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Native place, city, and nation: Regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937
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This study explores social practices and rituals related to xxiangyi , also called xiangqing and ziyi , Chinese expressions for the sentiment that binds people from the same native place. This sentiment, and the social…
The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on…
Chinese cities and the outside world: A workshop for City, Culture and Society
Extract from the Introduction by Richard Croucher, Pingli Li and Hiroshi Okano: The articles make contributions on economic, social and cultural aspects of their subject and embody economic, social, historical and cultural perspectives. Michael…
Women, slums and urbanisation : Examining the causes and consequences
A first of its kind, this COHRE report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights. The report focuses, in particular, on the experiences of women and girls living in slum communities…
S'adapter au déplacement en milieu urbain
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Au niveau mondial, l'urbanisation - le mouvement des individus vers les villes - continue son essor, et un nombre croissant de personnes déplacées, qu'elles soient réfugiées ou…
Urbanization, population, environment and security
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The Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center began a project in 1997 designed to both identify factors that contribute to making urban areas centers of violence and poverty and propose policy…
Women and urban settlement
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The articles in this edition examine gender issues and human settlement, and emphasise the interconnectedness of all aspects of women's and men's lives, and the links between people's physical surroundings and what they…
Small town Africa : Studies in rural-urban interaction
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Small towns have often been considered as unimportant and have been largely ignored by policy-makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change…
Muzhik and Muscovite : Urbanization in late imperial Russia
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