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Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global
Abstract from the publisher : Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group…
Villes et organisation de l'espace en Afrique
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Depuis plusieurs décennies, la ville africaine se présente comme un véritable défi pour tous les spécialistes qui réfléchissent et agissent sur le fait…
Villes : changer de trajectoire
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Regards sur la Terre consacre son dossier 2010 aux villes, espaces et acteurs en première ligne du développement durable. Au-delà du constat des enjeux et des obstacles à…
Ville compacte, ville diffuse
La forme des villes, entendue comme la forme de l'espace urbanisé et de la répartition de ses fonctions, a évolué au fil du temps en fonction des opportunités offertes par les moyens de transport mis à la disposition des citadins grâce à l'innovation…
Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule
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During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized,…
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…
Understanding Cairo : The logic of a city out of control
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Trying to make sense of the urban giant that is Cairo.
This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city’s…
Turning points : Modern Seoul
In this lecture, part of the Case Western Reserve University symposium 'Tipping Points in Urban Change: Modern Perspectives on Agents of Urbanization', Peter G. Rowe discusses shifting mindsets in the recent history Seoul. Much of his lecture focuses…
The urban condition : Space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and…