(Re)reading the African urban landscape : Postamble (Vol. 4, No. 2)
subject: , paysage urbain, littérature, film, photographie, espace urbain, santé, Africa, Afrique, O'Shaughnessy Emma Vivian
description: From the editorial by Emma Vivian O'Shaughnessy : We hope that this edition of postamble presents avenues through which readers can imagine a different type of urban language, one that accommodates the differences between all the world’s cities and one that has the capacity to deconstruct or dismantle the bifurcations traditionally established within the discourse of ‘the west’ and ‘the rest.’ This language must enable us to access and understand African cities, in all their manifestations. We do not seek to dismiss the harsh realities of most of Africa’s urban centres, the suffering of many of its peoples, nor the ways in which the distribution of power and wealth in African cities and states reflects the dominant world order. However, what we do seek to do here is to prompt an engagement with African urban discourse, to portray the routes that many have taken as they try to assess and redefine the potentials, as well as the pitfalls, of the African urban landscape. At the same time, we hope to contribute to this moment in urban history, where a new form of urban discourse and a powerful response to established world orders is emerging from spaces like Africa. Contents : (Re)reading the African urban landscape - Emma Vivian O'Shaughnessy African urban discourse : Invisible and reflexive practice in African cities - Emma Vivian O'Shaughnessy Walking the city : Movement and space in Peter Abrahams' 'Mine Boy' - Megan Jones Recreating the African city in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying - Megan Cole Paustian 'Diseased dystopias'? HIV/AIDS and the South African city in 'Yesterday' and 'Tsotsi' - Rebecca Hodes Crisis averted - Clare Butcher Twin town - Svea Josephy Soft city - Emma O'Shaughnessy Book reviews Emma O'Shaughnessy is a graduate student in English language and literature at the University of Cape Town.
creator: NC
publisher: University of Cape Town Centre for African Studies
date: 2009
format: N/A
type: Revue

The spatial syntax of urban segregation
subject: , analyse spatiale, aménagement de l'espace, forme urbaine, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, ségrégation résidentielle, pauvreté, logement social, transport, exclusion, Vaughan Laura
description: NB : This is the author's pre-print version of a special issue of Progress in Planning (Vol. 67, No. 3, April 2007). The published version of this text can be found on the ScienceDirect journal page.
creator: NC
publisher: UCL Discovery
date: 2007
format: 67
type: Revue

Living in the 21st century city : Contributions to the 13th Berlin-Amsterdam conference
subject: , urbanité, Berlin, Amsterdam, ethnicité, ethnicity, immigration, voisinage, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, youth, jeunes, développement urbain, centre historique, gouvernance, twenty-first century, vingt-et-unième siècle, Bontje Marco, Pethe Heike
description: Extract from the introduction by Marco Bontje : After the conference, the participants have been asked to write a book contribution based on their presentations... While all contributions to this volume have been written by researchers from Amsterdam and Berlin, their contributions partly also deal with other cities : Paris, The Hague, Warsaw, and one contribution even deals with neighbourhoods in the entire German urban system. While the following collection of contributions may look rather eclectic... this section tries to put them in a coherent framework of current research and policy issues related to the broad overarching conference theme: 'living in the 21st-century city'. Contents : Marco Bontje - Living in the 21st century city : Introduction to the conference theme Katja Adelhof - Contribution of ethnic minorities in the creative industries in Berlin - Turkish entrepreneurs in the design and art market Amanda Brandellero - Crossing boundaries : Migrant musicians in world music production in Paris Brooke Sykes - Neighbourhoods and youth : The neighbourhood conditions of youth in the Netherlands and their association with educational achievement Christine Baar - The impact of ethnic and social segregation on school achievement in German schools and neighbourhoods Yvonne Hung - Youth participation in Berlin : Exploring the context, strategies and outcomes of four organisations Martin Sondermann - European city development in Berlin : Towards an urban renaissance of the historic city centre? Olaf Schnur - Demographic impact on urban neighbourhoods in German cities - Development scenarios and options for action Henrik Gasmus - The case of Kleinmachnow : An example of demographic re-suburbanisation in the metropolitan area of Berlin Florian Koch - A new form of urban governance? The polity, politics and policy of urban development in post-socialist Warsaw Simone Buckel - Urban governance and irregular migration - The case of The Hague Gesine Bär - Good urban gove…
creator: NC
publisher: Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDST), University of Amsterdam
date: 2009
format: 168
type: Autre

Living in the inner city: New challenges for urban communities. German journal of urban studies
subject: , centre-ville, logement, politique urbaine, urbanité, développement urbain, immigration, Allemagne, Germany, Jekel Gregor
description: Extract from the Editorial: In recent decades, settlement development in Germany has been determined by suburbanisation, particularly residential suburbanisation. The family was long regarded as the main driving force in this process. The common view was that families moved out into single-family homes in a verdant setting on the edge of town or in more peripheral suburban areas as soon as occupational prospects were settled and offspring was on the way. Despite the fact that far fewer people actually live in their own home in the urban environs that is usually claimed, the consequences of this development were nonetheless serious. They included the establishment of more and more residential areas on the outskirts of the city or in surrounding areas, urban sprawl at the cost of the countryside, and land take for new roads, as well as partial social segregation by income, age, and ethnic origin. Changing living and housing patterns, i.e., changing conditions at the societal, economic, and regulatory levels, as well as their impact on residential preferences, social structure, urban development, and business have for a considerable time now been signalling a new trend over and above suburbanisation towards rediscovering the city, and particularly the inner city, as a place to live. In parallel, urban planning and development policy are endeavouring to upgrade housing and the residential environment in cities, for instance through rehabilitation and redevelopment, the Socially Integrative City programme, and, most recently, national urban development policy. Contents: Klaus J. Beckmann, Gregor Jekel and Franciska Frölich von Bodelschwingh - Editorial: Living in the inner city - vision and reality Gregor Jekel and Franciska Frölich von Bodelschwingh - Urban policy and new living in the inner city Walter Siebel - Living in the inner city Joachim Scheiner - Lifestyles in the inner city - lifestyles on the urban fringe: Location preferences in the urban region Albrecht Gös…
creator: NC
publisher: German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
date: 2008
format: 108
type: Revue

Cities the magazine
subject: Miazzo Francesca, Hult Anna, , renouvellement urbain, rénovation urbaine, désindustrialisation, photographie, agriculture urbaine
description: Abstract from the publisher : CITIES the magazine highlights urban issues and invites discussion on global trends, regional responses and local practice. It connects writers, thinkers, artists, designers and photographers in a common dialogue about city life and city futures. In our opinion... CITIES is an attractive, beautifully-photographed and presented magazine, with a non-academic focus. It is unclear how frequently new issues of the magazine will appear. The current pilot issue featured on the site is on the topic of industrial renewal. Issues can be viewed via an online reader, with selected articles available for download in PDF format. Francesca Miazzo works as a freelance consultant managing research projects linking marketing experiences and urban environments. Francesca holds a Research Master in Metropolitan Studies. Anna Hult is a Phd student at the department of Urban Planning and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH).
creator: NC
publisher: CITIES
date: 2009
format: Various
type: Revue

City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change
subject: The Netherlands, Les Pays-Bas, mutation sociale, mutation urbaine, immigration, voisinage, ségrégation urbaine, emploi, gentrification, citoyenneté, sciences politiques, réseaux, lien social, gouvernance, service public, New York, immobilier
description: Abstract from the publisher : Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this background, the contributors to this volume bring the city in sight from various disciplinary perspectives and relate their research findings to both national and international debates on urban problems. In this way, City in Sight not only provides insight into the most urgent questions of contemporary cities in the Netherlands, but also how these relate to similar problems in other countries as well. Contents : Cities in Sight, Inside Cities: An Introduction - Jan Willem Duyvendak, Frank Hendriks and Mies van Niekerk Part I Urban Transformations and Local Settings 1 Post-Industrialization and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities: The Effects of Job Opportunities and Residential Segregation - Jeroen van der Waal and Jack Burgers 2 Unraveling Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Two European Welfare States - Sako Musterd and Fenne M. Pinkster 3 The Effects of State-Led Gentrification in the Netherlands - Peter van der Graaf and Lex Veldboer 4 Problematic Areas or Places of Fun? Ethnic Place Marketing in the Multicultural City of Rotterdam - Ilse van Liempt and Lex Veldboer Part II Urban Citizenship and Civic Life 5 Local and Transnational Aspects of Citizenship Political Practices and Identifications of Middle-class Migrants in Rotterdam - Marianne van Bochove, Katja Rusinovic and Godfried Engbersen 6 A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Real-life Expressions of Vital Citizenship in City Neighborhoods - Ted van de Wijdeven and Frank Hendriks Organize Liberal, Think Conservative: Citizenship in Light Communities - Menno Hurenkamp 8 ‘Control over the Remote Control’, or How to Handle the ‘Normal’ World? The Policy and Practice of Community Care for People with Psychiatric or Intellectual Disabilities - Loes Verplan…
creator: NC
publisher: Amsterdam University Press Source Amsterdam University Digital Academic Repository (UvA-DARE)
date: 2009
format: 312
type: Ouvrage

Bridging diversity in a globalizing world : Journal of urban and regional analysis (Vol. 2, No. 2)
subject: , mondialisation, inégalité spatiale, aménagement urbain, réseaux, participation, post-communist, postcommuniste, mixité sociale, immigration, Schnell Izhak
description: From the introduction by Izhak Schnell : Special Issue: “Bridging Diversity in a Globalizing World” Selected Papers given at the IGU - Urban Commission Meeting Regional Conference, July 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel This volume is a result of the efforts of the Urban Commission at the IGU (International Geographical Union) regional conference held at Tel Aviv on July 2010. About 50 papers have been presented in the conference focusing on a wide range of urban issues. The commission brings together scholars from about 30 countries in four continents in order to exchange ideas and stimulate research from a comparative perspective. This volume brings together six articles, which focus on the ways in which cities are dealing with challenges set by the era of globalization. Each paper deals with one case study but by bringing them together some comparative perspective is highlighted. Contents : Introduction - Izhak Schnell Urban strategies and collective memory. An upper-middle class municipality in the Grand Paris project - Yankel Fijalkow ICT inequalities in the Spanish urban system - Ruben Camilo Lois Gonzalez, Jose Carlos Macia Arce, Francisco Jose Armas Quinta Urban policy in the context of contemporary urbanisation processes and development issues of Polish cities - Jerzy J. Parysek Territorial disparities in the Romanian Banat: assessment, dynamics and impact on the territorial system - Cătălina Ancuţa Residential differentiation at two geographic scales – the metropolitan area and the city: the case of Tel Aviv - Itzhak Omer The neighborhood of Florentin: a window to the globalization of Tel Aviv - Caroline Rozenholc Izhak Schnell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Tel Aviv University
creator: NC
publisher: Jurareview
date: 2010
format: 95
type: Revue

Imagining the city : Memories and cultures in Cape Town
subject: , mémoire, culture urbaine, société urbaine, urbanité, interaction sociale, imaginaire, violence urbaine, histoire urbaine, Cape Town, Le Cap, Field Sean, Meyer Renate, Swanson Felicity
description: Abstract from the publisher : Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, they are also constructed through popular imagination and spaces of representation. Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town presents an array of oral and visual histories drawn from people, who live, work and creatively express themselves in the city. This book explores the apartheid legacies of the city and demonstrates that cultural life flourished through people’s resilience in spite of adversity. Authors move beyond apartheid history to analyse the reflective ways in which people are coming to terms with that history through memory work, performance and memorialisation. Other chapters provide contemporary views of local interactions such as moments of urban violence or people negotiating the challenges of a globalised world. Whatever the context, this book traces social and cultural interactions over time and across city spaces that speak directly to the senses, memories and imagining of Cape Town. Imagining the City makes an important contribution to public discourse about a vision for, and ownership of the city by affirming the memory of its inhabitants, and by hinting at the work that can, and should still be done in foregrounding memory and culture in the re-imagination of Cape Town as a city. Contents : Foreword - Mike van Graan Introduction - Sean Field and Felicity Swanson Disruptive memories : 1 Sites of memory in Langa - Sean Field 2 So there I sit in a Catch-22 situation’: Remembering and imagining trauma in the District Six Museum - Sofie M.M.A. Geschier 3 Between waking and dreaming: Living with urban fear, paradox and possibility - Renate Meyer 4 The quickest way to move on is to go back’: Bomb blast survivors’ narratives of trauma and recovery - Anastasia Maw 5 Where is home? Transnational migration and identity amongst Nigerians in Cape Town - Iyonawan Masade Resilient cultures : 6 ‘Catch with the eye’: Stories of Muslim food in Cape Town - Gabeba Baderoo…
creator: NC
publisher: HSRC Press
date: 2007
format: 248
type: Ouvrage

Becoming global and the new poverty of cities
subject: , mondialisation, pauvreté, Latin America, Amérique latine, Eastern Europe, Europe de l'Est, capitalisme, marxisme, économie, mutation sociale, Hanley Lisa M., Ruble Blair A., Tulchin Joseph S., paupérisation
description: Extract from the introduction by Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble and Joseph S. Tulchin : Globalization has had a peculiar impact on cities all over the world, as much in the developed world as in the developing world. Globalization turned out to be an assault on the urban middle class. As the state shrank while the migration into the city continued, competition with the city together with the competition among cities increasingly became a race to the bottom. The process of a hollowing out of the global urban middle class and the degradation of the working poor was perhaps most visible in Latin America and socialist East Europe, regions in which moderate prosperity had become inexorably linked to the state. The chapters to follow attempt to tell the story of what this new poverty means for the people involved and for their cities and communities, and to do so through a parallel examination of how these changes have affected the functioning of urban communities in two regions arguably most affected by macro-economic policies imposed from the outside: Latin America and Post-Socialist Eastern Europe. Contents : Introduction - Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble, and Joseph S. Tulchin Part 1 : Latin America : The Myth Of Marginality Revisited : The Case Of Favelas In Rio De Janeiro, 1969–2003 - Janice E. Perlman Transnational Migration and the Shifting Boundaries of Profit and Poverty in Central America - Patricia Landolt The New Poverty in Argentina and Latin America - Gabriel Kessler and Mercedes Di Virgilio The Hound of Los Pinos and the Return of Oscar Lewis : Understanding Urban Poverty in Mexico - William Beezely Part 2 : Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe : Welfare Capitalism After Communism : Labor Weakness And Post-Communist Social Policies - Stephen Crowley Designing a “Scorecard” to Monitor and Map Social Development of Municipalities in Tomsk oblast (Russia) - Anastasstia Alexandrova and Polina Kuznetsova Those Left Behind : Trends of “Demodernization” and the …
creator: NC
publisher: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
date: 2005
format: 225
type: Autre

Gender and territory : The connoted space. Artecontexto (No. 8, 2005, 4)
subject: genre, femmes, gender, women, espace urbain, mondialisation, usage de la ville, art, Murría Alicia
description: From the editorial by Alicia Murría : Modern city planning and architecture have been places at the service of production, traffic, and consumption, and of a particular idea of the white, Western, heterosexual middle-class male. Only in the most recent decades, under the influence of cultural studies, gender, feminism in its many aspects, and, still more recently queer theory, have these patterns been questioned and demands been formulated for a city and public space whose terms of coexistence reflect the needs of the diverse sectors, groups, and minorities, and their actual complexity, in the face of the standard hegemonic model. In the dossier contained in this issue we have gathered a series of articles that analyse and describe the need for profound changes in conceptions of the public space, the territory, the city, and their design, as well as the urgency of the debate, a debate that extends well beyond the sphere of those professionals who are directly involved in this design, since its outcome will affect the diverse assemblage of groups that make up the social body. Contents : Page One - Alicia Murría DOSSIER : Gender and Territory : The Connoted Space - Giantesses / Houses / Cities. Notes for a Political Topography of Gender and Race - Beatriz Preciado Have Urban Spaces a Gender? - Jose Miguel G. Cortés Gender and Globalisation: Artists on the Border - Patricia Mayayo The Pleasure of Cities - Marta Román Begoña Montalbán : Clinical White - Luca Beatrice From Buenos Aires : Roberto Jacoby - Gustavo Marrone Japanese Museums : Two Viewpoints - Agnaldo Farias Cibercontexto : Gender, Civic Participation and City Planning - Eugenia Monroy Info Reviews Alicia Murría is an art critic and the director and editor of Artecontexto magazine. NB : All articles are available in English and Spanish versions.
creator: NC
publisher: Artehoy Publicaciones y Gestión, S.L.
date: 2005
format: 143
type: Revue

Integration and the city : German journal of urban studies (No. 1, 2001)
subject: , insertion, intégration, pauvreté, urbanité, ségrégation urbaine, immigration, interaction sociale, Göschel Albrecht
description: Abstract from the publisher : The "German Journal of Urban Studies", like its predecessor of many years standing, the "Archiv für Kommunalwissenschaften", is a forum for all disciplines related to urban studies. The objective is to further the transfer of knowledge from research and scholarship to local government praxis, and of practitioners' experience and expectations to the academic community. The journal thus addresses scholars and researchers, all actors involved in local government-like councils, public authorities, industry, the media, and professional associations-and the interested (professional) public. Contents : Albrecht Göschel - Integration and the City Thomas Krämer-Badoni - Urbanity and Social Integration Walter Hanesch - Poverty and Integration at the Local Level Jürgen Friedrichs and Jörg Blasius - The Socio-Spatial Integration of Turks in two Cologne Residential Neighbourhoods Hartmut Häußermann and Walter Siebel - Integration and Segregation - Thoughts on an Old Debate Rosemarie Sackmann - Integration of Immigrants in France and The Netherlands Kai Hofmann and Wolfgang Scherf - The Effects of the Tax Reform 2000 in Germany on Local Communities Albrecht Göschel has a background in architecture and social policy. He is currently teaching at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the 'Internationalen Centrum für Kultur und Management' in Salzburg. NB : As of November 2010, the editorial by Albrecht Göschel was not available to read online.
creator: NC
publisher: German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
date: 2001
format: 121
type: Revue

The mega-city in Latin America
subject: Latin America, Amérique latine, mégapole, démographie, transport, croissance urbaine, gouvernance, logement, foncier, Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Bogotá, Gilbert Alan
description: 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 five cities. Two of them, Mexico City and Sao Paulo, will arguably be the world's two largest cities. The sheer number of people living in Latin America's mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst systems of the region's underdevelopment: vast areas of shanty towns, huge numbers of poor people, high concentrations of air and water pollution, and serious levels of traffic congestion. This book is about the prospects for their future. Several clear conclusions emerge from the book. First, the largest cities of Latin America differ greatly in terms of their future prospects. It is far easier to be optimistic in Buenos Aires than in Lima. Second, whether urban problems improve or deteriorate has rather little to do with size of city and a great deal to do with trends in the wider economy and society. Increasingly, those trends are determined not just by local decisions but by decisions made outside the region. Third, Latin America's mega-cities are not going to grow to unmanageable proportions because their growth rates have generally slowed. Fourth, management is a critical issue for the future but it is difficult to know whether the quality of management will improve or deteriorate through time. The book contains chapters on each of Latin America's six largest cities (Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, and Santa fe de Bogota). The book also has four thematic chapters. The first discusses the demography of urban growth in the region and the other three focus on what are particularly sensitive issues in very large cities: public administration, transportation, and land, housing, and infrastructure. Contents : Foreword Prefac…
creator: NC
publisher: United Nations University Press
date: 1996
format: 282
type: Ouvrage

Globalization and the sustainability of cities in the Asia Pacific region
subject: Asie, Asia, Pacific, Pacifique, développement durable, mondialisation, ville durable, migration, économie, gouvernance, Lo Fu-chen, Marcotullio Peter J.
description: Abstract from the publisher : In Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region, scholars from around the region analyse the impacts of globalisation on cities in the Asia-Pacific. This collection of essays forms a useful, comprehensive and ambitious study, focusing on the region's specific urban concerns and on broader theoretical issues surrounding social and environmental conditions in major metropolitan centres. The first part of the book examines globalisation, foreign direct investment, international migration, and the question of cities and their changing patterns and meanings. The second part focuses on particular types of cities: Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei are post industrial capital exporting cities; Hong Kong and Singapore are cited as borderless cities; while Shanghai, Jabotabek and Bangkok are examined in terms of having very high globalisation driven growth but also have become highly polluted environments. The final section focuses on amenity cities, where Sydney and Vancouver are the two cases examined. These chapters demonstrate how environmental awareness can be part of urban growth and provide evidence that globalization is not promoting urban environmental and social sustainability. Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region demonstrates the growing interconnections among cities in the region that have come about as a result of globalization. It raises implications for the study of social and environmental conditions as well as economic growth in cities. Sustainable urban development requires more than good management and local politics; increasingly, it demands national, regional and global interventions. Contents : Introduction - Peter J. Marcotullio and Fu-chen Lo Globalization and urban transformation in the Asia Pacific region - Fu-chen Lo and Peter J. Marcotullio FDI in Asia in boom and bust - Sung Woong Hong International migration, urbanization, and globalization in the Asia Pacific r…
creator: NC
publisher: United Nations University Press
date: 2001
format: 505
type: Ouvrage

The urban challenge in Africa : Growth and management of its large cities
subject: Africa, Afrique, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, mégapole, développement urbain, dynamiques urbaines, gouvernance, mondialisation, Cairo, Le Caire, Johannesburg, Lagos, Kinshasa, Abidjan, Nairobi, Rakodi Carole
description: Extract from the Foreword by Heitor Gurgulino de Souza : With contributions from prominent urban planning scholars and experts in Africa, The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of Its Large Cities, edited by Professor Carole Rakodi of the University of Wales, Cardiff, represents the latest in a series of books from the United Nations University Programme on Mega-cities and Urban Development. Africa, long thought of as one of the least urbanized continents, will likely have over one half of its population in urban areas by 2020. The Urban Challenge in Africa introduces and highlights many important development issues in Africa. In addition to chapters on individual cities including Cairo, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, and Lagos, the book also explores important sectoral issues such as property markets, urban governance, and urban-rural linkages. Contents : Foreword 1 Introduction Part I Globalization and Africa: The challenge of urban growth 2 Global forces, urban change, and urban management in Africa 3 Urbanization, globalization, and economic crisis in Africa Part II The "mega-cities" of Africa 4 The challenge of urban growth in Cairo 5 Johannesburg: A city and metropolitan area in transformation 6 The challenges of growth and development in metropolitan Lagos 7 Kinshasa: A reprieved mega-city? 8 Abidjan: From the public making of a modern city to urban management of a metropolis 9 Nairobi: National capital and regional hub Part III The dynamics of city development 10 Globalization or informalization? African urban economies in the 1990s 11 Residential property markets in African cities 12 The state and civil society: Politics, government, and social organization in African cities 13 Urban lives: Adopting new strategies and adapting rural links Part IV Rising to the challenge 14 Towards appropriate urban development policy in emerging mega-cities in Africa 15 Urban management: The recent experience 16 Conclusion Carole Rakodi is Emeritus Professor and Dire…
creator: NC
publisher: United Nations University Press
date: 1997
type: Ouvrage

Globalization, urban form and governance
subject: , forme urbaine, gestion locale, gouvernance, mondialisation, politique urbaine, environnement, politique de la ville, aménagement urbain, Carmona Marisa
description: Abstract from the publisher : This Conference Book compiles the summary-papers that win be presented at the First Conference of the ALFA-IBIS Network. Part One is an introductory chapter containing a short history of the ALFA-IBIS project, the persons and Institutions involved and the objectives of this first conference. We have considered it necessary to also include the Theoretical Framework of the Research Atelier Alfa, the Research Topics linked to the theoretical framework, as weIl as the titles of the Research proposals of the network members. The following three sections contain the papers that will be delivered at the conference based on the conference program. Those keynote papers that were received in advance are also included in this section. Contents : Preface Part 1 Research Atelier and conference Program : 1 The Alfa IBIS Research Atelier 2 Conference: Globalization, Urban Form and Governance 3 Research Atelier Framework Part 2 Globalization Adjustment and Spatial Change : 4 Globalization and Spatial Restructuring. Towards an ALFA-IBIS Agenda - Marisa Carmona 5 Globalization, social exc1usion and spatial change - Sueli Schiffer 6 Urban Policy in the Framework of Globalization - Beatriz Cuenya 7 Urbanization and the Process of Spatial Redistribution of the Bolivian Population - Carmen Ledo 8 Local en global: the new paradigm of the postmodern city - Ana Falu 9 Globalization and Andean urban systems in the south of Peru - Americo Villegas 10 Urban-Spatial Transformations in Quito (1990 - 1998) - Diego Carrion Part 3 Environment, Sustainable Urban Form and Social Issues : 11 Metropolitan Planning and Civil Society Participation: Developing Urban Governance Relations in El Salvador - Mario Lungo 12 Plans and Urban Projects in Globalisation - Alvaro Arrese 13 Sustainable Urban Form: Environment and Climate responsive Design - Silvia de Schiller 14 The decentralisation of Housing Finance - Kosta Matthey 15 Urban Renewal and sustainability - Paul Stouten 16 S…
creator: NC
publisher: TU Delft
date: 27 - 29 January 1999
format: 236
type: Autre

Writing cities 1
subject: , politique de la ville, histoire urbaine, culture urbaine, technologie, technology, images, Hall Suzanne, Fernández Arrigoitía Melissa, Dinardi Cecilia
description: From the Introduction by Suzanne Hall, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitía and Cecilia Dinardi : The writing which this volume brings together is as multifaceted as are its objects of investigation. Ranging from theoretical or design-based perspectives to historical and politically charged foci, the chapters reflect an amalgam of concerns with the social, visual, political and material aspects of developed and developing cities. While all share a passion for cities and incorporate the use of visual material as either objects of investigation or illustrative accompaniments to textual or ethnographic analyses, the mixed methodologies and theoretical paradigms employed reflect a wider academic trend towards a critical cross-breeding of disciplines for a more expansive, and arguably more inclusive, conceptualisation of the urban. The chapters reveal the city through the lenses offered by different fields, and speak to the multiple sites involved in the production, contestation and experiences of urban spaces. Each chapter offers explorations of the spatial and temporal scales of urban transformations, centring on the authoritative and oppositional acts that simultaneously make the city. In this sense, there is an inclination towards analysing representations of urban change, and the ways in which transformations are reflected in the fabric of city space and life. The authors address the politics and experience of urban change by travelling imaginatively between the past and the present, the abstract and the specific, the global and the local, the human and the material, and the social and the technological. In their creative engagements with the many textures of `the city´, they suggest the need for us, as readers, to pause, revise, and re-envision our own sense of urban forms and futures. Contents : Introduction: The Writing Cities Collaboration - Suzanne Hall, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitía and Cecilia Dinardi Writing Cities: A Roundtable - David Frisby, Gerald Frug, Richard S…
creator: NC
publisher: Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science
date: 2010
format: 153
type: Autre

City at the point : Essays on the social history of Pittsburgh
subject: , histoire urbaine, urbanisation, urbanité, société urbaine, Pittsburgh, Hays Samuel P.
description: Abstract from the publisher : An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes the literature and assesses how that knowledge relates to our broader understanding of the processes of urbanization and urbanism. Contents : Foreword Introduction Immigrants and industry : Peopling the 'Iron City' :-Nora Faires Women and class in Pittsburg, 1850 - 1920 - Maurine Weiner Greenwald Double burden : The black experience in Pittsburgh - Laurence Glasco Working-class formation, development, and consciousness in Pittsburg, 1790 - 1960 - Richard Oestreicher Government, parties, and voters in Pittsburgh - Paul Kleppner Metropolis and region : A framework for enquiry into Western Pennsylvania - Edward K. Muller Infrastructure and city-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centures - Joel A. Tarr Steel City aristocrats - John N. Ingham Pittsburgh and the uses of social welfare history - Roy Lubove The soul of the city : A social history of religion in Pittsburg - Linda K. Pritchard Community-building and occupational mobility in Pittsburgh, 1880 - 1960 - Michael P. Weber Pittsburg : How typical? - Samuel P. Hays Pittsburgh and Europe's metallurgical cities : A comparison - Herrick Chapman Samuel P. Hays is University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
creator: NC
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
date: 1989
format: 492
type: Ouvrage

Urban development : A new perspective
subject: Asie, Asia, développement urbain, urbanisation, histoire urbaine, politique urbaine, environnement urbain, bidonville, démographie, croissance urbaine, Inde, India, Prasad B. K.
description: Abstract from the publisher : Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the European medieval city and its burgher culture were taken as typical of the "true" city. Max Weber in The City (1921) provided another definition of the city, similar to Pirenne's, when he contrasted "Occidental" with "Oriental" urbanism. According to Weber, five attributes define an urban community : it must possess (1) a fortification, (2) a market, (3) a law code and court system of its own, (4) an association of urban citizenry creating a sense of municipal corporateness, and (5) sufficient political autonomy for urban citizens to choose the city's governors. Studying the cultural roles of cities must include not only the cultural beliefs and practices that emanate from cities but also the cultural forms that develop within the city as a result of the impact of the urban culture on it. In this way scholarship can bring forward a cross-culturally and historically valid conception of cities, their cultural forms, and the urban cultures in which they are set. As a country develops from primarily an agricultural to an industrial economy, large scale migration of rural residents to towns ans cities takes place. During this process, the growth rate of urban areas is typically double the pace of overall population increase. Some 29 per cent of the world population was living in urban areas in 1950; this figure was 43 per cent in 1990, and is projected to rise to about 50 per cent by the year 2000. In this book, an attempt has been made to discuss urban development, its concepts and historical development. Thus we hope that it will be an immensely important edition for all those concerned with the discipline. Contents : Preface A history of the city in Monsoon Asia The post-urban period in Northwestern India Urbanization trend…
creator: NC
publisher: Sarup & Sons
date: 2003
format: 296
type: Ouvrage

Rural-urban dynamics in Francophone Africa
subject: Afrique francophone, Francophone Africa, Africa, Afrique, ruralité, rural, territoire, Baker Jonathan, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Benin, Senegal, Togo, Bénin, Sénégal
description: Abstract from the publisher : This book present some examples of the richness and variety of contemporary research on rural-urban interactions by francophone researchers. Case studies are drawn from Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Benin, Senegal and Togo. Contents : Jonathan Baker - Introduction Frédéric Giraut - Contemporary dynamics of small towns in West Africa Gabriel Kwami Nyassogbo - Urban-rural interactions in sub-Saharan Africa : The case of Palimé and its hinterland in South-West Togo Robert Edmond Ziavoula - A new look at linking towns in the Congo : What are the alternatives for a better structuring of space? Albert Tingbé-Azalou - Cultural dimensions of urban-rural relations in Benin : The case of Abomey and its hinterland Alphonsine Bouya - The roles of women in urban-rural interaction : The case of Sokone in Senegal Gabin Kponhassia - Urban life and traditional models : A study of the social networks in a secondary town in Côte d'Ivoire - the example of Agboville Sylvie Bredeloup - Dimbroko, the typical Ivorian town, or the absence of urban-rural interaction? Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo - Dori - a town in the Sahel : Social identities and urbanity Basilisa Sanou - What solutions to the "antagonistic" urban-rural relationship? The Ouagadougou suburb project Yveline Dévérin-Kouanda - From the rural compound to the urban plot : Changes in the architecture and the fuctions of dwellings in Mossi Country, Burkina Faso Jonathan Baker is a Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator for the Urban Development in Rural Context in Africa programme at the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.
creator: NC
publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
date: 1997
format: 194
type: Autre

Small town Africa : Studies in rural-urban interaction
subject: rural, aménagement urbain, aménagement de l'espace, développement urbain, économie, urbanisation, migration urbaine, territoire, Africa, Afrique, Baker Jonathan
description: Abstract from the publisher : Small towns have often been considered as unimportant and have been largely ignored by policy-makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change without consideration of the positive contribution that small towns can make to rural transformation. But for the rural majority of Africa's population it is the small town with which they have the most intense contacts. Case studies are presented from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Contents : Jonathan Baker and Claes-Fredrik Claeson - Introduction PLANNING FOR SMALL URBAN CENTRES IN THE NATIONAL CONTEXT Robson Silitshena - The Tswana agro-town and rural economy in Botswana R.A. Obudho and G.O. Aduwo - Small urban centres and the spatial planning of Kenya Layi Egunjobi - The development potentials of local central places in Nigeria ECONOMIC NETWORKS, SMALL ENTERPRISES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Poul Ove Pedersen - The role of small rural towns in development Jesper Rasmussen - Small urban centres and the development of local enterprises in Zimbabwe Kadmiel H. Wekwete - Rural urbanisation in Zimbabwe : Prospects for the future URBAN-RURAL LINKAGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES Anders Hjort af Ornas - Town-based pastoralism in Eastern Africa Jørgen Andreasen - Urban-rural linkages and their impace on urban housing in Kenya Mariken Vaa - Paths to the city : Migration histories of poor women in Bamako Ann Schlyter - Women in Harare : Gender aspects of urban-rural interaction Tade Akin Aina - The urban poor and the commercialisation of land in Nigeria THE CONSTRAINTS AND DISTORTIONS IMPOSED BY STATE POLICIES Jonathan Baker - The growth and functions of small urban centres in Ethiopia Jeremy gould and Gun Mickels - Regional development in marginal Africa : Luapula Provice, Zambia Adil Mustafa Ahmad and Mohamed El Hadi Abu Sin - Urban development in a rural context : The case of Ne…
creator: NC
publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
date: 1990
format: 268
type: Autre