scholarly journals Realizing the City of Surabaya as a World Maritime Fulcrum Economic Power in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Power ◽  
The City ◽  
World Maritime

Center and Periphery at the Austrian-Russian Border: The Galician Border Town of Brody in the Long Nineteenth Century

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 67-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Börries Kuzmany
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
Border Town ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
Important Center ◽  
The City ◽  
East West

Center and periphery are popular concepts to describe geographical, political, or economic power relations. Both are mostly perceived as strict and mutually exclusive categories. This article examines a Galician border town whose history illustrates the complexities of conceptualizing center and periphery relations. At first glance, nineteenth-century Brody (in today's Ukraine) would seem to qualify as a peripheral town located on the Galician border between the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. An analysis of this city under Habsburg rule (1772–1918), however, shows us that during that period it constituted both an important center and a declining periphery, not only consecutively, but also simultaneously. Its situation on the country's physical and political periphery did not harm Brody's central role in Europe's East-West trade until the first twenty years of the nineteenth century. Only in later decades did the city lose its place within a modernizing commercial system, and eventually it declined in importance. If we leave aside the economic aspect and take a closer look at Brody's mostly Jewish inhabitants, we see that for centuries this city functioned as an important center for Eastern and Central European Jewry. Even though the town's centrality for Jewish history also changed over time, Brody nevertheless kept its place on Jewish mental maps, whether as a center of religious learning, as a pioneering site of political emancipation, or as a safe haven for Jewish refugees.

scholarly journals « It’s Never Just One Road » : Genga-Idowu et la prostitution dans l’espace urbain de Nairobi

2013 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Colomba Muriungi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Potential Alternative ◽  
The City

My article is a reading of Genga-Idowu’s Lady in Chains with an intention to show how she attempts to rewrite the presentation of the prostitute figure in a Kenyan urban space by figuring prostitution as an institution that is useful in questioning and revising economic power relations between men and women. Genga-Idowu shows that women can reliably accumulate income from prostitution and emancipate themselves from the economic disadvantages of postcolonial Kenya. I examine specific traits of the prostitute figure and the spaces within the city that this writer utilizes to revise and disavow Kenyan male writers and socio-cultural conception of the prostitute. Thus prostitution will be projected as a business and a potential alternative road that makes women economically powerful and frees them from other kinds of disadvantages that characterize their lives.

James Joyce and a North Dublin asylum

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-28
Author(s):  
Aidan Collins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
James Joyce ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
British Army ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
Limited Role ◽  
The City

It is perhaps surprising that mental illness has such a limited role in the various works of James Joyce. When one considers the volume of material in his books relating to Dublin, topographical and biographical, there appears to be a studious avoidance of psychiatric institutions. The then huge Grangegorman complex (now St Brendan's Hospital) must have had an ominous presence in the city: the size of its population (between 1,500 and 2,000 patients) indicating that few families of whatever class could have escaped contact with it. Indeed, as an institution it probably had economic power comparable to Guinness's brewery or the British Army, which had five barracks in the city, each about the same size as Grange-gorman.

Nature and Impact of Chinese and South African Engagement on the Development of the City of Lusaka

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Hangwei Li ◽  
Gilbert Siame
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
South African ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The City

Abstract As Zambia’s chief administrative centre and a major financial, transportation, and manufacturing hub for the country, the City of Lusaka has become one of the fasted growing cities in Southern Africa. Encouraged by the Chinese government’s ‘going out’ policy, Chinese investment and trade with Zambia have risen dramatically since the 2000s. Chinese investment is increasingly shaping the growth of Lusaka City and its hinterland in significant ways. On the other hand, South Africa as a regional geo-economic power has also amplified its strategic engagement with Lusaka. The paper explores how these two geo-economic powers have shaped the development of the City of Lusaka. Findings show that investments from South Africa into the City are private capital backed and are predominantly in the retail and real estate sectors. Chinese engagement in the city are dominated by large government-related construction projects, which have often been state-backed. Analysing the findings through the lens of urban assemblage and polarisation, the paper argues that the City is increasingly becoming more socio-spatially divided with the poor being more adversely affected by the nature and location of investments.

Whose Culture, Whose Neighborhood? Fostering and Resisting Neighborhood Change in the Multiethnic Enclave

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brady Collins
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Ethnic Enclaves ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
The City

As multiculturalism has become a valued aspect of the city, ethnic enclaves have taken on new economic power in the cultural economy. However, as Western cities become increasingly diverse, multiple ethnic communities often overlap in shared urban spaces. Employing ethnographic methods, this article examines Wilshire Center, Los Angeles, to better understand how multiethnic communities perceive of and experience the culture of their community and how different actors foster or resist neighborhood change. In doing so, this research complicates our understandings of gentrification dynamics in multiethnic areas, and highlights important considerations for community development practitioners seeking to plan for multiple publics.

scholarly journals “Locking up the Strait in the fifteenth century’s Ottoman Mediterranean”: The Bosporus’ sea forts of Mehmet II (1452)

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Ory
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The City ◽  
Bear Witness

In the fifteenth century, the Mediterranean world was in turmoil. A new sultan, Mehmet II, had just inherited a vast empire stretching over two continents in the centre of which the ruins of the Byzantine Empire survived through the city of Constantinople. In order to seal his accession, he therefore undertook important preparations to conquer the “City guarded by God”. Mehmet then ordered the construction, within 4 months, of an imposing fortress nicknamed Boǧazkesen (the throat cutter). This coup de force is a testimony to the incredible military and economic power of this growing empire that masters a new war technology: artillery. The Ottomans, who were still novices in this field, had therefore had to adapt their fortifications to the use of firearms. Using local and foreign architects and engineers, the Ottoman fortifications built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries bear witness to an architectural experimentation that seems to testify, like the work carried out in Rhodes by Pierre d’Aubusson or in Methoni by the Venetians, to a real research in terms of offensive and defensive effectiveness. In this context, the fortifications of Rumeli Hisarı and Anadolu Hisarı, built on either side of the narrowest point of the Bosporus in 1451-1452, are characterized by the presence of large coastal batteries that operate together. They were to block access to Constantinople by the Black Sea, combining sinking and dismasting fire.

scholarly journals DE FRANCIA Y FRANCESES QUE NO LO FUERON: BORDUIN Y DUGELAY — CHIAPAS, SIGLO XIX—

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Luz del Rocío Bermúdez H.
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City ◽  
Father And Son

Escasa y mal documentada, la migración francesa en Chiapas durante el siglo XIX puede encontrar una veta de investigación? en los casos de Borduin y Dugelay, padre e hijo, en la ciudad de San Cristóbal de Las Casas. El primero, conocido como «francés», aunque procedente del Bajo Canadá, se convirtió desde 1839 en figura central local, entre otros aspectos, por su apreciada profesión en medio de continuos brotes epidémicos. Más de cuatro décadas después, en pleno auge de la influencia francesa en México, Diego Dugelay gozó por su parte el privilegio doble del origen de su padre y el poder social, político y económico, heredados de su madre. Además del testimonio individual ambas trayectorias, alguna vez contrastantes y complementarias, muestran también ciertos mecanismos, aspiraciones y paradojas ocurridas en Chiapas durante su primera apertura hacia los «hermanos de allende los mares». ABSTRACT Scarcely and poorly documented, the French migration in Chiapas during the 19th century may find a vein of research[*] in the cases of Borduin and Dugelay, father and son, in the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. The first, known as “French” although in reality originating from francophone Canada, converted after 1839 into a central local figure, among other aspects, due to his esteemed profession amidst continuous epidemic outbreaks. More than four decades later, in the boom of French influence in Mexico, Diego Dugelay for his part enjoyed the double privilege of his father’s origin and the social, political and economic power inherited from his mother. In addition to the individual testimony, both trajectories, at times contrasting and others complementary, also demonstrate certain mechanisms, aspirations and paradoxes occurred in Chiapas during its first opening toward the “overseas brothers.”

Zwischen Ausweisung und Duldung. Die Situation der Breslauer Juden in der 1. Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts

Aschkenas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Arno Herzig
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
City Council ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
The City ◽  
New Situation

AbstractThe situation of the Jews in Breslau in the first half of the 18th century was determined by various interested parties, from the Habsburg emperor as city lord to the council of the city and the monasteries in the suburbs. While the city council had not tolerated Jews in its area since the pogrom of 1453, the monasteries in the suburbs used the economic power of the Jews living there. The Emperor as King of Bohemia was interested in trading with Poland, allowing Polish Jewish merchants to settle in the city. While the emperor allowed Jewish citizens to trade within the city by passing a tax law in 1713, the city council tried to keep the Jews as much as possible away from the market. The situation remained undecided until 1742, when the annexation of Silesia created a new situation in Prussia. A law of 1744 guaranteed the establishment of the Jews in the city and the formation of a community, but the number of Jewish residents permitted in the city was kept very low.

scholarly journals Planning experiences in historic cities protected by UNESCO

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Douver dos Santos Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Power ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities ◽  
Material Form ◽  
The Continuum

This article arises from the need to clarify the field of heritage preservation and conservation at the beginning of the 21st century, especially in central areas and historic cities. We went through this reflection in the face of the expressive homogenization of places and mischaracterizations of the landscapes produced with artificial interventions aimed at exploratory tourism, which directly reflect on the loss of the identity of urban heritage and, more ambitiously, with the cities-commodity in large cities, through management of urbanism with new contemporary interventions. The process of patrimonialization of historic cities is seen here from two distant angles in time, space, territory, culture and history, but they reflect the same repercussions for the city: scenography and gentrification, as is the case in Brazil, in Pelourinho in the city of Salvador, in 1992, and Portuguese, in the Quarteirão das Cardosas, in Porto, in 2009. With this, we were able to further question and denounce some perversions in architecture, the result of these economic speculations, which see facade renovation works as useful, that rip apart the entire interior of the heritage, neglecting the entire authentic experience of the city and demonstrate the perversions in the community in the face of the gentrification process, where landscape is transformed giving material form to the difference between cultural and economic power. We believe that it is possible to demonstrate in time to society, which is in constant threat of globalization, that heritage needs to be urgently recovered in order to remain on the continuum of life.

The Exile Churches and the Churches ‘Under the Cross’: Antwerp and Emden During the Dutch Revolt

1987 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Andrew Pettegree
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Money Market ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Commodity Market ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Dutch Revolt ◽  
European Trade ◽  
The City ◽  
Merchant Community

In the middle years of the sixteenth century Antwerp reached the zenith of its economic power. With ninety thousand inhabitants it was far from being the largest city in Europe, but its pre-eminence as a centre for European trade was now universally acknowledged. As a money market, commodity market and, above all, as a centre of the cloth trade Antwerp had by 1550 eclipsed its rivals in Flanders and Brabant and made itself indispensable to merchants from all over the continent. Germans made up the largest contingent among Antwerp's foreign merchant community, but there were substantial numbers of both Portuguese, still dominant in the international spice trade, and Italians, who had first introduced the sophisticated financial and accounting techniques which were now developed to a new peak of refinement in Antwerp. The concentration of capital in the city was an inducement to every major banking house to maintain a permanent representation there, as did their most regular clients, the princely houses of Europe. The real foundation of Antwerp's greatness, however, was the trade in English broadcloths, established there since the turn of the century and carried on by an English merchant community that numbered three or four hundred by 1560. All this frenetic economic activity was presided over with studied negligence by the city elders, whose tradition of minimum controls was calculated to avoid alarming an extremely heterogeneous trading community.

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