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City futures 2004
Organisers' description :
An important international conference on globalism and urban change took place in Chicago from July 8-10, 2004.
The aim of the City Futures conference was to boost the quality of international dialogue about urban issues…
Urban mobility and social inequity: German journal of urban studies (No. 2, 2007)
Extract from the Editorial:
The focus of this issue of the DfK is on spatial mobility in the context of social inequity. The articles consider different aspects of the subject. Various social groups are examined that have hitherto been outside the…
Mots-clés: Allemagne, Beckmann Klaus J., Bracher Tilman, déplacements, équité sociale, Germany, Hesse Markus, mobilité, transport
Measuring socially sustainable urban regeneration in Europe
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In a research called ‘Measuring Socially Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Europe’ by Andrea Colantonio and Tim Dixon et. al. it is argued that previous research on sustainability has been mainly limited…
Cities and social equity: Inequality, territory and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Cities and Social Equity is a report by the Urban Age research team with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for…
Les dommage collatéraux de la crise du logement sur les conditions de vie de la population
Présentation par l'éditeur : Les quinze dernières années ont été marquées par une hausse des prix de l’immobilier largement déconnectée de l’évolution des revenus des…
The urban wilderness : A history of the American city
From the foreword by Charles Tilly :
For a generation Sam Warner has written about American urban history by sketching the development of particular cities. A 1994 poll of urban history scholars identified him as the country's most influential…
State of the world's cities 2010/2011 - cities for all: Bridging the urban divide
Abstract from the publisher :
The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban…
Mots-clés: bidonville, citadin, économie, équité sociale, exclusion, fragmentation sociale, pauvreté
Civitas by design : Building better communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From…
The just city
Abstract from the publisher : For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused…
Why loiter? Women and risk on Mumbai streets
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Presenting an original take on women’s safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the…
Mots-clés: équité sociale, espace urbain, feminism, féminisme, femme, gender, genre, Inde, India, Khan Sameera, marginalité, Mumbai, Phadke Shilpa, Ranade Shilpa, rue, woman
Searching for the just city : Debates in urban theory and practice
Abstract from the publisher : Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and…
Justice and the American metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Today’s American cities and suburbs are the sites of “thick injustice”—unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opaque and seemingly intractable. Thick…
Bird on fire: Lessons from the world's least sustainable city
Abstract from the publisher: Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall,…
Everyday life in the segmented city
Abstract from the publisher: This volume of "Research in Urban Sociology" is composed of a selection of the papers presented at the conference "Everyday Life in the Segmented City" held in July 2010, Florence. The conference…
Urban political geographies: A global perspective
Abstract from the publisher: How can we think about the urban within a political and geographical framework? This compelling new textbook scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to provide readers with a clear…
Là-bas si j'y suis
Quelques émissions de Là-bas si j'y suis sélectionnées pour vous par Crévilles.org :
Mardi 25 décembre 2007 : Balade à Sanaa, au Yémen
Mardi 27 novembre 2007 : Retour à La Courneuve,…
Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: Social order revisited
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A look at classic urban themes as they are manifested in the contemporary city, focusing on social reproduction of inequality, the meanings of disorder, and the link between the two.
Paul Gilroy is Anthony Giddens…
Kinetic City: Designing for Informality in Mumbai
Organisers' description :
Mumbai, a Kinetic City, presents a compelling vision that potentially allows us to better understand the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism and the changing roles of people and spaces in urban society. An architecture…
Urban age : Johannesburg
Organisers' description :
The principal aim of Urban Age is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. This six-year conference series – travelling from New York City, Shanghai, London, Mexico City,…