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Un milliard d'êtres humains s'y entassent : que faire des bidonvilles ?
Le site de la TSR propose de voir en ligne l'émission de février 2010 consacrée aux bidonvilles : présentation du contexte, reportage, et entretien avec l'invité (Dennis Rodgers).
De plus, sur la page consacrée à l'émission, la TSR donne accès à…
De plus, sur la page consacrée à l'émission, la TSR donne accès à…
The Illegal City : Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi squatter settlement
Présentation par l'éditeur : The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an ‘illegal’ squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial…
The challenge of slums : Global report on human settlement 2003
Abstract from the publisher : The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors that underlie the…
Cities and time
Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world,…
Considérant qu’il est plausible que de tels événements puissent à nouveau survenir. Sur l’art municipal de détruire un bidonville
Le 29 mars 2013, un arrêté signé du maire de Ris-Orangis met en demeure les habitants du bidonville dit « de la Nationale 7 » de quitter les lieux. Trois jours plus tard, les forces de polices, accompagnées de pelleteuses, détruisent les habitations…
Considérant
Un film de Sébastien Thiéry (PEROU).
Au petit matin du 3 avril 2013, en lisière de la Nationale 7 à Ris-Orangis , trois pelleteuses anéantissent un bidonville où vivaient 140 citoyens européens de nationalité roumaine. Ici-même depuis quatre mois,…
Au petit matin du 3 avril 2013, en lisière de la Nationale 7 à Ris-Orangis , trois pelleteuses anéantissent un bidonville où vivaient 140 citoyens européens de nationalité roumaine. Ici-même depuis quatre mois,…
The 21st Century medieval city
For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…
The ghetto : Contemporary global issues and controversies
Abstract from the publisher : Too often the term “ghetto” is simply applied to any African American community, to the inner city as a whole, or recently to anything that is degraded or unrefined. But what is a ghetto? Does it arise…
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…
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…
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…
Dharavi. From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm
Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia. Often referred to as ‘Little India’, it has been home to thousands of migrants from across the country providing opportunities for work and livelihood. As such,…
Cities with 'slums': From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
Organisers' description: The UN’s Development target to improve the lives of 100 million ‘slum’ dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. Cities with ‘Slums’: from informal…
The Durable Slum. Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai
In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the…
Au coeur du bidonville de Mathare Valley. La politique du ventre vide à Nairobi
En Afrique, la question de la pauvreté donne souvent lieu à des interprétations misérabilistes et même catastrophiques. Elle a fait l’objet de nombreux sommets internationaux où les pays, dont le Kenya, se sont engagés à l’éradiquer. Mais de quelle…