Abroad and Home: Colonial Culture in France

Lehning, J.R., Peasant and French; Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 239pp., £14.95, ISBN 0 521 46770 5

Sahlins, P., Forest Rites; The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth Century France (Harvard University Press, 1994), 188pp., £11.95, ISBN 0 674 30896 4     

The Urban Order: An Introduction to Cities, Culture, and Power

Book reviewed in this article:
The Golden Age Illusion: Rethinking Postwar Capitalism by MICHAEL J. WEBBER and DAVID L. RIGBY, Guilford Press, New York and London
Climate Change 1995 - The Science of Climate Change: Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change edited by J.T. HOUGHTON, L.G. MEIRA FILHO, B.A. CALLANDER, N. HARRIS, A. KATTENBERG, and K. MASKELL, Cambridge University Press,
Climate Change 1995 - Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses: Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change edited by R.T. WATSON, M.C. ZINYOWERA, and R.H. MOSS
Climate Change 1995 - Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Contribution of Working Group III to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change edited by J.P. BRUCE, H. LEE, and E.F. HAITES
'As Their Natural Resources Fail': Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870–1930 by FRANK TOUGH, UBC Press, Vancouver
Atlas historique du Québec: le pays laurentien au XIX^e siècle - les morphologies de base par SERGE COURVILLE, JEAN-CLAUDE ROBERT et NORMAND SÉGUIN
Gender, Work, and Space by SUSAN HANSON and GERALDINE PRATT, Routledge, London and New York, 1995
The Countryside Ideal: Anglo-American Images of Landscape by Michael Bunce, Routledge, London and New York, 1994     

The Challenge of Change: Australian Cities and Urban Planning in the New Millennium

This paper reviews recent research on the changing spatial structure of Australia's major cities from the early 1990s, concentrating on (a) the location of employment and journey to work patterns, (b) the changing nature of housing, and (c) patterns of residential differentiation and disadvantage. The paper argues that the 1990s was a watershed decade during which some taken‐for‐granted aspects of Australian urban character experienced significant change. It then examines the latest generation of strategic planning documents for these major metropolitan areas, all published between 2002 and 2005, and argues that there is a mismatch between the strategies’ consensus view of desirable future urban structure, based on containment, consolidation and centres, and the complex realities of the evolving urban structures. In particular, the current metropolitan strategies do not come to terms with the dispersed, suburbanised nature of much economic activity and employment and the environmental and social issues that flow from that, and they are unconvincing in their approaches to the emerging issues of housing affordability and new, finer‐grained patterns of suburban inequality and disadvantage. Overall, the paper contends that current metropolitan planning strategies suggest an inflexible, over‐neat vision for the future that is at odds with the picture of increasing geographical complexity that emerges from recent research on the changing internal structure of our major cities.     

Building in Colonial Louisiana: Creolization and the Survival of French Traditions

Documents and limited archaeological evidence indicate that the building methods of the Louisiana Acadians during the colonial period strongly reflected a heritage of late-medieval and early-modern French methods and techniques of constructing vernacular buildings.     

英国殖民城市模式考察

英国在殖民化中确立了具有自身特色的英国殖民城市模式.其主要内容有:提出殖民城市规划建设模式的目标;推出土地授予和分配制度;确保城市规划先于城镇建设;规定城市规划的标准和布局;预留公共用地和绿化带,避免过度商业开发.英国殖民城市模式在其存在的4个世纪里发生演变和扩散大体上经历了5个时期.殖民城市模式在城市化的进程中起到了十分重要的指导性作用.其主要特点为:英国及其殖民地政府在殖民城市模式的形成、制定过程中占据主导地位;殖民城市模式的实施建立在侵略掠夺殖民地人民的基础之上;殖民城市模式的要素构成相对稳定,具有明显的延续性;殖民城市模式的实施具有多样化的特征;殖民城市模式受到殖民地客观条件的制约;殖民城市模式对世界碱市化具有一定的影响力.