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A Multi-Level Grid Database for Protecting and Sharing Historical Geographic Urban Data: A Case Study of Shanghai

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023
Historical geographic data play an important supporting role in the study of long-term geographic studies, such as climate change, urban expansion and land-use and land-cover change.
Shuang Li
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An 'imagined geography': ideology, urban space and protest in the creation of Barcelona's 'Chinatown', c.1835-1936. [PDF]

, 2005
Henri Lefebvre famously seized upon the duality of the modern city: how for some it is a space of play and liberation, and for others a centre for power and repression.
Ealham, C. M.
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Approaches to identification and interpretation of mining heritage: the case of the Jáchymovsko area, Ore Mountains, Czechia

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2017
Mining heritage refers to a complex of both tangible and intangible features and values whose formation was associated with the development of mining activities in the given region.
Jakub Jelen, Zdeněk Kučera
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ArCEs - A digital archive of Italian Colonial Cartography and Scientific Expeditions

Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries, 2013
ArcCEs is a study for developing a digital archive on Italian scientific expeditions in Northern and Eastern Africa and the former Italian colonies (19th–20th centuries).
Irene Calloud, Paola Zamperlin
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Landscapes without the car : a counterfactual historical geography of twentieth-century Britain. [PDF]

, 2010
Despite increased concern about environmental damage and resource depletion, the private motor car, and associated automobility, are taken-for granted aspects of 21st century life.
Pooley, Colin
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Cartographic images of Slovenia through time

Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2007
The territory of Slovenia appears on Europe’s oldest maps. Slovenia’s location at the junction of different natural and geographical units and various political formations influenced its traffic and border situation.
Primož Gašperič
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Generational research: between historical and sociological imaginations [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reflects on Julia Brannen’s contribution to the development of theory and methods for intergenerational research. The discussion is contextualised within a contemporary ‘turn to time’ within sociology, involving tensions and synergies between ...
Abbott A., Adam B., Brannen J., Brannen J., Crow G., Edwards R., Elder G., Geiger T., Hagestad G., Mannheim K., McLeod J., Nielsen B. H., Rachel Thomson, Rosenthal G., Scott J., Scott J., Thomson R., Vogt K. C.   +17 more
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of river channel patterns during the last 400 years south of Leipzig, Germany [PDF]

Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart
The Elster–Pleiße floodplain south of Leipzig has undergone significant hydromorphological changes over the past few centuries, influenced by both natural processes and anthropogenic interventions (e.g.
J. Schmidt, J. Schmidt, J. Schmidt, S. Lindemann, F. Geißler, M. Hein, N. Lohse, J. Schmidt-Funke, J. Schmidt-Funke, M. Hardt   +9 more
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Arabia according to the ancient Armenian monument 'Ashkharatsuyts' dated the 5th–7th centuries

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021
The “Ancient Armenian Geography” (“Ashkharatsuyts”) places a special emphasis on the historical and geographical description of the Arabian Peninsula as a whole.
A.Zh. Harutyunyan
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The Sikhs – religion and nation. Chosen political and social determinants of functioning

Studia z Geografii Politycznej i Historycznej, 2019
The article attempts to estimate the influence of the geographical and political conditions on the transformation of a Sikhs community after the decolonisation of India in 1947.
Marek Barwiński, Łukasz Musiaka
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