Deindustrialization ; Economic restructuring ; Industrial region ; Industry ; Restructuring process ; Urban regeneration
Desindustrialización ; Industria ; Reconversión ; Regeneración urbana ; Región industrial ; Restructuración económica
The six articles deal with the oldindustrial regions between structural decline and rise ; problems of oldindustrial structures in India’s “Manchester” Kanpur ; the special economic zones as revitalization strategy for oldindustrial regions
in Russia; Duisburg: from a city of mining and steel to a hub for top-north logistics ; from Liverpool to “Livercool” : a structural change and economic regeneration; the dawn of Metropolis Ruhr for capital of culture 2010. - (IfL)
Fornyelse av äldre arbetsomraden i Goteborg. (Renewal of oldindustrial districts in Gothenburg)
Environnement ; Ghum ; Goteborg ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Industrie ; Organisation de l'espace ; Planification ; Quartier industriel ; Quartier urbain ; Rénovation urbaine ; Suède ; Utilisation du sol ; Vieille industrie ; Ville
A recently started research and development project at Chalmers Institute of Technology in cooperation with the City of Gothenburg is presented. Background research on the physical and economic status of oldindustrial district in Sweden shows
Wuppertal: the problems of an oldindustrialcity in west Germany
Allemagne de l'Ouest ; Aménagement urbain ; Emploi ; Environnement ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Industrie ; Localisation industrielle ; Logement ; Nordrhein-Westfalen ; Pollution ; Qualité de la vie ; Tertiaire ; Transport ; Utilisation du sol ; Ville
Disparités régionales ; Désindustrialisation ; Great Britain ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Géographie économique ; Industrie ; Royaume-Uni ; Taille des villes
The A. states that while British manufacturing output has not declined, its world share has fallen since 1979. The South has benefited at the expense of the North, and villages and small cities have seen more industrial growth than large oldcities
Los Angeles and the anti-tradition of the suburban city
California ; City perception ; Historical geography ; Los Angeles ; Suburbanization ; United States ; Urban development ; Urban landscape ; Urban morphology ; Urban structure
notions of Old World pre-industrialcity structure.
The result of the continued development of Los Angeles is a revision of the anti-urban imagery, signaled by high-rise construction and increasing urban density after 1960. Recent critical imagery of the city appears to be based on deep-rooted
Special issue : The economic restructuring of olderindustrial areas
City marketing, image reconstruction and urban regeneration
City marketing is more than the mere promotion of place, being used in some cities to rebuild and redefine their image. Examining the experience of Glasgow, the paper focuses on the implications raised by the use of such techniques, showing
Industrial change and Scottish nationalism since 1945 in Redundant spaces in cities and regions? Studies in industrial decline and social change.
The resurgence of nationalism in Scotland is a sort of response to the decline of the British economy. The AA. relate the electoral rise of the Scottish National Party in the early 1970 s to post-war industrial change. Old urban working class were
broken up by socio-economic changes, both at home and in the factory, and the economic power and organizational base of the labour movement was weakened. This chapter analyses the relationship between changing political geographies and industrial
Noisome, noxious, and offensive vapors, fumes and stenches in American towns and cities, 1840-1865
City and the Environment
and business activities. The source of the several dozen cases is West's American Digest, Century Edition (1897). The sources of industrial stenches in New York City are located via old sanitary district maps. - (SLD)
Author uses stench-related nuisance case laws from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts (1840-1865) to examine the impact that industrial polluters, usually slaughterhouses or processors of animal by-products, had on people's lives
In defense of oldindustrial spaces : manufacturing, creativity and innovation in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Activité économique ; Créativité ; Emploi ; Espace industriel ; Espace urbain ; Etats-Unis ; Industrie ; Innovation ; New York City ; New York State
Creativeness ; Economic activity ; Employment ; Industrial space ; Industry ; Innovation ; New York City ; New York State ; United States of America ; Urban area
Actividad económica ; Empleo ; Espacio industrial ; Espacio urbano ; Estado de Nueva York ; Estados Unidos ; Industria ; Innovación ; Nueva York ciudad
Street-naming, tourism development and cultural conflict : the case of the OldCity of Acre/Akko/Akka
This article explores place-naming in the OldCity of Acre (Israel) in light of tourism development processes, focusing not only on the motivations for the naming but also on the responses of local residents to the naming and to the struggle
on the symbolic identity of the city that develop as a result. The first section examines the historical process of bestowing official street names in the OldCity of Acre as well as the existing system of place names used by the local Arab inhabitants of the Old
City. The second section studies the reactions and attitudes of the local population in the OldCity to the relatively recent initiative of the Acre Development Company to assign official street names, chosen in the past, to the streets and alleys
Antwerp : a modern city with a significant historic heritage in Old trends and new impulses in Europe's urban affairs.
The A. discusses recent planning and urban renewal policies in Antwerp within the contexts of the city's extensive cultural heritage and its historic evolution. Special attention is given to the architectural and urban design achievements
History of the former capital of Burma from the earliest times until 1942. The A. explains the arrivals of the white foreigners in Lower Burma (1583-1800), the construction of the new city by the British (1852-1871), and the life of the colonial
This study stresses the increasing importance of foothpaths within the traffic system of the old part of the city of Venice. The net-work of foothpaths, originally subordinated to the system of canals has been developed autonomously since
the beginning of the industrial and railway age. A number of topographical and economic factors is given which are responsible for the retardation of the development of large scale retail enterprise within the island part. On the basis of the old town districts
Classification ; Cluster analysis ; Globalization ; Network ; Principal components analysis ; Taxonomy ; Urban geography ; World city
is a prime structure consisting in Outer cities, US cities, Pacific Asian cities, Euro-German cities and Old Commonwealth cities. The end-result is a new geography of globalisation as indicated by configurations of the world city network.
The paper develops an exploratory research design using principal components analyses. Multiple solutions are used to explore the structure of a matrix defined by 123 cities and 100 global service firms. Using 13 separate analyses, the main finding
Since 1989, key sectors of the industrial working class (coal minors) challenged the old order in the name of progress. Long before, there had been a history of strikes at Vorkuta (Komi Republic, Russia), a true communist city. The strike committee