Copenhagen’s West End a ‘Paradise Lost’ : the political production of territorialstigmatization in Denmark
Copenhagen ; Denmark ; Household ; Housing ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Marginality ; Owner-occupier ; Role of the State ; Social geography ; Spatial concentration ; Territorial stigma
This paper examines the political production of territorialstigmatization in Denmark through the example of prestige developments in Copenhagen’s West End built during the golden days of the welfare state. It shows how the processes of spatial
Challenging the rhetoric of stigmatization : the benefits of concentrated poverty in Toronto’s Regent Park
Canada ; Gentrification ; Local amenities ; Neighbourhood ; Ontario ; Sense of belonging ; Social geography ; Social housing ; Social mix ; Territorial stigma ; Toronto ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal
This paper analyzes the impacts of territorialstigmatization on the experiences and life strategies of residents of Regent Park, Canada’s first and largest public housing estate. It reveals that tenants have deep attachments to Regent Park despite
The symbolic politics of gentrification : the restructuring of stigmatized neighborhoods in Amsterdam and Istanbul
Amsterdam ; Comparative study ; Gentrification ; Household ; Istanbul ; Land rent ; Netherlands (The) ; Noord Holland ; Owner-occupier ; Role of the State ; Social geography ; Territorial stigma ; Turkey ; Urbanism
the residents into various groups and fed into territorial, ethnic and class stigmatization. And that in both cases they also strategically used time: they first exhausted residents by having them wait anxiously for a prolonged period of time, and then put
This article examines the dynamics of symbolic power as affixed to stigmatized neighborhoods in Istanbul and Amsterdam. It shows taht in both cases the promoters of gentrification adopted a strategy of ‘divide and rule’ as they differentiated
Family ; Neighbourhood ; Porto ; Portugal ; Social geography ; Social housing ; Social practice ; Societal relations ; Suburbs ; Territorial stigma ; Urban area
This article examines subsistence sociability and focused avoidance in a public housing estate in Porto, Portugal. It spotlights responses to territorialstigmatization that muddle the ‘exit–voice’ or ‘conformity–rejection’ dichotomies and reveal
Territorial cohesion - Between expectations, disparities and contradictions
Europe ; Governance ; Regional disparities ; Territory ; Theory
The spatial development process and Territorial Cohesion Concept, quality of the territorial structure, quality of the processes in the territorial systems, territorial subjects of the societal development process, Territorial Cohesion and EU
The state as container: territoriality in the modern world-system
Behaviour ; Democracy ; Historical geography ; Political geography ; Power ; State ; Territorial strategy ; Territoriality
Across the whole of our modern world, territory is directly linked to sovereignty to mould politics into a fundamentally state-centric social process: the state'scapture of politics is premissed upon territoriality. The domination of political
practice by territoriality is a consequence of the territorial link between sovereign territory and national homeland.
Concepts, Strategies and Guiding Principles for Europe´s Territorial Development
Cohésion sociale ; Concept ; Développement territorial ; Economie ; Europe ; Gouvernance ; Territoire ; Union Européenne
Concept ; Economy ; Europe ; European Union ; Governance ; Social cohesion ; Territorial Development ; Territory
“Territorial cohesion”, in addition to economic and social cohesion, is the new goal of the European Union. The paper deals with a short review of the genesis of a European spatial development policy, the knowledge-based identification
of territorial challenges, the new concepts of territorial governance and the dialogue with corporations as a part of the stake holder process. - (IfL)
Territorial dimensions of Hungarian ethnic identity
Ethnic community ; Ethnic group ; Geopolitics ; Hungary ; National territory ; Political geography ; Territorial identity
A review of Hungary's foreign policy draws out the special character of Hungarian political and cultural identity to explain why Hungarians living in neighboring states will continue to be a source of territorial tension. - (DWG)
Conflict ; National territory ; Political geography ; Sovereignty ; State
During the past forty years, territorial claims against neighboring states have almost always been justified as attempts to recover land that had been « wrongfully » taken away. Examples of territorial conflicts between Ecuador and Peru, India
and Pakistan, and Togo and Ghana reveal the influences of the discourse of territorial conflict justification.
Status and perspectives of territorial cohesion with respect to European Spatial Development Policy (ESDP)
Europe ; Governance ; Space ; Territory
Main sources of information, the European treaties and the European constitution as a primary basis for Territorial Cohesion (TC), terminology applied, expanding Territorial Cohesion in the constitutional debates, main facets of the TC-Issue
, governance aspects of Territorial Cohesion, achieving TC through the results of scientific research, normative and governance perspectives of TC, going back to the roots of TC ? - (IfL)
The A. examines the claim of the decreased relevance of existing structures of multipurpose territorial government. He points to configurations of governance that usually lead to situations of diffused accountability and limit the field
of democratic accountability. A change in the existing structures through which territorial self-government and administration are organized is not necessary in order to cope with the pressures and uncertainties of globalization.
Unlike countries, cities and regions compete on the basis of an absolute advantage principle and not a comparative advantage principle. The competitiveness of territories emerges as a central issue, in order to secure employment stability, benefits
for external integration, continuing growth of local well-being and wealth. The arguments put forward by P. Krugman, defining the concept of competitiveness, are wrong and misleading, and cannot be accepted in a territorial regional and urban context.
In the territory of knowledge : state-centred discourses and the construction of society
Social sciences ; Social theory ; Society ; State ; Territoriality
The article seeks to make a contribution to ongoing work which focuses explicitly on the interrelationships between governmental practice, bodies of knowledge, and territory.
The future population of the Federal Capital Territory : Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja should bring economic development to a backward area. Projections of future population are calculated, and problems of development are indicated which will need solution if the territory is to fulfil expectations