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Port Cities as Areas of Transition : Ethnographic Perspectives /

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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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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Gandelsman-Trier, Mijal (Editor), Kokot, Waltraud (Editor), Wildner, Kathrin (Editor), Wonneberger, Astrid (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2008]
Edition:1. Aufl.
Series:Urban Studies.
Subjects:
Port cities > Europe > Social conditions.
Port cities > Latin America > Social conditions.
Sociology, Urban > Case studies.
Waterfronts > Social aspects > Europe.
Waterfronts > Social aspects > Latin America.
Villes portuaires > Europe > Conditions sociales.
Villes portuaires > Amérique latine > Conditions sociales.
Sociologie urbaine > Études de cas.
Fronts de mer > Aspect social > Europe.
Fronts de mer > Aspect social > Amérique latine.
Sociology, Urban.
Europe.
Latin America.
Ethnology
Urban Development
Port Cities
Migration
Urbanity
Globalization
Urban Studies
Sociology
Urbane Development
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:9783839409497
3839409497
9783899429497
3899429494