Asians ; Behaviour ; British Columbia ; Canada ; Colonial city ; Ethnic community ; Historical geography ; Racism ; Vancouver ; Violence
depicts Vancouver both as the most cosmopolitan city in the world and as a site of anti-Asian violence. in racially charged colonial Vancouver, the indifference that Europeans expressed in their encounters with Asian migrants erupted into racial enmity
A patrimony for the children : low-income homeownership and housing (im)mobility in Latin American cities
Bogotá ; Housing ; Informal settlement ; Latin America ; Longitudinal analysis ; Mexico City ; Owner-occupier ; Patrimony ; Residential mobility ; Urban settlement
Data are presented from a 2007 restudy of some 300 low-income self-builder owner households across eight settlements in Bogotá and Mexico City originally interviewed in the 1970s. The article analyzes the level of turnover of household owners living
Iron curtains : gates, suburbs and privatization of space in the post-socialist city
, and the recent expansion of private space, the text reviews the recent evolution of post-socialist cities in Eastern Europe before focusing on Sofia and on the gated houses and gated complexes that have developed in the city’s inner areas and recent suburbs
We’re number two! Beta cities and the cultural economy
Canada ; Culturel ; Economie culturelle ; Etats-Unis ; Fonction urbaine ; Hiérarchie urbaine ; Industrie créative ; Métropole ; New York City ; New York State ; Ontario ; Politique culturelle ; Toronto ; Ville mondiale
Canada ; Creative industry ; Cultural economy ; Cultural policy ; Cultural studies ; Large city ; New York City ; New York State ; Ontario ; Toronto ; United States of America ; Urban function ; Urban hierarchy ; World city
Urbanisation Induced Landscape Change of Urban Hills in Jinan City, Karst Geological Region of North China
Rapid economic development has induced urbanisation in China, especially in most of China's karst geological mountain regions. Jinan City belongs to the karst geological mountain region of north China and is well known for its fractured karst
springs. The spatial pattern of its land use has been profoundly transformed by rapid urbanisation, and the urban hills are facing changes in the city. Although the urban area of Jinan City keeps enlarging and the dwelling conditions are increasingly
improving, the destruction of Jinan's urban hills occurs owing to the mass construction of the market housing and excessive real estate investment in the karst mountainous region within the city, thereby resulting in the degradation of the urban mountainous
« Représenter sa ville » : l’ancrage des identités urbaines dans le rap des Twin Cities
L’étude du rap dans les Twin Cities (Minneapolis / Saint Paul) se révèle être un bon exemple pour montrer le rapport qu’une scène locale peut entretenir avec la ville dont elle provient. Les discours et les pratiques des acteurs de la scène rap de
cette ville montrent comment cette culture est inscrite et réadaptée à un contexte local. Les particularités des Twin Cities sont utilisées, notamment dans les paroles des chansons, et tendent à remettre en cause l’image des deux villes. Les rappeurs
essaient de développer la légitimité de leur scène locale à l’échelle nationale, afin de « mettre les Twin Cities sur la carte du rap aux États-Unis ».
Cities and social movements: theorizing beyond the right to the city
Activism ; Argentina ; Athens ; Buenos Aires ; Chicago ; Clientelism ; Ethnicity ; Governance ; Greece ; Illinois ; Local population ; Neighbourhood ; Neo liberalism ; Right to the city ; Social exclusion ; Social geography ; Social movement
‘Stars’ and the connectivity of cultural industry world cities : an empirical social network analysis of human capital mobility and its implications for economic development
California ; Capital humain ; Cinéma ; Compétitivité ; Connectivité ; Culturel ; Développement économique ; England ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie sociale ; Industrie créative ; London ; Los Angeles ; Mobilité ; New York City ; New York State ; Royaume
California ; Cinema ; Competitiveness ; Connectivity ; Creative industry ; Cultural studies ; Economic development ; England ; London ; Los Angeles ; Mobility ; New York City ; New York State ; Social geography ; Social network ; United Kingdom
The aim of this paper is to show the possibilities for the issues associated with cities to be analysed from the point of view of their presence and linkages within cyberspace. The position and linkages characterising the cyberspace of the city
of Wrocław was presented in relation to links between the on-line and off-line worlds (the real position among the 40 largest Polish cities). A basis for the research was provided by analysis of website browser (Google) results, and the results from hyperlink
Beside a brief theoretical overview on competitiveness the paper summarises the empirical results of surveys carried out in large Hungarian cities. Focus is on comparative analyses of relative position changes in the competition of large Hungarian
cities, as well as on socio-economic implications of crisis and subjective opinions of local residents and local experts on the competitiveness of their cities. - (AM)
Gentrifiers and their choice of housing : characteristics of the households living in new developments in Swiss cities
Basel ; Gentrification ; Household ; Housing ; Income ; Inner city ; Middle class ; Real estate development ; Residential choice ; Social geography ; Switzerland ; Zurich
London's legal elite : recruitment through cultural capital and the reproduction of social exclusivity in City professional service fields
Etude de la manière dont les processus de recrutement et de sélection facilitent la reproduction des élites et de leur culture dans le cadre des entreprises de services juridiques de la City de Londres. Interviews au cours de l'année 2009.
Representing the imagined city : place and the politics of difference during Guangzhou's 2010 language conflict
and identity were reproduced within a local geometry of social relations involving the state language policy, the local community and the city's migrant population. The paper acknowledges that some place-bounded politics may demonstrate a counter-hegemonic
China ; Guangdong ; Guangzhou ; Housing policy ; Neo liberalism ; Right to the city ; Shenzhen ; Social class ; Social control ; Social geography ; Social system ; Urban development ; Urban policy