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... of valuation and emancipation that fall outside of the dominant modes of calculation. While extensions are theoretically limitless, all-encompassing, this essay does have in mind, as an empirical platform for analysis and speculation, what are commonly called the “extended urban regions” of the metropoles...

... of logistical arrangements that accelerate and extend circulations of all kinds, and an intensifying fractiousness within the stability of most major urban regions introduce a surfeit of ambiguity to the ability to make clear distinctions between cores and peripheries, metropoles, and hinterlands (Brenner 2014...

... 1998; Torres 2015; Delanty 2009). As a result, this extended concept of citi- zenship considers different typologies of citizens communities: urban, regional, national, international, and, increasingly, platform based. Even though they may have very different attributes (e.g., different cultures...

... integration and the formation of diverse urban and regional niches. The Po Valley region is of geostrategic importance for Europe in the global economy. It is the principal junction that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Continent. The Val- ley’s long history extends back to the Romans, who built...

...; it significantly extended to middle-class residential areas. This, however, has not helped generate more sympathy for the urban poor in need of shelter. On the contrary, the poor have found themselves in intense com- petition over urban land with real estate developers catering to the middle- class housing...

... of their most important sources of income, and Northern industrialists, on a broad front, are extending their manufacturing and commercial interests in the region. One is prompted to ask, Why all of this awakening interest in the South? Of course, the economic motive is not difficult to explain. It has ever...

... polarization between public and private urban space. Reflected in the gated communities, green zones, fortified aid compounds, shopping malls, and tourist enclaves of the global city, bunkers offer sites of elite refuge, private consumption, and a secure base from which power, in an uncertain and divided world...

... over the preceding decade. This change in population distribution is metropolitanization, not urbanization. Urbanization is hardly a recent development. What we are seeing is the growth of geographically extended areas of continuous high population density megalopolis, band city, call it what you...

..., was commercial and military. From it swarms of emigrants could pour out, but its strategic figure was the merchant, the man with a purse who could buy (or seize) something in the new land to send back to the old. Sea empires have mothered colonies of settlement, but in themselves have been urban and commercial...

... information exists on the population of that country. Moreover the word demog­ raphy, for the purpose of this book, is restricted to a study of fertility, mortality, age-structure, nuptiality, and population growth, and does not extend to a consideration of migration and urbanization. The importance...

... million people migrated from the Southern Appalachian region to industrial urban centers in the Midwest (primarily Cincinnati, Detroit, and Chicago) to find work as unskilled laborers; some returned after a few years, but many stayed and created cultural ghettos of Appalachian people in these cities. 33...

... IS our culture. Without subsistence we will not survive as a people.”31 Nor does ANILCA extend subsistence rights to urban Natives, who now make up about half of Alaska’s Native population and for whom subsistence may carry economic as well as cultural importance. Finally, it neglects to address...

... of Urban and Regional Research 35 , no. 5 : 644 – 58 . Lapavitsas Costas . 2011 . “ Breaking Up? A Route out of the Eurozone Crisis .” RMF Occasional Report 3 , November . London : Research on Money and Finance . www.researchonmoneyandfinance.org . Marcus George E. Saka...

... century following in chronological sequence; three regional-topical chap­ ters, each covering the years 1789-1830; six regional-topical chapters, each extending from 1830 to 1861; and a final chapter, Civil War: Triumph of American Nationality. The substance of the volume is complex. In The Antebellum...

... Georges . 1988 . The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy . NY : Zone Books . Bloch Sam . 2019 . “ Shade .” Places ( April ), placesjournal.org/article/shade-an-urban-design-mandate . Brennan Shane . 2017 . “ Practices of Sunlight: Visual and Cultural Politics...

... of regional identity becomes—perhaps—viable The South Atlantic Quarterly Winter Copyright © by Duke University Press. 98 James Carter as an alternative to the nationalist narratives that have shaped Harbin’s first urban century. Among the numerous...

... cities and their suburbs, the 1961 census revealed that 56.1 per cent 5,900,884 out of a population of 10,508,191 lived in the same areas.2 The phenomenon of urbanization in Australia has come to in­ volve more than just the capital cities. Already it begins to appear that the conurbations now common...

... ofhisfarm and management priorities. They are all talking about their significant landscapes. Investigating ways ofseeing agriculture and conservation here in the con­ text of the wider landscape the land beyond the urban fringe I draw on the stories and photographs of family farmers who work the difficult...

...Sara Kermanian By challenging postcolonial theory's “methodological dualism,” this article explores non‐Western intersocietal encounters and interactions that facilitated the vanguard role of the Kurdish region of Iran (Rojhelat) in the country's “woman, life, freedom” revolutionary movement...

... the institutions devoted to national security, immigration, and trade at the boundary checkpoints. The trans- border corridor is not only the largest urbanized region in Mexico; it is also 28 one of the fastest-growing settlement sites...