... by a sketch of the shifting balance between territories variously within the orbit of Greek colonies, and concludes with settlement and urban structures. The identifiable patterns reinforce the conclusion, likewise emerging from complementary lines of inquiry, that indigenous communities, especially those...

... Stuart G H Dundee working class Liberalism Labour urban design Scottish politics Scotland Change came swiftly to Dundee’s politics at the beginning of the twentieth century. In no other Scottish city did Liberalism decline so rapidly or from such a seemingly unassailable position. Dundee had been...

...This chapter explores the earliest evidence for post-Reformation poor relief, in the urban kirk sessions which led the way in Scotland’s parochial Reformations. The chapter argues that substantial, diligent and well-organised relief systems were established in Scottish towns during the years...

... weddings gypsies Lasswade legislation Prestwick Kirkcudbright Dundonald Town councils Urban Poverty Charity Wills Hospitals Philanthropy The church was the main provider of poor relief in early modern Scotland. Previous chapters in this book have explored its fundraising, distribution...

..., civic improvement, industrial change, and social habits. Yet it remained exceptional both in the continuing importance of its port and maritime quarter, and in the failure of its city fathers to construct a ‘new town’ like its peers. Dundee had early begun urban improvement and its urban ambition...

... experience of the city. General Urban Development Plan Plan General de Ordenación Urbana Grupo 7 Unit 7 Rodríguez Rodríguez Alberto Seville Spain Universal Exposition of 1992 Expo ’92 violence Allbritton Dean Citizen Security Law Ley Mordaza crisis cinema Labrador Méndez Germán laws Perriam Chris...

..., and as a place for important rituals such as the bride’s bath; its place in sexual fantasies as well as sexual encounters; its medical function in the treatment of certain diseases, as laid out in Ottoman medical treatises; and its urban function to convey a sense of architectural splendour and to promote...

... of everyday life than as a philosophical sage. The chapter suggests that one of the major strengths of his work is its capacity to bring into view the new scenes and situations of urban life, which had been overlooked or occluded in the more rural fictions of late-nineteenth-century writers. American...

...This chapter examines how traumatic memory can impact upon the vitality of the urban landscape as in the case of Ground Zero using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concepts of smooth and striated space. It investigates what happens to the transcultural movement of an urban context once we begin...

...In the hierarchy of the imperial administration as presented in the Notitia Dignitarum early in the fifth century, the two urban prefects occupied the second rank immediately under the praetorian prefects. They were therefore personages of considerable status, who held an enviable...

... and fora; to examine what role these afterlives played in urban development discourses; and to argue that fiction was part of the dialectical relations between past, present and future, through which London’s modernisation was conceived and represented. The chapter also introduces key terminology...

... urban issues, Dickens and Demolition proposes that the impact of literary works lingers in the world around us in ways of which we may not always be conscious. Indeed, Dickensian afterlives are traceable in demolitions that have erased areas of Old London from the capital. The Coda...

...Early on in the 20th century, other solutions to the language question were proposed: would it be possible to find a way out which did not imply the defeat of either Landsmaal or Riksmaal? Was a merger possible? The urban and eastern dialects both seemed to offer possibilities as possible...

... of this goal, the city's pre-Victorian urban fabric was considered dispensable, so that, by the later part of the twentieth century, Dundee was left with a negligible historic identity compared with other towns of comparable antiquity and importance. From this emerged an identity problem and a perceived...

... April 1887 that he returned in person to the Highlands, indicating the importance of the urban agitation to the overall plans of the radicals. Land remained his preoccupation, and in March 1883 he described the growth of the ‘Scotch Land League’ as an offspring of the Irish movement, again highlighting...

... realism Latin American Gothic and monstrosity Ordiz Inés otherness cannibals Casa muda La The Silent House film Juan de los muertos Juan of the Dead film politics Smith Paul Julian Somos lo que hay We Are What We Are film urban monsters violence Cuba machismo patriarchy sexual abuse Subero...

... project epitomized the way the neutral gaze of the onlooker is constitutive of urban public place and the way in which behavior in urban public places could thereby be described and accountable in generic terms intelligible to readers, themselves framed as strangers (in the sense of strangers in public...

... are ’Mother-May-I’, ‘Child with pillar box and bin bags’, ‘Fountain’, ‘Flashing green man’, and ‘Skeins o Geese’. In these poems, the urban is represented by the constructed human environment and the rules for normative behaviour; the rural by the natural, nonhuman, world outside, best characterised...

...This chapter discusses emergent literary tactics for writing about Beirut by a new generation of Lebanese authors who take to task western and local exoticisations of the city and its recent history of urban conflict and its aftermath. In texts like 32 and Always Coca-Cola, Sahar...

...This chapter explores the Republican response to the ‘urban crisis’ of the mid-to-late 1960s. Specifically, it shows how conservative Republicans used the crisis – and particularly the violent uprisings and riots - to oppose further urban anti-poverty programmes and to advocate for ‘law and order...