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Unlike France and England, Spain has not been dominated by its capital, and the focus of its history shifts from city to city over the centuries, illuminating different features of the country's past. Toledo, Cordoba, Seville and Madrid have at various times managed to establish a political and cultural supremacy, Cadiz and Barcelona dominated the economy in the 18th and 19th centuries. Salamanca housed one of the great universities of medieval Europe while Santiago became the second religious centre of Christendom. In CITIES OF SPAIN David Gilmour takes us on a journey from Visigothic kingdom and the Cordoban caliphate to the Madrid of today. The portrait of these cities both now and in the heyday reveal both their spirit and their significance, and allowed the reader an intimate view of one of Europe's most fascinating and intriguing countries.

" The catalyst for this book is the fact that noted sociologist Charles Tilly, upon his death in 2008, left one completed chapter of an unfinished manuscript entitled ""Cities, States, and Trust Networks,"" examining the relationships between cities and nation-states over the sweep of history, and in particular the role of trust networks in mediating this relationship. Though this was the catalyst, the book serves a broader purpose: to survey recent frontier work on cities, nation-states, and the relations between the two in historical and contemporary perspective. Essays in the book will address four main themes: city-state relations, trust networks and commitment, democracy and inequality, and the importance of historical legacies in shaping state structures, practices, and capacities. They will be global in scope, with research on the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, a number of the pieces will be comparative. They will also be interdisciplinary, including works of geography, history, political science, sociology, urban planning. The book addresses several confluent needs of readers. One is to simply update themes addressed in earlier edited work such as Bringing the State Back In (1985). A second is to bring together current thinking about cities on the one hand and nation-states on the other, literatures that are often segregated from each other. A third is to perform those two purposes in a way that is global in scope and combines both historical and current analyses, to pull together insights from the full range of human experience. "

Global competitiveness of cities -- Regional development of cities -- Innovation systems and multiple helix ecosystems -- Social innovation, knowledge and networks in smart cities -- Sustainable entrepreneurship in cities -- Institutional entrepreneurship and urban planning -- Entrepreneurial universities -- The future of smart cities

"China has surged into the 21st century as one of the most rapidly modernizing countries in the world. Its burgeoning cities reflect this extraordinary growth with a dazzling array of new architectural forms and designs. In its transformation, the 5000-year old heritage of its built civilization, embedded in its villages, towns and cities, has often been replaced. The Chinese Government, aware of the value of this heritage, has in recent years taken concrete steps to conserve and preserve not just national icons such as the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, the Great Wall of China and the Grey Goose Pagoda in Xian but also the more general historic fabric of its urban development over the centuries. The challenges are great, particularly as population growth and rural-urban drift have combined to place enormous pressure on city resources. The chapters in this book explore these challenges as well as analysing other institutional, cultural, social and economic issues related to urban heritage conservation and utilization, with a focus on the role of tourism in reinforcing conservation values by finding new uses for old buildings and districts. This book covers new areas of heritage tourism research in Chinese cities. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Heritage Tourism."--Provided by publisher

Shum Wai Lap William. ; "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." ; Includes bibliographical references (leave 80). ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.01 ; SYNOPSIS --- p.02 ; INTRODUCTION ; Chapter 001 --- THESIS STATEMENT --- p.04 ; Chapter 002 --- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK --- p.05 ; Chapter 01. --- Marriage of Memorial and Entertainment ; Chapter 02. --- Journey along Time Corridor: From Retrospect to Prospect ; Chapter 03. --- "Community Focus, Tourism and Scholarship" ; Chapter 04. --- Investigating Building on Slope ; Chapter 003 --- PROBLEMS & OPPORTUNITIES --- p.07 ; Chapter 01. --- Monument vs Instrument ´ؤ Memory vs Energy ; Chapter 02. --- Significance of War Memorial Places in Hong Kong ; Chapter 03. --- Generational Gap & Youth Issues ; EXISTING STATE ; Chapter 004 --- BACKGROUND --- p.10 ; Chapter 01. --- Hong Kong Second World War History ; Chapter 02. --- Sino-Japanese Relationship after the Second World War ; Chapter 03. --- War Studies in Hong Kong ; Chapter 04. --- Background of Military Training ; Chapter 05. --- Military Training in Hong Kong ; Chapter 005 --- PHYSICAL CONDITIONS --- p.17 ; Chapter 01. --- Fortifications as Architectural Interest ; Chapter 02. --- Usages of Fortifications at Peace Time ; Chapter 03. --- Fortifications in Hong Kong during the Second World War ; Chapter 04. --- Rationales of Site Selection ; Chapter 05. --- Site Characters ; Chapter 06. --- Codes & Future Master Planning ; Chapter 006 --- CLIENT PROFILES --- p.31 ; Chapter 007 --- PROPOSED USER GROUPS --- p.34 ; FUTURE STATE ; Chapter 008 --- MISSION & DESIGN APPROACHES --- p.35 ; Chapter 009 --- ISSUES & GOALS --- p.36 ; Chapter 01. --- Image ; Chapter 02. --- View ; Chapter 03. --- Urbanistic Concern ; Chapter 04. --- Environment ; Chapter 05. --- Symbolism ; Chapter 06. --- Accessibility ; Chapter 07. --- Landscaping ; Chapter 08. --- Mood/Ambience ; Chapter 010 --- SCHEDULE OF ACCOMMODATION --- p.40 ; DESIGN CONCEPTUALIZATION ...

I-Media-Cities. Innovative e-Environment for Research on Cities and the Media presents the results of an innovative project undertaken by the film archives of Athens, Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Turin and Vienna, in conjunction with several leading research centres and technological innovators. Together they have developed a digital platform for viewing a wide range of images and motion pictures. More than 1,000 films dating from 1890 to 1989 have been incorporated in the platform, expressly selected to give the project coherence and meaning. Each city is represented both singularly and generally, revealing similarities and differences between them. The producers, actors, directors, places, people, and historical, social and political events are listed to facilitate analysis in areas such as sociology, urban anthropology, town planning, and architectural history, among others. The objective is to propose a new way of disseminating film collections, bringing them to a wider public, and stimulating research into cities in the fields of the humanities. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nº 693559

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ABSTRACTUsing case studies of city halls in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo, this article contributes towards the creation of an iconographic reading of this building type. This article argues that the symbolic aim of the city hall was to express the burgher's pride and values, and to symbolize the local and national history. To understand the multifaceted architecture of a city hall in a capital city, one must also understand the ideas behind nation-building in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The second part of the article analyses how European, national and local narratives were used in the city halls.