The open urban studies journal (Vol. 2, 2009)
subject: , gouvernance, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, participation, société urbaine, métropole, géographie urbaine
description: 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
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Bentham Open
date: 2009
format: 61
type: Revue

The open urban studies journal (Vol. 1, 2008)
subject: , économie, développement urbain, aménagement de l'espace, patrimoine, conservation, film, mémoire, mixité sociale, interaction sociale, politique culturelle
description: 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
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Bentham Open
date: 2008
format: 37
type: Revue

City and region : German journal of urban studies (No. 2, 2001)
subject: region, région, gouvernance, environnement, territoire, mondialisation, Fürst Dietrich
description: 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.
creator: NC
publisher: German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
date: 2001
format: 140
type: Revue

(Re)reading the African urban landscape : Postamble (Vol. 4, No. 2)
subject: , paysage urbain, littérature, film, photographie, espace urbain, santé, Africa, Afrique, O'Shaughnessy Emma Vivian
description: 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.
creator: NC
publisher: University of Cape Town Centre for African Studies
date: 2009
format: N/A
type: Revue

London : City of the Romans
subject: London, Londres, Londinium, histoire urbaine, archéologie, Ancient Rome, Rome antique, Merrifield Ralph
description: 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.
creator: Ralph Merrifield
publisher: University of California Press
date: 1983
format: 288
type: Ouvrage

The making of global cities : A symposium and research agenda
subject: ville mondiale, world city, global cities, mégapole, urbanisation, mondialisation, néolibéralisme
description: 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 metropol…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota
date: 15 - 17 May 2008
type: Autre

The African city centre re(sourced) : African Perspectives 2009 congress
subject: Africa, Afrique, centre-ville, espace urbain, forme urbaine
description: 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…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: University of Pretoria
date: 25 - 28 September 2009
type: Autre

3rd international workshop on post-communist urban geographies : Actors shaping urban change
subject: post-socialist, post-communist, postsocialiste, postcommuniste, Europe de l'Est, Eastern Europe, mutation sociale, mutation urbaine, capitalisme
description: 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…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: University of Tartu
date: 17 - 19 September 2009
type: Autre

The spatial syntax of urban segregation
subject: , analyse spatiale, aménagement de l'espace, forme urbaine, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, ségrégation résidentielle, pauvreté, logement social, transport, exclusion, Vaughan Laura
description: 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.
creator: NC
publisher: UCL Discovery
date: 2007
format: 67
type: Revue

Urban governance : Innovation, insecurity and the power of religion
subject: , gouvernance, sécurité, religion, politique urbaine, société urbaine
description: 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 Myth…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Irmgard Coninx Stiftung
date: 18 - 23 March 2009
type: Autre

Collective identities, governance and empowerment in megacities
subject: , aménagement urbain, gouvernance, mégapole, politique urbaine, identité, conflit urbain, architecture, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine
description: 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 U…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Irmgard Coninc Stiftung
date: 11 - 16 June 2008
type: Autre

Migration into cities : Patterns, processes and regulation
subject: , migration urbaine, gouvernance, insertion, intégration, société urbaine, urbanisation, économie
description: 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?”…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Irmgard Coninx Stiftung
date: 25 - 27 October 2007
type: Autre

Cities in China : The next generation of urban research, part 3
subject: China, Chine, mutation urbaine, migration urbaine, économie, développement urbain
description: 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
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Urban China Research Network
date: 12 - 14 December 2004
type: Autre

Cities in China : The next generation of urban research
subject: China, Chine, migration urbaine, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, inégalité, mutation urbaine, voisinage, community, communauté
description: 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
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Urban China Research Network
date: 14 - 15 June 2002
type: Autre

Review symposium - Loïc Wacquant, Urban Outcasts : Urban geography (Vol. 31, No. 2)
subject: Wacquant Loïc, Urban outcasts, bidonville, quartier défavorisé, quartier dégradé, ghetto, Chicago, pauvreté, précarité
description: 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
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Bellwether Publishing Ltd.
date: 15 February - 31 March 2010
format: 141 - 178
type: Revue

Emergency on planet Cape Town?
subject: Cape Town, Le Cap, espace urbain, mutation urbaine, intégration, dynamiques urbaines, Nahnsen Antje
description: 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.
creator: Antje Nahnsen
publisher: BIS-Verlag
date: 2006
format: 246
type: Ouvrage

Self and community in the city
subject: , sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, voisinage, culture urbaine, identité, Krase Jerome, Brooklyn, New York
description: 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.
creator: Jerome Krase
publisher: University Press of America
date: 1982 (original book)
format: 219
type: Ouvrage

Living in the 21st century city : Contributions to the 13th Berlin-Amsterdam conference
subject: , 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
description: 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 gove…
creator: NC
publisher: Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDST), University of Amsterdam
date: 2009
format: 168
type: Autre

Living in the inner city: New challenges for urban communities. German journal of urban studies
subject: , centre-ville, logement, politique urbaine, urbanité, développement urbain, immigration, Allemagne, Germany, Jekel Gregor
description: 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 Gös…
creator: NC
publisher: German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
date: 2008
format: 108
type: Revue

Precarity, segregation and poverty in the social space: German journal of urban studies (No 2, 2009)
subject: , précarité, ségrégation urbaine, pauvreté, espace urbain, intégration, santé, health, inégalité spatiale, lien social, Allemagne, Germany, Mansel Jürgen, Heitmeyer Wilhelm
description: 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.
creator: Jürgen Mansel Wilhelm Heitmeyer
publisher: German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
date: 2009
format: 99
type: Revue