Going beyond the assumption that East Central European cities are still 'in transition' this book draws on the postsocialism paradigm to ask new questions about the impact of demographic change on residential developments in this region. Focussing on four second-order cities in this region, it examines Gdansk and LA(3)dz in Poland and Brno and Ostrava in the Czech Republic as examples and deals with the nexus between urban development and demographic change for the context of East Central European cities. It provides a framework for linking urban and demographic research. It discusses how residential areas and urban developments cope with changes in population development, household types and different forms of in- and out-migration and goes on to explore parallels and differences in comparison with broader European patterns. This book will be useful to academics of urban planning and development especially in transition areas, Central and Eastern European studies, demographics and population studies, and sociology/social exclusion.

Going beyond the assumption that East Central European cities are still 'in transition' this book draws on the postsocialism paradigm to ask new questions about the impact of demographic change on residential developments in this region. Focussing on four second-order cities in this region, it examines Gdansk and LA(3)dz in Poland and Brno and Ostrava in the Czech Republic as examples and deals with the nexus between urban development and demographic change for the context of East Central European cities. It provides a framework for linking urban and demographic research. It discusses how residential areas and urban developments cope with changes in population development, household types and different forms of in- and out-migration and goes on to explore parallels and differences in comparison with broader European patterns. This book will be useful to academics of urban planning and development especially in transition areas, Central and Eastern European studies, demographics and population studies, and sociology/social exclusion.

How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level. Although public discourses on urban diversity are often negative, this book focuses on how residents actively and creatively come and live together through micro-level interactions. By deliberately taking an international perspective on the daily lives of residents, the book uncovers the ways in which national and local contexts shape living in diversity. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of poverty, segregation and social mix, conviviality, the effects of international migration, urban and neighbourhood policies and governance, multiculturality, social networks, social cohesion, social mobility, and super-diversity.

How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level. Although public discourses on urban diversity are often negative, this book focuses on how residents actively and creatively come and live together through micro-level interactions. By deliberately taking an international perspective on the daily lives of residents, the book uncovers the ways in which national and local contexts shape living in diversity. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of poverty, segregation and social mix, conviviality, the effects of international migration, urban and neighbourhood policies and governance, multiculturality, social networks, social cohesion, social mobility, and super-diversity.

The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change. The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions and practice-oriented governance approaches are developed. This assumption is addressed by providing theoretical insights and empirical evidence pointing particularly at 3 concepts or qualities which are determined here as being central for achieving urban sustainability: resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience. Urban case studies from several international research projects illustrate our conceptual approach of urban transformations towards sustainable development. Thus, the book reaches far beyond a mere additive description of single case studies. It incorporates the results of condensed synthesis, resulting from comparisons and evaluations. It provides, based on cross-cutting reflection of single cases and different scales and methods of analysis, general and transferable findings. They do not only consider the scientific sphere but deliberately go beyond it discussing transferability of knowledge into practice, governance options and the feasibility of policy strategies in order to pave the way for sustainable urban transformations to happen today and in the future.

Written around 1300, the Passional is the first major collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books I and II are now being published in an edition that documents the entire surviving literary record, the relationship to its sources, and the author's unique vocabulary.

Written around 1300, the Passional is the first great collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books I and II are now being published in an edition that includes extensive documentation of the entire literary tradition, the relationship to its sources, and the author's unique vocabulary.

Leben und Wundertaten der heiligen Elisabeth von Thuringen sind der Inhalt des 'Elisabethlebens' des Eisenacher Ratsschreibers Johannes Rothe (ca. 1360-1434). Rothe bietet in der paargereimten Verslegende von uber 4000 Versen die umfassende Wiedergabe der chronikalischen und legendarischen Uberlieferung, wobei er neben den Chroniken besonders die lateinische Vita Dietrichs von Apolda auswertet."

Die von der Germanistik und von der Niederlandistik lange erwartete Edition macht einen Text zuganglich, der als versgenaue Umsetzung eines niederlandischen Werkes ins Deutsche eine Vorstellung zu vermitteln vermag von der Gestalt des mittelniederlandischen "Madelgijs," der bekanntesten, aber nur fragmentarisch erhaltenen niederlandischen Bearbeitung eines Chanson de geste-Stoffes, des franzosischen "Maugis d Aigremont." Das rund 23.000 Verse umfassende Epos uber Malagis, den zauberkundigen Helfer der vier Haimonskinder, wurde zusammen mit den zwei eng verwandten Epen, dem 1885 bereits in einer modernen Ausgabe erschienenen "Reinolt von Montalban" und dem in absehbarer Zeit ebenfalls in den Deutschen Texten des Mittelalters erscheinenden "Ogier," im 15. Jahrhundert am Heidelberger Hof rezipiert. Die Edition des "Malagis" wie des "Ogier" werden daher in besonderem Masse zur Kenntnis der niederlandisch-deutschen Literaturbeziehungen im Spatmittelalter und zur Erhellung des Literaturbetriebs eines spatmittelalterlichen Furstenhofes beitragen. Die umfangreiche Einleitung zur Ausgabe gibt Auskunft uber die handschriftliche Uberlieferung und die inhaltliche Ausgestaltung des Stoffes in der deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Literatur sowie uber die Abhangigkeit der verschiedenen Bearbeitungen des Stoffes. Leithandschrift fur den Text des nur in zwei Handschriften des 15. Jahrhunderts uberlieferten "Malagis" ist der Cpg 340. In einem Lesartenapparat sind die fur das zeitgenossische Textverstandnis aufschlussreichen Varianten des cpg 315, einer direkten Abschrift des Cpg 340, verzeichnet. In einem kommentierenden Apparat werden schwer verstandliche Stellen erlautert und Konjekturen begrundet, z. T. durch Hinweise auf die mndl. Fragmente, deren Beginn bzw. Ende am rechten Rand des Textes nach der Edition von Bob Th. W. Duijvestijn vermerkt ist. Ein Namenverzeichnis mit einer genealogischen Ubersicht und ein ausfuhrliches Glossar, das uber ein blosses Wortverzeichnis hinausgeht, beschliessen den lange erwarteten Band, der das Ergebnis einer erfolgreichen interdisziplinaren Zusammenarbeit von Germanisten und Niederlandisten aus mehreren Landern reprasentiert."