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Favela : Four decades of living on the edge in Rio de Janeiro
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A billion people, almost half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for over a century…
Du village à la ville : comment les migrants changent le monde
Présentation par l'éditeur : Le XXIe siècle sera le siècle de la dernière, et spectaculaire, grande migration des populations rurales vers les villes. Cette migration, qui a déjà commencé, met…
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…
Colonial metropolis : The urban grounds of anti-imperialism and feminism in interwar Paris
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes–either overseas or…
Chinese cities and the outside world: A workshop for City, Culture and Society
Extract from the Introduction by Richard Croucher, Pingli Li and Hiroshi Okano: The articles make contributions on economic, social and cultural aspects of their subject and embody economic, social, historical and cultural perspectives. Michael…
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
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This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
Arrival city : How the largest migration in history is reshaping our world
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A third of the world’s people are in the midst of the largest population move in human history, as the last of the word’s rural populations abandons agriculture and moves to the urban areas of the…