Comparative Urban Research Research Articles

Social challenges and organizing capacity in cities, experiences in eight European citiesLeo van den Berg, Jan van der Meer and Peter M. J. Pol; European Institute for Comparative Urban Research Series, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2003, 302pp., HB E49.95

Social challenges and organizing capacity in cities, experiences in eight European citiesLeo van den Berg, Jan van der Meer and Peter M. J. Pol; European Institute for Comparative Urban Research Series, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2003, 302pp., HB E49.95

The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States,

Annette M. Mahoney (ed.) Binghamton, New York, The Haworth Press, 2005, pp. xi + 177 with index, ISBN 0–07890–0446–1, $19.96 Traditionally, Caribbean historians and writers focused their research primarily on relations between the Caribbean and Europe. The Caribbean states were established colonies of Western European powers and although formal constitutional links were ultimately eliminated, quasi-political, socioeconomic and cultural affiliations continued to exist. America’s black population, long considered to be a monolithic group with shared cultural and political goals, includes 1.5 million people of black heritage from the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, according to research by the Lewis Mumford Centre for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. Class, colour, gender, religious, regional and languages differentiate black immigrants of Caribbean descent from black citizens of the USA. Years of heavy migration from the islands and an omnipresent US cultural presence in the Caribbean have created widespread expectations and extensive kinship, ethnic and employer networks. The USA has become an alternate homeland for the Caribbean region, with expectations of virtual entitlement to resettlement. Despite this, only limited scholarly research has been carried out on the problems or progress of Caribbean immigrants and their descendents in the USA.

Comparative Urban Governance

Unlike most other areas of the social sciences, the study of urban politics has been slow in developing a comparative research agenda. This article explores the potential in comparative urban governance research. Urban regime theory does not travel very well, partly because it is an under theorized framework and partly because it is in many ways an abstraction of U.S. urban political economy. To escape these obstacles to comparative research, this article argues that regimes should be conceived of as a culturally and historically specific model of urban governance. Comparative urban governance holds tremendous potential in assisting scholars in uncovering causal mechanisms and drivers of political, economic, and social change at the urban level.

Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research

Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research

Regulation as process: Regulation theory and comparative urban and regional research

This paper examines how recent developments within the regulation approach might be used to inform comparative urban and regional research. It begins by outlining the ways in which regulation theorists have pursued an interest in variability and uneven development. It then reviews attempts made by different authors to deploy regulationist concepts within urban and regional research, at scales varying from the local to the national and international. The paper then outlines a methodological shift which requires us to see regulation as a process, before going on to exemplify how such an approach has been used to inform empirical research. It concludes by examining how strategic-relational state theory might be used in conjunction with the regulation approach to underpin analyses of policy and politics at the urban and regional level.

A sign of the times: scandinavian town directories as sources for urban historical geography

The position of town and trade directories as sources for the reconstruction of former urban geographies of Scandinavia is discussed. Scandinavian directories have a long history which, in the case of major urban centres, can be traced back to the eighteenth century. They contain valuable information with respect to the social, economic, political and demographic organization of modern Scandinavian urban environments through extensive listings of names and addresses. Despite the wealth of information contained therein, directories remain an underused and unresearched data source due mainly to their perceived incompatibility with the themes pursued by research in urban historical geography and the diversity of alternative high quality sources available. Admittedly, the use of directories is not without problems and an assessment of the accuracy, availability and reliability of directory information is presented in this paper. Nevertheless, to dismiss directories represents a serious oversight: the continued history, rapid rate of update and spatial ubiquity of publication across the region after the onset of industrialization make directories a powerful source for comparative urban historical geography research in Scandinavia. Moreover, directories are highly versatile data sources and represent powerful artefacts of modernity insofar as they function as mirrors of cultural change and consumption.

Shorter reviews

Crush, Jonathan and James Wilmot (eds.) Crossing boundaries: mine migrancy in a democratic South AfricaSmith, Michael Peter (ed.) Marginal spaces: comparative urban and community research, volume 5Harrington, J.W. and B. Wharf Industrial location: principles, practice and policyKing, Desmond Separate and unequal. Black Americans and the US Federal government

European institute for comparative urban research

European institute for comparative urban research

Review: Political Gerrymandering and the Courts, the State and the Spatial Management of Industrial Change, Developments in French Politics, Government and Industry: A Comparative Analysis of the US, Canada, and the UK, Back to the Future: Modernity, Postmodernity and Locality, the Future of Local Government, Deciphering the Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship, Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain, Comparative Urban and

Review: Political Gerrymandering and the Courts, the State and the Spatial Management of Industrial Change, Developments in French Politics, Government and Industry: A Comparative Analysis of the US, Canada, and the UK, Back to the Future: Modernity, Postmodernity and Locality, the Future of Local Government, Deciphering the Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship, Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain, Comparative Urban and

Book Review: Pacific Rim Cities in the World Economy: Comparative Urban and Community Research, Volume 2

Book Review: Pacific Rim Cities in the World Economy: Comparative Urban and Community Research, Volume 2

Method and Theory In Comparative Urban Studies

There is a sharp methodological division in comparative urban research between quantitative and qualitative research. This paper explores the relationship between these contrasting research strategies, theoretical assumptions, and empirical results. It begins by defining what is meant by urbanization and reviewing the contending theories of cities and macrostructural change. A section on methods in comparative urban research sketches out the different research generas and provides examples of each. I argue that there has been a paradigm shift in comparative urban research (mirroring wider theoretical currents in macrosociology) toward a framework rooted in international political economy. Qualitative case studies of problems of particular Third World cities and urban systems were instrumental in debunking the developmentalist assumptions of the old modernization theory/ecological approach. If qualitative work helps to develop new theoretical insights, the strength of quantitative studies is that they force scholars to explicitly specify fuzzy concepts in a rigorous operationalizable manner. Despite its higher prestige in social science in the United States, some statistical analysis is limited by a tendency to simply test competing hypotheses, instead of building more fully elaborated nuanced models. Nevertheless, comparative urban research needs to recognize the strengths of both methodological strategies-both are valuable tools to understand cities and urban systems. Real advances in the comparative study of cities will only come if researchers using disparate methods recognize this and work to integrate their findings in an effort to build a synthetic theory of comparative urbanization.

Pacific Rim Cities in the World Economy: Vol. 2: Comparative Urban and Community Research.

Pacific Rim Cities in the World Economy: Vol. 2: Comparative Urban and Community Research.

Urban Systems Theory and Urban Policy: A Four-Nation Comparison

There are few systematically comparative cross-national studies of urban policy or service provision, partly because there is little in the way of empirical testable theory that might guide research and partly because the variety of institutional methods of providing and financing urban services in different nation states makes it difficult to carry out such comparisons. Urban systems theory, however, applies to all levels of urban society from local collections of towns and villages right up to the world system of cities. It also enables the development of empirically testable hypotheses linking the hierarchical system of cities with the level of expenditure on public services in metropolitan areas. An examination of data for seventy-six metropolitan regions in France, eighty-three in Italy, seventy-four in West Germany, and sixty-three in England and Wales supports the hypothesis. The article concludes that urban systems theory offers a theoretically well-developed and empirically powerful means of carrying out systematic cross-national comparative urban research.

On the Functions of Social Conflict Among Children

1979 The Capitalist World-Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Walton, John 1977 Accumulation and comparative urban systems: theory and some tentative contrasts of Latin America and Africa. Comparative Urban Research 5:5-18. Williams, Kirk and Michael Timberlake 1984 Structured inequality, conflict, and control: a cross-national test of the threat hypothesis. Social Forces 63:414-32.

"Urban Development in Latin America: A Special Issue." Comparative Urban Research

"Urban Development in Latin America: A Special Issue." <i>Comparative Urban Research</i>

Urban Development in Latin America. A Special Issue of Comparative Urban Research; No. 1.

Urban Development in Latin America. A Special Issue of Comparative Urban Research; No. 1.

Urban Development in Latin America. A Special Issue of Comparative Urban Research; No. 1

Urban Development in Latin America. A Special Issue of Comparative Urban Research; No. 1

Schools, Disciplines, and Reviews

American AnthropologistVolume 76, Issue 4 p. 849-851 Free Access Schools, Disciplines, and Reviews Judith Lynne Hanna, Judith Lynne Hanna Columbia UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Judith Lynne Hanna, Judith Lynne Hanna Columbia UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: October 1974 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1974.76.4.02a00120Citations: 2AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. References Cited Amachree, Igolima T. D. 1972 Journal of Developing Areas, October. Arens, William Edward 1970 Mto Wa Mbu: A Study of a Multi-Tribal Community in Rural Tanzania. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Virginia. Hanna, William John, and Judith Lynne Hanna 1966 The Problem of Ethnicity and Factionalism in African Survey Research. Public Opinion Quarterly 30: 290– 294. Hanna, William John, and Judith Lynne Hanna 1967 The Political Structure of Urban-Centered African Communities. In The City in Modern Africa. Horace Miner, Ed. New York: Praeger. pp. 151– 184. Hanna, William John, and Judith Lynne Hanna 1969 Polyethnicity and Political Integration in Umuahia and Mbale. In Comparative Urban Research. Robert T. Daland, Ed. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, pp. 163– 202. Hanna, William John, and Judith Lynne Hanna 1971 Urban Dynamics in Black Africa: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton. Little Kenneth 1972 Africa (October). Magid, Alvin 1969 Publisher's review. Raoul Naroll, and Ronald Cohen, Eds. 1973 A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press. Pelto, Pertti J. 1970 Anthropological Research: The Structure of Inquiry. New York: Harper and Row. Ross, Marc Howard 1973 Journal of Modern African Studies (September). Traore, Diawa-Mory 1973 Journal of Economic Literature (March). Citing Literature Volume76, Issue4October 1974Pages 849-851 ReferencesRelatedInformation

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Comparative Urban Research: The Administration and Politics of Cities

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