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"First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself. "--Provided by publisher.

Until the 1970s, the few interactions between Sderot and the
neighboring kibbutzim in the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council revolved
around the kibbutzim's economic and political dominance. As political
resistance to this control increased, kibbutz members became worried
about the consequences of segregation and economic exploitation and
wished to alter these problematic relations. Thus, the Sderot–Sha'ar HaNegev
partnership program, which aimed to create a shift in the relational
structure, was established. This article analyzes the power dynamics
between Sderot residents and the kibbutzim during the program's operation.
The partnership, although expected to reduce segregation and
change the power relations between the communities, did not bring about
a transformation from paternalism to partnership, but rather evolved
from dominance to hegemony. Although the hierarchical relations are still
in place, the interaction between spatial, class, and identity elements has
created new ways in which the relationship operates up to the present day.

Peterson, in City Limits, argues that economic conditions in cities limit the policy choices which are available to government decision makers. Because of the desire to increase the tax base, municipal policy makers pursue developmental policies, but generally avoid redistributive policies because of the drain on the local economy. Critics of Peterson's model of policy making claim that political factors are more important determinants of urban policy than he recognizes.This study examines policy making in small towns and finds that economic capacity is related to developmental, allocational, and redistributive policy. In stable and growing communities, political factors are also found to be related to the adoption of these three types of policy. The fiscal capacity provided by a growing tax base provides small town policy makers with the opportunity to pursue program improvements that are not possible in communities with limited resources.

'The critics awarded us the prize for the "Best play of the year" … but the main thing was that that year in the shanty town enabled us to attract an audience among trade-unionists and slum dwellers, who later followed us into the playhouses …' Though many Chilean intellectuals and writers were forced into exile by the repression which followed the 1973 coup, others stayed to fight the restrictions and harassment as best they could from inside the country. One notable example of this is the playwright Juan Radrigán. To survive, writers have developed a kind of self-censorship which means that their message is there to be understood if the public knows what to look for, but is never overtly expressed. The author situates his work not on the level of everyday reality, but couches it in the most general terms possible. It is left to the audience to work back from this universal level to a discovery of the relevance of the work to the reality surrounding them. Many of those writing poetry and for the theatre in Chile since 1973 have adopted religious themes and language since these lent themselves best to this kind of approach, and also because the Catholic Church was the only source of criticism which could not be suppressed by the authorities. Radrigán, however, has remained outside this current, perhaps unable to accept the message of hope which underpins the Christian tradition. He came to writing plays late in life, after working in a textile factory and elsewhere, and since 1979 has been one of the most significant voices in Chilean theatre. His characters are drawn from the poorest groups in Chilean society, but are projected on to the level of universal archetypes. In the main, they have abandoned hope about their own situation, and are worn out, old, defeated, or mentally disturbed. They are the end result of a brutal process which has left them at the bottom of the social scale stripped of all hope. In Radrigán's best-known work Unalterable Facts, death is the only exit. This message of despair in Radrigán's work has been criticised both inside Chile and abroad by opponents of the military regime as not emphasising enough the possibilities for social and political change, but his plays do give a convincing psychological portrait of how more than a decade of repression can work on the minds and expectations of a people. Juan Radrigán was interviewed recently by the Chilean writer Tito Valenzuela.

Battles over identity, ideology and class are increasingly fought in cities. Various disciplines such as sociology, political science and history have engaged in the study and understanding of conflict in urban spaces in all its forms. While most of the literature on divided cities explores violence and the state of the conflict, very little is said about the processes that lead communities to grow apart or processes that instead can bring the city back together. As the focus remains on socio-political and psychological aspects of the conflict, only recently have scholars, especially architects and geographers, recognised the crucial role that the urban environment itself plays in urban conflicts and their peaceful resolution.

The text is part of a doctoral research process in education, and dialogues, in an essayistic manner, with themes such as the city, images, body and everyday affective crossings. These dialogues tension with education, history, daily life and other ways of thinking about the urban tangle, anchored in the cartographic method. Through formative processes experienced by the author, seek to evidence issues, concerns and discomforts that are still unstable, rehearsed in everyday life and outlined in thought and inventions. It argues that the power of creation and wandering in the city are insurgent ways of ruptures in the face of current conservative advances, paying attention to the exercise of otherness, inventiveness and experimentation, having as main references authors such as Michel Foucault, Suely Rolnik, Félix Guattari , Peter Pelbart, among others.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 1 Cities and solidarities. Urban communities in medieval and early modern Europe -- 2 Making the citizen, building the citizenry. Family and citizenship in fifteenth-century Barcelona -- 3 Gladman's procession and communal identity in Norwich, 1425-1452 -- 4 Mapping urban communities. A comparative topography of neighbourhoods in Bologna and Strasbourg in the late Middle Ages -- 5 Conflict, community, and the law. Guarantors and social networks in dispute resolution in early modern Saxony -- 6 The poor of medieval Zagreb between solidarity, marginalisation and integration -- 7 Poor boxes, guild ethic and urban community building in Brabant, c. 1250-1600 -- 8 Who's who in late-medieval Brussels? -- 9 A cursus for craftsmen? Career cycles of the worsted weavers of late-medieval Norwich -- 10 Wage labour, wealth and the power of a database. Unlocking communities of work outside urban guilds in Newcastle upon Tyne -- 11 Urban communities and their burghers in the Kingdom of Hungary (1750-1850). The possibilities databases offer for historical analysis -- 12 Speech and sociability. The regulation of language in the livery companies of early modern London -- 13 The physician's marzipan. Communities at their intersections in Basel around 1600 -- 14 'Scientific' instruments and networks of craft and commerce in early modern London -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 Small Towns of Hope and Glory -- Chapter 2 Towns Today and Their Multifunctional Activities -- Part II Rural Networks and Partnerships -- Chapter 3 The Role of Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Local and Regional Economies -- Chapter 4 Market Potential and New Firm Formation -- Chapter 5 Critique of New Economic Geography to Understand Rural Development: The Influence of Corporate Strategy -- Chapter 6 Public-Private Partnership in Small and Medium-Sized Cities -- Chapter 7 Social and Political Determinants of the Area of Influence of Medium-sized Cities in Portugal -- Part III Knowledge Transfers in Rural Environments -- Chapter 8 Technological Transfer in the Perspective of Town Dimension: the Case of Oxford and Oxfordshire, UK -- Chapter 9 Divided Knowledge on Small and Mediumsized Towns -- Chapter 10 The Role of Universities for Economic Development in Urban Poles -- Chapter 11 The Influence of the Urban-Rural Gap on the R& -- D and Innovation Potential in Romania -- Chapter 12 Rural Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Evidence from the Portuguese Municipality of Almeida -- Part IV Urban-Rural Interdependencies -- Chapter 13 How Knowledge on Land Values Influences Rural-Urban Development Processes -- Chapter 14 From Depreciation to Appreciation of Rural Areas: 'Beauty Idols' in Europe -- Chapter 15 ICT'S Role in Rural Areas Neighbouring Towns - Stakeholders' Perception -- Chapter 16 Land-Use Conflicts and the Sharing of Resources between Urban and Agricultural Activities in the Greater Paris Region: Results Based on Information Provided by the Daily Regional Press -- Part V Conclusion -- Chapter 17 Lessons from Successful Small Towns -- Index.

During the 20th century, the production of electricity by hydroelectric methods brought about dramatic modifications in the Portuguese landscape. This paper looks at the work produced by architect Januário Godinho between 1945 and 1964 for the Cávado Hydroelectric Company (HICA), and his design on different levels for the hydroelectric complex on the Cávado River, located in the inland region of Trás-os-Montes in the north of Portugal. HICA and the architecture of Januário Godinho addresses the relationship between technological development and structural conception, and the use of design on a largescale landscape to overcome the limits of 'modern architecture'. The disproportionate nexus of scale between the operation itself, the obsession of the Portuguese political body and the ethnographic interests of the intellectuals created a clash that may bring about a new understanding of the facts when looked at in relation to the debate on contemporary planning. Located at a great distance from major cities, very difficult to get to and with very few, if any, resources available, the structures built by HICA necessitated the creation of a series of small, brand-new urban settlements. New settings were designed, which fell somewhere between the two apparently opposed worlds of the village and the hydroelectric power station. Places with economic, social and cultural dimensions such as houses, schools, churches and other social areas coexisted with workplaces, dams, hydroelectric power stations and control centres. The mixed nature of these activities, which were superimposed on the previously existing low-income agricultural structure, created original landscapes as well as an alternative approach to understanding Portuguese post-war architecture. The methods used to produce this landscape of infrastructure were plain: political will supported by technical knowledge, resulting in the creation of a layout in which a cultural approach would inform the design. But if we are asking two apparently neutral questions, a third very simple one also emerges. What did the landscape of Cávado look like before the construction process began? How did the technicians and architects bring about its transformation? If we take a look at the architectural production that emerged there, the answer does not seem clear. The question, then, is: what were the models used in the production of this landscape? Can they be found in the midst of the post-war architectural debate? ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion