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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 sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher : Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but from Jerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflicts of…
Cultural diversity in Russian cities : The urban landscape in the Post-Soviet era
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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with…
Karachi. Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around…
La ville à trois vitesses et autres essais
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Loin des effets journalistiques à caractère sensationnel sur les banlieues, il est temps de comprendre la présente transformation de la question sociale, la remise en cause des…
Les grandes questions sur la ville et l'urbain
À l’heure où le monde est en train de basculer dans l’urbain généralisé, il est plus que jamais nécessaire de s’interroger sur les défis et les enjeux que ce basculement rend inévitables et auxquels les sept milliards d’individus que compte…
Manhattan projects : The rise and fall of urban renewal in Cold War New York
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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in…
Post ex sub dis : Urban fragmentations and constructions
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Post, ex, sub and dis - these are but a few of the prefixes that have been used to compose neologisms for describing the contemporary cityscape. Terms such as posturban space, postsuburbia, exurbia and disurbia are…
State of the world's cities 2010/2011 - cities for all: Bridging the urban divide
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The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban…
The Architecture and memory of the minority quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean city
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A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.
A series of…