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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 44, Issue 6, Page 1023-1040, November 2020., 2020 Abstract Welfare‐state transformation and entrepreneurial urban politics in Western welfare states since the late 1970s have yielded converging trends in the transformation of the dominant Fordist paradigm of social housing in terms of its societal function and institutional and spatial form.
Barbara Schönig
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Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 The paper introduces new modalities of cosmopolitan middle class religious urbanism building on Hinduist traditions – versions of a “new spiritual urbanism” that spread globally beyond Indian metropolitan cities. The two cases discussed, based on recent
Martin Fuchs
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Die Stadt im Buch. Eine Wiederentdeckung englischer Adressbücher für die Stadtgeschichte
Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 Directories – printed lists local tradespeople and ‘notable’ inhabitants – were once a popular type of source in the field of urban history, particularly for quantitative research on the social and economic structures of towns.
Cristina Sasse
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Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 While urban sociology and other systematic disciplines for a long time considered it dispensable to relate religion and the city to each other due to the modernisation and secularisation narratives that underlie them, the topic of ‘religions in the city’
Susanne Rau, Jörg Rüpke
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Russländische Städte des 18. Jahrhunderts und das Imperium. Abschließende Überlegungen
Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 This concluding contribution evaluates the importance of “Empire” as a specific form of political-administrative government for Russia’s cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as examined in the special issue. Three dimensions were relevant:
Ricarda Vulpius
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Religion and Urban Waterscape in South Asia. Kankaria or the Ghāt Re-semanticised
Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 The ghāt, the stepped landing, is an iconic element of the urban waterscape in South Asia. In its multiple forms (river banks, stepwells, temple tanks etc.), steps to the water have been erected since the Harappan period.
Sara Keller
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Der Friedhof für Nichtmuslime in Dschidda, Saudi-Arabien
Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 The non-Muslim cemetery of Jeddah, also known as the Christian or European cemetery, forms a kind of enclave in a region which for a long time explicitly excluded non-Muslims due to the geographical proximity to the holy city of Mecca.
Ulrike Freitag
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Raum- und Wissensgeschichte urbaner Problemzonen
Sub\urban, 2021 Christiane Reineckes herausragende Monografie Die Ungleichheit der Städte analysiert, wie in Frankreich und Deutschland in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts mit urbanen Problemzonen umgegangen wurde.
Anthony Miro Born
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Amritsar. Syncretic and Sectarian Traditions among Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus in an Urban Conflict
Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 The article presents memories of everyday religious, economic and social life of the inhabitants of Amritsar’s walled city in the aftermath of the partition of India in 1947, based on oral history, ethnography and secondary sources.
Rana Partap Behal
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Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2022 A variety of thematic city maps from the 1940s and early 1950s provide new detailed insights into the physical transition during the reconstruction of German cities hit by World War Two.
Birgit Knauer, Carmen M. Enss
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