The A. explores the semiotic and political operation of commemorative street names. He sheds light on the procedures of the naming and the renaming of streets. He elaborates on how street names, in addition to their role in the spatial organization
and semiotic construction of the city, are also participants in the cultural production of shared past. He uncovers commemorative street names as a powerful mechanism for the legitimation of the sociopolitical order.
Paper presented originally as keynote address for the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Using Kansas to illustrate, A. calls for more regional and local studies to further the understanding
of place and culture. He notes that the people, in what he calls neolocalism, are seeking regional lore and local attachment and that anthropologists, environmental historians, and other academics are quick to study and give voice to unique regional
cultures. He discussed various American geographers with regional expertise. - (SLD)
Encomium to retiring editor Alvar Carlson reviews how he started the journal and contributed ti its development over one and one-half decades. Journals he published in are noted and special praise is showered on his award-winning treatise
The A. aims to find an understanding of the concept of space which could be used in urban design, but which could also be shared by others with an interest in space. He argues that to arrive at a common platform in which a meaningful communication
can become possible, there is a need to confront the fragmentation by moving towards a more unified concept of space. He also argues for a concept of space which refers to physical space with its social and psychological dimensions.
This paper is an historical and cultural analysis of the work of Gabriele D'Annunzio. He was one of the leading intellectual practitioners of the aestheticisation of politics. His texts are tied to a national discourse which is consciously
and unconsciously imperial. In his narratives the political map of the nation is overlaid with a tissue of imperial and sexual symbols. He examines how the geographic signs of empire are inscribed in Il Piacere and in Cabiria.
The A. proposes a conceptual and methodological focus for international comparative analysis which addresses the dialectical tension between the local and global. He offers an overview of the relevant work concerning global/local linkages
The global city thesis holds that the restructuring of the economies of dominant cities in the global urban hierarchy causes social polarisation. C. Hamnett criticises this thesis on theoretical and empirical grounds: he thinks
E. Said aimed at refashioning spatial sensibilities in a broader epistemological sense. He invites us to imagine new topographies in which units become hybrid and interpenetrating. The A. invokes A. Ahmad's (diasporan intellectual, Palestinian
The author discusses the subject of immigration trends to Switzerland at the end of the 20th century. He classes and analyses the immigrants according to their origin, qualifications, aims etc. into three distinct groups. Then a qualitative
and nature. The A. argues that there are difficulties in using poststructuralist epistemologies for the analysis of environmental problems. He shows how ideas drawn from critical realism can help to recognize where ontological and epistemological issues have
In this paper, the A. focus on four of Pasolini's films, in order to explore the innate tension in his work between nature and culture emerging from his search for cultural authenticity and artistic autonomy. He suggests that Pasolini never
The paper explores Gottmann's geography prior to his work on megalopolis and its later development in the study of quaternary cities. By 1957 he had been publishing academic work for more of a quarter of a century. Analysis of that body of material
struggle waged by Namibians against South African occupation. The paper charts the history of Walvis Bay's colonization and the conflicting claims of sovereignty. The principal focus is he process of bilateral negotiation and changes to the status following
was a precursor and has considerable importance for geomorphology, even though he exaggerated the effect of the sea, and underestimated valley formation to an inhibiting degree. The A. then studies the nature of event geomorphology (the nature of processes, event
This paper is a comment on Holden and Swailes (JRS, 1996, pp. 303-310). The A. shows that their results (employment effects of industrial subsidies in the firms of U.K.) arise from the particular properties of the homogeneous production function. He
The A. recalls the career of the Sydney-based architect-planner W. Bunning (1912-77). He provides an overview oh his particular brand of modernist thought, his central planning ideas, and his physical planning work, with special reference
The A. develops an approach to the modeling of spatial pricing. He hypotheses that competition between corporations takes place at two spatial scales. At the intraurban scale, corporations compete for market share through their franchise sites
. He draws on ideas from agglomeration economies to regional specialization. The AA. think that his work raises issues in the new industrial geography. But at the same time, they argue that his theory has significant limitations.