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Villes et régions européennes en décroissance : maintenir la cohésion territoriale
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L’Europe devrait connaître une des croissances démographiques mondiales les plus faibles dans les années à venir. Cette évolution, conjuguée avec des…
Villes du sud. Dynamiques, diversités et enjeux démographiques et sociaux
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Le monde en développement, dans son ensemble, s'urbanise rapidement. Selon les Nations unies, la proportion de sa population vivant dans les zones urbaines qui n'était que de 27 % en 1975, est…
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…
Urban development : A new perspective
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…
The urban community
Extract from the preface by Ernest W. Burgess :
Nine years ago the central topic at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society was "Rural Sociology." So great was the demand for the volume, especially for use in classes in universities…
The sociology of urban regions
Extract from the Preface :
An understanding of modern man's increasingly typical habitat - the city and the urban region - is a practical necessity for almost everyone... In this work, I have tried to present an organized review and interpretation of…
The mega-city in Latin America
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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…
The growth of cities in the nineteenth century : A study in statistics
Extract from the 'Biographical Note' by Barclay G. Jones :
Lewis Mumford is certainly correct in describing The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century as a "classic pioneer work". It is the first really sound, comprehensive, and…
The city and the world: New York's global future
Abstract from the publisher: At first glance a study on cities and foreign policy may seem a bold leap into the future of international relations, but it represents, rather, a giant step into the present--into what is already taking place across…
The Boston renaissance: Race, space, and economic change in an American metropolis
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This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a…
State of the World's Cities 2008/2009 - Harmonious Cities
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Half of humanity now lives in cities, and within two decades, nearly 60 per cent of the world’s people will be urban dwellers. Urban growth is most rapid in the developing world, where cities gain an…
Settlement, urbanization, and population
Abstract from the publisher: This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The…
Sans-abri à Paris : la présence des sans-abri sur le territoire parisien...
Sans-abri à Paris : la présence des sans-abri sur le territoire parisien et l'action de la collectivité pour aider à leur réinsertion.
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Des milliers d’hommes et de…
Progress in Irish urban studies
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Progress in Irish Urban Studies is a working paper series which presents expanded articles based on papers presented to the annual research seminar series and provides a means by which post-graduate researchers and…