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Showing: Urban (all days)

Wed 24 March
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Thu 25 March
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Fri 26 March
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Sat 27 March
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Wednesday 24 March 2004 16:30

R-4 TEC01 European Cities
Room S

Networks: Technology , Urban	Chair: Dick Van Lente
Organizer: Cornelis Disco	Discussant: Dick Van Lente

Hans Buiter : The transformation of the street: specialisation, segregation and conjoined networks and systems. Dutch streets and European examples, 1870-1970
Cornelis Disco : Partners in Prosperity, Partners in Crime: Cities on the Rhine 1850-1990.
Barbara Schmucki : Engineering the Traffic Flow. Urban Transport Planning as European Phenomenon or Buchanan was everywhere
Dieter Schott : Empowering Cities: The incorporation of gas and electricity in the European urban environment 1890-1950

Friday 26 March 2004 8:30

G-9 URB08 The communist and post-Communist City
Room G

Network: Urban	Chair: John Davis
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Valentina Gulin Zrnic : How to Make a Modern Community: Visions, Organization and Initiatives in New Zagreb
Sandor Horvath : Rock 'n Roll Hooligans, Pubs and 'Urban Socialism'. Street Corner Gangs in the Socialist Hungary
Alexandra Staub : Magnitogorsk Russia: Post-Perestroika Life in a City Planned for Socialism

Friday 26 March 2004 10:45

E-10 URB03 Modern Urbanism and the Transformation of Nature
Room E

Network: Urban	Chair: Simon Gunn
Organizers: Simon Gunn, Alastair Owens	Discussant: R.J. Morris

Matthew Gandy : Cyborg urbanization: exploring water and urban infrastructure
Henrik Örnebring : City of Images, City of Words
Christopher Otter : The vital city: abattoirs, dairies and public laboratories in 19th Century Britain

Friday 26 March 2004 14.15

B-11 URB04 Gender, Modernity and Domesticity in Urban Life
Room B

Network: Urban	Chair: Simon Gunn
Organizers: Simon Gunn, Alastair Owens	Discussant: Alastair Owens

Ben Highmore : London Calling: Illegibility, Rhythmanalysis, and Theorising the Modern City
Leif Jerram : Kitchen Sink Dramas: Women, Modernity and Planning in Weimar Germany
Despina Stratigakos : The 'New Woman' Builds Her City: Imperial Berlin and the Gendered Architectural Spaces of Modernity

Friday 26 March 2004 16.30

B-12 URB07 Perceptions of the Modern Built Environment
Room B

Networks: Technology , Urban	Chair: John Davis
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Silja Laine : Whose Skyline? Building Heights and Public Opinion in 1920's Helsinki
Andrew Lees : Germans View American Cities: From the 1880s to the 1930s
Helen Meller : From health and happiness to a concern for environmental issues: green open spaces in European cities 1940-2000

Saturday 27 March 2004 8:30

C-13 URB06 The View from the Street: revisiting the modern metropolis
Room C

Network: Urban	Chair: Alastair Owens
Organizers: Simon Gunn, Alastair Owens	Discussant: Rosemary Wakeman

Aaron Freundschuh : Criminal Narrative and the Urban Social Imaginary: Narrations of the Theft of the Mona Lisa, 1911-1913
Ulf Strohmayer : Normative civic spaces: the public sphere expanded
Jennifer Terni : Old forms in new landscapes: the cultural significance of networks (Paris 1820-1848)

Saturday 27 March 2004 10:45

G-14 URB05 Shaping and Re-Shaping the City
Room G

Network: Urban	Chair: John Davis
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Andrew Pask : Planning Nationalism: Capital Cities and the Scale of Nations, a Comparison of Ottawa and Amsterdam
Haim Yacobi : Re-shaping a sense of place: The Built Environment and Ethnic Conflict in the 'Mixed' City of Lydda/Lod Israel

Saturday 27 March 2004 14:15

C-15 URB02 Total War and the European City
Room C

Network: Urban	Chair: John Davis
Organizers: -	Discussant: Elizabeth Harvey

Tobias Abse : The war experience of civilians in Italian industrial cities, 1940-45
Karl Christian Fuehrer : Images of Destruction: Representations of 'Operation Gomorrha' in Hamburg Newspapers during the 1940s and 1950s
Helen Jones : Representations of the urban experience of war in Britain, 1939-1945