History of geography ; Japan ; Urban geography ; Urban structure ; Urban system
This paper aims to indicate the history of urban geography in postwar Japan. The author summarized it for 4 stages and indicated the results and the problems of urban geography in postwar Japan. - (KA)
Central places ; Urban agglomeration ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urbanhistory ; Urban structure ; Urban system ; Urbanism ; Urbanization
Introduction to urban geography. Chapters: Urban geography and interdisciplinary urban research. -Definitions and dimensions of urbanisation. -Urban agglomeration. -City types, urban systems and central places. -Theories and models of urban
structure. -urban subdivisions. -Intra-urban centers. -Cities in Central Europe before industrialisation. -Urban development in the industrial age. -Urban development in Germany, a west-east-comparison. Cities in selected cultural areas. - (HPB)
Taking turns : landscape and environmental history at the crossroads
Methods and contents in landscape histories
Environment ; Epistemology ; History of sciences ; Landscape
with the ‘urban realm’—without running the risk of losing their individual identities. It argues that the reasons for the lack of contact between the fields have been the small size, relative obscurity and ‘youth’ of landscape history, and the declensionist
The paper explores the similarities and differences of the two fields (landscape and environmental history) and the current challenges and opportunities they face. It suggests that they have much to offer each other- especially when dealing
The properties of space : history, geography, and gentrification
Canada ; Gentrification ; Housing ; Ideology ; Real estate property ; Redevelopment ; Urban area ; Urban geography
The histories and geographies of property are constituted by and are constitutive of certain ideologies of the social world. These ideologies are broad and complex, touching on domesticity, market relations and citizenship. The language
Capital city ; Finland ; Helsinki ; Large city ; Town ; Urban economy ; Urbanhistory ; Urban morphology ; Urban population ; Urban structure
In this paper author examines the urban structure and morphology of Helsinki, the capital of Finnland. Beside the historical development of the city recent changes in the demographic and economic conditions are also discussed. - (ZK)