Tag: social cohesion
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Church removal: coal mining, cultural heritage and social cohesion
Heuersdorf  was a village in the Leipzig lowlands, Saxony, Germany. The area of the village belongs to the city of Leipzig since 2004. After a long but ultimately futile resistance of the inhabitants since 1935 the village was evacuated and devastated. See bellow the description, taken from www.heuersdorf.de, illustrates the struggle: The villagers were forced to…
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Discusión sobre sistemas urbanos policéntricos. El caso de Galicia.
Galicia es una Comunidad Autónoma (CC.AA) situada en el noroeste del Estado Español. Con cerca de tres millones de habitantes, cuenta con un sistema policéntrico de ciudades en contraposición al modelo céntrico existente en otras Comunidades Autónomas como Cataluña, Madrid o Valencia donde una sola ciudad se erige como centro el sistema urbano. En concreto,…
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An extraordinary example of social capital and human cooperation capacity [video]
Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust memorial day in Israel. On this day, a single siren is sounded throughout the entire country of Israel. During the siren, everything, everywhere in the country stops. An extraordinary example of how high reserves of social capital, understood as the existence of shared common values and beliefes in a given society,…
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Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at UFZ
The Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (Germany) is likely one of the most appealing and advanced research centres I’ve seen in relation to urban and environmental studies. See bellow the short description provided in their website: The Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre…
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Urban symbolic violence
“Street harassment”. I like the term used in this article. It also includes the above video on gender harassment in the street. They did a kind of social experiment with a hidden camera to show how many times in a day a woman can get harassed. The video makes me think on street harassment in a…