TY - GEN AU - Kokot,Waltraud AU - Gandelsman-Trier,Mijal AU - Wildner,Kathrin AU - Wonneberger,Astrid AU - Kokot,Waltraud AU - Gandelsman-Trier,Mijal AU - Wildner,Kathrin AU - Wonneberger,Astrid TI - Port Cities as Areas of Transition : Ethnographic Perspectives SN - 9783839409497 PY - 2008/// CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - Sociology KW - bicssc KW - Ethnology KW - Urban Development KW - Port Cities KW - Migration KW - Urbanity KW - Globalization KW - Urban Studies KW - Urbane Development N1 - Open Access N2 - In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22718/1/1007444.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34397 ER -