URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS

Reducing complexity: transformation of capital citiesConvenorsIlka Thiessen (Vancouver Island University)Goran Janev (Institute for Sociological Political and Juridical Research,Skopje) Short AbstractThis panel will explore the responses to the post-1989 transformation ofEuropean capitals, as well as recent responses to the financial crisis, bylooking at how the symbolic power of cities experience the transformationof public spaces. Long AbstractJust twenty years ago half of Europe hastily jumped from socialism towardscapitalism. Reinforcing nationalism was one of the ways to overcome thetransitional anxiety. The European version of cosmopolitan supra-nationalidentity had and still has to compete with particular nationalistrepresentations in the 'new' countries of a united Europe.As most revolutions happen in capital cities, we seek for ethnographicaccounts, that reveal the discrepancy between the imposition of thegovernmental symbolic order in the public space of capital cities, andcreation of everyday lived spaces. Considering the symbolic power thatcapitals pose, the transformations of the public space in these cities canreveal the aspirations of the political elites in these countries. Thispanel will explore the responses to the post-1989 transformation ofEuropean capitals, as well as recent responses to the financial crisis,and constant threat of recession and economic downfall. We are interestedboth in the nation-state abuse of the idea of capital cities, and theproduction of appropriate political subjects. Following this, we will lookat the resistance produced by ordinary citizens, artists, and other actorswho exercise their right to create a public space that is an inclusiveopen democratic space. http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1360

City Solutions The City Solution Why cities are the best cure for our planet's growing pains By Robert Kunzig Photograph by Chia Ming Chien At the time of Jack the Ripper, a hard time for London, there lived in that city a mild-mannered stenographer named Ebenezer Howard. He's worth mentioning because he had a large and lingering impact on how we think about cities. Howard was bald, with a bushy, mouth-cloaking mustache, wire-rim spectacles, and the distracted air of a seeker. His job transcribing speeches did not fulfill him. He dabbled in spiritualism; mastered Esperanto, the recently invented language; invented a shorthand typewriter himself. And dreamed about real estate. What his family needed, he wrote to his wife in 1885, was a house with "a really nice garden with perhaps a lawn tennis ground." A few years later, after siring four children in six years in a cramped rental house, Howard emerged from a prolonged depression with a scheme for emptying out London. London in the 1880s, you see, was booming, but it was also bursting with people far more desperate than Howard. The slums where the Ripper trolled for victims were beyond appalling. "Every room in these rotten and reeking tenements houses a family, often two," wrote Andrew Mearns, a crusading minister. "In one cellar a sanitary inspector reports finding a father, mother, three children, and four pigs! … Elsewhere is a poor widow, her three children, and a child who had been dead thirteen days." The Victorians called such slums rookeries, or colonies of breeding animals. The chairman of the London County Council described his city as "a tumour, an elephantiasis sucking into its gorged system half the life and the blood and the bone of the rural districts." Urban planning in the 20th century sprang from that horrified perception of 19th-century cities. Oddly, it began with Ebenezer Howard. In a slim book, self-published in 1898, the man who spent his days transcribing the ideas of others articu

New Perspectives on Public Services: Place and Technology Christopher Pollitt 0 Resenhas Oxford University Press, 01/01/2012 - 256 páginas Despite their immense importance for many aspects of public service management, the specific features of places have been largely ignored in recent public management literature. Technologies have received much more attention, but mainly within the specific field of e-government. In this book Christopher Pollitt puts together a powerful and engagingly-written case for paying much more attention both to place and to technological change, and the interactions betweenthem. The book synthesizes theories and concepts from a range of disciplines and focuses them on the many ways in which public services shape places, and places shape public services. Using extensive and varied original empirical material, it examines the role that new technologies have played in these interactions. This theme is traced through internationally comparative studies of central government agencies, hospitals, population registration, and the police. It raises questions about the longerterm effects of the increasingly 'virtual' relations between the citizen and government. The book opens up new perspectives on the organization of our most basic and vital public services.

online course - Spatial Analysis Techniques in R EntradaX  ResponderPeter Bruce ourcourses@statistics.com por  aweber.com para mimmostrar detalhes 17:55 (5 horas atrás)Imagens não exibidasExibir imagens abaixo - Sempre exibir imagens de ourcourses@statistics.comIdentifying transit corridors for elephants, analyzing the spreadof cancer in time and space, modeling commercial interactions amongfirms - these are just a few of the recent applications I have seenof spatial statistics.  Learn the basics in David Unwin's onlinecourse "Spatial Analysis Techniques in R," Dec 16 - Jan 20 (oneweek off for the winter holidays) at statistics.com. "Spatial Analysis Techniques in R" will teach users how toimplement spatial statistical analysis procedures using R software.Topics covered include point pattern analysis, identifyingclusters, measures of spatial association, geographically weightedregression and surface procession.  The course includes a conciseintroduction to R, but some prior familiarity with R will minimizetime spent learning it, and allow you to focus more on the spatialstatistics techniques. Dr. David Unwin is Emeritus Chair of Geography at Birkbeck Collegeand Visiting Professor in the Department of Geomatic Engineering atUniversity College, both in the University of London. He hasauthored over a hundred academic papers in the field, together witha series of texts, of which the most recent are his "GeographicInformation Analysis, 2nd edition" (with D. O'Sullivan, 2010) and aseries of edited collections at the interface between geography andcomputer science in "Visualization in GIS" (Hearnshaw and Unwin,1994), "Spatial Analytical Perspectives on GIS" (Fischer, Scholtenand Unwin, 1996) "Virtual Reality in Geography" (Fisher and Unwin,2002) and, most recently representation issues in "Re-presentingGIS" (Fisher and Unwin, 2005). Participants can ask questions andexchange comments directly with Dr. Unwin via a private discussionboard during the course

International Handbook On The Economics Of Mega Sporting Events Wolfgang Maennig , Andrew Zimbalist Edited by Wolfgang Maennig, Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany and Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College, US April 2012 c 416 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 026 2 Hardback c£125.00 on-line price c£112.50 Qty Series: Elgar original reference Description From the Olympics to the World Cup, mega sporting events are a source of enjoyment for millions, but can also be a source of intense debate and controversy. In this insightful new Handbook, expert contributors address a number of central questions, including: How are host cities selected and under what economic conditions? How are these events organized, and how is local resistance overcome? Based on historical and empirical experience, what are the pitfalls for the organizers of these events? What are the potential economic benefits, including any international image effects? How can the costs be minimized and the benefits maximized for host cities and countries? How do these mega events impact the challenges of globalization and what is their environmental legacy? Contents Contributors include: G. Ahlfeldt, G. Andranovich, W. Andreff, R. Baade, O. Bass, R. Baumann, U. Bob, D. Brown, M. Burbank, R. Burton, A. Cartwright, A. Ceballos, D.M. Chin, D. Coates, L. de Melo, S. du Plessis, N. Eber, B. Engelhardt, A. Feddersen, R. Flores, D. Forrest, Y. Guo, C. Heying, Y. Hou, B. Humphreys, G. Kavetsos, S. Kesenne, R. Koning, J. Long, W. Maennig, B. Majumdar, V. Matheson, I. McHale, N. Mehta, M. Ölschläger, N. O'Reilly, P.K. Porter, A.R. Sanderson, I. Sanz, J. Schokkaert, B. Seguin, S. Shmanske, E. Sterken, B. Suessmuth, K. Swart, J. Swinnen, S. Szymanski, J.D. Tena, R. Tomlinson, H. van Egteren, T. Vandemoortele, C. Zhou, A. Zimbalist Further information From the Olympics to the World Cup, mega sporting events are a source of enjoyment for millions, but can also be

he Environment, Space, and Place Division (ESPD) seeks participants for theTenth Annual Cultural Studies Association Meeting, to be held at theUniversity of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA,March 28-April 1, 2012 (1) Environmental CommodificationIn keeping with the conference theme of "Culture Matters," papers aresolicited for one session addressing "environmental commodification."  Theproduction of material culture necessarily engages use of the physicalenvironment.  But especially since the environmental movement gainedpopularity in the 1960s, we have seen the rise of environmentalcommodification in the form of products and marketing designed to sell theenvironment in the form of consumer goods, whether they be "green products"such as hemp clothing or "natural" products (e.g. cosmetics, scentedcandles, furniture) intended to make you feel you are bringing theenvironment into your home.  In this session, we want to critically examineproducts, practices and discourses engaged in the material commodificationof the environmental at any scale and in any location. (2)  Materiality of PlacesPlaces are socially constructed, but in many cases they are also materiallyproduced through architecture, landscaping, or the intentional placement ofobjects.  This session will look specifically about the role ofmateriality-rather than the organization of space itself-in the productionof places: choices of design, manufacture, materials, textures, colors andobjects as signs used in the production of place, intentionally orotherwise.  In doing so, this panel aims to explore the role thatmateriality plays in the production of place and, in turn, on socialrelations and cultural understanding. Persons interested in submitting papers for consideration in either sessionshould send the following:*       A 500-word abstract for your paper*       Name, email address, phone number, institutional affiliation, anddepartment.*       List of audiovisual

AISRe  Pag. 1 di 1      L'Associazione Italiana di Scienze Reginali (A.I.S.Re) è un associazione scientifica che si propone di sviluppare, specialmente in Italia, attività di ricerca, formazione e divulgazione nelle discipline delle scienze regionali. A tale scopo promuove la circolazione delle idee e delle attività di ricerca sui problemi regionali che utilizzino strumenti, metodi e schemi tecnici specificamente elaborati per le analisi regionali, come anche l'adattamento di concetti, procedure e tecniche analitiche proprie di altre scienze; promuove ed incoraggia la diffusione e l'insegnamento delle scienze regionali; si adopera per il riconoscimento del ruolo e della qualificazione professionale di chi opera nel campo delle scienze regionali; cura lo scambio di informazioni e le relazioni nazionali e internazionali fra gli studiosi e gli Enti che coltivano tale ordine di studi e la cooperazione con associazioni scientifiche affini; promuove specifiche pubblicazioni di carattere scientifico e tecnico sulle scienze regionali; promuove una Conferenza da tenersi di regola annualmente, oltre che congressi ed incontri, a livello nazionale ed internazionale, di scienze regionali. L'Aisre è una sezione dell'European Regional Science Association (ERSA) che, assieme alla North American e alla Pacific Regional, costituisce la Regional Science Association lnternational (RSAI) dedicata agli studi di scienze regionali.

Présentation La revue Norois, créée en 1954, est une revue de géographie générale ouverte sur le milieu naturel et les questions d'environnement, mais aussi sur les hommes et les dynamiques territoriales des faits sociaux. Traditionnellement inscrite dans la France de l'ouest et les régions de l'Atlantique nord, son aire géographique s'étend désormais aux rives de l'Atlantique sud (Amérique Latine et Afrique), ainsi qu'à l'Europe de l'est dans la limite d'études comparatives menées dans le cadre communautaire. dernier numéro en ligne 217 | 2010/4 Interroger les processus de valorisation des espaces urbains numéro thématique What about the processes that enhance urban spaces ? Informations sur cette image Sous la direction de Maria Gravari-Barbas et Fabrice Ripoll Maria Gravari-Barbas et Fabrice Ripoll Introduction : De l'appropriation à la valorisation, et retour [Texte intégral] Hovig Ter Minassian La récupération du centre ancien de Barcelone depuis le début des années 1980. Enjeux, processus, contradictions [Résumé | Accès restreint] The recuperation of the old city-centre of Barcelona since the early eigthies. Issues, processes, contradictions Sébastien Jacquot Déqualification, sécurisation et éviction au service de la réappropriation du centre historique de Gênes [Résumé | Accès restreint] Disqualification, security production and eviction in favor of the reappropriation of the historical center of Genoa Thomas Zanetti La Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne : un conflit mémoriel [Résumé | Accès restreint] The weapons factory of Saint-Étienne: a memorial conflict Maria Gravari-Barbas et Cécile Renard Une patrimonialisation sans appropriation ? Le cas de l'architecture de la reconstruction au Havre [Résumé | Accès restreint] A patrimonialisation without appropriation? The case of the architecture of reconstruction of Le Havre Pierre Bergel et Nadia Kerdoud Nouveaux lieux du commerce et tra

O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de contextualizar o debate contemporâneo sobre a relação entre políticas territoriais e o desenvolvimento sustentável. Tal debate inclui (i) a influência das premissas do Consenso de Washington na nova arquitetura funcional dos Estados nacionais, e (ii) da integração da agenda do desenvolvimento sustentável sobre o novo papel dos Estados enquanto gestores e articuladores das relações sociais, políticas e econômicas. Através da integração desses novos elementos à análise territorial, contextualiza-se o debate contemporâneo sobre o território através da análise de dois estudos de caso na França (parte 2) e, em relação ao Brasil, destacam-se as mudanças institucionais e conceituais introduzidas pelo atual governo federal (parte 3)

O objetivo desta reflexão é apresentar elementos que contribuam para a construção de uma agenda de pesquisa que ajude a esclarecer o atual debate sobre diversas abordagens que se apropriam da expressão "território" no tocante à problemática do Desenvolvimento Rural e das situações que envolvem alternativas de interpretação ou implementação de ações ao processo de desenvolvimento. As nuances que o "território" tem assumido em diversos estudos e manifestações levam à necessidade de se evitar a "vulgarização e o senso comum" do termo. Neste estudo a expressão "território" surge como categoria para sintetizar, em conjunto coerente de interpretação e gestão, muitos dos elementos que constituem as novas estratégias de desenvolvimento rural, quando o reconhecendo da importância da integralidade do processo de desenvolvimento, da importância das instituições e do patrimônio cultural, político e histórico das sociedades encontra nos territórios fundamento para construir nova forma de aproximação do desenvolvimento rural. 

Announcement and Call for Papers: Urban Environmental Pollution conference Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2010, we are delighted to announce the 2nd Urban Environmental Pollution conference with focus on Creating Healthy, Liveable Cities. In Boston in June of 2010, we began to explore the nature of the urban environment and pollution on human health and well-being. UEP2010 identified many areas of urban life that warranted further investigation and we aim to continue the exploration of the urban environment and how we can begin to create a healthy and liveable environment in cities.

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