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Walter Benjamin’s and Charles Baudelaire’s personage of the flaneur can be interpreted as a representation of the ambivalent attraction to the strange and unknown in the experience of anonymous city life, so characteristic for the modern age. To what extent can we interpret this role of the flaneur – given its essential qualities in these writings – as a representation of world citizenship? The thesis is that the flaneur is more a cosmopolitan in the cultural than in the moral sense of the term. To live up to the demanding moral ideal of world citizenship, the flaneur needs to change: from detached observation to more meaningful forms of inter-cultural engagement. Hence the flaneur offers some clues for the kind of ethos that is required for a cosmopolitan subjectivity as well as for how it falls short.

- by Bart van Leeuwen
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- Cosmopolitanism, Allegory, Transcendence, Citizenship

Sokolov I.A. History of the Russian advertizing of tea: from barkers to stereo cards // Coffee & tea in Russia: the business magazine, No. 4 (105) for 2013 – PP. 58 – 60.
Соколов И.А. История российской рекламы чая: от зазывал до стереооткрыток // Кофе & чай в России: деловой журнал, № 4 (105) за 2013 г. – С. 58 – 60.

- by Ivan Sokolov
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- Marketing, Religion, History, Cultural History

This is a translation, originally for the use of students studying French history, of the journal of a priest of Bourges who made the transition from minor Catholic cleric to Protestant. His journal illustrates the secular and religious life of the city in terms of, to him, unusual events. It culminates in the siege of Bourges by the royal army in 1562.

- by David Potter
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- French Reformation, Wars of Religion, City Life, French Catholic clergy

„Brooklyn’s newest affordable rentals: Lottery open now“ – steht in Großbuchstaben auf dem Flyer, der bei der Sitzung der lokalen Bürgervertretung in Bedford Stuyvesant (Brooklyn) an das Publikum verteilt wird und der dazu auffordern soll, sich bei der angekündigten Wohnungslotterie zu bewerben. 181 ‚bezahlbare’ Neubauwohnungen der insgesamt 363 Wohnungen in der Dean Street 461 werden durch eine Lotterie per Zufallsprinzip an die Bewerber_innen verteilt. Die tendenziell eher einkommensschwächeren Anwohner_innen des von Gentrifizierungsprozessen geprägten Viertels werden innerhalb der Lotterie bevorzugt berücksichtigt, wie die Direktorin der Wohnungsgesellschaft, die diese Wohnungen managt und für die Durchführung der Wohnungslotterie zuständig ist, erklärt und sogleich alle Interessierten auffordert, zu einer Informationsveranstaltung ein paar Wochen später zu kommen.

- by Yuca Meubrink
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- Housing Policy, New York City, American Dream, City Life

This thesis explores encounters in Lima’s inner-city marketplaces as residents’ everyday intersections that exceed the immediate co-presence and imply ongoing negotiations on the shared space and activities together. These lead residents to shape relations and arrangements towards common living, on top of experiences of social and spatial fragmentation in this Latin American city. Encounters and negotiations are framed within the distinctiveness and complexity of market environments, historically accomplishing roles for economic and political participation, as well as social and cultural life in cities. Moreover, in the context of the ‘Gastronomic Boom’ of Peruvian cuisine, food became a central means through which it was possible to approximate these local environments. Two case-study markets in Lima were investigated through ethnographic work, applying experiential, immersive and qualitative methods. These were key in producing information on topics and locations little documented...

- by Ana Maria Huaita-Alfaro
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- Sociology, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Cultural Encounters

Hindi nagkakalayo ang buhay sa probinsiya at lunsod, pagdating sa kahirapan.

- by Apolinario Villalobos
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- Poverty, Philippines, Slums Studies, Manila

From the Festival Issue 2015 of The Statesman

- by debasish lahiri
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- History, Memory, Kolkata, Quietness
- by Boutheina Khaldi
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- Sufism, Abbasid Intellectual History, Baghdad, City Life

Intercultural citizenship seems to benefit from certain generic aspects of city life that carry a negative quality, such as " blasé attitude " or the typical " indifference " of city dwellers. The main part of this essay argues that this observation allows the formulation of a moral minimum—a threshold conception—of intercultural citizenship in the urban setting, namely, what I call side-by-side citizenship. A certain level of indifference makes possible personal freedom and a tolerant multicultural city, although there are more ideal formulations of intercultural citizenship, such as in terms of agonism or cosmopolitanism. However, these more ambitious forms easily become too demanding given the muddle of everyday urban living conditions, which tend to promote mutual reserve and impersonal social relations. A modest and realistic conception of intercultural citizenship could prove crucial in motivating citizens to act according to some minimal standards.

La città dove si vive, a volte, ci può sembrare un'altra città, una città estranea e mai vista. Quando la guardiamo dal vetro di un lento bus o quando ce ne andiamo passeggiando con certi pensieri in testa… Lo spazio urbano è luogo collettivo e condiviso, ma a volte risulta trasfigurato dalle nostre soggettività, dai nostri umori, dalle nostre prospettive, come se lo spazio urbano fosse uno dei mille specchi dei nostri cuori e dei nostri occhi. In certi momenti, da certi punti di vista, può capitare di guardare con straniamento lo spazio ordinario che ci circonda e ciò che George Perec chiamava l'infraordinario emerge fino alla superficie di una macchina fotografica o di un foglio da penna. Uno spazio che amiamo può così mostrare una faccia ostile o triste e nei nostri occhi passa una città diversa da quella di ieri o da quella di stamattina. Napoli, nelle foto di Annabella Calabrese e Firenze, nei testi di Jessica Mazzotti, sono immagini infraordinarie delle nostre strade di routine, delle nostre consuetudini urbane e spuntano tra lo scorrere dei giorni e dei chilometri come erbe da marciapiede che tentano di rendere, in elaborazione visiva e testuale, la densità emotiva della quale traboccano certi angoli o atmosfere cittadine, quando noi, abitanti dello spazio-città, la invadiamo con la nostra interiorità in subbuglio.

- by Jessica Mazzotti
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- Writing, Privatization, Bus, Army

The word ‘mega city’ redefines the city with population density also indicates several challenges which the city dwellers have to deal with on regular basis. Dhaka is a mega city that has been dealing with plentiful challenges. In recent time, the city authority restricted the street hawkers in many places as a solution for the betterment of the city. In collaboration with Work for Better Bangladesh trust (WBB) the research project called ‘Walkers and Hawkers Issues and Proposals’ began.