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The lure of the city: From slums to suburbs

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Abstract from the publisher: Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the…

Mots-clés: citadin, développement urbain, Donald Alastair, dynamiques urbaines, économie, politique de la ville, société urbaine, urbanisation, urbanité, Williams Austin

The magic of the city : Representing places of the dead in the contemporary Western metropolis

This thesis posits that throughout history, the Western city has been made and understood according to a shared image of the cosmos. It argues that though the contours of this cosmos have changed over time and place, collectively held understandings…

The making of global cities : A symposium and research agenda

Abstract from the publisher : Increasingly, mega cities located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have become the focus of policy makers and scholarly research. These regions are the locations of the bulk of the world’s largest cities; now…

Mots-clés: global cities, mégapole, mondialisation, néolibéralisme, urbanisation, ville mondiale, world city

The making of Hong Kong : From vertical to volumetric

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Abstract from the publisher : This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense…

Mots-clés: densité urbaine, développement urbain, forme urbaine, gratte-ciel, histoire de l'urbanisme, Hong Kong, Karakiewicz Justyna, Kvan Thomas, Shelton Barrie

The making of the English middle class: Business, society and family life in London, 1660-1730

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Mots-clés: bourgeoisie, classe moyenne, dix-huitième siècle, dix-septième siècle, Earle Peter, économie, eighteenth century, emploi, famille, family, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, seventeenth century, société urbaine

The medieval English borough : Studies on its origins and constitutional history

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Abstract from the 1968 edition : Long regarded as the definitive study of the early history of the English medieval borough, this book presents a thorough review of the 'thorny question of origins' and the theories of scholars such as Carl…

Mots-clés: Angleterre, borough, bourg, England, genèse des villes, histoire urbaine, médiéval, Middle Ages, Moyen Âge, Tait James

The medieval town

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The late Fritz Rörig was an Emeritus Professor and member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Alternative link to this book via Google Books

Mots-clés: classe moyenne, commerce, économie, gouvernance, histoire urbaine, médiéval, Middle Ages, Moyen Âge, Rörig Fritz, société urbaine

The mega-city in Latin America

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Abstract from the publisher : By the year 2000, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more than 8 million people. Their combined population will be over 70 million, and approximately one Latin American in seven will live in those…

Mots-clés: Amérique latine, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, croissance urbaine, démographie, foncier, Gilbert Alan, gouvernance, Latin America, Lima, logement, mégapole, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Fé de Bogotá, São Paulo, transport

The Mentally Handicapped and the Neighbourhood.

‘‘Handicap'' is a word that has come into general use in French to designate impairments and disabilities. The purpose of this article is to examine the representations which give meaning to the notion of handicap in everyday language. It looks at…

The metropolitan factory. Intermunicipal institution's and Département's parts in the local rule-building process

The economic and social phenomena which play a role in shaping cities are largely unaffected by institutional boundaries. In other words, public actors in "cities unbound" deal with problems that are not restricted to their own institutional area,…

The misuse value of space: Spatial practices and the production of space in Istanbul

This dissertation is an interdisciplinary investigation of the indeterminate political role played by the inhabitants’ spatial practices of misuse in the social production of urban space in contemporary Istanbul. My argument is that both established…

The mobile city of Accra : urban families, housing and residential practices = Accra, capitale en mouvement : familles citadines, logement et pratiques résidentielles

Ménages, familles et résidences

Introduction : challenges of urbanization in Ghana

The mysteries of the great city: The politics of urban design, 1877-1937

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Abstract from the publisher: The Mysteries of the Great City examines the physical, cultural, and political transformations of the American city between the Gilded Age and the New Deal. Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, John Fairfield…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Chicago, Cincinnati, développement urbain, dix-neuvième siècle, États-Unis, Fairfield John D., histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, New York, nineteenth century, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, twentieth century, United States, vingtième siècle

The Neighbor is King: Customer Discrimination in the Housing Market

This paper provides a method to single out customer-based discrimination in the housing market. We build a matching model with ethnic externalities where landlords differ in the number of housing units they own within the same building.…

The Neoliberalization of urban space

This paper investigates the ‘serial reproduction' of new downtowns as up-to-date business and financial districts and high-end residential neighborhoods in the central areas of Beirut and Amman. These new monumental spaces are designed as the ‘icons'…

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