Cities database by Hanson, J

“…If you would like to cite this material, please refer to my book: Hanson, J. W., (2016), An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100 B.C. to A.D. 300, (Oxford: Archaeopress). …”

Rescripting religion in the city: Migration and religious identity in the modern metropolis by Garnett, J, Harris, A

“…Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology. © Jane Garnett and Alana Harris 2013. …”

Incomplete streets : processes, practices and possibilities / by Zavestoski, Stephen editor, Agyeman, Julian editor

“…This interdisciplinary book is aimed at students, researchers and professionals in the fields of urban geography, environmental studies, urban planning and policy, transportation planning, and urban sociology. "-- Provided by publisher…”

Art-tourism space in Łódź: the example of the Urban Forms Gallery by Justyna Mokras-Grabowska

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Cannabis indica as a motivation for foreign travel by Polish citizens by Andrzej Matczak, Przemysław Pawlicki

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Aluísio Azevedo: a “trapeiro” between Eça de Queirós and Machado de Assis by Monica do Nascimento Figueiredo

“…This essay will present the <em>difference </em>and the <em>dislo­cation </em>expressed in the work of an author for whom the urban geography is an obsessive theme.</p>…”
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The complete bibliography of Jean Gottmann by Luca Muscarà

“…With 414 entries, this work presents the most complete and updated version of the bibliography of Jean Gottmann (1915-1994), the French and cosmopolitan geographer, known for his studies of urban geography, and especially for those on the megalopolis of the Northeastern seaboard of the United States. …”
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Territorial competition in the New Economy. Different strategies in different urban settings by Tom Johannes Kauko

“…In this paper, first the most common direct strategies (traditional, ICT, cultural) are discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective (urban geography, economic geography and urban economics, at least). …”
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Keterpenjaraan perempuan dalam ruang kota di dalam Lost in translation (2003) dan The good girl (2002) by Asri Saraswati

“…Applying feminism and urban geography in analysing the position of female characters within the city, the paper finds that the two films offer their perception on, and solutions to, the imprisonment of women by the urban environment which is stereotypically masculine.…”
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Is there a link between fractal dimension and residential environment at a regional level? by Isabelle Thomas, Cécile Tannier, Pierre Frankhauser

“…Fractal dimension is used to measure the spatial arrangement (morphology) of built-up areas within a Nuts1 region (Wallonia, Belgium) and, more particularly, to test to what extent fractal dimension is related to some variables commonly used in urban economics/urban geography to characterise built environment, housings and residential choice (such as land price, housing rentals, history of urbanisation, type of housing). …”
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Gentrification of La Candelaria: Reconfigurations of Place of Residence and Consumption of High-income Groups by Adrian Smith Manrique Gómez

“…This dynamics of relocation, known as gentrification in urban geography, is a trend previously observed in other cities and forms part of the global process of urbanization. …”
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La lunga decolonizzazione delle città africane by Valerio Bini

“…The political project of decolonization was based on a "total, complete, and absolute substitution" (Fanon) of a system with another, but in the urban geography of Sub-Saharan Africa this process has been long, complex and not without ambiguity. …”
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Le rural, une catégorie opératoire pour penser les mutations socio-spatiales françaises.La géographie rurale d’hier à aujourd’hui  by Claire Delfosse, Monique Poulot

“…We have chosen to discuss the emblematic urban-rural couple that has constantly resurfaced and has shaped the approaches of both rural and urban geography. First, we analyse how the urbanization of the countryside almost led to the disappearance of the rural category in the 1970s. …”
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New urban recreational spaces. Attractiveness, infrastructure arrangements, identity. The example of the city of Łódź by Mokras-Grabowska Justyna

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Tourism studies: situated within multiple disciplines or a single independent discipline? (discursive article) by Stanisław Liszewski

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Post-Socialist Gentrification Processes in Polish Cities by Jolanta Jakóbczyk-Gryszkiewicz, Martyna Sztybel-Boberek, Anita Wolaniuk

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THINKING ABOUT GEOGRAPHY AS A CULTURAL CROSS ROAD by Ernesto Mazzetti

“…In his opening speech the author dwelled on three main topics: 1) the cultural background of his geographical education, with particular reference to the experience of the “school” issued from the magazine review Nord e Sud; 2) the persisting problem of the development gap between northern and southern Italy, mainly manifested today in the “urban issue”; 3) worldwide connections between urban geography and geopolitics.…”
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Filmer la ville et ses acteurs ordinaires by Rouba Kaedbey

“…This article examines the use of an audiovisual approach in the context of a thesis in urban geography and planning. Based on her own experience of filmmaking, the author defends the idea that film is a perfectly appropriate tool to highlight issues of social geography. …”
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Progrès de la connaissance du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi de 1993 à 2008 by Henri Nicolaï

“…The most important are coping with the natural environment, health geography, population geography, history (including recent events), social and economic life in traditional and modern rural areas, informal economy, and urban geography. During the last sixteen years, conditions for field researches have become particularly difficult because of the warfare in the eastern part of the region and because of the economic collapse.…”
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Les espaces de la création artistique à Paris et Berlin by Camille Boichot

“…This article is proposing an urban geography of artistic creation in two important cultural cities of Europe, Paris and Berlin, from an original analysis of artistic places in both cities. …”
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