Testimonies of the city [electronic resource] : identity, community and change in a contemporary urban world / edited by Richard Rodger and Joanna Herbert.

Contributor(s): Series: Historical urban studiesPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.Description: xvi, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.7609409/04 22
LOC classification:
  • HT131 .T474 2007eb
Other classification:
  • 71.14
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 Zsófia Tóth -- Myths of the great-tree-gang : constructing urban spaces and youth culture in 'socialist' Budapest / Sándor Horváth -- Meanings of the city : Zagreb's new housing communities since the 1950s / Valentina Gulin Zrnić -- 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 Brás District, São Paulo City since 1970 / Verônica 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Zsófia Tóth -- Myths of the great-tree-gang : constructing urban spaces and youth culture in 'socialist' Budapest / Sándor Horváth -- Meanings of the city : Zagreb's new housing communities since the 1950s / Valentina Gulin Zrnić -- 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 Brás District, São Paulo City since 1970 / Verônica 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.

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