Abstract from the publisher :
The special issue on Cultural Diversity collects a selection of papers presented at the multidisciplinary and multinational Marie Curie project on “Cultural diversity in Europe: A series of Conferences”…
From the conference report :
The Annual conference of the Urban History Group took place at the University of Reading this year from the 30th to the 31st March. Entitled ‘Risks, Hazards and Urban Renewal, 1666 to 2000’, the conference…
Contents :
Karina Landman - The storm that rocks the boat: the systemic impact of gated communities on urban sustainability
Jörg Plöger - The emergence of a “City of Cages” in Lima : neighbourhood appropriation in the context…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
