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A Decade of Urban History: The Historical Urban Studies Series [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The first half of the 1990s was a pivotal period in the development and growth of urban history in Europe. In Britain the Urban History Group began to convene again after a decade in abeyance, work commenced on the three-volume Cambridge Urban History of
Doyle, Barry M.
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Urban history and modernity in Central Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This historiographical review discusses recent literature on cities in modern Central Europe – mainly on Berlin and Vienna – which reflects the great variety of approaches to urban history and underlines the importance of urban history for the study of ...
Klautke, E.F.
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An Overview on Urban Education: A Brief History and Contemporary Issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper is designed to provide insights into both the ever-shifting nature-as well as the trajectory of-urban education in the United States. We provide a brief historical synopsis, a contextualization of how education in urban settings is commonly ...
Holmes, Kathlene   +2 more
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The 1968 effects and civic responsibility in architecture and urban planning in the USA and Italy: Challenging ‘nuova dimensione’ and ‘urban renewal’

open access: yesUrban, Planning and Transport Research, 2021
The article scrutinizes the impact of the 1968 student protests on architectural education and epistemology within the Italian and American context, the advocacy planning movement and the relationship of architecture and urban planning with the socio ...
Marianna Charitonidou
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Social strategies for urban management and urban-environment development in the works of T. M. Dridze and in contemporary Russia

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2022
In the pre- and early post-reform Russian urban sociology, the works of T.M. Dridze, a prominent Russian sociologist and psychologist, are of a great importance.
K. V. Kiyanenko
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Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s

open access: yesCity, Territory and Architecture, 2022
The article examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative and relational frame, juxtaposing the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus.
Marianna Charitonidou
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Mapping as Gap-Finder: Geddes, Tyrwhitt, and the Comparative Spatial Analysis of Port City Regions

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2020
Politicians, planners, and mapmakers have long used mapping to depict selected spaces, to document natural and humanmade changes within them, and to identify spaces where planning intervention is needed or can be helpful. Recent innovations involving big
Carola Hein, Yvonne van Mil
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“NATIONAL HISTORIES” OF MULTIETHNIC CITIES OF THE SOUTHERN UKRAINIAN FRONTIER AT THE IMPERIAL PERIOD

open access: yesМісто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2017
The author "analyzes both the practice of writing "national histories" of cities in southern Ukraine, when the past of a particular locality is viewed from the perspective of a particular ethnic group and the attempt to overcome the limitations caused ...
Victoriya Konstantinova
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Shanghai and New York: Mid-Century Urban Avant-Gardes

open access: yesBuilt Heritage, 2019
This article examines the cultural and architectural exchanges between Shanghai and New York in the mid-20th century and their iconic roles as avant-garde global capitals.
Rosemary Wakeman
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Autopia as new perceptual regime: mobilized gaze and architectural design

open access: yesCity, Territory and Architecture, 2021
The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory in multiple ways, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and contributing significantly to the transformation of ...
Marianna Charitonidou
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