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Urban reflections : Narratives of place, planning and change

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Abstract from the publisher : Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, the book…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, espace urbain, film, géographie urbaine, habitants, histoire de l'urbanisme, mutation urbaine, photographie, Tewdwr-Jones Mark

Urban regeneration and social sustainability

Abstract from the distributor : Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This launch marks an examination of social sustainability through the analysis of its meaning and significance. The authors will offer a…

Mots-clés: Colantonio Andrea, développement durable, Dixon Tim, European Union, Field Brian, Olbrycht Jan, politique urbaine, Power Anne, renouvellement urbain, société urbaine, Union européenne, ville durable

Urban Regime, Strategie for Downtown, un essai de transposition au centre-ville de Dunkerque

Urban renaissance : The meaning, management and manipulation of place, 1945 - 2002

The transition from deindustrial to post industrial city from the 1970s exposed how cities developed regeneration strategies as their traditional industrial base experienced terminal contraction. These strategies to re-make urban places positioned at…

Urban research & practice

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This issue of the journal 'Urban research & practice', the journal of the European urban research association (EURA), covers such topics as the future of urban economics, governance, identity, the environment, tourism, housing, poverty and the…

Urban research and complexity

This chapter is at first an attempt to identify the sources of complexity in the urban realm. A second step is to present various modelling approaches referring to the new paradigm of complexity, from a review of the literature in urban geography,…

Urban research and practice

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Abstract from the publishers : Urban Research & Practice, published in association with EURA (European Urban Research Association), focuses on urban policy. The journal includes papers that: * provide a systematic description of : - urban…

Urban revolt: Ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement

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Extract from the Preface: I became interested in nineteenth-century Chicago labor history in an indirect way. I had begun a study of political mobilization in Chicago community organizing and felt that I could not understand the political process…

Mots-clés: Chicago, dix-neuvième siècle, emploi, ethnicité, Hirsch Eric L., histoire urbaine, mouvement social, nineteenth century, politique de la ville, sciences politiques

Urban segregation as a complex system

Urban segregation represents a significant barrier for achieving social inclusion in cities. To overcome this, it is necessary to implement policies founded upon a better understanding of segregation dynamics. However, a crucial challenge for…

Urban sociology : An introduction to the study of urban communities

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Extract from the Preface : This book aims to fulfil but one purpose, namely, to meet the needs of students engaged in the study of the sociology of urban communities... The four queries with which this book concerns itself are: (a) What are the…

Mots-clés: Anderson Nels, communauté, community, Lindeman Eduard C., société urbaine, sociologie urbaine

Urban solid waste in southern countries: from a blurred object to common pool resources

It has been too long that the question of the municipal solid waste management in developing cities has had the replication of Northern operating devices as the only valued answer. Countless failed projects and 'white elephants' have followed.…

Urban Soundmarks Psychophysical Geodimensioning: Towards Ambient Pointers Geosystemic computation

The presented research work within AMBIOFLUX project aims to model the ambient soundscape system onto an urban pedestrian pathway using GIS spatial dynamical mapping. Pathway's acoustic fingerprints are discreetly built through informational…

Urban space and national identity in early twentieth century São Paulo, Brazil : Crafting modernity

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Abstract from the publisher : Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, classe moyenne, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, identité, Peixoto-Mehrtens Cristina, São Paulo, société urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

Urban space in contemporary Egyptian literature : Portraits of Cairo

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Abstract from the publisher : Part ode, part academic treatise, this book traces the transformation of Cairo’s historic downtown from its spectacular beginning as a French inspired Belle Époque marvel to a site of contest and, more…

Mots-clés: Cairo, centre historique, espace public, fragmentation urbaine, Le Caire, littérature, mondialisation, mouvement social, mutation urbaine, Naaman Mara

Urban spaces : Feminist review (Vol. 96, Issue 1)

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Abstract from the publisher : Drawing on a range of different genres (oral narratives, poetry, first hand accounts, drama, prose, novels, travelogues and guidebooks), this issue asks how we understand the city. More specifically it asks how these…

Urban spaces after socialism: Ethnographies of public places in Eurasian cities

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Mots-clés: Bakou, Baku, Darieva Tsypylma, Erevan, espace public, ethnologie, Gumri, Gyumri, Kaschuba Wolfgang, Krebs Melanie, Och, Osh, post-Soviet city, Saint Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, St. Petersburg, Tachkent, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tbilissi, ville post-soviétique, Yerevan

Urban sprawl and spatial planning : Facing the challenges of growing social inequity. Case study : Córdoba - Argentina

This research proposes to study spatial planning in a context of high social inequity. The analysis is focused on the possibilities that spatial planning has to attenuate conditions of inequity in urban development derived from urban growth process;…

Urban sprawl in Europe : The ignored challenge

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Extract from the introduction : Europe is a fascinating and diverse continent, one of the most urbanised on earth. Today, approximately 75% of the European population live in urban areas, while still enjoying access to extensive natural or…

Mots-clés: EEA, environnement urbain, étalement urbain, Europe, European Environment Agency, occupation du sol, politique urbaine

Urban sprawl occurrence under spatially varying agricultural bid-rent and amenities

This paper presents a spatially explicit model to examine the importance of agricultural amenities as a determinant of the urban and suburban spatial structure. By introducing endogenous agricultural amenities into the classical monocentric model, we…

Urban Sprawl: is there a French case?

The extension of urban space has been a world wide process during the last fifty years, certainly linked with the rapid diffusion of technologies, especially individual transportation modes, and with globalisation of many economic and cultural…

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