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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…
Arriver en ville - Les migrants en milieu urbain au Moyen Age
Présentation par l'éditeur : Le présent volume rassemble les actes du colloque " "Arriver" en ville : les migrants en milieu urbain au Moyen Age. Installation, intégration, mise à l'écart…
Financer les villes d'Afrique
Présentation par l'éditeur : Le continent africain connaît le plus fort taux de croissance urbaine de la planète. Les villes d'Afrique sub-saharienne à elles seules vont accueillir plus de 300 millions d'habitants…
Kinshasa Planification et Aménagement
Présentation par l'éditeur : La ville de Kinshasa croît aujourd'hui anarchiquement. Sa croissance effrénée dévore tous les espaces agricoles urbains et périurbains. Son étalement…
Casablanca. Figures et scènes métropolitaines
Présentation par l'éditeur : Au début de l’année 2007, l’Université Hassan II Aïn Chock de Casablanca nous a donné la possibilité exceptionnelle de préfigurer ce qui devait…
Villes du monde. Les cartes à travers l'histoire
Présentation par l'éditeur : Cet ouvrage unique rassemble près de 200 cartes, plans et images satellites de plus de 50 villes du monde. En mettant en regard cartes anciennes et photographies récentes, il…
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,…
Cleveland and sprawl : A global perspective
Bruegmann's fields of research and teaching are architectural, urban, landscape, and planning history and historic preservation. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, the…
Understanding the developing metropolis: Lessons from the city study of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia
Abstract from the publisher: This book is among the most comprehensive studies of a city since Edgar M. Hoover and Raymond Vernon analyzed New York City thirty-five years ago in the classic Anatomy of a Metropolis. The main lesson outlined in the…
Integrated city making: Governance, planning and transport
Abstract from the publisher: Integrated City Making is a report by Philipp Rode, Julie Wagner, Richard Brown, Rit Chandra and Jayaraj Sundaresan of the Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2007, Urban Age…
Risk habitat megacity
Abstract from the publisher: Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is most advanced, this book…
The growth of non-Western cities : Primary and secondary urban networking c. 900 - 1900
Abstract from the publisher : These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as…
Megacities : Urban form, governance, and sustainability
Abstract from the publisher : For the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population is urban. A fundamental aspect of this transformation has been the emergence of giant cities, or megacities, that present major new…
Suburbanization in global society
Abstract from the publisher : Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been focused on the city (the global city, the networked city, the…
Global urbanization
Abstract from the publisher : For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically…
Climate change and sustainable urban development in Africa and Asia
Abstract from the publisher : This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical…
Shanghai new towns : Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Each year, more than 15 million Chinese leave the rural areas of China and move to the cities. This figure exceeds 300,000 in the case of Shanghai. Before 2015, the majority of China’s population will be living…
Urban diversity : Space, culture, and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide
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As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative…