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Record Nr.

UNISA996308846003316

Titolo

Port cities as areas of transition : ethnographic perspectives / / edited by Waltraud Kokot [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

3-8394-0949-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212)

Collana

Urban Studies

Classificazione

MS 1780

Disciplina

307.7609

Soggetti

Port cities

Sociology, Urban

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Port Cities as Areas of Transition - Comparative Ethnographic Research    7  Transformation Processes on Waterfronts in Seaport Cities - Causes and Trends between Divergence and Convergence    25  Notions on Community, Locality and Changing Space in the Dublin Docklands    47  Old Town and Dock Area: Structural Changes in Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo    75  A View from Port to City: Inland Waterway Sailors and City-Port Transformation in Hamburg    99  "Gateway" City and Nexus Between Two Continents: The Port City of Algeciras    111  Belém, "Gate of Amazonia" - Port and River as Crossroads    125  Contesting Nodes of Migration and Trade in Public Space: Thessaloniki's Bazaar Economy    145  Varna, Capital of the Sea: History, Image, and Waterfront Development    169  "Istanbul Modern" - Urban Images, Planning Processes and the Production of Space in Istanbul's Port Area    189  Authors    211

Sommario/riassunto

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.

»[Ein] unbedingt lesenswerter Sammelband [...].«  Daniel Kalt, dérive 36, 7-9 (2009)    Reviewed in:    RaumPlanung, 141 (2008), Sandra Huning