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La banlieue change ! Inégalités, justice sociale et action publique dans les quartiers populaires
Présentation par l'éditeur : A l’origine de cet ouvrage, l’interpellation lancée à un groupe de chercheurs par les élus d’un Conseil général, inquiets de l’évolution des…
Les villes de la diversité
Présentation par l'éditeur : L'aménagement et la régulation des territoires urbains du vivre ensemble constituent depuis longtemps un objectif des politiques publiques en France comme aux Etats-Unis. Si jusqu'aux…
Du quartier à la ville durable : vers un nouveau modèle urbain ?
Présentation par l'éditeur : Alors que l’État relance son plan Ecoquartiers et que les initiatives pour un urbanisme durable se multiplient en France et à l’étranger, le Comité 21 livre sa vision…
La politique de la ville. Maîtriser les dispositifs et les enjeux
Présentation par l'éditeur : Les élus et professionnels sont aujourd’hui en butte, avec la crise, à de nouvelles demandes sociales, sur fond de montée des précarités, d’augmentation du…
Sociologie des villes
Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Londres, Johannesbourg, Paris, Jérusalem, Mumbai, Lagos... Le phénomène urbain s'étend sur la planète. Des global cities aux petites villes, il représente la forme sociale de la modernité. Certaines expériences…
The invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Abstract from the publisher : The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the…
Roppongi crossing : The demise of a Tokyo nightclub district and the reshaping of a global city
Abstract from the publisher : For most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Roppongi was an enormously popular nightclub district that stood out from the other pleasure quarters of Tokyo for its mix of international entertainment and…
La Rénovation urbaine. Démolition-reconstruction de l'État
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Les politiques mises en oeuvre depuis le début des années 1980 dans les grands ensembles d'habitat social n’étant pas parvenues à les faire sortir de la spirale de la…
Critical urban studies : New directions
Abstract from the publisher : Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field. This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors…
Urban diversity : Space, culture, and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide
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As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative…
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…
What we see : Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs
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A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the…
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…
The gentrification reader
Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography at King's College London, UK. Tom Slater is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Elvin Wyly is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
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…
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…
Frontiers and identities : Cities in regions and nations
From the preface : Frontiers and Identities: Cities in Regions and Nations, edited by Professors Luďa Klusáková and Laure Teulières, is the third volume published by the Thematic Work Group 5 of the pan-European Network of…