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Cities: The international journal of urban policy and planning (Vol. 29, Supplement 1)
Extract from the Editorial: You are reading the first issue of Current Research on Cities... The first four issues will all be supplements to the journal Cities, prior to an independent launch in 2014. Although Current Research on Cities has much…
Afrique de l'Est : dynamiques urbaines
Sommaire du n° 237 des Cahiers d'Outre-Mer :
Bernard Calas - Dynamiques métropolitaines d’Afrique orientale
Cécile Roy - La prise en compte de l’environnement à Dar es Salaam, problèmes et…
Global cities : Transtext(e)s transcultures - Journal of global cultural studies
From the introduction by Lawrence Phillips : Is the 'global' city an age-old historical phenomenon associated with economic, cultural, and imperial power (Rome, Athens, Beijing, Istanbul), or a consequence of the industrial revolution? Is it a…
Urbanization, population, environment and security
Extract from the Introduction :
The Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center began a project in 1997 designed to both identify factors that contribute to making urban areas centers of violence and poverty and propose policy…
Urbanization and growth
From the back cover :
First in a series of thematic volumes, this book was prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge of the relationship between urbanization and economic growth. It does not pretend to…
Small town Africa : Studies in rural-urban interaction
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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…
Urban development : A new perspective
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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…
City at the point : Essays on the social history of Pittsburgh
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An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change.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…
The urban challenge in Africa : Growth and management of its large cities
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 new encyclopedia of Southern culture : Volume 15 : Urbanization
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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern…
The open urban studies journal (Vol. 3, 2010)
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The Open Urban Studies Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in the field of urban and regional studies. Topics covered include : theory,…
Women, slums and urbanisation : Examining the causes and consequences
A first of its kind, this COHRE report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights. The report focuses, in particular, on the experiences of women and girls living in slum communities…