Journal articles: 'Urban Republic Sociology'

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Uherek, Zdeněk. "Foreign Communities and Urban Space in the Czech Republic." Czech Sociological Review 39, no. 2 (April 1, 2003): 193–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2003.39.2.04.

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Bogatova, O. A., and E. N. Guseva. "HISTORICAL MEMORY AND ETHNICITY IN THE URBAN ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT AS A FACTOR OF SOCIAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE CAPITALS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION REPUBLICS ON THE EXAMPLE OF IZHEVSK AND SARANSK." Вестник Удмуртского университета. Социология. Политология. Международные отношения 3, no. 4 (December 25, 2019): 409–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2587-9030-2019-3-4-409-429.

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The article analyzes the social practices of memorization and ethnicization in the process of post-Soviet transformation of the architectural landscape of the capitals of the Finno-Ugric republics, by the republican elites with the aim of constructing a stable regional identity of the capital’s population on the example of the Republic of Mordovia and the Udmurt Republic. The purpose of the study is to identify the basic social technologies for using the cultural and symbolic aspects of the urban architectural environment, including the historical and cultural heritage, and the newly created elements for the purpose of “memorial management” and to give ethnic flavor, the trends in their evolution and the main results of using such technologies in the post-Soviet period. Based on the data of standardized observation, the intensity of the concentration of ethnicization of the urban architectural environment is compared, the main places of concentration of signs of ethnicity and historical memory in the urban space of Izhevsk and Saransk, common features, strategic features, results and limitations in the research perspective of sociological concepts of identity politics, historical politics, city sociology, public spaces, “places” and “non-places” are identified. The main verbal (language of signs, slogans), monumental (sculpture, commemorative signs, architectural decoration of buildings, stairs, fountains, etc.), visual (social advertising, ethnic symbols in illuminations, holiday decoration of buildings) means of ethnicization of urban environment design are described, as well as architectural images that indicate alternative ethnic strategies for the formation of the capital’s identity. The general trends and problems associated with the redevelopment of the urban environment and the transformation of “arrogant” Soviet public spaces into places of recreation and communication are revealed. Among the limitations of the effectiveness of the historical policy and the policy of ethnicization of urban spaces, the author considers the conscious implementation of alternative strategies for the formation of urban identity by various social actors, the binding of iconic architectural objects to “empty” pseudo-public spaces or sports facilities that are not “anchor” objects, the creation of symbolic transit spaces in the status of “non-places”, the visual ethnic specificity of which is not available to those who use them.

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Adduci, Nicola. "La Repubblica sociale italiana come problema storiografico: il caso torinese." PASSATO E PRESENTE, no. 78 (October 2009): 101–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/pass2009-078006.

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- The Italian Social Republic as a historiographic problem proposes an interpretive key for a broader analysis of the Italian Social Republic (Rsi), from its formation to its collapse. The Party is seen both as the central actor of the Social Republic and the voice of its overall political project, within a prolonged confrontation and clash with the State. The relations of the Pfr with the different actors in the city of Turin are also explored: the urban community, the Church, the industrialists, the Germans and the Resistance. The interpretation reflects a micro-historical methodological approach, and proposes themes hitherto ignored, such as juvenile discontent and the generational break that resulted. The purpose is to propose new research tracks that make it possible to go beyond the local context, redefining some wider in historiographic questions.Key words: Fascist Republican Party, Italian Social Republic, Turin, Generation, Community.Parole chiave: Pfr, Rsi, Torino, generazione, comunitŕ.

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Ley, David. "A Review of “Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality and Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy”." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99, no. 1 (January 8, 2009): 213–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00045600802530257.

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Haklay, Muki, Piotr Jankowski, and Zbigniew Zwoliński. "Selected Modern Methods and Tools for Public Participation in Urban Planning – A Review." Quaestiones Geographicae 37, no. 3 (September 6, 2018): 127–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2018-0030.

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Abstract The paper presents a review of contributions to the scientific discussion on modern methods and tools for public participation in urban planning. This discussion took place in Obrzycko near Poznań, Poland. The meeting was designed to allow for an ample discussion on the themes of public participatory geographic information systems, participatory geographic information systems, volunteered geographic information, citizen science, Geoweb, geographical information and communication technology, Geo-Citizen participation, geo-questionnaire, geo-discussion, GeoParticipation, Geodesign, Big Data and urban planning. Participants in the discussion were scholars from Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the USA. A review of public participation in urban planning shows new developments in concepts and methods rooted in geography, landscape architecture, psychology, and sociology, accompanied by progress in geoinformation and communication technologies. The discussions emphasized that it is extremely important to state the conditions of symmetric cooperation between city authorities, urban planners and public participation representatives, social organizations, as well as residents.

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Selby, Jennifer A. "The Republic and the Riots: Exploring Urban Violence in French Suburbs, 2005-2007." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 43, no. 1 (December 30, 2013): 107–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306113514539aa.

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Gilbert, Pierre. "Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics, and Urban Policy by Mustafa Dikeç." Journal of Urban Affairs 32, no. 2 (May 2010): 282–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2010.00503.x.

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Podovac, Milena. "Investigating travel motivations for visiting urban destinations in the Republic of Serbia." Turyzm/Tourism 32, no. 1 (August 1, 2022): 93–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0867-5856.32.1.05.

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The aim of this article is to examine travel motivations for visiting urban destinations in the Republic of Serbia. Differences among the travel motives according to tourists’ demographic characteristics were also analyzed. The research was conducted from June 2018 to July 2019 on tourists who visited urban destinations in Serbia (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš and Kragujevac). The analysis included 390 valid answers from respondents. The research results, which are presented in the article, have shown that tourists visit urban destinations in Serbia for business, education, family and sightseeing. The contribution of this study is reflected in the identification of key travel motives for visiting urban destinations in Serbia and this can help those preparing a tourist offer to adjust their services to the needs and requirements of such tourists.

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Hess, Christian. "Sino-Soviet City: Dalian between Socialist Worlds, 1945-1955." Journal of Urban History 44, no. 1 (June 14, 2017): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144217710234.

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This article explores the building of urban socialism in the port city of Dalian from 1945 through the mid-1950s. Hailed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949 as “New China’s model metropolis,” this former Japanese colonial city was occupied by the Soviet military until 1950. Postwar geopolitics situated Dalian and its residents at the forefront of implementing Soviet-inspired reforms that led to an image of Dalian not only as a vanguard city of the People’s Republic, but one intimately connected with the larger socialist world. The article argues that Dalian’s postwar geopolitical position as a Sino-Soviet space led to a cross-pollination of attitudes, actions, and policies that differed from much of the urban scene throughout the People’s Republic of China. It sheds new light on how the complex decolonization process of the early Cold War brought a Chinese city more closely into the Second World.

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Dahmann, N., D. Featherstone, W. Larner, E. Swyngedouw, F. Dufaux, S. Lehman-Frisch, M. Samers, P. Kirkness, and M. Dikeç. "Reading Mustafa Dikeç's Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy." Political Geography 31, no. 5 (June 2012): 324–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.04.002.

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Tajbakhsh, Kian. "Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy â By Mustafa DikeÃ§." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33, no. 4 (December 2009): 1082–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00934_2.x.

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Park, Mi Sun, Seongmin Shin, and Haeun Lee. "Media frames on urban greening in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea." Forest Policy and Economics 124 (March 2021): 102394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102394.

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Cook, Linda J. "An Algebra of Soviet Power: Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic 1966-1986.Michael E. Urban." Journal of Politics 53, no. 3 (August 1991): 912–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2131597.

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Danilova, Natalia K., Irena S. Khokholova, Kiunnei A. Pestereva, Alena G. Tomaska, and Alina P. Vasileva. "Urban Population Identities and Symbolic Value." Sibirica 21, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 97–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2022.210306.

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Abstract This article examines various aspects of identities conveyed by urban populations, factors of transformation and development of urban spaces, and historical memory as tools for the socialization, stratification, and integration of a polyethnic society in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The empirical base of the study is a variety of material, including a questionnaire survey of the urban population of Yakutia, spontaneous polls, and in-depth expert interviews. The novelty is the research strategy itself, aimed at identifying all the listed actors through the prism of symbolic representations. The study of the symbolic value of the northern cities of Yakutia as informational and cultural spaces, understanding the heritage as a certain mediative mental-material cultural layer with symbolic codes and texts, provides key registers for considering the fundamental problems of the spatial and socio-cultural development of territories in general. The results of the study show that the political identity of the population of Yakutia has been formed according to the historical memory of the Soviet past. A trend towards positioning the region as “northern” or “arctic” has emerged in recent years, which also depends on government policy in the Arctic.

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Zhou, Xueguang, and Liren Hou. "Children of the Cultural Revolution: The State and the Life Course in the People's Republic of China." American Sociological Review 64, no. 1 (February 1999): 12–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000312249906400103.

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From 1967 to 1978, the state “send-down” policy in the People's Republic of China forced 17 million urban youth to live and work in rural areas. We examine the life experiences of the children of the Cultural Revolution—those youths who entered the labor force during this period. The send-down episode provides a “natural experiment”—an opportunity to study the effects of state policies on the life course in a state socialist society. We focus on two theoretical issues: (1) how the effects of adverse state policies on the life course were mediated by the structure of social stratification, and (2) how the send-down experience affected individuals’ later life course and economic well-being. We compare and contrast patterns of entry into the labor force, subsequent major life events, and the economic well-being of sentdown youth with those who stayed in urban areas. Our findings show that all social groups were negatively affected by adverse state policies, but the bureaucratic class had some capacity to reduce such negative effects on their children. The send-down experience has had lasting effects on individuals’ life courses, as reflected in the patterns of the later life course events and in the determinants of personal income.

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Sukneva, Svetlana, and Marlene Laruelle. "A Booming City in the Far North." Sibirica 18, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2019.180302.

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Many cities of Russia’s Far North face a massive population decline, with the exception of those based on oil and gas extraction in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. Yet, there is one more exception to that trend: the city of Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, whose population is booming, having grown from 186,000 in 1989 to 338,000 in 2018, This unique demographic dynamism is founded on the massive exodus of the ethnic Yakut population from rural parts of the republic to the capital city, a process that has reshaped the urban cultural landscape, making Yakutsk a genuine indigenous regional capital, the only one of its kind in the Russian Far North.

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Wagner, Monika. "Berlin Urban Spaces as Social Surfaces: Machine Aesthetics and Surface Texture." Representations 102, no. 1 (2008): 53–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2008.102.1.53.

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In the Berlin of the Weimar Republic, conflict raged not only over a new architecture corresponding to the optical culture but also over new forms of urban space. This essay, through a broad overview of the social spaces of Berlin, explores the tension between "artisanal" and "industrial" production and between collective and individual labor. It shows how different sociopolitical environments mobilized artisanal and industrial tropes and analyzes the ways in which they were construed iconographically.

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Mason, T. David. "Modernization and Its Discontents Revisited: The Political Economy of Urban Unrest in the People's Republic of China." Journal of Politics 56, no. 2 (May 1994): 400–424. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2132145.

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Vorobyova, Irina. "Dubrovnik Republic in Russian Historiography in the 19th — the Beginning of the 20th Century." ISTORIYA 12, no. 9 (107) (2021): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840017096-4.

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This article concerns the initial period of the phenomena of Dubrovnik Republic, who kept its independence during centuries in the alien ethnic and confessional surroundings. This item seldom appeared in the sphere of attention of the specialists upon the European urban studies. The historian V. V. Makushev (1837—1883), being at the diplomatic service in Dubrovnik, studied the resources and published the scientific results in his articles and monographs. He created his author classification of the sources of the urban problems, evaluated their informational capability, proved the historical value of the imaginative literature. This approach is actual for the analysis of the medieval history of the Mediterranean and other European cities.

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Slider, Darrell. "More Power to the Soviets? Reform and Local Government in the Soviet Union." British Journal of Political Science 16, no. 4 (October 1986): 495–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400004543.

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In recent years the chief emphasis of Soviet legislation on urban administration has been to expand the rights and responsibilities of city governments in planning and co-ordinating economic activities within their territory. Very little has been done, however, to enhance the power of city Soviets so that they might actually carry out these new responsibilities. The same problems that historically have plagued local Soviets continue to undermine their capabilities. Chief among these problems are the following:1. Insufficient powervis-à-visthe ministries; in most decisions concerning enterprises subordinate to all-union (Moscow-based) or republic-level ministries, the local soviet has little influence. With the exception of Khrushchev's short-livedsovnarkhozreform, which dismantled most of the central ministries and attempted to expand the power of regional authorities over economic decision-making, the branch principle of management has been dominant ever since the beginning of Stalin's industrialization drive. The most powerful actors are the ministries located in Moscow or in the republic capitals. A large percentage of the money invested in the construction of housing, cultural facilities and the urban infrastructure is not part of the budget of the local soviet. Instead, such facilities are financed out of funds that the ministries allocate to enterprises for these purposes. In the mid-1970s, ministries paid for and supervised the construction of 70 per cent of housing and 65 per cent of new kindergartens and nurseries. The result is that facilities are built according to the interests of the ministries rather than in response to more general, local needs.

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Cash, Jennifer R. "Origins, Memory, and Identity: “Villages” and the Politics of Nationalism in the Republic of Moldova." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 21, no. 4 (November 2007): 588–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325407307351.

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This article reconsiders the manifestation of nationalism in the Republic of Moldova during the late Soviet period and early 1990s. Whereas dominant approaches have focused on the ethnic dimensions of the national movement, I argue that rural-urban identities also played a significant role in shaping political events and outcomes of the recent past by drawing on ethnographic research among participants in the “folkloric movement” within the arts and performance world. This movement coincided with the broader national movement of the 1980s and demonstrates the centrality of “villages” in the construction of an anti-Soviet “national” identity among ethnic Moldovans. In conclusion, the politics of nationalism must be understood in a wider framework that also accounts for the importance of non-ethnic forms of collective identity, such as villages, and that investigates how individual origins and social memory shape civic and political participation.

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Lorenz, Frederick O., Joseph Hraba, and Zdeňka Pechačová. "Privatization and Income Change in the Czech Republic: Tensions in the Lives of Rural and Urban Employed Men1." Rural Sociology 64, no. 4 (October 22, 2009): 693–717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00384.x.

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SAVCHENKO, Irina, Dena BATAEV, Arun DAUKAEV, and Petimat BATAEVA. "Restoration of urban monuments: the resource potential of the Northern Caucasus." Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories 15, no. 2 (June 30, 2023): 431–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21177/1998-4502-2023-15-2-431-441.

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Introduction. Repair and restoration binders and compositions based on them are necessary, first of all, for the repair, restoration and restoration of cultural heritage sites, both in the Russian Federation and abroad. They are subject to special requirements, so the conduct of related engineering and survey, research and development work is an important condition for the development of modern scientifically verified, practically tested and in demand in practice repair and restoration materials. One of the main conditions for the practical implementation of the proposed investment project is the presence of a mineral resource base in the region and the country. The resource potential of carbonate, halogen and clayey rocks is fully represented in the mountainous part of the Chechen Republic (CR). Based on the results of research and prospecting work on the territory of the Czech Republic, 6 forecast areas were identified, promising for the identification of deposits of carbonate Purpose of research. Development of compositions of binders for repair and restoration work based on the resource potential of the rocks of the mountainous part of the Czech Republic. Materials and methods. The work uses methods of analytical research and scientific generalizations, expert assessments, process modeling and system analysis. Results and discussion. The classification of inorganic binders was performed, which for the first time included organic-inorganic binders and additives in repair and restoration binders and compositions. Because of exploratory research, it was proposed to repair, restore and restore historical and cultural monuments using the ones developed at the Kh.I. Ibragimov RAS of modern technologies and materials for repair and restoration work. A concept for the development of a new scientific direction "High-strength composite materials based on lime (hydraulic and hydrate), gypsum (gypsum and anhydrite) and magnesia binders for the repair and restoration of cultural heritage sites" has been developed. Conclusions. The article presents the results of studies of repair and restoration binders and compositions based on them. It is shown that they are subject to special requirements, therefore, carrying out related engineering and survey, research and development work is an important condition for the development of modern scientifically verified, practically tested and in demand in practice repair and restoration materials. The paper shows that the new developed classification is more complete and allows more accurate determination of the compositions necessary for restoration work. According to the results of the work, it is clear that it is possible to carry out the repair, restoration and restoration of historical and cultural monuments using the proposed technology. When carrying out such work on the territory of the Chechen Republic, it is possible to do these using local raw materials. Resume. It is planned to continue work in this direction and analyze the sources of raw materials for restoration work in more regions of the North Caucasus.

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Irazábal, Clara. "Coastal Urban Planning in The ‘Green Republic’: Tourism Development and the Nature-Infrastructure Paradox in Costa Rica." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 42, no. 5 (July 24, 2018): 882–913. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12654.

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Nemec, Gloria. "The redefinition of gender roles and family structures among Istrian peasant families in Trieste, 1954–64." Modern Italy 9, no. 1 (May 2004): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532940410001677485.

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SummaryFrom 1942 to the late 1950s, about 240,000 Italians fled from Istria and Dalmatia, territories included in the new Yugoslav Federal Republic. The last movement of population took place after the London Memorandum in 1954, when the portion of territory closest to Italy (‘Zone B’) was given to Yugoslavia. About 40,000 Italians took part in this last exodus, and most of them were peasants wishing to settle in Trieste. The article describes the adaptation of social behaviours and gender roles among Istrian peasants as they faced new urban realities and modernization in the exodus. Oral sources, personal memoirs, literature and other documents are used to reconstruct the process by which rural communities moved from pre-war stability to change and transformation as they integrated within urban society in Trieste. In this process, gender and familial roles were significantly affected and redefined.

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Bodek, Richard. "Crime in Berlin During the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, and Under Allied Occupation." Journal of Urban History 45, no. 2 (December 19, 2018): 403–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144218816639.

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Manchurina, Lidiya, and Marianna Samsonova. "Representation of Languages in the Linguistic Landscape of the City of Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha." Sibirica 21, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 128–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2022.210307.

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Abstract This article aims to determine the way languages are represented in the linguistic landscape of the city of Yakutsk, in particular, the representation of Sakha and ethnic (minority) languages: Even, Evenki, Yukaghir, Chukchi, and Dolgan. To meet this aim, the following objectives were completed: a systematic compilation of texts from outdoor signs available on two main streets of Yakutsk; field research on the linguistic landscape of the city; formation of a linguistic corpus of urban texts; and a comprehensive analysis of the linguistic landscape. This analysis solves two research questions: 1) What languages are represented in the linguistic landscape of Yakutsk and what is their share? 2) What are some of the characteristics of bilingual/multilingual signs?

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Meng, Qian, Mel Gray, Lieve Bradt, and Griet Roets. "Emergence of social work practice in rural China: A way forward?" International Social Work 62, no. 2 (February 14, 2018): 933–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872818755859.

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Following massive socioeconomic reforms over the past three decades, social work in the People’s Republic of China (hereafter China) has developed at an unprecedented pace. To respond to social issues arising from accelerated economic development, the government has launched a large-scale programme to train a professional social work workforce of 1.45 million by 2020. Social work in mainland China has developed, and continues to develop, rapidly in major urban centres, while rural areas remain largely neglected. This article describes developmental issues in rural China and argues that social work requires indigenised knowledge and interventions to address context-specific problems.

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Kéza, Petra Kinga, and Szabolcs Rámháp. "Central and Eastern European regional centers in the focus of urban rankings and urban indexes." Economic Annals-ХХI 195, no. 1-2 (February 9, 2022): 36–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21003/ea.v195-03.

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The relevance of the paper is predetermined by the fact that nearly 75% of the population in the European Union live in cities, so the European Union is committed to making cities more sustainable. Thus, recent years have seen an increasing need for studies on urban indexes measuring European cities as well as those on the evaluation of the indexes. The purpose of this paper is to prove that Central and Eastern European medium-sized cities as regional centers are an under-researched area in social science research. While one typical trend of this research is ranking based on various aspects as well as the determination of leading cities, the regional centers of Central and Eastern European countries are only tangentially included in this research. The research objectives: The analysis examines 94 regional centers in ten Central and Eastern European countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia) with regional functions at NUTS2 level based on a total of 41 different economic indexes and rankings. The research was based on the Eurostat Urban Audit database and the keyword search engine of scientific search engines such as Web of Science, Science direct, and Google Scholar. The research question: Which Central and Eastern European regional centers are examined by the different city rankings and indexes? The research results and conclusions are the following: 1) As a result of the research, it was found that out of the 94 regional centers, the most examined cities are Krakow, Wroclaw and Brno. A randomly selected city is included in only 11% of the studied rankings and indexes. 2) However, half of the Central and Eastern European capitals are considered areas for city rankings and indexes. The most studied capitals are, ranked in order of focus; Budapest and Prague, Vienna, Ljubljana, Bratislava, Sofia, Warsaw and Zagreb. 3) Based on the correlation analysis, we found a strong relationship between two indicators (Cultural Creative Cities Index and Smart Cities Index) which suggests that it would make sense to explore further relationships for which it is indispensable to have the right quality and quantity of data. All in all, it would be worthwhile creating an economic index measuring the performance of Central and Eastern European regional centers which could help regional and city governments as well as potential investors get an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of regional centers in the region.

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Potter, Philip, and Marlis Drevermann. "Home ownership, foreclosure and compulsory auction in the Federal Republic of Germany." Housing Studies 3, no. 2 (April 1988): 94–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673038808720619.

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Sletto, Bj⊘rn, and Anja Nygren. "Unsettling Neoliberal Rationalities: Engaged Ethnography and the Meanings of Responsibility in the Dominican Republic and Mexico." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39, no. 5 (September 2015): 965–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12315.

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Häuβermann, Hartmut, and Walter Siebel. "The polarization of urban development in the Federal Republic of Germany and the question of a new municipal policy." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 14, no. 3 (September 1990): 369–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1990.tb00146.x.

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Sgibnev, Wladimir. "Rhythms of being together: public space in Urban Tajikistan through the lens of rhythmanalysis." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 35, no. 7/8 (July 7, 2015): 533–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-11-2014-0097.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify, describe and critically assess public space in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, recurring to Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis. Design/Methodology/Approach – The empirical findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork on a courtyard in a housing estate in Khujand in northern Tajikistan. Findings – The paper argues that an analytic dichotomy between the private and the public realm conceals more than it reveals, for the Central Asian case at least. The rhythmanalysis framework is presented as a possible solution to the deficiencies of dichotomic categories. Originality/value – Even if we find a series of scholarly works dealing with (post-)Soviet and/or Central Asian public spaces, they very scarcely provide a critical assessment of the roots and the usefulness of this concept for the regional setting they work in. The paper strives to close this gap and to present Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis framework as a possible solution for overcoming dichotomic categories.

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Lonza, Nella. "A Walking Memory: State-Designed Processions as a Tool of Collective Remembering in Late Medieval and Early Modern Dubrovnik." Journal of Urban History 43, no. 3 (May 4, 2015): 458–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144215583055.

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The state authorities of late medieval and early modern Dubrovnik used processions as a cultural tool to create a collective remembrance of traumatic historical experience, such as conspiracy, pestilence, or earthquake. Until the sixteenth century, the commemoration was amalgamated with the saint’s cult (“watermark” model), while in the last two centuries of the Republic the link to an underlying historical event became explicit. This shift may be accounted by the growing dominance of the secular over ecclesiastical authorities, and the increasing ambition of the state to manage its self-representation.

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Tabroni, Roni, and Idham Idham. "From Radical Labels to Moderate Islam: The Transformation of the Salafism Movement in Jakarta." Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies 13, no. 2 (December 31, 2023): 279–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/ijims.v13i2.279-306.

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The contemporary Salafist movement in Indonesia began to develop in the 1970s. In its development, the Salafist movement later gave rise to various factions. One of the results of the dynamic and contestation of these various factions was the emergence of religious moderation movements of Salafists. This article tries to track and analyze the religious moderation movements of Salafists. This article uses historical and qualitative methods with a case study approach. The results of the study showed that the singular Salafi ideas that emerged at the beginning of the establishment of urban Salafists adapted. This adaptation can be seen in the acceptance of the Republic of Indonesia and democracy even within the framework of Sharia and the presence of moderation or anti-violence ideas.

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Kim, Heung-Ryel, and Yoonjeung Jang. "Lessons from good and bad practices in retail-led urban regeneration projects in the Republic of Korea." Cities 61 (January 2017): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2016.11.004.

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Jewsiewicki, Bogumil. "Jeux d’argent et de pouvoir au Zaïre : la «bin-domanie» et le crépuscule de la Deuxième République." Politique africaine 46, no. 1 (1992): 55–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/polaf.1992.5567.

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Money and power games in Zaïre : the «bindomania» and the twilight of the Second republic. The case of the Bindo promotion and other «promotions» private placing offices existing in 1990-1991 reveals the whole Zaïre society in crisis. The phenomenon of inflation and illicit trading (currency, precious stones and so on), conflicts within the elite, head of State Mobutu’s manipulations, the nature of urban economy and above all popular fantasy. This promotion system has been a giant trap which allowed the army and the power to overcome meanwhile they puzzled people by rumours and fears and by burgling absolutely all the resources of the Zaïre population.

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JANOVSKÁ, Kamila, Iveta VOZŇÁKOVÁ, Lucie ORLÍKOVÁ, and Petr TOMÁNEK. "The efficiency of providing public services in transport." ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC, no. 37 (November 29, 2021): 60–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/amp/2021.37-04.

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: Today’s dynamic environment, which is developing at a rapid pace, places high demands not only on transport, but also on efficiency, speed, safety, quality and, in particular, questions about the efficiency of spending funds from city budgets, all with a strong emphasis on the environmental friendliness of urban public transport. Given that the public sector is undergoing changes, the main goal of which is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of financial management in the public sector, cities must really always place a strong emphasis on ensuring maximum efficiency of services provided and the use of public resources in all expenditure areas of the budget. In the vast majority of cases, the financing of urban public transport currently represents the greatest burden on urban public budgets not only in the Czech Republic but also in cities in the EU. The article presents the outputs that emerged within the project “Methodological - application tools for efficiency financial management of territorial structured statutory city”. The outputs of the article are focused on the area of transport, as it is one of the key areas of the city budget and in terms of expenditure sections, transport expenditures represent the highest amount in the budget of the Statutory City of Ostrava. Geographic information systems (GIS) can be successfully used to analyse efficiency, demand and urban public transport planning. For the purpose of effective presentation of information on the state and drawing of the budget and on the effectiveness of funds spent from the budget of the statutory city and individual city districts, the R-Point web map application was created. An interactive map showing statistical indicators in the area, there are also graphs that serve the user for a better comparison of data between individual city districts and the City of Ostrava.

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von der Dunk, Andreas, and Matthias Schmidt. "Flourishing retail in the post-soviet sphere? Potentials and constraints of small-scale retail activities in rural Kyrgyzstan." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 43, no. 2 (May 8, 2010): 233–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2010.03.006.

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The demise of the USSR led to the collapse of its centrally organised retail system. With this collapse the supply of consumer goods dried up, especially in the remote parts of the former USSR. At the same time the advent of capitalism offered a new institutional framework for independent retail activities. In the Kyrgyz Republic, where the economic liberalisation followed strictly the Washington Consensus, a large number of small shops emerged in both urban and rural areas. This study analyses the reasons for this boom in retail start-ups as well as the constraints the mainly inexperienced merchants encounter. As will be shown, any success in retail activities depends greatly on the performance of other economic sectors. The main goal of starting a retail business is to minimize risks within the overall livelihood strategies of households in rural Kyrgyzstan.

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Tamayo Gomez, Camilo. "Beyond Battlefields and Conventional Research Agendas: The Importance of Understanding Surveillance Activities and Practices During Long-Term Armed Conflicts." Surveillance & Society 21, no. 1 (March 16, 2023): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v21i1.16250.

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As the character of war has changed, surveillance studies scholars need to rethink and reimagine the meaning of surveillance activities and practices during long-term armed conflicts. Never-ending wars in Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Ethiopia, Colombia, Lebanon, and Somalia are showing us that one characteristic of contemporary conflicts is the increasing duration of violent and non-violent confrontation. Under these current long wars, numerous armed groups—including national armies—gain more from violence itself than from winning, expanding the expected length of the conflict. This is creating new sociocultural conditions for the development of surveillance activities and practices, where battles between armed groups are rather rare and most violence is directed against civilians. I argue that there is an urgent need for the surveillance studies ﬁeld to create novel theoretical and methodological tools to comprehend surveillance activities and practices during long-term armed conflicts. I believe it is crucial to establish a more fluid dialogue with other disciplines, in particular, epistemologies related to the sociology of emotions, the demography of armed conflicts, and the militarization of civilians in contexts of war. This emerging research agenda will help us to fully comprehend the meaning of surveillance where the surveillance agent and the surveillance subject interact for extended periods of time (years or even decades) under new forms of social interaction. In this contribution to the Dialogue section, I present three dimensions of this emerging research agenda. I will be highlighting key theoretical relations and their relevance and addressing the former Colombian armed conflict to illustrate some of their characteristics.

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Ilkosz, Jerzy. "Fragments of Metropolis East: The Expressionist heritage in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, by Christoph Rauhut and Niels Lehmann (eds.)." Journal of Urban Affairs 43, no. 4 (April 21, 2021): 611–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2020.1835277.

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Floková, Ludmila, Dana Hübelová, Alice Kozumpliková, Jan Caha, and Lenka Janošíková. "Multi-perspective quality of life index for urban development analysis, example of the city of Brno, Czech Republic." Cities 137 (June 2023): 104338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104338.

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Hutchcroft, Paul D., and Joel Rocamora. "Strong Demands and Weak Institutions: The Origins and Evolution of the Democratic Deficit in the Philippines." Journal of East Asian Studies 3, no. 2 (August 2003): 259–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1598240800001363.

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No country in Asia has more experience with democratic institutions than the Philippines. Over more than a century—from the representational structures of the Malolos republic of 1898 to the political tutelage of American colonial rule, from thecaciquedemocracy of the postwar republic to the restoration of democracy in the People Power uprising of 1986—Filipinos know both the promise of democracy and the problems of making democratic structures work for the benefit of all. Some 100 years after the introduction of national-level democratic institutions to the Philippines, the sense of frustration over the character of the country's democracy is arguably more apparent than ever before. On the one hand, the downfall of President Joseph Estrada in January 2001 revealed the capacity of many elements of civil society to demand accountability and fairness from their leaders; on the other hand, the popular uprisings of April and May 2001—involving thousands of urban poor supporters of Estrada—highlighted the continuing failure of democratic structures to respond to the needs of the poor and excluded. Philippine democracy is, indeed, in a state of crisis.

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Vallye, Anna. "“Balance-Sheet” City: Martin Wagner and the Visualization of Statistical Data." Journal of Urban History 46, no. 2 (October 11, 2019): 334–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144219876611.

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Martin Wagner (1885-1957) was a leading city planner of the Weimar Republic and chief planner for Greater Berlin from 1926 to 1933. This essay addresses the role of statistical data visualizations in early twentieth-century planning and, specifically, in Wagner’s conception of the city as a financial organism subject to managerial-governmental intervention. I argue that for Wagner modern techniques of social data calculation and representation, such as the balance sheet and the graph, became key instruments of planning by translating urban territory into an avatar of the metropolitan economy. Heuristic devices, such “paper cities” of data also had a rhetorical function, both in Germany and in the United States, Wagner’s adoptive home after 1938—serving to publicize planning expertise and frame the discipline’s intellectual and political legitimation.

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Voda, Petr, and Petra Svačinová. "To Be Central or Peripheral? What Matters for Political Representation in Amalgamated Municipalities?" Urban Affairs Review 56, no. 4 (January 17, 2019): 1206–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087418824671.

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Municipal size and institutional design are important factors influencing representation at a local level. However, this has not been studied with regard to the long-term perspective. The article focuses on the effect of the center/periphery on the representation of units within an amalgamated municipality in local elections. The analysis is based on data from 2,298 amalgamated municipalities over three sets of elections (2006, 2010, 2014) in the Czech Republic. The article uses multilevel binomial logistic regression to estimate the effect of different types of intra-municipal (settlement) units in terms of central/periphery relations on their representation. Thanks to these unique data, the article presents information about the representation of differently disadvantaged units from the long-term perspective. The results show that political and cultural-economic centers of amalgamated municipalities, as well as settlement units of a bigger relative size, have a greater chance of being represented in the municipal council compared with political and cultural-economic peripheries and smaller units.

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Sendi, Richard. "Housing reform and housing conflict: the privatization and denationalization of public housing in the Republic of Slovenia in practice." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 19, no. 3 (September 1995): 435–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1995.tb00519.x.

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Podovac, Milena, Slobodan Ivanović, and Vedran Milojica. "Examining urban tourists’ attitudes: The case study of Belgrade (Serbia)." Turyzm/Tourism 33, no. 1 (June 12, 2023): 67–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0867-5856.33.1.07.

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Personal characteristics have an important role in shaping tourists’ attitudes. The purpose of this study is to examine tourists’ attitudes to elements of the tourist offer of the city of Belgrade, the main urban destination in the Republic of Serbia. The primary research aim is to examine the influence of these personal characteristics on such attitudes. A survey was conducted on a sample of 319 tourists, who visited the city. The collected data were processed in the statistical program SPSS25 while the formed hypotheses were tested using appropriate statistical tests. The research results indicated that tourists highly rated the diversity of the gastronomic offer and the quality of nightlife, while organized tours for visiting tourist attractions and the quality of traffic infrastructure were ranked as elements in which there are opportunities for improvement. Further, the research results showed that origin and education influenced differences in tourists’ attitudes. The theoretical and practical implications as well as research limitations are defined, and recommendations made for the future research based on the theoretical background and research results.

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Simpson, Tim. "Scintillant Cities: Glass Architecture, Finance Capital, and the Fictions of Macau’s Enclave Urbanism." Theory, Culture & Society 30, no. 7-8 (October 10, 2013): 343–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276413504970.

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This article analyzes articulations among urban enclaves, finance capital, and glass architecture by exploring MGM’s corporate investments in the Las Vegas CityCenter development and the Chinese enclave of Macau. CityCenter is an unsuccessful $9 billion master-planned urban community financed by MGM and Dubai World. Macau is a former Portuguese colony and Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China which has, since its return to the PRC in 1999, replaced Las Vegas as the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming revenue. Taken together, CityCenter and Macau are illustrative of the political economy and cultural logics of financialization. Foreign investment from Las Vegas entrepreneurs has vitrified Macau, transforming it into a phantasmagoria of glass resorts. Macau in turn plays a crucial functional role in capitalism’s recomposition in East Asia, similar to the autochthonous role of the Italian city-states of Venice and Genoa in the historical origins of capitalism. In order to ‘read’ the cities of Las Vegas and Macau, I explore intertextual legibilities among fictitious capital that relies on glass fiber-optic technology to enable grand architectural projects; expressionist fictional representations of glass architecture and its utopian transformative potential; and glass buildings that themselves dissimulate in a manner not unlike fiction.

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Murphy, Laurence. "The downside of home ownership: Housing change and mortgage arrears in the republic of Ireland." Housing Studies 9, no. 2 (April 1994): 183–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673039408720782.

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Kodenko Kubala, Petr, Jan Malý Blažek, Václav Orcígr, Tomáš Hoření Samec, Markéta Káňová, David Tichý, and Jana Kubcová. "Traces of Obduracy: Imaginaries of ‘Social Inertia’ in the Process of Introducing Collaborative Housing in the Czech Republic." Critical Housing Analysis 10, no. 1 (June 2023): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2023.10.1.552.

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This paper explores the sociotechnical change necessary for the introduction of collaborative housing projects into the Czech super-homeownership housing regime. To better understand the obduracy of the current housing system, we examine the major barriers and threats to the implementation of such projects through a series of workshops with non-experts in selected cities. Our findings suggest that the housing system’s obduracy is related to social imaginaries that we conceptualise as the ‘imaginary of social inertia’. This form of imaginary, along with other factors such as a lack of supporting legal and financial infrastructures, creates a complex network of obstacles that reduce the likelihood of such housing projects gaining ground. In conclusion, our research emphasises the role of imaginaries in studying obduracy and thus provides valuable insights into the processes of urban sociotechnical change.

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