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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…
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…
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…
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 other global city
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic…
Whose public space? International case studies in urban design and development
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Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in the social…
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…
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…
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…
The literary atlas of Cairo : One hundred years on the streets of the city
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Readings from literary works that re-construct and re-map the city of Cairo.
Bringing together writings by Egyptians, Arabs, men and women, Muslims, Copts, and Jews, this rich selection maps out many of the changes in…
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…
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…