Testimonies of the city identity, community and change in a contemporary urban world /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Rodger, Richard.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Series:Historical urban studies series
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10211336
Table of Contents:
  • Frameworks : testimony, representation and interpretation / Joanna Herbert and Richard Rodger
  • Narratives from the urban workplace : oral testimonies and the reconstruction of men's work in the heavy industries of Glasgow / Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor
  • The cultural identity of semi-skilled women workers in socialist Hungary / Eszter Zsβofia Tβoth
  • Myths of the great-tree-gang : constructing urban spaces and youth culture in 'socialist' Budapest / Sβandor Horvβath
  • Meanings of the city : Zagreb's new housing communities since the 1950s / Valentina Gulin Zrniβc
  • Unfolding urban memories and ethnic identities : narratives of ethnic diversity in Limburg, Belgium / Leen Beyers
  • Rhythms, rituals and routines in inter-war Paris : a sensitive experience of urban history / Caroline Varlet
  • Understanding the urban past : the transformation of Bucharest in the late socialist period / Maria Raluca Popa
  • Resurrecting narratives : revitalization, ruins and modern cemeteries in the Brβas District, Sδao Paulo City since 1970 / Verγonica Sales Pereira
  • Uncommon threads : oral history, historical narrative, and public art in Los Angeles / Ruth Wallach
  • Migrant voices in the contemporary history of Vienna : the case of ex-Yugoslavs / Wladimir Fischer
  • Negotiating boundaries and the cross-cultural oral history interview / Joanna Herbert.