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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (3)
  • 2010-2014  (12)
  • 1985-1989
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  • Dordrecht : Springer
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9783658038021 , 9783658038038 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 151 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658038038
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsgeografie ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: Von der Arrondierung uber Footloose Industry und Isolinien bis zur Zeitdistanzmethode: Die Sprache der Wirtschaftsgeografie ist von zahlreichen Fachtermini und Anglizismen gepragt. Einen ersten schnellen Uberblick verschafft das vorliegende Nachschlagewerk. Anhand von 222 ubersichtlichen Schlusselbegriffen werden die Grundkonzepte und -theorien der Wirtschaftsgeografie erlautert. Die Erklarungen sind kompakt und verstandlich formuliert und bieten somit Basiswissen fur alle, die einen schnellen Einstieg suchen, sich fur die Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsgeografie interessieren oder ihre vorhandenen...
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9783658039318
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (307 Seiten)
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Ländlicher Raum ; Peripherer Raum ; Gesellschaft ; Daseinsvorsorge ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; Konferenzschrift 2012
    Abstract: ?Das Buch diskutiert die aktuellen Wandlungstendenzen in entlegenen landlichen Raumen. Wissenschaftler verschiedenster Disziplinen und internationale Experten ?loten Chancen, Risiken und Herausforderungen fur eine Neukonzeption aus. Sie votieren fur einen Perspektivenwechsel hin zu einem ?Think rural!"??...
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  • 3
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9783531184838 , 9783531942018 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 289 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783531942018
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    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Großstadt ; Kriminalität ; Einstellung ; Kriminalitätsfurcht ; Öffentlicher Raum ; Verwahrlosung ; Abweichendes Verhalten ; Kriminalsoziologie ; Stadtsoziologie ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Joachim Häfele untersucht den Einfluss von urbanen Disorder-Phänomenen (Incivilities) auf die Furcht vor und die Einstellungen zu Kriminalität. Damit stehen das Disorder-Modell und/oder ähnliche Ansätze (z. B. Broken-Windows-Ansatz) zur Erklärung personaler Kriminalitätsfurcht auf dem Prüfstand. Mithilfe von statistischen Mehrebenenanalysen gelingt es dem Autor, eigenständige Effekte des sozialräumlichen Kontextes auf Kriminalitätsfurcht und personale Kriminalitätseinstellungen zu untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen u. a., dass Incivilities eine ambivalente und teilweise durchaus widersprüchlic...
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  • 4
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9783658030056 , 9783658030063 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 137 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658030063
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    DDC: 305.5094
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    Keywords: Regionale Identität ; Regionale Mobilität ; Berufliche Mobilität ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Identität ; Soziale Mobilität ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: ¿¿Ein deutlicher gesellschaftlicher Wandel vollzieht sich in den letzten Jahren in der zunehmenden Mobilität der Menschen. Hat man sich von der Vorstellung eines Wohn- und Arbeitsortes in unmittelbarer Nähe bereits seit längerem verabschiedet, so werden die Distanzen immer größer. Tägliche Pendelzeiten von über einer Stunde pro Fahrt sind keine Seltenheit mehr. Trotz der ständigen Zunahme dieser neuen Lebensform ist noch kein Wandel von Identitätskonstruktionen in Richtung einer „mobilen Identität"" festzustellen. Ganz im Gegenteil wird die lokale Identität durch eine immer höhere Mobilität no...
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9783658044275 , 9783658044282 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 355 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658044282
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    Series Statement: RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2012 ; Stadtentwicklung ; Systemtransformation ; Łódź ; Danzig ; Polen ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Städtische Transformationsprozesse sind in den mittel- und osteuropäischen Ländern mit tiefgreifenden sozialen und räumlichen Veränderungen verbunden. Die Entwicklungsverläufe vieler Städte werden zudem verstärkt durch die zunehmende Globalisierung, den demographischen Wandel sowie durch Auswirkungen der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise geprägt. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht Anja Erdmann die Entstehung und Wirkung schrumpfungs- und wachstumsbedingender Stadtentwicklungsprozesse in mittel- und osteuropäischen Großstädten. ?...
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9789400745872 , 1283633833 , 9781283633833
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 396 p. 65 illus, digital)
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Crowdsourcing geographic knowledge
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    Keywords: Geography ; Data mining ; Geographical information systems ; Geography ; Data mining ; Geographical information systems ; Geoinformation ; Open Innovation
    Abstract: Chapter 1: VGI, the exaflood, and the growing digital divide: Daniel Sui, Michael Goodchild, & Sarah Elwood -- Section I. Public Participation and Citizen Science -- Chapter 2: Understanding the value of VGI: Rob Feick & Stéphane Roche -- Chapter 3: To volunteer or to contribute locational information? Towards truth in labeling for crowd-sourced geographic information: Francis Harvey -- Chapter 4: Metadata squared: Enhancing its usability for volunteered geographic information and the GeoWeb: Barbara Poore & Eric Wolf -- Chapter 5: Situating the adoption of VGI by government: Peter Johnson & Renee Sieber -- Chapter 6: When Web 2.0 meets public participation GIS (PPGIS): VGI and spaces of participatory mapping in China: Wen Lin -- Chapter 7: Citizen science and volunteered geographic information: Overview and typology of participation: Muki Haklay -- Section II. Geographic Knowledge Production and Place Inference -- Chapter 8: Volunteered geographic information and computational geography: New perspectives: Bin Jiang -- Chapter 9: The evolution of geo-crowdsourcing: Bringing volunteered geographic information to the third dimension: Marcus Goetz & Alexander Zipf: Chapter 10: From volunteered geographic information to volunteered geographic services:Jim Thatcher -- Chapter 11: The geographic nature of Wikipedia authorship -- Darren Hardy -- Chapter 12: Inferring thematic places from spatially referenced natural language observations: Benjamin Adams & Grant McKenzie -- Chapter 13: “I don't come from anywhere:" Exploring the role of VGI and the Geoweb in rediscovering a sense of place in a dispersed Aboriginal community: Jon Corbett -- Section III. Emerging Applications and New Challenges -- Chapter 14: Potential contributions and challenges of VGI for conventional topographic base-mapping programs: David Coleman -- Chapter 15: “We know who you are and we know where you live:”A research agenda for web demographics: T. Edwin Chow -- Chapter 16: Volunteered geographic information, actor-network theory, and severe storm reports: Mark Palmer & Scott Kraushaar -- Chapter 17: VGI as a compilation tool for navigation map databases: Michael Dobson -- Chapter 18: VGI and public health: Possibilities and pitfalls: Christopher Goranson, Sayone Thihalolipavan, & Nicolás di Tada -- Chapter 19: VGI in education: From K-12 to graduate studies: Thomas Bartoschek & Carsten Keßler -- Chapter 20: The prospects VGI research and the emerging fourth paradigm: Sarah Elwood, Michael Goodchild, & Daniel Sui
    Abstract: The phenomenon of volunteered geographic information is part of a profound transformation in how geographic data, information, and knowledge are produced and circulated. By situating volunteered geographic information (VGI) in the context of big-data deluge and the data-intensive inquiry, the 20 chapters in this book explore both the theories and applications of crowdsourcing for geographic knowledge production with three sections focusing on 1). VGI, Public Participation, and Citizen Science; 2). Geographic Knowledge Production and Place Inference; and 3). Emerging Applications and New Challenges. This book argues that future progress in VGI research depends in large part on building strong linkages with diverse geographic scholarship. Contributors of this volume situate VGI research in geography’s core concerns with space and place, and offer several ways of addressing persistent challenges of quality assurance in VGI. This book positions VGI as part of a shift toward hybrid epistemologies, and potentially a fourth paradigm of data-intensive inquiry across the sciences. It also considers the implications of VGI and the exaflood for further time-space compression and new forms, degrees of digital inequality, the renewed importance of geography, and the role of crowdsourcing for geographic knowledge production
    Description / Table of Contents: Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge; Acknowledgement; Contents; Chapter 1: Volunteered Geographic Information, the Exaflood, and the Growing Digital Divide; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 VGI and the Exaflood of Big Data; 1.3 VGI in Shrinking and Divided World; 1.4 Overview of Chapters in This Book; 1.5 Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge: From the Death of Distance to the Revenge of Geography; References; Part I: Public Participation and Citizen Science; Chapter 2: Understanding the Value of VGI; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Defining Value and the Value of Geographic Information
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3 Approaches to Defining the Value of Authoritative GI2.4 What Is Different About Valuing VGI?; 2.4.1 VGI Data Characteristics; 2.4.2 Use and Production Processes; 2.5 From Value Chain to Lego Blocks: VGI as Extensible and Reusable Data Components; 2.6 Summary and Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: To Volunteer or to Contribute Locational Information? Towards Truth in Labeling for Crowdsourced Geographic Information; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Volunteering or Contributing: An Important Distinction for Crowdsourced Data; 3.3 Ethical and Legal Issues; 3.4 Truth in Labeling
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 Towards Truth in Labeling for Crowdsourced Geographic Information3.6 Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Metadata Squared: Enhancing Its Usability for Volunteered Geographic Information and the GeoWeb; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Background; 4.2.1 The Library Model of Metadata; 4.2.2 The Map Model of Metadata; 4.2.3 Interactive, Embedded Metadata in the Digital Age; 4.3 Formal and Informal Discussions of Metadata; 4.3.1 "Let's Save Metadata": Neogeographers; 4.3.2 Metadata and Meaning: GIScience; 4.4 Metadata Top Down; 4.4.1 Usability; 4.4.2 Community
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.3 Findability and the Separation of Metadata from Data4.4.4 Metadata Bottom Up or Metadata Squared; 4.4.5 OpenStreetMap; 4.4.6 Metadata Types; 4.4.7 Evaluation; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Situating the Adoption of VGI by Government; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Practice of VGI in Government; 5.3 Adoption of VGI in Government; 5.3.1 The Costs of VGI; 5.3.2 The Challenge for Governments of Accepting Non-expert Data; 5.3.3 The Jurisdiction of VGI; 5.4 Situating Government to Adopt VGI; 5.4.1 Increasing Formalization of VGI Collection; 5.4.2 Encourage Collaboration Across Governments
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4.3 Investigating the Participation Potential of VGI5.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: When Web 2.0 Meets Public Participation GIS (PPGIS): VGI and Spaces of Participatory Mapping in China; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Theoretical Background; 6.2.1 VGI and PPGIS: Convergences and Divergences; 6.2.2 Subjectivities and DigiPlaces; 6.2.3 Mode of Information and Spatial Narratives; 6.3 Dynamics of Chinese Citizenship; 6.4 VGI Practices in China; 6.4.1 Map of Relief Support and Needs in the Sichuan Earthquake; 6.4.2 Map of China's Mining Accidents; 6.4.3 Map of Sale/Rent Ratio; 6.5 Conclusion
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  • 7
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789400770553
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (828 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research Ser.
    DDC: 304.209541
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    Abstract: North-East India, comprising the seven contiguous states around Assam, is a relatively unknown, yet fascinating region. This book offers a glimpse into the region's past and a comprehensive picture of its physical environment, people, resources and economy.
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  • 8
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400761308
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (290 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Knowledge and Space v.5
    Parallel Title: Print version Knowledge and the Economy
    DDC: 306.43
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Wissensintensives Unternehmen ; Regionalentwicklung ; Wirtschaftsgeografie ; Welt
    Abstract: The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the 'knowledge economy' has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in generating functional knowledge, the transfer of knowledge via networks, and the complex interplay between knowledge, location and economic development are all live academic issues. This book, the fifth volume in Springer's Knowledge and Space series, focuses on the last of these: the multiple relationships between knowledg
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Contributors; Part I: Knowledge Creation and the Geography of the Economy; Chapter 1: Introduction: Knowledge and the Geography of the Economy; Knowledge and the Economy; Knowledge and Geography; The Structure of This Book; References; Chapter 2: Relations Between Knowledge and Economic Development: Some Methodological Considerations; Open Questions and Shortcomings in the Discussion on the Diffusion of Codified Knowledge; The Importance of Having a Lead in Information, Knowledge and Technology
    Description / Table of Contents: The Economic "Utility" of Literacy, Educational Attainment and Research in the Course of HistoryThe Spatial Dimension's Significance in the Generation and Diffusion of Knowledge; What Is the Added Value of Considering Spatial Structures and Contexts?; How Can a Milieu or Context of Action Be Defined?; Possible Conceptions of the Relations Between Milieu and Actor; How Relevant Are Spatial Proximity and Distance to the Generation of Knowledge? 5; The Significance of the Scale of Inquiry
    Description / Table of Contents: The Time Dimension's Significance in the Analysis of the Relation Between Knowledge and Economic DevelopmentConclusion; References; Chapter 3: A Microeconomic Approach to the Dynamics of Knowledge Creation; A Model of Collective Invention; Revisiting the Traditional Arrovian Hypotheses; The Vital Role of Knowing Communities; The Process of Collective Invention Viewed as a Codification Process; The Central Role of Boundary Spanners; The Stabilization Phase of the Process of Invention: Meeting the Traditional Conditions; The Respective Roles of Organizations, Individuals, and Communities
    Description / Table of Contents: The Process of Innovation Beyond the Phase of EmergenceSome Main Consequences of the Model of Collective Invention; The Consequences for the Interpretation of Property Rights; The Consequences in Terms of Creative Clusters; Conclusion; Appendix; References; Chapter 4: Knowledge Creation and the Geographies of Local, Global, and Virtual Buzz; The Role of Proximity and F2F Interaction; Permanent Co-presence in Clusters and Local Buzz; Organizational Co-presence in Global Networks; Temporary F2F Interaction and Global Buzz; CMC Versus F2F Collaboration in Groups and Corporations; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 5: Creativity: Who, How, Where?; Who Is Creative?; Cultural Industries and Creative Industries; Creative Organizations: How to Manage Creativity-Or at Least Facilitate It; Where Does Creativity Happen? Creative Places; Why Creativity Needs Cities; The Example of Google; Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: The Problem of Mobilizing Expertise at a Distance; Conceptualizing the Organizational Challenge of Knowledge Transfer; Trading off Organizational Coherence and Geographical Expansion; Know-Who: Networks of Personal Knowledge Transfer; The Case of MILECS; Data and Methods
    Description / Table of Contents: How Vulnerable Is the MILECS Knowledge Network?
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9783531185965 , 9783531191300 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 229 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783531191300
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    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Peripherer Raum ; Strukturschwaches Gebiet ; Mittelstadt ; Stadtentwicklung ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Globale wirtschaftliche Restrukturierungsprozesse, interregionale Wanderungen und demographischer Wandel führen zu einer Verschärfung räumlicher Disparitäten. Die Folge sind peripherisierte Räume, die eine Bündelung von Entwicklungsnachteilen und Problemlagen kennzeichnet. Doch auch innerhalb dieser Räume sind unterschiedliche Entwicklungsdynamiken zu beobachten. Wachstums-, Stagnations- und Schrumpfungsprozesse liegen dabei zeitlich und räumlich häufig eng beieinander und die Ansätze der Stadtpolitik im Umgang mit Peripherisierungsprozessen unterscheiden sich stark. Diese unterschiedlichen En...
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9783658002947 , 9783658002954 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 274 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658002954
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    Series Statement: RaumFragen - Stadt – Region – Landschaft
    DDC: 303.372
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    Keywords: Stadtviertel ; Förderungsprogramm ; Soziale Integration ; Deutschland ; Frankreich ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In Frankreich und Deutschland werden in den 1970er bzw. 1990er Jahren mit der politique de la ville und der Sozialen Stadt quartiersbezogene Förderprogramme etabliert. In beiden Ländern werden vielfach Quartiere gefördert, die als solche mit hohem „Migrantenanteil" beschrieben werden. Während in der Sozialen Stadt Migranten zu einer zentralen Zielgruppe geworden sind, werden sie in der politique de la ville auf nationaler Ebene nicht explizit erfasst - geschuldet dem französischen Ideal der égalité, der Gleichbehandlung aller. Es scheint damit deutliche Unterschiede zu geben, wie „kulturelle D...
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9783658009724 , 9783658009731 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 324 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658009731
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    Series Statement: RaumFragen - Stadt – Region – Landschaft v.7
    DDC: 304.209758
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    Keywords: Raumordnung ; Landschaftsplanung ; Alltagswissen ; Landschaft ; Begriff ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre ist Landschaft vermehrt Thema raumbezogener Wissenschaften; etwa zeitgleich hat der Begriff in politisch-programmatischen Dokumenten an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dorothea Hokema untersucht weniger den physischen Raum als vielmehr den Landschaftsbegriff. Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung ist die Auffassung, Landschaft sei eine soziale Konstruktion, die - je nach Kultur, Sozialisation oder Interessen - verschieden ist. Aus dieser sozialkonstruktivistischen Perspektive werden Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede von Landschaftsverständnissen in Raumwissenschaften, Planungspraxis un...
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9783531186542 , 9783531187242 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 235 p.
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783531187242
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    DDC: 303.45
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    Keywords: Stadtviertel ; Öffentlicher Raum ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Segregation ; Bevölkerungsstruktur ; Online-Publikation
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  • 13
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400961197
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (264p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Comparative Studies in Overseas History 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Colonial cities
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    Keywords: History ; Kolonie ; Stadtentwicklung ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kolonialstadt
    Abstract: I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Colonial Cities: Global Pivots of Change -- II: Case Studies -- 3. Central America’s Autarkic Colonial Cities (1600–1800) -- 4. Zeelandia, A Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624–1662) -- 5. An Insane Administration and an Unsanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619–1799) -- 6. Eighteenth-Century Calcutta -- 7. Cape Town (1750–1850): Synthesis in the Dialectic of Continents -- 8. Rio de Janeiro: From Colonial Town to Imperial Capital (1808–1850) -- 9. A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica (1692–1938) -- 10. Algiers: Colonial Metropolis (1830–1961) -- 11. Saigon, or the Failure of an Ambition (1858–1945) -- 12. Dakar, Ville impériale (1857–1960) -- 13. Bombay: From Fishing Village to Colonial Port City (1662–1947) -- III: Epilogue -- 14. The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World -- Notes on the Contributors.
    Abstract: by ROBERT ROSS and GERARD J. TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. The Europeans who founded empires outside their own continent were primarily concerned with extracting those products which they could not acquire within Europe. These goods were largely agricultural, and grown most often in a climate not found within Europe. Even when, as in India before 1800, the major exports were manufactures, in general they were still made in the countryside rather than in the great cities. It was only on rare occasion when great mineral wealth was discovered that giant metropolises grew up around the site of extraction. Since their location was deter­ mined by geology, not economics, they might be in the most inaccessible and in­ convenient areas, but they too would draw labour off from the agricultural pursuits of the colony as a whole. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction. Nevertheless, the colonists could not do without cities. The requirements of colonisation demanded many unequivocally urban functions. Pre-eminent among these was of course the need for a port, to allow the export of colonial wares and the import of goods from Europe, or from other parts of the non-European world, in the country-trade as it was known around India.
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