Abstract from the publisher : In this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that…
Abstract from the publisher : The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply…
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Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the…
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As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative…
Abstract from the publisher : At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing,…
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This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
Abstract from the publisher : Globalisation and a neo-liberal world order are impacting the global urban system, resulting in massive transformation of cities across the world. This transformation, which is currently the centre of focus among…
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Les villes et les agglomérations européennes abritent aujourd’hui 80 % de la population du continent. Le développement futur de l’espace européen ne peut…
Sommaire du n° 237 des Cahiers d'Outre-Mer :
Bernard Calas - Dynamiques métropolitaines d’Afrique orientale
Cécile Roy - La prise en compte de l’environnement à Dar es Salaam, problèmes et…
From the introduction by Lawrence Phillips : Is the 'global' city an age-old historical phenomenon associated with economic, cultural, and imperial power (Rome, Athens, Beijing, Istanbul), or a consequence of the industrial revolution? Is it a…
Enjeux, circulations et mise à l'épreuve de nouvelles politiques urbaines. Le volume 7 (2013) de la revue Environnement Urbain / Urban Environment est en ligne en texte intégral
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- BARTHEL P.-A. & VERDEIL E.,…
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This Conference Book compiles the summary-papers that win be presented at the First Conference of the ALFA-IBIS Network. Part One is an introductory chapter containing a short history of the ALFA-IBIS project, the…
Extract from the Foreword by Heitor Gurgulino de Souza :
With contributions from prominent urban planning scholars and experts in Africa, The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of Its Large Cities, edited by Professor Carole Rakodi of…
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In Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region, scholars from around the region analyse the impacts of globalisation on cities in the Asia-Pacific. This collection of essays forms a…
From the editorial by Alicia Murría :
Modern city planning and architecture have been places at the service of production, traffic, and consumption, and of a particular idea of the white, Western, heterosexual middle-class male. Only in the…
Extract from the introduction by Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble and Joseph S. Tulchin :
Globalization has had a peculiar impact on cities all over the world, as much in the developed world as in the developing world. Globalization turned out to be…
From the introduction by Izhak Schnell :
Special Issue: “Bridging Diversity in a Globalizing World” Selected Papers given at the IGU - Urban Commission Meeting Regional Conference, July 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel
This volume is a result of…
From the introduction by Dietrich Fürst :
"In Focus" in the second issue of the German Journal of Urban Studies is the problem of how collective needs for economic and ecological action cut across city boundaries in interdependence…