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Bloomberg's New York : Class and governance in the luxury city
Abstract from the publisher : What happens when our mayors are CEOs? New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In Bloomberg’s New York, Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other…
Bordeaux Métropole, un futur sans rupture
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Quand nous parcourons l’agglomération bordelaise, les mutations semblent si évidentes que l’on en oublie "l’avant" ou le temps des chantiers des années deux…
Brasília, plan and reality : A study of planned and spontaneous urban development
Extract from the preface :
This book is a considerably revised version of my doctoral dissertation. I wanted it to deal with ongoing social trends instead of the merely exotic or the archaic, so often pursued by anthropologists... Brasília…
Bridging diversity in a globalizing world : Journal of urban and regional analysis (Vol. 2, No. 2)
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…
Building cities : Neighbourhood upgrading and urban quality of life
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Published by the Institutional Capacity and Finance Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Cities Alliance, this publication documents the evolution of settlement upgrading programmes both in theory and…
Cairo's informal areas. Between urban challenges and hidden potentials
Abstract from the publisher : "The challenges of an increasingly poor urban population, as well as the mushrooming of illegal or semi-legal settlements and slums, have been acknowledged by both local authorities and international development…
Canadian journal of urban research
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Published since 1992, the Canadian Journal of Urban Research is a multidisciplinary and scholarly journal dedicated to publishing refereed articles that address a wide range of issues relevant to the field of urban…
Century of the city : No time to lose
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One in every ten people lived in urban areas a century ago. Now, for the first time ever, most people live in cities. By 2050, the United Nations projects, almost three-quarters of the world's population will call…
Changing plans for America's inner cities
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Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood began in the nineteenth century as a nonelite suburb and became in the twentieth century an inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems characteristic…
China and India: Governance, urban development, and sustainability in the cities of the Global South
Cities and citizenship : Surviving the 21st century
- Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of the RSA.
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
Cities and design
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Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at…
Cities at war in early modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
Cities How They Grow (1952)
Présentation :
Ce documentaire fait une présentation générale de la croissance urbaine en Amérique du nord et des techniques de planification urbaine.
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Cities surround the countryside: urban aesthetics in postsocialist China
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and…
Cities under siege : The new military urbanism
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Powerful exposé of how contemporary political violence now perates through sites, space and infrastructures of everyday life
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the…
Cities, design and climate change
With cities contributing upwards of 75 per cent of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the creative urban design solutions coming out of the world's cities. …