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Port Cities as Areas of Transition : Ethnographic Perspectives / Astrid Wonneberger, Kathrin Wildner, Mijal Gandelsman-Trier, Waltraud Kokot.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Urban StudiesPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2015]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839409497
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • MS 1780
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Port Cities as Areas of Transition - Comparative Ethnographic Research / Kokot, Waltraud -- Transformation Processes on Waterfronts in Seaport Cities - Causes and Trends between Divergence and Convergence / Schubert, Dirk -- Notions on Community, Locality and Changing Space in the Dublin Docklands / Wonneberger, Astrid -- Old Town and Dock Area: Structural Changes in Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo / Gandelsman-Trier, Mijal -- A View from Port to City: Inland Waterway Sailors and City-Port Transformation in Hamburg / Dohrn, Reimer -- "Gateway" City and Nexus Between Two Continents: The Port City of Algeciras / Alfonso, Carolin -- Belém, "Gate of Amazonia" - Port and River as Crossroads / Oesselmann, Rosemarie / Oesselmann, Dirk -- Contesting Nodes of Migration and Trade in Public Space: Thessaloniki's Bazaar Economy / Stroux, Salinia -- Varna, Capital of the Sea: History, Image, and Waterfront Development / Bothfeld, Anke -- "Istanbul Modern" - Urban Images, Planning Processes and the Production of Space in Istanbul's Port Area / Wildner, Kathrin -- Authors
Title is part of eBook package: transcript eBook Package English Backlist 2000-2015Summary: In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Port Cities as Areas of Transition - Comparative Ethnographic Research / Kokot, Waltraud -- Transformation Processes on Waterfronts in Seaport Cities - Causes and Trends between Divergence and Convergence / Schubert, Dirk -- Notions on Community, Locality and Changing Space in the Dublin Docklands / Wonneberger, Astrid -- Old Town and Dock Area: Structural Changes in Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo / Gandelsman-Trier, Mijal -- A View from Port to City: Inland Waterway Sailors and City-Port Transformation in Hamburg / Dohrn, Reimer -- "Gateway" City and Nexus Between Two Continents: The Port City of Algeciras / Alfonso, Carolin -- Belém, "Gate of Amazonia" - Port and River as Crossroads / Oesselmann, Rosemarie / Oesselmann, Dirk -- Contesting Nodes of Migration and Trade in Public Space: Thessaloniki's Bazaar Economy / Stroux, Salinia -- Varna, Capital of the Sea: History, Image, and Waterfront Development / Bothfeld, Anke -- "Istanbul Modern" - Urban Images, Planning Processes and the Production of Space in Istanbul's Port Area / Wildner, Kathrin -- Authors

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In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation.

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