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Une livraison de la Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine (Volume 42, N° 1, automne 2013).

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David G. Burley
Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960

Greg Marquis
Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s…

Given the increasing importance of affordability in housing policy reform debates, this study develops a new composite approach to measuring housing affordability and employs it to examine the nature of urban housing affordability in Nigeria. The…

Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the observed…

Abstract from the publisher : This book is a striking collection of the personal, often playful and thought-provoking installations in urban environments that use and react to walls, traffic signs, trees, ads, and any and all elements of the modern…

Une livraison de la revue Journal of Urban Affairs (Special Issue, may 2014, Volume 36, Issue s1).

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ASIA AND THE PACIFIC RIM: THE NEW PERI-URBANIZATION AND URBAN THEORY
JILL SIMONE GROSS, LIN YE and RICHARD LEGATES

THE NEW FACE OF…

In France, a strong control has been traditionally exerted over land-use. However, in the early 1980s, land markets shifted progressively from an administratively controlled regime to a more market-oriented economy. A bubble emerged in the Paris…

Présentation de l'éditeur : De 1987 à 2006, soit sur une période de vingt ans, Jean- Christophe Ballot a réalisé des images de villes aux quatre coins du monde : Paris, Rome, Berlin (deux époques…

This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through ‘invited spaces’ offered by the government and ‘claimed spaces’ created by the poor. The study questions how increased contributions to poverty…

Collaborative transportation and logistics pooling are relatively new concepts in research, but are very popular in practice. In the last years, collaborative transportation seems a good city logistics alternative to classical urban consolidation…

This paper presents the main issues related to the financing of urban logistics solutions, more precisely to the contribution of economic analysis on strategic decision support related for urban logistics financing, focusing on cost benefit analysis.…

Abstract from the publisher : This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems,…

The aim of this paper is to analyse metabolic interaction between Paris and the Seine during the industrial era, 1790-1970, a period marked by strong population growth, technological changes, and the absence of specific legislation on environmental…

This work is a study in urban history, in particular, one that examines a crucial period in the rise and development of large cities and metropolises in the region of Sogdiana within Central Asia, between the seventh and tenth centuries. The primary…

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…

Abstract from the publisher : At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an…

Abstract from the publisher : Urban Morphology is the Journal of the International Seminar on Urban Form. It is published biannually, in April and October.

From the editorial by J.W.R. Whitehand : In this issue of Urban Morphology there are several contributions that combine, or consider the potential of combining, approaches that have hitherto had largely separate existences. Griffiths et al. combine…

Influence of urban forms on pollutants distribution is presently investigated in urban atmospheric pollution researches. This multi-scale problem is generally studied on a single sclae (local, meso or global) but seldom considering the total effect…

This paper reflects the work achieved for demonstrating the potentialities of Earth Observation data for the knowledge of the atmospheric pollutants concentration fields over metropolitan areas. The interaction of several scales of pollutant…