, sport, infrastructures, histoire urbaine, renouvellement urbain, gestion locale, collectivités locales, espace public, tourisme, service public
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wideranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. The journal coverage is worldwide in its scope. In addition, it hosts innovative multi-media websites - including graphics, sound and interactive elements - to accompany selected print articles. The journal also includes book reviews, reviews of recent PhD theses, and surveys of recent articles in academic journals.
Contents :
A targeted public: public services in fifteenth-century Ghent and Bruges - JELLE HAEMERS and WOUTER RYCKBOSCH
Ways of looking: the creation and social use of urban guidebooks in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China - SIYEN FEI
Introduction: sports stadia and modern urbanism - NIKOLAUS KATZER
‘Sporting Moscow’: stadia buildings and the challenging of public space in the post-war Soviet Union - ALEXANDRA KÖHRING
Motion and landscape: Otl Aicher, Günther Grzimek and the graphic and garden designs of the 1972 Munich Olympics - KAY SCHILLER and CHRISTOPHER YOUNG
Modernity, space and national representation at the Tokyo Olympics 1964 - CHRISTIAN TAGSOLD
Selling national urban renewal: the National Film Board, the National Capital Commission and post-war planning in Ottawa, Canada - ROGER M. PICTON
Research in urban history: recent theses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century municipal administration - STEFAN COUPERUS
Book reviews