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21st international congress of historical sciences
Organisers' description :
The International Congress of Historical Sciences takes place every five years. This Congress provides an ideal venue for extensive reports, papers, debates, exchanges, and meetings reflecting historical research in…
Aerotropolis : The way we'll live next
Abstract from the publisher : This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future—and the way we will do business too. Not so long ago, airports were…
Architecture de la croissance - Les paradoxes de la sauvegarde
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Actes du colloque organisé par l’Institut für Denkmalpflege und Bauforschung de l’ETH Zurich.
Dans les années 1960 et 1970, la masse bâtie et les infrastructures se…
Atlas de Nouakchott : infrastructures et services urbains
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Ville jeune et pourtant déjà millionnaire, Nouakchott n'est pas seulement la capitale administrative et politique de la Mauritanie ; elle est aussi le lieu où vit désormais…
Century of the city : No time to lose
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One in every ten people lived in urban areas a century ago. Now, for the first time ever, most people live in cities. By 2050, the United Nations projects, almost three-quarters of the world's population will call…
China and India: Governance, urban development, and sustainability in the cities of the Global South
Organisers' description : The scholarship with regard to the process of urbanization in the context of globalization has been dominated by the "global cities" paradigm in which Saskia Sassen outlines the increasing centrality of cities as…
Cities: Place, space and everyday infrastructure. Great cities - ordinary lives conference panel 2
The second panel of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up
Panel 2 : Cities : Place, space and everyday infrastructure…
Connecting cities : Networks
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
Until recently cities were seen as places. Think of New York skyscrapers, the streets of Paris, the canals of Venice or Sydney Harbour.
Over the last 20 years or so a new reading of cities has…
Mots-clés: global city, infrastructures, mondialisation, réseaux, ville mondiale, world city
Des tuyaux et des hommes : les réseaux d'eau en France
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Ce livre a pour objectif d’aller au-delà des idées reçues sur les services d’eau et leur financement, sur le prix de l’eau, sur le principe pollueur-payeur, sur les…
Dubai amplified : The engineering of a port geography
Abstract from the publisher : Following the British withdrawal in 1971, the Gulf Region entered a heady period of political restructuring, awash with oil money that helped fund national aspirations. Infrastructure investment became a central part…
European city in comparative perspective
Papers presented at the 2004 European Association for Urban History (EUAH)'s conference 'European city in comparative perspective : Seventh international conference on urban history' are available for download as full-text PDF files. 144 papers are…
Footprint : Metropolitan form
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The fifth issue of Footprint investigates the question of metropolitan form. The necessity to focus on the scale of metropolitan areas is manifest as this is the dominant scale of contemporary global life. The process…
Futures of cities : 51st IFHP world congress
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The year 2007 marks a shift to an urban era, an era in which more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This fact is making many headlines. But what are its implications? How will this impact the…
Habitat international (Vol. 35, No. 1)
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Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world.…
Hommes et ports : aux origines d’un divorce
Il fut un temps où l’homme vivait au coeur du port. Aujourd’hui il en est éloigné, voire exclu diront certains. Le glissement des ports aux confins des limites de la ville, puis en dehors de celle-ci trouve sa source…
Mots-clés: espace urbain, infrastructures, ville portuaire
In our time : The city - a history, part 2
Abstract from the distributor :
Melvyn Bragg presents the second of a two part discussion about the history of the city.
George Stephenson invented rail transport in the north-east of England in the 1820s, but it was not until over twenty years…