daniela Vicherat Mattar - “Urban Planet, Walled World: Questioning the Nature of the Urban Bond” Penny Weller - “The Modernity of Megacities: Echoes in History, Power and the Politics of Difference” Felix Wemheuer - “Governing the Body of the Peasant Worker in China’s Cities: Dangerous Sexual Desires of the ‘Other’ in the Official Discourse” Urban conflicts, identities and architecture workshop: Eşref Aksu - “Towards A Cosmopolitan Identity?: Globalisation, Urbanisation, and Social Transformation” Felicitas Becker - “’Floating Populations’ and Ideological Innovation in African Cities” Synnøve Bendixsen - “Islam as a New Urban Identity? Young Muslims in Berlin” Matias Sendoa Echanove - “Master Cities & Defiant Neighborhoods” Bianca Freire-Medeiros - “Empowerment through Tourism? Notes from a Favela with a View” Luise Heidenreich - “Collective Memory, Identity and Place Making in Reunified Berlin” Lalit Khandare - “People’s Voices in Democratizing Cities: A Case of Mumbai” Sabrina Krank - “Cultural, Spatial and Socio-Economic Fragmentation in the Indian Megacity Hyderabad” Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka - “Dynamism of Conflict in Kano: Response to a Threatened Identity” Vladimir Rouvinski - “A Trouble in the Heavens: Human (In)security, Identity and Fragmentation in Cali, Colombia” Monika Salzbrunn - “Translocal Urban Spaces: Negotiating Legitimacy through Festive Events” Thomas Soehl - “Ethnic Difference and Scale: Locating the City” Aleksandra Stupar - “Hatching the Ugly Ducklings of Globalization, Megacities between Visions and Illusions” Deniz Yonucu - “From Workers to Criminals: Marginalization and Criminalization of the Urban Poor Populations of Istanbul” Urban governance and city planning workshop : Matthias Bernt - “Informal Urbanisation, Self-Organisation and ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’: The Caracas Experiment” Christopher Capozzola - “The Devolution of Disaster: Popular Politics and Regional Governance in Metropolitan Manila” Shiuh-Shen Chien - “‘Urban Governance, Chinese Style - A Perspective of Asymmetric Decentralization“ Daniela Coimbra de Souza - “Governance challenges in metropolitan areas: the case of the industrial ABC Region in São Paulo, Brazil" Pramita Harjati Budihardjo - “Urban Poor Community Empowerment through Environmental Improvement and Income Generation Initiatives: North Jakarta, Indonesia” Sandra Kürten - “’Không dấm lên cỏ’ – ‘Do Not Step on the Grass’. Assessing State-Society Relations in Urban Vietnam” Matthieu Lietaert - “Cohousing: Flexible Village-Like Communities inside Big Cities” Elena Nechaeva - “Interethnic Harmony and Governmental Policy in the City-State of Singapore” Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo - “Cities, Insecurity and the Rise of Ethnic Vigilant Organisations in Nigeria” Urmi Sengupta - “Assessing Four Pillars of Housing Reform in Kolkata: A Zero Sum Situation” Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera - “Spaces of Trust: Crime, Surveillance and the Social Control of Space in Latin American Megacities” Tara Van Dijk - “The Need for Ethnographic Reconnaissance in Urban Governance Studies” Michael Waibel - “Mega-Urban Growth, Informality and the Issue of Governability: Towards Theorising Specific Informal Dynamics in a Wider Context” Christian Wuttke - “Intercity Competition in China’s Pearl River Delta”
Migration into cities : Patterns, processes and regulation
, migration urbaine, gouvernance, insertion, intégration, société urbaine, urbanisation, économie
Organisers' description : Workshop organized by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (Osnabrück University) held at the Social Science Research Center Berlin on 25-27 October 2007. The workshop intended to explore pertinent migratory patterns and processes into urban agglomerations and examined ways how the responsible administrations attempt to cope with migration-related social consequences and problems. The focus was placed less on the reasons of migration, the motives of migrants and on the concrete living conditions upon arrival, but more on the dynamics and characteristics of migration processes themselves and the options and means to regulate or govern these processes. Papers : Isabel M. Estrada Portales - “Rural Souls in Urban Hells: The Reconstitution of a Supporting Community through Favelas” Réka Geambaşu - “Rural-Urban Migration and the Creation of ‘The New Socialist Man’ in Communist Romania” Oscar Gil - “Engendering Democratic Strategies for Governing Migrants in Urban Centers” Michael Janoschka - “Governance Regimes and Regulation in Local Political Conflicts: Re-Thinking the Political Participation of Migrants” Li-Fang Liang - “The Construction of Global City: Invisible Work and Disposable Labor” Katharina Ludwig - “Family Deregulation? Mobilizing Collectives to Loop Migration Order in Austria” Danzan Narantuya - “Migration into Cities: Mongolia” Ezebunwa E. Nwokocha - “Engaging the Burden of Rural-Urban Migration in a Non-Regulatory System: The Case of Nigeria” Akachi Odoemene - “The Historical Dynamics of Migration into Enugu City, Southeastern Nigeria, 1915-1990” Anisseh Van Engeland - “Afghan Migrations inside Iran: From Camps to Cities” Michael Waibel - “Migration to Greater Ho Chi Minh City in the Course of Doi Moi Policy: Spacial Dimensions, Consequences and Policy Changes with Special Reference to Housing” Yan Wei - “What Should China’s Government Do for Rural-Urban Migrant Workers?” Christiane Wirth-Forsberg - “Access to Housing and Employment of New Migrants: Exploring the Limits of Local Governance” Courtney Work - “The View from Here: Migration and Village Violence in Cambodia” Friederike Zigmann - “Urban Sprawl, Informal Settlements and Government Responses in the Megalopolis of Cairo (Egypt)”
Cities in China : The next generation of urban research, part 3
China, Chine, mutation urbaine, migration urbaine, économie, développement urbain
Papers (only papers in English listed) : Anna Boermel - Discourse and experience : An anthropolical study of 'old age' in urban China (Beijing) Guo Chen - Urban poverty in a socialist country : Myths and realities. Changing urban landscape in transitional China since the 1970s Yanguang Chen - Spatial changes of Chinese cities under the condition of exo-urbanization Angelina Chin - Molding women's urban citizenship : Management of 'deviant' women in Guangzhou in the 1920s and 1930s Yiping Fang - Residential satisfaction conceptual framework revisited - a study on redeveloped neighborhoods in inner city Beijing Shenjing He - The changing rationale and interest distribution of urban redevelopment in Shanghai William Hurst - The unmaking of the Chinese proletariat : The politics of xiagang Dror Kochan - Moving images : Internal migration in contemporary Chinese cinema Zhigang Li - Socioeconomic transformations in Shanghai, 1990-2000 Xuejun Liu - Report on the unemployment in urban China Jianto Lu - Using spatial analysis and spatial modeling techniques to detect the spatial difference between overseas Chinese and non-Chinese investments in urban China Erik Mobrand - Beyond household registers and floating populations : Migration controls and their demise in China Jinghao Sun - Urbanization in the absence of rural-based commercialization : The pivotal role of transportation in late Imperial Jining Dong Wang - Property rights reform in China : A case study of Hutang Town, Jiangsu Province (A progress report) Wenfei Winnie Wang and C. Cindy Fan - Success or failure : Selectivity and reasons of return migration in Sichuan and Anhui, China Xiaogang Wu - Registration status, labor migration, and socioeconomic attainment in China's segmented labor markets Zhou Yu - Heterogenity and dynamics in China's emerging urban housing market : Two sides of a success story from the late 1990s
Cities in China : The next generation of urban research
China, Chine, migration urbaine, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, inégalité, mutation urbaine, voisinage, community, communauté
Organisers' description : The Urban China Research Network hosted "Cities in China: The Next Generation of Urban Research" at the University at Albany on June 14 and 15, 2002. The conference featured the research of recipients of the first two rounds of the Urban China Research Network's small grant program (2000-2001). Papers (only those with full text available listed) : Session 1 : Urban-rural migration in China : Xiaogang Wu - Hukou status and social mobility Session 2 : Urban policies and politics : Li Zhang - Reform of the Hukou system and rural-urban migration in China : The Challenges ahead Ren Yuan - NGOs, public participation and community development in urban China Session 3 : Urban inequality in China : Min Yang - The influence of social inequality on the life satisfaction of urban residents : A case study in Wuhan city Session 4 : Urban transformations : Wang Enru - Commercial structure of Beijing in the reform era Liu Zhi-jun - Rural urbanization and religious transformation? A case study of Zhangdian Town Session 5 : Neighborhoods and community organization : Benjamin Read - Beijing communities and their residents' committees : A survey Pan Tianshu - Shanghai nostalgia : Community-building and place-making in a late socialist city
Review symposium - Loïc Wacquant, Urban Outcasts : Urban geography (Vol. 31, No. 2)
Wacquant Loïc, Urban outcasts, bidonville, quartier défavorisé, quartier dégradé, ghetto, Chicago, pauvreté, précarité
Section contents : Tom Slater - Loïc Wacquant, 2008, Urban outcasts : A comparative sociology of advanced marginality John A. Agnew - Slums, ghettos, and urban marginality Melissa R. Gilbert - Place, space, and agency : Moving beyong the homogenous "ghetto" Steve Herbert - From the South Side to Susanville : Tracing the logics and geographies of contemporary segregation Melissa Nobles - "Here a ghetto, there a ghetto" : The value and peril of comparative study Tom Slater - Ghetto blasting : On Loïc Wacquant's Urban outcasts Nik Theodore - Urban underclass : The wayward travels of a chaotic concept John Western - Just how different? Loïc Wacquant's Chicago-Paris comparisons
Cape Town, Le Cap, espace urbain, mutation urbaine, intégration, dynamiques urbaines, Nahnsen Antje
Full title : Emergency on planet Cape Town? (Re-)conciliation as a tool for urban planning in a post-Apartheid city. Abstract from the publisher : "Emergency on planet Cape Town" introduces the emotional production of urban space as an important dimension for understanding urban dynamics in post-conflict societies such as South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of geographical, sociological, anthropological and psycho-analytical literature and on an analysis of three contemporary examples of urban transformation projects in the City of Cape Town, the author suggests that current integration politics are failing because of a lack of recognition of the politics of emotion that have shaped the city in the past. What is needed, argues the author, is a spatial politics of reconciliation that addresses both the emotional meaning attached to urban spaces, but also the very concept and image of Cape Town as a European city. Antje Nahnsen is an independent education management and research professional based in Cape Town. She completed her PhD at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg in 2002.
, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, voisinage, culture urbaine, identité, Krase Jerome, Brooklyn, New York
Extract from the preface : This work reports on a small portion of my continuing sociological research on city neighborhoods. The subjects which are dealt with here are quite delicate and my long-term involvement in the community is both an advantage as well as a disadvantage for understanding and describing it. Although at first glance this may appear to be a case study of a single neighborhood, as in William Whyte's Street Corner Society, the abstractions and concepts either generated or employed in this piece are by no means limited to the particular site for this research. The same phenomena have been observed and documented by myself and others not only in American cities but cross-nationally as well. Sociological phenomena are seldom, however, expressed exactly the same way in any two locations. The major theoretical theme of the book is the complex relationship between cultural symbols and societal structures which are embodied in the concrete entities of society - people, buildings, streets, maps and all forms of human settlements. One particular aspect of this general relationship is the interaction between self-images and the social meanings of the neighborhood communities in which people live. It is one of those many social phenomena "taken for granted" as part of everyday life and seldom analyzed, but nevertheless influential in the social construction of local community realities. Contents : 1. Symbolism, self and urban environment 2. Self selection and urban decay 3. Woodland to city neighborhood : 300 years of change 4. Invasion and succession 5. Micrological aspects of urban problems 6. Stigma and self-image in the inner city Jerome Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Living in the 21st century city : Contributions to the 13th Berlin-Amsterdam conference
, urbanité, Berlin, Amsterdam, ethnicité, ethnicity, immigration, voisinage, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, youth, jeunes, développement urbain, centre historique, gouvernance, twenty-first century, vingt-et-unième siècle, Bontje Marco, Pethe Heike
Extract from the introduction by Marco Bontje : After the conference, the participants have been asked to write a book contribution based on their presentations... While all contributions to this volume have been written by researchers from Amsterdam and Berlin, their contributions partly also deal with other cities : Paris, The Hague, Warsaw, and one contribution even deals with neighbourhoods in the entire German urban system. While the following collection of contributions may look rather eclectic... this section tries to put them in a coherent framework of current research and policy issues related to the broad overarching conference theme: 'living in the 21st-century city'. Contents : Marco Bontje - Living in the 21st century city : Introduction to the conference theme Katja Adelhof - Contribution of ethnic minorities in the creative industries in Berlin - Turkish entrepreneurs in the design and art market Amanda Brandellero - Crossing boundaries : Migrant musicians in world music production in Paris Brooke Sykes - Neighbourhoods and youth : The neighbourhood conditions of youth in the Netherlands and their association with educational achievement Christine Baar - The impact of ethnic and social segregation on school achievement in German schools and neighbourhoods Yvonne Hung - Youth participation in Berlin : Exploring the context, strategies and outcomes of four organisations Martin Sondermann - European city development in Berlin : Towards an urban renaissance of the historic city centre? Olaf Schnur - Demographic impact on urban neighbourhoods in German cities - Development scenarios and options for action Henrik Gasmus - The case of Kleinmachnow : An example of demographic re-suburbanisation in the metropolitan area of Berlin Florian Koch - A new form of urban governance? The polity, politics and policy of urban development in post-socialist Warsaw Simone Buckel - Urban governance and irregular migration - The case of The Hague Gesine Bär - Good urban governance in marginalised neighbourhoods : Analysing the effects of community health partnerships Marco Bontje is Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) of the University of Amsterdam. Heike Pethe is a researcher at AMIDSt.
Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDST), University of Amsterdam
Living in the inner city: New challenges for urban communities. German journal of urban studies
, centre-ville, logement, politique urbaine, urbanité, développement urbain, immigration, Allemagne, Germany, Jekel Gregor
Extract from the Editorial: In recent decades, settlement development in Germany has been determined by suburbanisation, particularly residential suburbanisation. The family was long regarded as the main driving force in this process. The common view was that families moved out into single-family homes in a verdant setting on the edge of town or in more peripheral suburban areas as soon as occupational prospects were settled and offspring was on the way. Despite the fact that far fewer people actually live in their own home in the urban environs that is usually claimed, the consequences of this development were nonetheless serious. They included the establishment of more and more residential areas on the outskirts of the city or in surrounding areas, urban sprawl at the cost of the countryside, and land take for new roads, as well as partial social segregation by income, age, and ethnic origin. Changing living and housing patterns, i.e., changing conditions at the societal, economic, and regulatory levels, as well as their impact on residential preferences, social structure, urban development, and business have for a considerable time now been signalling a new trend over and above suburbanisation towards rediscovering the city, and particularly the inner city, as a place to live. In parallel, urban planning and development policy are endeavouring to upgrade housing and the residential environment in cities, for instance through rehabilitation and redevelopment, the Socially Integrative City programme, and, most recently, national urban development policy. Contents: Klaus J. Beckmann, Gregor Jekel and Franciska Frölich von Bodelschwingh - Editorial: Living in the inner city - vision and reality Gregor Jekel and Franciska Frölich von Bodelschwingh - Urban policy and new living in the inner city Walter Siebel - Living in the inner city Joachim Scheiner - Lifestyles in the inner city - lifestyles on the urban fringe: Location preferences in the urban region Albrecht Göschel - Living in the "second modern age": Projects for collaborative housing Stephan Beetz - Housing cooperatives and urban development Thomas Dilger and Hans Fürst - Urban change and immigration - Renaissance of the city? Gregor Jekel is a Research Assistant at the German Institute of Urban Affairs.
Precarity, segregation and poverty in the social space: German journal of urban studies (No 2, 2009)
, précarité, ségrégation urbaine, pauvreté, espace urbain, intégration, santé, health, inégalité spatiale, lien social, Allemagne, Germany, Mansel Jürgen, Heitmeyer Wilhelm
Contents: Jürgen Mansel and Wilhelm Heitmeyer - Precarity, segregation, and poverty in the social space - overview of the research status Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Ullrich Bauer, Matthias Richter and Diana Sahrai - The over- and underestimation of space in public health - reflections on the spatial dimension of health inequalities Dirk Baier and Susann Rabold - Juvenile violence in segregated urban districts Jürgen Mansel, Sandra Legge and Wilhelm Heitmeyer - Precarity, the experience of deprivation, and poverty in economically prosperous and declining regions - devaluation and the potential for violence: A comparison Wolfgang Spanier - Political strategies for organising life worlds and social communication spaces in segregated urban neighbourhoods Stefan Werner - Evaluating the complexity of the "socially integrative city" - proposal for integrated process evaluation Jürgen Mansel is a Professor in the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University. Wilhelm Heitmeyer is Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University.