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Puzzling neighbourhood effects : Spatial selection, ethnic concentration and neighbourhood impacts
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Like other West European countries, the Netherlands are facing a growing uneasiness about its changing demographics. It is within this context that animated discussions concerning immigrant neighbourhoods dominate. The…
Comment questionner l'étalement urbain ?
Extrait du préambule : Comment questionner l’étalement urbain, quels savoirs mobiliser et quels outils mettre en œuvre pour agir et améliorer le cadre de vie ? De nombreux CAUE ont décidé de…
Villes pour toutes et tous
Présentation par l'éditeur : Depuis plus de trente ans, Habitat International Coalition (HIC) tisse des liens entre l'habitat humain, les droits humains et la dignité, en visant la reconnaissance des revendications des peuples…
Reconsidering informality : Perspectives from urban Africa
Abstract from the publisher : This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate: Studies of urban land use and housing, and studies of work and livelihoods. Africa’s future will be to an…
Shaping suburbia : How political institutions organize urban development
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The American metropolis has been transformed over the past quarter century. Cities have turned inside out, with rapidly growing suburbs evolving into edge cities and technoburbs. But not all suburbs are alike. In…
Expositions : Literature and architecture in nineteenth-century France
Abstract from the publisher : In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and…
Metropolitan world atlas
Abstract from the publisher : With its wealth of facts and clean, abstract design, the Metropolitan World Atlas is a must-buy. Despite the burgeoning interest in metropolitan growth and globalization there has been no way of directly comparing…
Cities and climate change
NB : Note that this report is available as a read-only version, with a large stamp superimposed over the text in the right-hand corner. It is also available for purchase as a print or e-book.
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As the hubs of economic…
Bruxelles-Midi. L'urbanisme du sacrifice et des bouts de ficelle
Quatrième de couverture : L’histoire de Bruxelles est jalonnée de grands projets immobiliers qui, cycliquement, ont dévasté le tissu urbain et se sont terminés par un "Plus jamais ça !".…
Shanghai : Its urbanization and culture
Extract from the introduction by George F. McLean and Robert Magliola : Ten years ago an international seminar of The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy took up this question of "urbanization and values". The study printed…
Inventing Lima : Baroque modernity in Peru's south sea metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Inventing Lima is the first synthetic cultural history of Peru’s baroque “City of the Kings.” Professor Osorio’s interpretation of ritual life in the Peruvian metropolis significantly revises…
American city planning since 1890
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City planning is an ancient activity but a modern profession. The city planning profession in the United States arose from the urban reform movements of the 1890s and early years of this century. Here, in a volume…
The city : Urban communities and their problems
From the preface : Many recent urban sociology textbooks have come close to abandoning the traditional concern of urban sociology, which is the community in urban society. Emphasis has shifted to individual adaptations to urban society or to…
The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century
From the introduction : During the nineteenth century, a concerted effort was made to transform the Ottoman capital of Istanbul into a Western-style capital, paralleling the general struggle to salvage the Ottoman Empire by reforming its…
Cultiver de meilleures villes : agriculture urbaine et développement durable
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Les Nations Unies estiment qu’au cours des 25 prochaines années, la quasi-totalité de la croissance démographique se produira dans les villes des pays en développement. Si…
Patrimoines en situation. Constructions et usages en différents contextes urbains
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Cet ouvrage trouve son origine dans un colloque, Les patrimoines dans la ville : de la construction des savoirs aux politiques de sauvegarde au Maroc et dans le Monde arabe, organisé les 18, 19 et 20…
Frontiers and identities : Cities in regions and nations
From the preface : Frontiers and Identities: Cities in Regions and Nations, edited by Professors Luďa Klusáková and Laure Teulières, is the third volume published by the Thematic Work Group 5 of the pan-European Network of…
The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on…
Remaking the modern: Space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo
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In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian…