Port cities as areas of transition ethnographic perspectives

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 stud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kokot, Waltraud (Editor), Kokot, Waltraud, editor (editor)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2008
Bielefeld, Germany : [2008]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
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  • 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