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Welcome to Urban History News - a monthly digest of news and information for the urban history community. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN HISTORY 10th International Conference City and Society in European History You are warmly invited to take part in the 10th International Conference on Urban History to be held in Ghent, 01-04 September 2010. The European Association for Urban History (EAUH) was established in 1989 with the support of the European Union. Conferences are organised every two years. These biennial conferences provide a multidisciplinary forum for historians, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, art and architectural historians, economists, ecologists, planners and all others working on different aspects of urban history. The invitation is extended to all scholars who make urban history a distinctive and innovative subject. All sessions are now listed for the Conference and the Call for Papers opens on 01 October. The conference home page can be found at http://www.eauh2010.ugent.be/ and includes links to all sessions. EAUH Ghent 2010 offers a total of 74 sessions: 2 Round Tables / 29 Main Sessions / 43 Specialist Sessions Round Tables RT1 - Middle Ages and Early Modern Period RT2 - Modern and Contemporary Period Main Sessions M01 Glocalisation - Globalisation and Urban Development in the Local Context M02 Gender and the European Town, 1650-1920 M03 The livable city: the politics of concepts and indicators M04 Cities Represented: Writing and Exhibiting Urban History M05 The Decline of the Industrial City M06 Port-towns of Atlantic Europe in the Middle Ages M07 Se repérer dans l'espace urbain: localisation, orientation et déplacement entre XIVe et XVIIIe siècle M08 Crime and the City: European patterns of crime and policing 1500-1900 M09 Les mots de l'identité : la ville, le pouvoir et l'écrit en Europe aux derniers siècles du Moyen Âge M10 Histories of historic urban centres M11 Factions, Lineages and Conflicts in European Cities in the Late Middle Ages. Models and Analysis from Hispanic and Italian Areas M12 Promenades, Pleasure Gardens and Parks in European Towns c. 1650-1900 M13 People in Place: neighbourhood in the city M14 Music and the City: The Modern Times M15 Feeding the city: market halls and food supply in modern urban Europe, 1750-2010 M16 The Rise and Fall of European Municipal Power since 1800 M17 Walls and the city M18 Depicting the City: Urban Views as Historical Sources M19 Geographies of Transgression in the History of the City M20 Towards the Sustainable City? Challenges and Strategies in Urban Environmental Policies after 1950 M21 Cities as centres of technological innovation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe M22 Maps as source and instrument for historical research and means of presentation M23 Replacing the family? Civil society, social relations and urban growth, 14th-19th centuries M24 Coastal mediterranean cities from the archaic to the late antique period M25 Urban Childhood in the second half of the 20th century M26 The Interplay of Global, National and Local in the City since 1800 M27 Cities "making" regions – Regions "making" their cities M28 The public use of urban history (19th-20th centuries) M29 Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th centuries view Specialist Sessions S01 Buildings as historical evidence: the changing city, 1700-1950 S02 Networks, rational choices and trust - towns and contacts during the early modern time S03 Bottom-up dynamics in early modern urban politics S04 Historical European towns and cultural tourism. The transformation of the urban historical tissues in the 21st century S05 Urban Militancy and Urban Planning in Europe from the 1960s onwards S06 Reshaping European Urban Societies in African Milieus, 1400-1880 S07 Urban Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery, 1700-2000 S08 Cities and Towns in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th century: "Salad Bowl" or "Melting Pot" of Cultures? S09 Conflicts Surrounding Water in Medieval Cities S10 Les sociétés urbaines dans l'occident musulman (VIIe-XVe siècle) S11 Planning Local Pride: Modern City/Town Halls and Spatial Politics in European Cities S12 Street Lighting in European Cities from the 17th to the 19th century S13 Entering Europe: city gates in Europe (14th-19th centuries) S14 Merchant Networks and the European Cities (14th–18th Centuries) S15 The 'European' city in the Maghreb: society and space clashes in the Early Modern period S16 Visionary Urbanism: Migration, Exile, and the Cinematic City S17 Urban elites and chivalrous culture in the Middle Ages : comparison between the Low Countries and Italy (XIIe-XIVe centuries) S18 Exhibitions, Shows, and Fairs: Temporary Aspects of Urban Culture S19 Sales, dangereux ou immoraux : les espaces de la "mise à l'écart" dans les villes du nord-ouest européen (13e-16e siècles) S20 The post-Ottoman City in the Balkans (19th and early 20th Centuries) S21 Sport and Leisure Spaces in the City: an Everyday Perspective S22 Westernization effects on housing designs during the late Ottoman period S23 Feminine theory of urban design, 18th–21st centuries: texts and proposals for the city S24 Selling the City: The Public, the Private and the Redevelopment of European City Centres, 1945-19 S25 Regards nouveaux sur les foules urbaines en liesse, des rituels médiévaux à la gay pride S26 Typological versus genetic theories: The place and role of the Mendicants in medieval European towns S27 Transportation: a major player in the shaping of urban networks S28 Silks, Tapestries and Townspeople: the Role of Luxury Textiles within Urban Economies during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries S29 The Interactive City Map as a Means of Displaying and Interpreting Urban History S30 Iberian Medieval and Early Modern Urban Transactions in European perspective S31 Engineers and Town Planning. Construction and circulation of knowledge in Europe and the Americas (1880-1930) S32 Commemoration and Community in City Churches S33 Public Space and Urban Experiences in Ottoman cities S34 Neighbourhood and urban government in Western cities, from the Early Modern period to present S35 L'expérience de la ville. Les cinq sens du citadin, du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine. Contribution à une anthropologie urbaine S36 Le citoyen juif dans la ville médiévale S37 Universities maintained by the city: an altruistic relationship? S38 Towns on the medieval frontier: the experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales S39 The Role of Women in Domestic Culture during the Twentieth Century S40 Urban History and Building Rituals: the construction of civic identity S41 Villes européennes et crises financières S42 L'Expansion Urbaine et l'Irregularité Foncière: en Europe et en Amérique Latine S43 Street life and street culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the present EAUH Home \| Call for Papers \| Sessions \| Organisers Contact EAUH Networks, Architecture and City Space in Britain, 1850-2000 27 November 2009 • Edinburgh, UK Abstracts are invited from postgraduate researchers who wish to present their approaches to exploring the role of networks for the understanding of architecture and city space. The built landscape of a city provides tangible evidence of the cooperation and accommodation, or negotiation and conflict, that has taken place in a particular location. Cities are complex social enterprises formed through collaborative activities that draw together the technical and aesthetic, the political, commercial, professional and voluntary. The means to exert influence on the processes of city building has been found most often in organized action, in the formation of networks, and it is these networks that provide the focus for this symposium. Cities and Nationalisms 17-18 June 2010 • London, UK The Centre for Metropolitan History invites individual and panel proposals for a two-day conference on ‘Cities and Nationalisms’ to be held at the Institute of Historical Research. Nationalism has received much insightful attention from historians in recent decades. They have explored the origin, dissemination, maintenance and consequences of both individual nationalisms as well as nationalism in general. Much of the literature has seen nationalism as a product of ‘modernity’. In this view, nationalism was conterminous with the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. Such capitalism brought revolutionary advances in transport and technology that ultimately facilitated the imagination and creation of nations throughout the world. International Planning History Society 2010 Conference and Book Prize 12-15 July 2010 • Istanbul, Turkey The conference will address the theme of "Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and Challenges". Urban transformation, as one of the major issues throughout planning history, has been attached new dimensions within the context of rapid globalization especially during the last two decades. It is of major importance today to share professional and academic knowledge and expertise across the world in order to deal with controversies, contrasts and challenges that cities have been facing for a sustainable future. Nominations are also invited for the 2010 IPHS Book Prize to be awarded at IPHS conference in Istanbul (July 2010). Two prizes will be awarded for most innovative books in planning history written in English and based on original new research. Books must have been published in the previous two calendar years 2008-2009). Books may be written individually or joint-authored. London, the Thames and Water: new historical perspectives 16 October 2009 • London, UK The Centre for Metropolitan history is running a one-day conference at which historians, archaeologists and geographers will present the results of recent and ongoing research into the inter-twined histories of London and its river, the archaeology of the Thames foreshore and milling, and into the role of water in metropolitan history as both a resource and a flood hazard. The Google Book Settlement and European Authors We have been asked to bring this matter to your attention. 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	recent publications... Heritage, Culture and Conservation: Managing the Urban Renaissance Rebecca Madgin (VDM Verlag: Saarbrucken, 2009). ISBN-13: 978-3639157895. What strategies did cities develop from the 1970s as their industrial base experienced terminal contraction? How did cities manage the transition from their traditional industrial base to one suited to a global economy? Central to these processes was a strategy to improve the built environment by either adapting historic urban buildings or by demolishing and replacing them. Proposed demolitions revealed both the extent to which the historic environment was considered relevant in a contemporary world and what value it was assigned by a complex matrix of agencies. In the context of these different agendas and fluctuating power bases this book identified a four stage process of using the historic environment to secure urban regeneration: firstly, recognising the meaning of space; secondly, managing urban change; thirdly, seducing urban users, and fourthly, manipulating the historic environment. The book will prove useful to students and professionals working in the fields of history, heritage, planning and regeneration. (Rebecca studied for MA and PhD at CUH (2004-2008). She is now a Research Fellow at the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow) Global Cities/Local Sites edited by Will Straw (McGill) and Douglas Tallack (Leicester) U21 eBooks is a bold step in a new electronic publishing direction. The multi-media books that you will find on this site are written and designed specifically for electronic delivery, and go well beyond the simple digitizing of text. Global Cities/Local Sites is the first book in the series and is available for purchase at http://www.u21onlinebooks.com/. Global Cities/Local Sites is a multi-media collection of essays on seven world cities in which key global issues—flows of information, images, people and products—are explored through the analysis of local sites. These issues include new forms of social and cultural mix, new urban projects (often re-workings of historical locations), new forms of urban practice in public space, and new or stubbornly traditional but subtly re-configured discursive formations. upcoming events... 04-07 September 2009 Urban morphology and urban transformation Guangzhou, China 09-10 September 2009 Retailing and Distribution History Wolverhampton, UK 10-11 September 2009 Visiting rites: accessing the English home, c.1650-1850 Northampton, UK Booking form 11-13 September 2009 Women, Gender and Political Spaces: Historical Perspectives Oxford, UK 19 September 2009 The Early Modern English Town: Urban Authority and Popular Politics London, UK 06-07 October 2009 European cities 1945-1989 Prague, Czech Republic 07-09 October 2009 Modeling Spaces - Modifying Societies Darmstadt, Germany 16 October 2009 London, the Thames and Water London, UK approaching deadlines... 05 September Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Student Seminar Series 07 September Economic History Society Annual Conference (New Researcher Papers) 14 September Economic History Society Annual Conference (Academic Papers and Sessions) 21 September Networks, Architecture and City Space in Britain, 1850-2000 30 September Bad Behaviour in Medieval Early Modern Europe 08 October London, the Thames and Water: new historical perspectives (registration) 15 October Knitting the web 30 October EAHN 1st International Meeting 31 October Midlands History Prize Graduate Research Opportunity: Richard Harris (McMaster University) and Robert Lewis (University of Toronto) are doing research on the social geography of Bombay and Calcutta around the turn of the twentieth century, making extensive use of the decennial censuses, especially for 1901. They are looking to take on a graduate student, probably MA but possibly PhD, to work with them on this. The ideal student would have some background in urban geography, urban history or urban studies; some experience with Indian libraries and archives; and/or experience in the use of large databases. They would be able to supervise a student for a degree in Geography (Toronto or McMaster) or History (McMaster). The ideal start date would be September 2010. Those interested should contact: Richard Harris harrisr@mcmaster.ca (Richard Harris's website) Robert Lewis lewis@geog.utoronto.ca (Robert Lewis's website) CUH seminars... CUH Seminar Series 2009-10: 2009-10 marks the 25th Anniversary Year at CUH. A celebratory seminar programme is being developed. exhibitions... London's Burning Online exhibition Coalbrookdale 300 events throughout 2009 to celebrate 300 years of the Industrial Revolution.

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