{"title":"Dictating Democracy: the Impact of Governor Baltia's Transitory Regime on Local Government In Eupen-malmedy, 1919-1922.","authors":"Vincent O'Connell","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2011.7.1-2.162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2011.7.1-2.162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124353948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rise and Fall of European Municipal Power Since 1800","authors":"B. Doyle, A. McElligott","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.9","url":null,"abstract":"The papers in this special issue are largely derived from a major panel session held at the 2010 European Association of Urban Historians' Conference in Ghent, Belgium, itself the culmination of a collaborative transnational project on 'Municipal Politics and Civic Cultures' inaugurated in 2006.1 The aim of the panel was to draw together scholars working on European cities in the high period (or 'golden age') of municipal power (and beyond) to explore how, why and where municipal powers were exercised and to examine the political, cultural and historical constraints on the development and delivery of services. The papers ranged across seven countries from the British Isles, western and southern Europe and a comparative piece which drew on urban planning in contemporary China and the plans of Albert Speer for mid twentieth-century Berlin. The papers included here touch on both broad themes of long term change and close studies of individual power and single city governance which demonstrate the many influences shaping the rise and fall of the power of municipalities and their leaders since the first era of local government reform in the early nineteenth century. This introduction will provide some thoughts on the broad trajectory of power and authority at the local level over the past two centuries focusing on how central government has sought to encourage, define and limit local autonomy and the tensions experienced by municipal governors as they sought to","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"303 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131426442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121843017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix 1: Election Results- Eupen-Malmedy Communal Elections 1922","authors":"","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"16 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122470602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban Development and Municipal Power: Beijing in the Wave of Globalization","authors":"Hsiu-Ling Kuo","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.140","url":null,"abstract":"On the first of October 1949, the city of Beijing celebrated the birth of a new political era led by the Chinese Communist Party. Except for the totalitarian-style Tiananmen Square complex constructed between in the 1960s and 1970s, the city would not see major constructions until the next millennium. With the opportunity of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, the municipal government of Beijing, determined to transform Beijing into a world city, invited international architects from Europe, Australia and the USA to submit projects for architectural competition. In February 2003, half way through the planning stage of the Olympic Beijing projects, the international media was shocked to be informed that Beijing municipal government has invited Albert Speer Junior, the son of Hitler's architect, Albert Speer, to undertake the urban planning project. His design for Beijing presents a north-south axis bearing a similar outline as that of the Berlin Reconstruction Plan under the Third Reich. Which elements of","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"451 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124295765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parcelling Out Municipal Administration And Power in Amsterdam 1880-1940","authors":"S. Couperus","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.65","url":null,"abstract":"In contemporary urban studies much attention is devoted to the emergence of new governance collusions. Various 'partnerships', 'clusters of organised interests' and 'interagency networks' have been identified as part of a transition from local government to urban governance since the 1980s. On a generic level this transition involves various processes grouped under headings such as local corporatism (in the 1980s), the displacement of politics (more recently), the delegation or transfer of politico-administrative tasks from codified (democratic) institutions, such as elected authorities or executive agencies, to new governance clusters transcending the jurisdiction of public and territorial confinements.1 What is generally lacking in these contemporary analyses is reference to recurrent patterns of these processes of displacement and delegation of administrative tasks in the modern history of urban governance. Corporatism or functional representation at the local level, for instance, have been studied mainly by political scientists in the slipstream of the neo-corporatist paradigm which emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s.2 However, as recent historical studies have pointed out, similar arrangements were present during the interwar period which had an impact at the local level as wel1.3","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133657761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First Decade of an Irish Local Government Association: the Association Of Municipal Authorities of Ireland, 1912-1922.","authors":"M. Potter","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2011.7.1-2.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2011.7.1-2.90","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131224443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Rule a Small Town in Early Twentieth Century Portugal","authors":"Paulo Fernandes","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.115","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction At the turn of the nineteenth/twentieth century, the municipality of Setubal, located around forty kilometres south of Lisbon, was experiencing one of the highest demographic growth rates in Portugal. 1 Between 1890 and 1911, the number of inhabitants in its main urban nucleus the town of Setlibal grew from 17,581 to 30,346, representing an increase of 700/0. No other area in the country, not even Lisbon or Oporto, the cities with the highest numerical increase, had such a rate of population growth. This development was linked to the rapid integration of the fishing activity with the factories that were beginning to set up in the region. This was due to the fact that Setlibal possessed the most important fishing port in the country, which acted as a basis for a flourishing fish canning industry. This type of economic activity showed a remarkable capacity for attracting migrant workers especially from the South of Portugal. For this reason, at the beginning of the twentieth century, about 220/0 of Setubal's population was originally from outside the municipality.2 In 1900, the same municipality stood out even more from all others in the kingdom when it started to be governed by Mariano de Carvalho, a well-known national figure, albeit with a declining political career. At the time, local power was","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126876495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Municipal Progress and Decline in Britain Since 1835","authors":"John A. Garrard, M. Goldsmith","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2011.7.1-2.38","url":null,"abstract":"The rise and fall of urban local authorities in Britain has received considerable attention from historians and political scientists, only some specifically focused on this issue. Most consciously, Harold Laski, Ivor Jennings and William Robson celebrated the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act centenary via an essay collection from academics and the great and good amongst local government practitioners, entitled A Century of Municipal Progress. This explored how local authorities operated and ensured effectiveness, and celebrated the multiple services they offered 'the difference between savagery and civilisation') Local government was seen as a key defender of freedom and natural safeguard against dictatorship. Robson concluded comfortingly that, present and future problems notwithstanding, local government would:","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132323210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topographies of Anti-Nuclear Art in Late Cold War Los Angeles","authors":"Michelle Moravec","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2010.6.1.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2010.6.1.58","url":null,"abstract":"With the tenth anniversary of the end of the Cold War drawing near, museums around the world mounted exhibitions that focused on the cultural aspect of the conflict. From the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art , almost all considerations of culture in the Cold War focus on the first two decades. The periodisation of these exhibitions reflects the dominant trend in scholarship, which centres on the years in which the slow simmer conflict experienced frequent flare ups. Studies of Cold War culture take one of two tacks, exploring the impact of the bomb on manifestations of culture, such as art, literature and film, as well as fashion, design, and everyday aesthetics. Another school concentrates on the ways that high art was pressed into diplomatic service during the Cold War. This narrative strand ties the formalist concerns that dominated aesthetics to the zeitgeist of the Cold War. Since very little political content could be imputed to non-figurative or non-realist art, the story goes, this art made the perfect expression of American culture for use by cold warrior administrations. In recent years, both accounts of culture in the Cold War have received considerable elaboration in some finely wrought studies. However, the focus still remains on the 1950s and early 1960s, with the rare work moving past the Cuban Missile Crisis. The influential historian of the Cold War, Charles S Meier, divides the long conflict into eight epochs. The lengthy period of dormancy in the 1970s, which Meier characterizes as 'domestic reform and detente' resulted in a decline in the Cold War cultural battles. It also coincided with the fading of the first wave of anti-nuclear activism, as Paul Boyer has persuasively demonstrated in his analysis of the trajectory of anti-nuclear protests. By the 1960s, the American public had lost interest in the issue.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125122327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}