Managing Cape Town’s street children/youth : the impact of the 2010 World Cup bid on street life in the city of Cape Town
Afrique du Sud ; Association ; Cape Town ; Espace urbain ; Evénement ; Gestion urbaine ; Jeunes ; Rue ; Réhabilitation ; Western Cape
Association ; Cape Town ; Event ; Rehabilitation ; South Africa ; Street ; Urban administration ; Urban area ; Western Cape ; Young people
for poor children who have limited alternative access to parks and playgrounds. The impact of the securing the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is examined in relation to impoverished young people in Cape Town.
Retail competitiveness in a middle sized border town (Komárno, Slovakia)
The study deals with the rapid transformation of the Slovak retail network as well as it analyzes the changes in shopping habits in Komárno, a medium sized border town in Slovakia. The first part of the paper, which is based on a desk research
initiated fundamental changes in the retail trade of this gateway town in southern Slovakia. In the second part of the paper, the authors introduce the results of the field research carried out on two sets of samples with 300 respondents each
Selling the colonial spa town : The contested therapeutic landscapes of Lisdoonvarna and Te Aroha
Drawing on a comparison between two spa towns, Te Aroha in New Zealand and Lisdoonvarna in Ireland, a number of critical therapeutic landscapes themes are explored. Two themes are studied in empirical depth, the first being the commodification
of health and place within common spa town narratives from the mid-nineteenth century to the early- to mid-twentieth century. A second core theme concerns itself with the contested identities of the watering-place, in relation to the relative importance
of health over social identities. In the tangled narratives of both towns’ health histories, the AA. argue there is much to be learned about spatial similarities and variations in a process whereby place is commodified and sold on its reputational
Environmental justice and residential segregation in Czechia : the case of Roma resettlement in the town of Vsetín
of our argument revolves around the case study of a segregated roma community that was resettled by the municipal authority from an old dilapidated inner city block of flats to newly built housing on the industrial edge of the town and to isolated
Afrique du Sud ; Cape Town ; Espace urbain ; Fragmentation urbaine ; Gestion urbaine ; Gouvernance ; Post-apartheid ; Recomposition sociale ; Structure urbaine ; Ségrégation résidentielle ; Western Cape ; Zone périurbaine
Cape Town ; Governance ; Outer conurbation area ; Post-apartheid ; Residential segregation ; Social recomposition ; South Africa ; Urban administration ; Urban area ; Urban fragmentation ; Urban structure ; Western Cape
This paper shows the milieu of railway stations of Hungarian countryside towns and the processes going on there, which has an impact on tourists’ arrival. - (AM)
Afrique du Sud ; Art ; Cape Town ; Connaissance ; Culturel ; Discours ; Epistémologie ; Espace d'activité ; Evénement ; Identité ; Incarnation ; Lieu ; Western Cape
Activity space ; Art ; Cape Town ; Cultural studies ; Discourse ; Embodiment ; Epistemology ; Event ; Identity ; Knowledge ; Place ; South Africa ; Western Cape
2011
[b1] Dept. of Environmental and Geographical Science, Univ., Cape Town, Afrique du Sud
Blacks ; Large town ; Regional disparities ; Rural area ; Small town ; Social geography ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urbanization ; Well-being ; Whites
Being in myth and community : resistance, lived existence, and democracy in a north England mill town
Activism ; Community ; Decayed neighbourhood ; England ; Identity ; Lincolnshire ; Local population ; Myth ; Social geography ; Social mix ; Town ; United Kingdom ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal