{"title":"Urban Planning in Portugal in the Twentieth Century","authors":"C. Silva","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2008.4.2.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2008.4.2.23","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to identify the main periods in the history of urban planning in Portugal, the prevailing planning theories and its practical results, in the twentieth century. The research is based on two hypotheses: first, economic and social processes ('structure'), uneven in time and space, define the framework within which the different public and private stakeholders act ('agency'); second, a highly complex inter-relation between 'structure' and 'agency' is responsible for the different forms of urban planning. These hypotheses were tested taking into consideration the political and economic contexts, the development model adopted by the state, central-local relations in the field of urban planning, the legal planning framework, the dominant planning ideas and its practical application.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122785812","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":"Environmental Activism and the Struggle for Justice by the Non-Governmental Organisations in the Niger Delta of Nigeria","authors":"V. Ojakorotu","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2008.4.2.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2008.4.2.40","url":null,"abstract":"(2008). Environmental Activism and the Struggle for Justice by the Non-Governmental Organisations in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 40-55.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123894785","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":"Genocide in Sudan: A Look at Three Events","authors":"Teresa A. Booker","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2008.4.1.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2008.4.1.71","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Genocide is 'as old as humanity' but surprisingly, according to Kreb, as recently as 'the Armenian case' genocide was referred to simply as a 'crime without a name.'] Scholars have, seemingly, disagreed over what the term does and does not mean ever since. The longitudinal jockeying for the proper definition is all the more magnified when one realises that there have been no fewer than 250 'violent conflicts' between 1945 and 1980 alone.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124479805","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":"A Forest for the Trees: Deforestation and Conservation Efforts in Northumberland County, Ontario 1870–1925","authors":"Jessica Dunkin","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2008.4.1.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2008.4.1.47","url":null,"abstract":"While much has been written on the province's involvement in reforestation projects beginning in the late-nineteenth-century, the interface between provincial initiatives and local activities has received little attention from the academic community. The exception is Diamando Diamantakos's exploration of the impact of provincial forestry legislation on municipal tree planting programmes, for which she uses Essex County in south-western Ontario as a case study. Diamantakos offers valuable insight into the failure of provincial forestry legislation to translate into planted trees at a municipal level. Specifically, she argues that the success of afforestation programn1es was 'limited by the continuing priority attached to private property rights, doubts concerning the relation between forest loss, climate and productivity, and a long-standing antagonism towards nature and forests' .2Unfortunately, her work is restricted to two nineteenth-century forestry initiatives, The Ontario Tree Planting Act, 1883 and the creation of the Clerk of Forestry in the same year. As such, Diamantakos' work provides only a snap shot of the ways in which early provincial afforestation schemes were adopted or avoided by municipalities, making it difficult to identify what aided or inhibited the success of such initiatives.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121655578","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":"Meredith Eliassen","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2008.4.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2008.4.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Meredith Eliassen has an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, Boston. Currently she is the reference specialist at the Leonard Library at San Francisco State University. She is interested in how legislation has influenced the lives of ordinary individuals and families. Most of her work reflects history and life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her article, 'A Colored Mosaic,' California State Library Foundation Bulletin, 84 (2006), 11-16, (which is available on-line at >www.cslfdn.org/pdf/bulletin-84.pdf) presents the story of African Americans in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132635264","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":"Dr J.D. Marshall (1919–2008): an Obituary","authors":"J. Walton","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2008.4.1.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2008.4.1.102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132764016","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":"Women as Sole Traders in Gold Rush San Francisco: Finding Relevance in Long-Silenced Points of View","authors":"Meredith Eliassen","doi":"10.1179/JRL.2008.4.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/JRL.2008.4.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Jonathan Swift reflected, 'laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Married women operating boardinghouses in San Francisco during the Gold Rush became caught in legal wrangles over land and were called to court. Cases that reached the California Supreme Court involving married women related to their fundamental ability of to contract to develop land and improve buildings. These cases set precedents throughout the state because San Francisco's problematic approaches to land allocation. Women who operated boardinghouses between 1849 and 1855 were plunged into an unregulated local climate of fierce real estate speculation. The balance of justice during the 1850s favored white American males who shaped laws to foster speculation while women quietly developed enterprises in the private sector to help make ends meet.1 Whether women operated family boardinghouses in their homes; commercial boardinghouses and small hotels; or conducted other type of businesses laws written during California's formative years shaped their experiences.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122478094","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":"Wool and War in Wiltshire","authors":"K. Tiller","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2008.4.1.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2008.4.1.89","url":null,"abstract":"John Chandler, Codford. Wool and War in Wiltshire, England's Past for Everyone, Phillimore, Chichester (2007), pp.x + 182, £14.99; Nicholas Orme, Cornwall and the Cross. Christianity 500-1560, England's Past for Everyone, Phillimore, Chichester (2007), pp.ix + 198, £14.99; Mark Bailey, Medieval Suffolk. An Econonlic and Social History 1200-1500. (History of Suffolk Volume I), Boydell Press, Woodbridge (2007), pp. xiii + 328, £25.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132590037","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":"Rural Governance in Regulating Customary Rights of Gleaning: A Case Study of Sherborne, Dorset 1635","authors":"Hideaki Inui","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2008.4.2.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2008.4.2.56","url":null,"abstract":"Custom was by definition lex loci, and customary consciousness was above all local, whereby local circumstances were' almost decisive in influencing the experience of, and responses to, change'. Therefore 'shifting configurations of interest' within the social order of individual communities are increasingly significant, not least because they reflected significant variations in social structure, wealth distribution, and demographic experience even between adjacent parishes and towns. This recognition led to negation of the historiographical 'bi -polar models of social, political, and economic relations: patricians and plebeian; governors and governed; propertied and propertyless'. It also led to rethinking the role of 'middling sort', which social historians have traditionally regarded as static ranks of orders based on assumption that economic inequality was absolute rather than relative. It furthermore has recently revealed the dynalnic process of the extent to which social policy could be transformed by popular participation in exploring the significance of triangular or quadrangular negotiation involving pauper, parish officers, magistrate, and the itinerant judiciary or the justices of King's Bench. More importantly the way in which the limitation of paupers' agency, tightly-controlled access to the 'circuit of authority'.2 Thus, the negotiation as third dimension constructed the intermediate sphere transmitted both of them, whereby relationship of the central and local was reconfigured. 3","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121117195","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":"Community Radio, Funding and Ethics","authors":"J. Gordon","doi":"10.1179/jrl.2007.3.2.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/jrl.2007.3.2.23","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Community radio is defined as being a being a notfor-profit radio station, run primarily by volunteers, drawn from the community that the radio station is targeting as its audience. This might be a geographical community, for example a small town or village, for example FOD Radio, in the Forest of Dean, a rural area of west England in the UK, or it might be a community of interest, for example Takeover Radio, in the city of Leicester in the UK, which defines as its community, young people under 18 years old. The size of the area will be dependent on the local topography and the power of the transmitter. In the UK this will typically be about a 5 km radius. However in a larger and less densely populated country, such as Australia, where transmitter power may be higher, community stations broadcast to extensive remote and rural areas, as well as wide suburban and urban districts.","PeriodicalId":299529,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127062573","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}