Chapter 10. The City Portrayed: Patterns of Continuity and Change in the Antwerp Renaissance City View

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-262
Author(s):  
Jelle De Rock
Keyword(s):  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Income Inequality and Socio-economic Segregation in the City of Johannesburg

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-109
Author(s):  
Richard Ballard ◽  
Christian Hamann
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Economic Segregation ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Paradoxical Finding ◽  
The City ◽  
White Suburbs

AbstractThis chapter analyses income inequality and socio-economic segregation in South Africa’s most populous city, Johannesburg. The end of apartheid’s segregation in 1991 has been followed by both continuity and change of urban spatial patterns. There is a considerable literature on the transformation of inner-city areas from white to black, and of the steady diffusion of black middle-class residents into once ‘white’ suburbs. There has been less analysis on the nature and pace of socio-economic mixing. Four key findings from this chapter are as follows. First, dissimilarity indices show that bottom occupation categories and the unemployed are highly segregated from top occupation categories, but that the degree of segregation has decreased slightly between the censuses of 2001 and 2011. Second, the data quantifies the way in which Johannesburg’s large population of unemployed people are more segregated from top occupations than any of the other employment categories, although unemployed people are less segregated from bottom occupations. Third, over the same period, residents employed in bottom occupations are less likely to be represented in affluent former white suburbs. This seemingly paradoxical finding is likely to have resulted from fewer affluent households accommodating their domestic workers on their properties. Fourth, although most post-apartheid public housing projects have not disrupted patterns of socio-economic segregation, some important exceptions do show the enormous capacity of public housing to transform the spatial structure of the city.

scholarly journals Ikere-Ekiti in Art and Cultural Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dele Jegede
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Art History ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
The City

Ikere, a city in Ekiti State of southwestern Nigeria, comes up often in the literature of art history on two principal accounts: first, its art and architecture, and second, its major annual fesitval. These are the two central concerns of this paper. In the first part, the unique architecture of the afin and the traditional sculptures that were its central feature present the opportunity to examine the interconnectedness of continuity and change, tradition and modernity, and the centrality of art in the Oba's quest for political pre-eminence. Ikere came to in­ternational attention through the vlrtuoslc sculptures of one of Africa's master carvers--Olowe (ca. 1873-1938), who lived in Ise-Ekiti, a town about 15 miles east of Ikere. In addition to offering new insights into the relevance of Olowe to Ikere, this essay posits a re-examination of the birth year of Olowe. In the sec­ond part, this essay dissects the Olosunta festival, which remains central to the collective identity of a people who subscribe to different religious doctrines. The early history of Ikere acknowledges the city as a site for the simultaneous reign of two rulers, the Ogoga and the Olukere. But it is the annual celebration of the Olosunta festival that serves as the rallying point for the indigenes of the city at the same time that it provides a time-honored structure for handling potentially explosive cultural and political contestations.

scholarly journals Poles in Seattle 1890–2020: Continuity and Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3 (181)) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Dorota Praszałowicz
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
The City

The text presents the preliminary results of the ongoing research on the Polish American community in Seattle, Washington. So far overlooked by the historians of the Polish American experience, the local group differs significantly from other centers of the Polish diaspora in the US. Poles settled in the Pacific Northwest from the late nineteenth century onward, and they developed in the city and around it a strong community that is internally diversified. In Seattle they were confronted with German, Irish, and Jewish groups, as was the case in other American cities, but also with other immigrants, for example with numerous Asians, Nordic people, Croatians, and Bulgarians. Contrary to the patterns of the Polish American community building, there has never been a Polish neighborhood in the city, and the Polish Roman Catholic parish was founded in Seattle as late as 1989. In fact, the parish never gained a crucial importance in the local ethnic community, and presently, as it used to be in the past, the immigrant life is organized around the Polish Home that was launched by the pioneer immigrants in 1918/1920. Many descendants of the earlier immigrant generations participate in the events initiated in Seattle by Poles who arrived in the last decades, and several recent immigrants became involved in the Polish Home Association. Moreover, web platforms – new forms of ethnic connection that developed in the last decades, contribute to the increase of the bonding social capital within the Polish group.

Life and Death, City and SuburbThe Transformations of Late Antiquity

2020 ◽  
pp. 229-234
Author(s):  
Allison L. C. Emmerson
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The City

“Life and Death, City and Suburb: The Transformations of Late Antiquity” is a brief epilogue considering urbanism of the fifth century CE and beyond. As Rome’s population shrank, the city reoriented itself into a constellation of small settlements, scattered within the Aurelian Wall and surrounded by cultivated land. The residents of these settlements buried their dead within the wall, a development that has been seen to represent a sea change in mentality, but which is better read as a result of the city’s new topography and demography. Suburbs, furthermore, did not disappear in this period. Late Antique suburbs grew up around the suburban shrines of Christian martyrs, not only at Rome, but also in other Italian cities like Mediolanum and Nola. This period was marked by both continuity and change, but through it the dead remained present in urban life, continuing relationships carried through all stages in the history of Italy’s cities.

Hellenistic literature

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-136
Author(s):  
Anke Walter
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Apollonius Rhodius ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dynamic Time ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
The City

In the Histories, the fourth-century historian Ephorus engages with one of the central aetia of the past: the story of how Apollo founded the oracle in Delphi (F 31b). Ephorus shifts the emphasis from the continuity of archaic time to the more dynamic time of the history of men on earth. In his discussion of the Spartan constitution and its origin (F 149), Ephorus uses aetia to give a nuanced picture of the interplay of continuity and change in human affairs. Callimachus, in the story of Acontius and Cydippe in his Aetia, juxtaposes the reference to the continuity of Acontius’ line with the eventful history of Acontius’ island of Chios, thus raising the question how stable the aetion can actually be. Rather than the aetiological formula, the beauty of the young couple, made immortal in Callimachus’ poetry, guarantees the story’s eternity. In Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo, aetia are prominent in creating an intense moment of the sacred presence of the god, in which the present moment of the performance is just as much involved as the historical past of the city of Cyrene and the mythical past of Apollo’s deeds on earth. The aetia employed in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica function as hinges between the earlier foundational deeds of the Olympian gods and the new earth-bound time-frame of the Argonauts, which is carefully measured out in terms of the days and nights the Argonauts spend at sea or on land. Overall, however, the aetia of the Argonautica emphasize continuity and eliminate further change, creating a present that is remarkably stable, while being anchored in several layers of the past

Continuity and Change in Russian Political Culture

1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transitions To Democracy ◽  
Industrial Democracies ◽  
The City ◽  
Systematic Random Sample

This article assesses the presence or absence in Russia of a political culture compatible with the emergence of democratic institutions. It offers a test of the thesis that political culture may be an important variable linking economic development to transitions to democracy. On the basis of findings from a systematic random sample of opinions about politics in the city of Yaroslavl' in March 1990, the article finds little support for the argument that Russian political culture today is dominated by the autocratic traditions of the past. Rather, the patterns that emerge suggest that Russian political thinking comes closer to what is found in Western industrial democracies.

Cairo

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Ben Prestel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Political Transitions ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Sexuality And Religion ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
The City

Much like the vibrant city on the Nile itself, scholarship on Cairo has seen many changes in recent years. The continued growth of the Egyptian capital, the transformation of its cityscape, as well as the political transitions of the last decade have contributed to shifting depictions of the city. Between the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and the rise of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the Egyptian presidency, a few years could fundamentally change authors’ perspectives. The magnitude of change is probably best reflected in the new capital that the Egyptian government is building approximately 40 kilometers east of Cairo. Scholars have described this project as an “anti-Cairo” and its conclusion is set to affect the city. Demographic developments add to the image of transformation. Since the publication of Janet Abu-Lughod’s groundbreaking study The City Victorious in 1971, Cairo’s number of inhabitants has grown from around seven million to between fifteen and twenty-five million. In tandem with demographic growth, the city has been expanding into neighboring governorates along the Nile. Real estate companies and the state have also continued to develop new satellite cities at a distance from previously urbanized land. The Egyptian capital now extends much further along the Nile and also reaches deeper into the desert west and east of the city than it did five decades ago. While mapping is a politically fraught issue, David Sims estimated in 2010 that the newly planned towns around Cairo alone extend over a combined area of 1,174 square kilometers (Sims 2010, p. 172). This shifting terrain sets limits to any attempt at a comprehensive overview of literature about Cairo. Instead, the present bibliography seeks to capture continuity and change in scholarly literature on the city. It contains older works, which still inspire thinking about Cairo, as well as studies that focus on the city’s recent transformation over the past ten years. The bibliography is split into eight parts: General Overviews; Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Cityscape; The State and Urban Politics; Economy and Inequality; History; Neighborhoods; Gender and Sexuality; and Religion. This division reflects some of the priorities of scholarship about the city; it illustrates under which headings scholars have thought about Cairo. Such priorities have themselves invited criticism. Several titles in the categories of history or gender and sexuality demonstrate how the focus of scholarship has changed over time. In some studies, the dividing line between research on Cairo and Egypt also tends to become blurred. The particular political, cultural, and economic centralization of the country contributes to publications that are largely based on observations in Cairo, but are framed in terms of analyses of the whole country. It is therefore important to highlight that the city’s centrality endows it with an especially prominent place in studies of Egypt at large.

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