New Directions In Urban History

Author : Peter Borsay, Ruth-Elisabeth Mohrmann, Gunther Hirschfelder
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 3830956436

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New Directions in Urban History by Peter Borsay, Ruth-Elisabeth Mohrmann, Gunther Hirschfelder Pdf

This volume introduces, through a series of freshly researched studies, new perspectives on the history of European urban culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. The approach is an international one, with essays on Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy, and the authors drawn not only from Europe, but also the USA and Japan. The essays examine a range of specialist aspects of culture, such as gardening, spa towns, painting, and music. At the same time the contributors also explore jointly several broader interconnected themes - health, nature, the arts and cultural institutions, leisure, and tourism - of central importance to the cultural identity and development of the modern European town.

Author : Jonathan S. Davies,David L. Imbroscio
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438433073

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Critical Urban Studies by Jonathan S. Davies,David L. Imbroscio Pdf

Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field

Author : David Varady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351503235

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New Directions in Urban Public Housing by David Varady Pdf

Public housing is at a crossroads, buffeted by demographic, economic, and political winds. Privatization, rehabilitation, demolition, rent certificates and vouchers, tenant management, tenant ownership, resident empowerment: these are just some of the current and proposed policy initiatives that could change the face of urban public housing.In this book the nation's foremost housing policy experts explore the problems and identify solutions that will define the future of this essential housing sector. The contributors review the origins of public housing policy, probe the current policy climate, and anticipate new directions. Chapters are illustrated with case studies from Boston, Chicago, Decatur, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as the United Kingdom.The book contains sections addressing: historical perspectives, social issues, design issues, comprehensive approaches to public housing revitalization, and future directions. The contributors include: Alexander von Hoffman, Peter Marcuse, William Petersen, Leonard F. Heumann, Karen A. Franck, David M. Schnee, Gayle Epp, Lawrence J. Vale, Richard Best, Mary K. Nenno, Irving Welfeld, and James G. Stockard, Jr. This book should be read by all city planners, housing officials, and government personnel.

Author : Chiranji Singh Yadav
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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New Directions in Urban Geography by Chiranji Singh Yadav Pdf

Author : Peter M. Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015031113924

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The Future of the City: New Directions in Urban Planning by Peter M. Wolf Pdf

Author : Kevin Kenny
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0299187144

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New Directions in Irish-American History by Kevin Kenny Pdf

The writing of Irish American history has been transformed since the 1960s. This volume demonstrates how scholars from many disciplines are addressing not only issues of emigration, politics, and social class but also race, labor, gender, representation, historical memory, and return (both literal and symbolic) to Ireland. This recent scholarship embraces Protestants as well as Catholics, incorporates analysis from geography, sociology, and literary criticism, and proposes a genuinely transnational framework giving attention to both sides of the Atlantic. This book combines two special issues of the journal Éire-Ireland with additional new material. The contributors include Tyler Anbinder, Thomas J. Archdeacon, Bruce D. Boling, Maurice J. Bric, Mary P. Corcoran, Mary E. Daly, Catherine M. Eagan, Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Diane M. Hotten-Somers, William Jenkins, Patricia Kelleher, Líam Kennedy, Kerby A. Miller, Harvey O'Brien, Matthew J. O'Brien, Timothy M. O'Neil, and Fionnghuala Sweeney.

Author : Christopher Dyer,Andrew Hopper,Evelyn Lord
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907396533

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New Directions in Local History Since Hoskins by Christopher Dyer,Andrew Hopper,Evelyn Lord Pdf

Utilizing the techniques developed by renowned local historian W. G. Hoskins in his landmark study published 50 years ago, "Local History in England," this book demonstrates how local history has evolved as a discipline over the last half century. Fifteen historians write about a variety of local history subjects that are significant in their own right but which also point to current trends in the field. They show how local historians use their sources systematically, from the nonverbal evidence of buildings to various types of electronic sources. All periods between the middle ages and the early twenty-first century are explored, covering many parts of England from Skye to the Kent coast and discussing topics that include social, economic, religious, legal, intellectual, and cultural history.

Author : Peter Borsay,Gunther Hirchfelder,Ruth-E Mohrmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 3893256431

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New Directions in Urban History by Peter Borsay,Gunther Hirchfelder,Ruth-E Mohrmann Pdf

Author : Simon Gunn,Tom Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000062779

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New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500 by Simon Gunn,Tom Hulme Pdf

Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europe’s cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of urban politics in early modern and modern Europe. At the same time, it guides the reader through the variety of ways in which power and governance are currently understood by historians and new directions in the subject. The essays are wide-ranging, covering Europe from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Russia to Ireland, between 1500 and the twentieth century. Each chapter employs a specific case-study to illuminate a way of examining how power worked in regard to topics such as women, popular culture or urban elites. A variety of approaches are deployed, including the study of ritual and performance, morality and conduct, governmentality and the state, infrastructure and the individual. Reflecting the state of the art in European urban history, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of urban politics and government. It represents a fresh take on a rich subject and will stimulate a new generation of historical studies of power and the city.

Author : Eugene P. Moehring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : LCCN:2005351581

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Public Works and Urban History by Eugene P. Moehring Pdf

Author : Sasha Handley,Rohan McWilliam,Lucy Noakes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472580825

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New Directions in Social and Cultural History by Sasha Handley,Rohan McWilliam,Lucy Noakes Pdf

What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history. Focusing on emerging areas of historical research such as the history of the emotions and environmental history, New Directions in Social and Cultural History is an invaluable guide to the current and future state of the field. The book is divided into three clear sections, each with an editorial introduction, and covering key thematic areas: histories of the human, the material world, and challenges and provocations. Each chapter in the collection provides an introduction to the key and recent developments in its specialist field, with their authors then moving on to argue for what they see as particularly important shifts and interventions in the theory and methodology and suggest future developments. New Directions in Social and Cultural History provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of this burgeoning field which will be important reading for all students and scholars of social and cultural history and historiography.

Author : Alexia Yates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108797113

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Real Estate and Global Urban History by Alexia Yates Pdf

Capitalist private property in land and buildings - real estate - is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to much theoretical work on the urban environment. It is also a central, pressing matter of political contestation in contemporary cities. Yet it remains largely without a history. This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology of (dis)possession and using it to move across scales of analysis, from the local spatiality of particular built spaces to the networks of legal, political, and economic imperatives that constitute property and operate at national and international levels. This combination of territorial embeddedness with more wide-ranging institutional relationships charts a route to an urban history that allows the city to speak as a global agent and artefact without dispensing with the role of states and local circumstance.

Author : Lisa Krissoff Boehm,Steven H. Corey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000904970

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America's Urban History by Lisa Krissoff Boehm,Steven H. Corey Pdf

In this second edition, America’s Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has been fully updated with new scholarship on early urbanization, mass incarceration and cities, the Great Society, the diversification of the suburbs, and environmental justice. The United States is one of the most heavily urbanized places in the world, and its urban history is essential to understanding the fundamental narrative of American history. This book is an accessible overview of the history of American cities, including Indigenous settlements, colonial America, the American West, the postwar metropolis, and the present-day landscape of suburban sprawl and an urbanized population. It examines the ways in which urbanization is connected to divisions of society along the lines of race, class, and gender, but it also studies how cities have been sources of opportunity, hope, and success for individuals and the nation. Images, maps, tables, and a guide to further reading provide engaging accompaniment to illustrate key concepts and themes. Spanning centuries of America’s urban past, this book’s depth and insight make it an ideal text for students and scholars in urban studies and American history.

Author : Stephen Ward
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781446240113

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Planning and Urban Change by Stephen Ward Pdf

Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning. Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - urban planning history as the development of theoretical approaches: from radical and utopian beginnings, to the `new right′ thinking of the 1980s, and recent interest in green thought and sustainability; policies - urban planning history as an intensely political process, the text explains the complicated relation between planning theory and political practice; and impacts - urban planning history as the divergence of expectation and outcome, each chapter shows how intended impacts have been modified by economic and social forces. This Second Edition features an entirely new chapter on the key policy changes that have occurred under the Major and Blair governments, together with a critical review of current policy trends.

Author : Matti O. Hannikainen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134807543

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The Greening of London, 1920–2000 by Matti O. Hannikainen Pdf

The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a curiously neglected subject, despite the fact that various kinds of green spaces cover huge areas in cities in the UK today. This book explores how and why public green spaces have been created and used in London, and what actors have been involved in their evolution, during the course of the twentieth century. Building on case studies of the contemporary boroughs of Camden and Southwark and making use of a wealth of archival material, the author takes us through the planning and creation stages, to the intended (and actual) uses and ongoing management of the spaces. By highlighting the rise and fall of municipal authorities and the impact of neo-liberalism after the 1970s, the book also deepens our understanding of how London has been governed, planned and ruled during the twentieth century. It makes a crucial contribution to academic as well as political discourse on the history and present role of green space in sustainable cities.