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Walking the tight rope : Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city

Trends towards ‘informalization’ are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterised by the presence of an ‘informal sector’ but are now experiencing new waves of ‘informalization’. Policies of liberalisation and…

Walkscapes. La marche comme pratique esthétique

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Ouvrage culte pour les urbanistes et les architectes, Walkscapes fait de la marche beaucoup plus qu’une simple promenade. Pour Francesco Careri, en effet, l’origine de l’architecture n’est pas à chercher dans les sociétés sédentaires mais dans le…

Mots-clés: ambiances, Careri Francesco, délaissés, espace, esthétique, frontières sociales, frontières spatiales, marché, marges, parcours

Walls Built Up, Walls Written Down: Of Symbolic Value, Material Effectiveness and Media Representation of Barriers in Padua, Italy

In the last few years, the city of Padua, Italy has had a place in the media spotlight thanks to its "walls", urban barriers of different kinds, dimensions and purposes, the foremost example of which is the so-called "Via Anelli Wall". This essay…

Walter Benjamin et la forme plastique. Architecture, technique, lieux

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Présentation par l'éditeur : Walter Benjamin est un penseur essentiel de la technique comme déploiement de la nature, c'est la raison pour laquelle il abordera la photographie, la radio et le cinéma sans complexes. Mais…

Mots-clés: architecture industrielle, Benjamin Walter, Déotte Jean-Louis, esthétique, forme, technique, XIXe siècle

Water and electricity networks between stress and reform: from post-civil war reconstruction to the new Lebanese wars

After the 2006 summer war and the 2007 assault of Nahr el Bared, the issue of energy and water supply is once again one of the main issues the Lebanese have to cope with. It is a consequence of the damages inflected by both conflicts (mostly during…

Water poverty in the peri-urban territories of Mumbai, India

This paper addresses water poverty in the peri-urban areas of Mumbai. The term "water poverty" refers to a variety of situations where people lack from sufficient water in terms of quality and quantity or from enough money to buy water from formal…

Waterfront redevelopment and territorial integration in Le Havre (France) and Southampton (UK): Implications for Busan, Korea

This paper proposes common directions of waterfront redevelopment in Korea through a qualitative approach by interpreting the relation between waterfront area and the overall structure of the port city in Europe. It argues that the more a…

Weimar cities : Assimilating urban modernity in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933

Many Germans perceived the Weimar Republic of the 1920s as an "urban republic" dominated by the power and cultural preeminence of the large metropoles, particularly Berlin. German cities had new and important roles after the war, firstly as the…

Weird city : Sense of place and creative resistance in Austin, Texas

An increasing number of North American cities are demonstrating vocal resistance to perceived homogenization and corporatization of the urban landscape. In Austin, Texas, a grassroots movement has emerged as a form of resistance to these cultural and…

Welfare reform and social reproduction in New York City and Toronto

Abstract from the distributor : Simon's research employs a feminist political economy lens to examine how state and civil society groups respond to, manage, and/or mediate crisis tendencies in social reproduction resulting from the neoliberal…

Mots-clés: assistance sociale, Black Simon, feminism, féminisme, genre, gouvernance, néolibéralisme, New York, service public, société urbaine, syndicat, Toronto, travail, union, welfare

West African uncontrolled settlements and the intra-urban mobility model: A case study of the secondary city, Jos, Nigeria

Turner's (1965,1967,1968) study of Lima's squatter settlements led to the view that uncontrolled settlements of the Third World cities are mainly a manifestation of the desires for housing ownership by people who are well integrated in the city and…

What do we do when we do urban sociology? Great cities - ordinary lives conference keynote address

The keynote address of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up, entitled "What do we do when we do urban…

Mots-clés: sociologie urbaine, Zukin Sharon

What happened to participation? Urban development and authoritarian upgrading in Cairo

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Elena Piffero is Doctor of Philosophy in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies at the University of Bologna, Italy. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license 3.0. Alternative link to the…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Cairo, citadin, démocratie participative, développement urbain, gouvernance, informal settlement, Le Caire, participation, pays en développement, Piffero Elena, politique urbaine, quartier informel, renouvellement urbain

What helps or hinders the adoption of "good planning" principles in shrinking cities? A comparison of recent planning exercises in Sudbury, Ontario and Youngstown, Ohio

Much attention is paid to the increasing number of people living in cities while a relatively understudied but related phenomenon is silently gaining strength: that of “shrinking cities.” In the context of massive economic restructuring and…

What is a city? The English experience : Anglo American conference of historians 2009

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: Angleterre, Beckett John, city, England, grande ville, histoire urbaine, town, ville

What policies for globalising cities? Rethinking the urban policy agenda

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Abstract from the publisher : At a time of increasing globalisation processes, the search for competitiveness in urban regions has become a major political target for both local and central governments. The importance of the cities and their…

Mots-clés: changement climatique, développement urbain, économie, gouvernance, mondialisation, OECD, politique urbaine, société urbaine, urbanisation

What territories do we need in Europe, today?

Cette communication développe l'hypothèse de l'interterritorialité comme réponse aux nouveaux défis de la gouvernance multi-échelle en Europe

What we see : Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs

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Abstract from the publisher : A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, concertation locale, économie, Elizabeth Lynne, Goldsmith Stephen A., infrastructures, Jacobs Jane, mixité sociale, participation, perception, renouvellement urbain, rue, sauvegarde, voisinage

Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited

We exploit the power of the Alonso-Mills-Muth (AMM) urban economics model and show that various utility functions and plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence of…

Where the Muezzin calls. Culturalisation of a local conflict in the context of ethnic change in the Ruhr Conurbation / L'appel du muezzin. Conflit culturel et changement ethnique dans la Ruhr

L'appel du muezzin. Conflit culturel et changement ethnique dans la Ruhr.

Le conflit urbain à propos de l'appel du Muezzin à Dortmund est ici examiné en tant qu'exemple d'un type nouveau de conflits sociaux dans une société où la population change…

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