The 21st Century medieval city
squat, favela, bidonville, développement urbain, pays en développement, pauvreté
For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living by 2050. With vivid stories and slides (shown for the first time publicly), Neuwirth detailed how life works for the squatters in Rio, Nairobi, Istanbul, and Mumbai. It’s hard for new arrivals— 1.4 million a week around the world, 70 million a year. They throw together mud huts and make do with no water, no electricity, no transportation, no sewage, and barely room to turn around amid square miles of dense crowding.
Robert Neuwirth
The Long Now Foundation
2005-06-10
80:06
EN
Vidéo
http://www.longnow.org/seminars/02005/jun/10/the-21st-century-medieval-city/
Telescopic urbanism
pauvreté, pays en développement, bidonville, inégalité, inequality, Amin Ash
<div><b>Abstract from the <a target="_blank" href="http://in-flexiblecities.blogspot.fr/2012/03/ash-amin-telescopic-urbanism.html">organisers</a>:</b></div>
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By 2030 between a third and half of the world's population will be leading a precarious, and often abject, life in the neglected urban interstices. Urban scholarship is beginning to turn to this eye-watering problem, and to questions of sustainable urban competitiveness and growth, but interestingly without referencing one to the other. This paper claims that the 'endless city' is being looked at through the wrong end of the binoculars, with 'business consultancy' urbanism largely disinterested in the city that does not feed international competitiveness and business growth, and 'UN-Habitat' urbanism looking to the settlements where the poor are located for bottom-up solutions to human well-being. The paper muses on the implications of such an urban optic on the chances of the poor, their areas of settlement, and their expectations of support from others in and beyond the city. While acknowledging the realism, inventiveness and achievements of effort initiated or led by the poor, the paper laments the disappearance of ideas of mutuality, obligation and commonality that telescopic urbanism has enabled, in the process scripting out both grand designs and the duty of distant others to address the problems of acute inequality and poverty that will continue to plague the majority city.</div>
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<b>Ash Amin </b>is 1931 Chair in Geography and Fellow of Christ's College at the University of Cambridge.</div>
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Ash Amin
6 March 2012
http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1226559;jsessionid=F4440B1D454961F9A1A7DCE2D43EB7E0
Next eco-city symposium
eco-city, écoquartier, écologie urbaine, environnement urbain, ville durable, urbanisation, aménagement urbain, croissance urbaine, pays en développement, équité sociale
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor (see <a target="_blank" href="http://larch.be.washington.edu/ecocity/">conference website </a>for full details):</b></div>
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Urban environments worldwide are in the midst of multiple shifts, driven by interconnected flows in capital, people, and resources at local, regional and global scales. It impacts not only cities but also the network of social and ecological systems well beyond their borders. In contrast to the complexity of today's urbanization, the concept of the "Eco-City", arguably dating back to the ideal of the 19th Century Garden City, seems like an overly simplistic and utopian vision. Yet, the imagery and language of an idealized "Eco-City" continue to shape the planning and design of contemporary cities while disregarding the vital complexity of contemporary urban conditions and issues. This symposium will examine today's multifaceted urban environment in order to explore emerging theories and practices that will enable us to address these critical issues. Specifically, it investigates three areas of knowledge and practices: emergent ecologies, emergent cities, and emergent tactics.</div>
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Keynote address - Kongjian Yu<br />
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Emerging Ecologies</div>
Jane Wolff, Kristina Hill and Ken Yocom (moderator)<br />
While early attempts to conceptualize urban ecological conditions primarily focused on traditional ecological methods and subjects, a new paradigm is emerging that embraces the complexity and uncertainty associated with coupled human/natural systems. This session explores the relationships between environment, equity, economy, and design in our rapidly urbanizing world.<br />
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Emerging Cities</div>
Chelina Odbert and Jennifer Toy, Viren Brahmbahatt, Alfredo Brillembourg and Ben Spencer (moderator)<br />
This session examines the dynamics and implications of rapid urban growth in the emerging mega-cities of the global south. Critically engaging issues of environmental resilience and social equity as they relate to urban form at multiples scales, it explores the present and potential evolution of design, technology, policy and practice in these contexts.<br />
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Emerging Tactics</div>
John Bela, Nicholas de Monchaux, Denise Hoffman Brandt and Jeff Hou (moderator)<br />
This session focuses on new approaches to remaking the urban environment that are distinct from the paradigm of master planning and conventional practice of design. It examines how seeing the urban landscape as a set of systemic and interactive matrices with interconnected and spontaneous possibilities can inspire new approaches and methods in design and implementation.</div>
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Multiple authors
8 April 2011
http://www.nowurbanism.org/#Past
The future of urban studies: UCL Urban Laboratory annual lecture 2010
tudes urbaines, urban studies, culture urbaine, politique de la ville, pays en développement, religion, Gandy Matthew, Le Galès Patrick, Schlör Joachim, Robinson Jennifer
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor:</b></div>
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The presentations and discussion explored recent developments in urban studies ranging across topics such as emerging conceptions of urban politics, new approaches to the interpretation of urban culture, and conceptual linkages between the global North and the global South.</div>
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<b>Matthew Gandy </b>is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UCL and Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory.</div>
<b>Patrick Le Galès</b> is Professor of Politics and Sociology at Sciences Po Paris.</div>
<b>Joachim Schlör </b>is the Director of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton.</div>
<b>Jennifer Robinson </b>is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UCL.</div>
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Matthew Gandy,
Patrick Le Galès,
Joachim Schlör,
Jennifer Robinson
8 June 2010
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/en2/index.php?page=3.1.2
China and India: Governance, urban development, and sustainability in the cities of the Global South
China, India, Chine, Inde, pays en développement, gouvernance, développement urbain, développement durable, mutation urbaine, service public, infrastructures, aménagement urbain, Kundu Ratoola, Lal Kamna, Sun Meng, Wang Lan, Weisberg Barry, Perry David C.
<div><b>Organisers' description :</b></div> </div> The scholarship with regard to the process of urbanization in the context of globalization has been dominated by the "global cities" paradigm in which Saskia Sassen outlines the increasing centrality of cities as they become "command centers" in the expansion of global capitalism, destabilizing the older networks of governance that are embodied in the nation-state. As a result, much of the theorization on urbanization in the recent past has been focused on cities in the developed regions of the world such as New York, London and Tokyo that serve as the material and symbolic sites for global economic production. The cities of the developing countries therefore remain marginal to this theorization of the urban, either defined by the lack of full-scale globalization, or through processes that mimic the developments in the core, or as sites of increasing chaos, poverty and inequality.<br /> <br /> This panel discussion brings together a diverse group of PhD students at UIC, from the fields of urban planning and design, criminal justice and public administration, conducting research in the cities of the global south. While their approaches might vary, they are all engaged in contributing to the production of knowledge on newly emerging global urban agglomerations and the concurrent shifts in the political economy, particularly urban governance. This reflects a demographic transformation of historical proportions wherein the majority of the world's urban dwellers will be in cities of the developing countries. Two-thirds of the world's urban population growth will be occurring in the cities of the developing regions of the world, bringing about rapid uneven distribution of incomes, the proliferation of slum cities, rising demand for urban infrastructure and investment -– physical and social. The discussants will debate some of the emerging contradictions and tensions faced by the cities of the global south and locate areas of further research. The thrust will be on the possibilities of constructing alternative theories of understanding this massive urban change.<br /> <br /> Ratoola Kundu will be presenting on the transformations that take place at the urban fringes and the practices of informality that shape it and are in turn regulated by the policies of the local government as well as global flows of economic investment, using the case of the fringes of Kolkata in India as an illustration.<br /> <br /> Kamna Lal will be investigating semi-formal institutional arrangement for delivery of urban environmental services in an Indian city and drawing out the changes in the relationship between political economy and the ecology of the city in a liberalizing environment.<br /> <br /> Meng Sun’s presentation is on the possible material and social impacts of the Olympic 2008 summer games on the city of Beijing and the significance of "event" or spectacle driven development of urban centers.<br /> <br /> Lan Wang will be dealing with the emergence of new global urban planning and design practices that are being rapidly transplanted into the New Towns of China's urban regions and the kinds of political, economic, socio-cultural changes that drive and are in turn shaped by these design practices of producing "global cities".<br /> <br /> Barry Weisberg will be presenting on the need to reformulate an understanding of what constitutes safety and security with respect to urban populations and infrastructure of the mega cities in developing countries, focusing on Shanghai.</div> </div> <b>Ratoola Kundu, Kamna Lal, Meng Sun, Lan Wang </b>and <b>Barry Weisberg</b> are PhD students at the University of Illinois at Chicago.</div> <b>David C. Perry </b>is the Director of the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago.</div> </div>
6 November 2007
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/whatwedo/eventsarchive/events0708/2007global_south.shtml
African cities, a catalyst for change
, développement urbain, pays en développement, société urbaine, mutation urbaine, Afrique, Simone AbdouMaliq
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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We hear a lot about the poverty and chaos of African cities, but in this edition of Amsterdam Forum, urbanist Abdoumaliq Simone argues that there is also a ferment of resourcefulness that makes cities vibrant places. It takes many forms and needs to be understood, as it could well form an essential basis for urban development in Africa.<br />
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Abdoumaliq Simone is an urbanist at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His career has encompassed both academia and social activism.<br />
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Professor Simone prefers to go "beyond alarmist discourses of impending slum wars, geopolitical instabilities, resource rushes and intensified impoverishment" and focus on the "efficacy" of African cities, particularly at survival strategies of people "below the radar" of social sciences.<br />
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Although it's hard to generalise about African cities, Prof. Simone identifies several processes that are both problematic and potential resources for future urban development.</div>
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<b>AbdouMaliq Simone </b>is an urbanist and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.</div>
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AbdouMaliq Simone
16 March 2007
http://www.rnw.nl/afrique/article/african-cities-catalyst-change
Urban age : Mumbai
, planification, logement, pauvreté, logement social, pays en développement, changement climatique, ville durable, aménagement urbain, gouvernance, urbanisation, équité sociale, Mumbai, India, Inde
<div>Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Johannesburg : Challenges of inclusion?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 and video recordings of the entire conference are available on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.urban-age.net">Urban Age website</a>. Many presentations also have accompanying slideshow presentations available for download in PDF format.<br />
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<b>Organisers' description :</b><br />
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In India, Urban Age examined how the largest democracy on earth negotiates considerable urbanisation and economic development. India’s urban society is experiencing the effects of increasing affluence coupled with persistent social inequalities and a scarcity of resources ranging from personal living space to transport and drinking water. Climate change and other escalating pressures further compound urban developments in India, making its urban agenda a global issue. Evaluating policy and project specific effects, the Urban Age India Conference helped draw the links between events and developments in India’s urbanised areas with trends worldwide, widening the lens from the local to the global.</div>
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<b>Session topics : </b></div>
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Welcome</div>
The global urban context : The Urban Age and India; Cities in a Global Context; The Future of India’s Cities; Discussion</div>
Envisioning the future for global cities : Reenergising English Cities and the London 2012 Olympics; Developing Urban Visions; Transforming Mumbai into a World-Class City; Mumbai: Which Way Forward; Discussion</div>
Urban inequality</div>
Housing the urban poor : Reforming the Housing Debate; Discussion and open debate</div>
Dharavi - A global case study</div>
International experiences : Housing for the Poor in Developing Country Cities: The Bogotá Case; The Mexico City: Ciudad Neza; Tokyo to Mumbai & Back;</div>
Climate change and cities : Climate Change, Risk and Urbanisation; Green Delhi; Discussion</div>
How cities are planned : Governance and City Design; Shaping the City</div>
Case studies : Learning from Planning in Johannesburg; The São Paulo Case; Shaping Singapore; Discussion</div>
Governing global cities : Governing Global Cities: Who Decides?</div>
City leaders forum</div>
Running cities debate</div>
Closing remarks : Discussion and open debate</div>
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Multiple authors
2007
http://www.urban-age.net/03_conferences/conf_mumbai.html
Incomplete urbanism: A critical urban strategy for emerging economies
pays en développement, architecture, développement urbain, justice sociale, social justice, développement durable, planification, aménagement urbain, Lim William S. W.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Incomplete Urbanism is a dynamic, hybrid interactive concept, which destabilizes the current architectural and urban theories and practices. Its main characteristics are indeterminacy, inconsistency and changeability, which are particularly challenging in the context of the New World Order and the fast emerging global digital network. It is a concept that can be effectively applied to any sizeable section of existing cities without the need for major readjustments and can be implemented at different rates in response to specific local conditions. As for the word ‘critical’, I use it deliberately in order to convey the essential need to think creatively and positively in a controversial contesting and social-orientated manner about what we do, as it will constructively influence the way we do things that impact our values and social environment.</div> </div> <b>William S. W. Lim </b>is an architect and co-founder and Chairman of Asian Urban Lab and President of the Architectural Association of Asia.</div> </div>
William S. W. Lim
World Scientific
November 2011
144
Ouvrage
Urban theory beyond the West: A world of cities
théorie, theory, Global South, pays en développement, mobilité, imaginaire, gouvernance, urbanité, Edensor Tim, Jayne Mark
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.<br /> <br /> Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters from leading scholars, raising important theoretical issues about cities throughout the world. Past and current conceptual developments are reviewed and organized into four parts: ‘De-centring the City’ offers critical perspectives on re-imagining urban theoretical debates through consideration of the diversity and heterogeneity of city life; ‘Order/Disorder’ focuses on the political, physical and everyday ways in which cities are regulated and used in ways that confound this ordering; ‘Mobilities’ explores the movements of people, ideas and policy in cities and between them and ‘Imaginaries’ investigates how urbanity is differently perceived and experienced. There are three kinds of chapters published in this volume: theories generated about urbanity ‘beyond the West’; critiques, reworking or refining of ‘Western’ urban theory based upon conceptual reflection about cities from around the world and hybrid approaches that develop both of these perspectives.<br /> <br /> Urban Theory Beyond the West offers a critical and accessible review of theoretical developments, providing an original and groundbreaking contribution to urban theory. It is essential reading for students and practitioners interested in urban studies, development studies and geography.<br /> <br /> <b>Tim Edensor </b>teaches Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University.</div> <b>Mark Jayne </b>is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester.</div> </div>
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Routledge
November 2011
382
Ouvrage
Global urbanization
, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, planification, mondialisation, pays en développement, developing countries, Asia, Asie, Africa, Afrique, mégapole, Birch Eugenie L., Wachter Susan M.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, as both the number and scale of cities continue to increase, the most important matters of social policy and economic development will necessarily be urban issues. Urbanization, across the world but especially in Asia and Africa, is perhaps the critical issue of the twenty-first century.<br /> <br /> Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of this growth and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half century. Drawing from many disciplines, the contributors tackle issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships in urban governance. Several essays address the role that cutting-edge technologies such as GIS software, remote sensing, and predictive growth models can play in tracking and forecasting urban growth. Reflecting the central importance of the Global South to twenty-first-century urbanism, the volume includes case studies and examples from China, India, Uganda, Kenya, and Brazil.<br /> <br /> While the challenges posed by large-scale urbanization are immense, the future of human development requires that we find ways to promote socially inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and resilient infrastructure. The timely and relevant scholarship assembled in Global Urbanization will be of great interest to scholars and policymakers in demography, geography, urban studies, and international development.</div> </div> <b>Eugenie L. Birch</b> is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, PennDesign. <br /> <b>Susan M. Wachter</b> is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of City and Regional Planning at PennDesign.</div> </div>
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University of Pennsylvania Press
December 2010
384
Ouvrage
Antiurbain. Origines et conséquences de l'urbaphobie
urbaphobie, représentations, pays en développement, Salomon Cavin Joëlle, Marchand Bernard
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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La ville, la grande ville surtout, suscite de longue date de vives condamnations. Si la Révolution industrielle fournit encore une inépuisable matière première à la détestation urbaine, Babel ou la Rome décadente avaient déjà longtemps avant participé à la construction d’un imaginaire antiurbain occidental, que les plumes talentueuses de Rousseau, Spengler, Thoreau ont contribué à propager.</div>
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Alors que la majorité de la population habite désormais dans les villes, les projections sur un avenir urbain radieux demeurent l’exception. Le catastrophisme semble particulièrement de rigueur dans les médias pour les villes des pays en développement : Lagos a aujourd’hui pris la place du Londres de Dickens comme incarnation du destin funeste promis aux trop grandes concentrations humaines. Pourtant, rares sont les recherches consacrées à l’urbaphobie et encore plus rares sont celles qui ont tenté d’aller au fond des origines, des contenus et de la portée de la pensée urbaphobe.</div>
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Cet ouvrage tente ainsi un exercice original et important à travers des textes qui dévoilent l’ampleur de la pensée et des effets de l’urbaphobie dans différents contextes nationaux. Il offre au lecteur une somme de références dont l’ambition est de convaincre des enjeux scientifiques, économiques et sociaux de ce phénomène encore peu considéré dans la réflexion et la pratique urbaine.</div>
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<b>Joëlle Salomon Cavin</b> est maître-assistante en politiques territoriales à l’Université de Lausanne et chercheuse associée au CNRS.<br />
<b>Bernard Marchand</b> est professeur émérite à l’Institut français d’urbanisme et professeur principal à l’Ecole nationale des travaux publics de l’Etat.</div>
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Joëlle Salomon Cavin,
Bernard Marchand
Presses Polytchniques et Universitaires Romandes
Novembre 2010
344
Ouvrage
Social formation in Dhaka, 1985 - 2005 : A longitudinal study of society in a Third World megacity
Dhaka, Dacca, urbanisation, société urbaine, pays en développement, developing countries, pauvreté, mégapole, Siddiqui Kamal
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> By the middle of the twenty-first century, more than fifty per cent of the world's population will live in an urban environment. Most of this new urban growth will take place in Asia and Africa, yet most governments in these two continents seem woefully unprepared for the challenges they will face in providing their urban citizens with the basic services and security from poverty, environmental degradation and crime. It is in this context that in-depth studies which lay bare the contours and characteristics of society and institutions in the urban setting of Third World countries assume importance and urgency.</div> <br /> Most studies on urbanisation in developing countries concentrate on slums and shanty towns in isolation from the rest of the society. By contrast, Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005 analyses urbanisation and urban society in a holistic manner, connecting the poor with the non-poor and delineating the change agents of the city. As the first longitudinal study of the social structure of any Third World Megacity, this book will be of interest to urban sociologists, policy-makers, NGOs, and researchers engaged in understanding the development in cities in the global south.</div> </div> <b>Kamal Siddiqui </b>is Associate Professor and Director of the Governance Programme at the University of South Pacific, Fiji.</div> </div>
Kamal Siddiqui et al
Ashgate
November 2010
420
Ouvrage
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
, renouvellement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, aménagement urbain, aménagement, favela, étalement urbain, pays en développement, utopie, Brasil, Brazil, Brasilia
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the ideals of high modernism, and urban designers and planners created clean-cut minimalist spaces that reflected the hope for an idyllic future in a still-developing nation. But these cities were criticized as "utopian dreams" in a country plagued with the urban realities of rampant sprawl and the infamous slums known as favelas.<br /> <br /> In this international collection of essays, architects, urban planners, and scholars assess the legacy of Brazilian urbanism to date. They evaluate the country's experiments with modernism and examine how Brazilian cities are regenerating themselves within a democratic political framework that meets market and social demands, and respects place, culture, and history.</div> </div> <b>Vicente del Rio</b> is professor in the city and regional planning department at California Polytechnic State University.</div> <b>William Siembieda</b> is head of the city and regional planning department at California Polytechnic State University.</div> </div>
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University Press of Florida
2010
368
Ouvrage
Transformative cities in the new global order : Accumulation by dispossession
, aménagement de l'espace, mutation urbaine, mondialisation, pauvreté, pays en développement, droit à la ville, right to the city, néolibéralisme, politique urbaine, urbanité, transport, Banerjee-Guha Swapna, sociologie urbaine, Inde, India
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Globalisation and a neo-liberal world order are impacting the global urban system, resulting in massive transformation of cities across the world. This transformation, which is currently the centre of focus among sociologists, will continue as more and more city spaces are occupied in the wake of globalization.<br /> <br /> This book is a collection of essays written by some of the most famous theoreticians and academics in the area of urban studies on this transformation process of cities and its socio-economic ramifications.<br /> <br /> These essays analyse the signs of intense spatial crisis in metropolises, revealing the contradictory processes of integration and segmentation that characterise the critical nature of global city space. Crisis of urban space in such cities, the book argues, is essentially related to their placement in the world city system and the limitations in their globalocal networks. Restructuring spaces also leads to differentiated and contradictory processes, the book reveals, since not all segments of the population are affected equally.The process benefits only parts of society and, therefore, only parts of the city space. This book shows how Centre and Periphery, reflect the differentiation between global society and segmented localities, how these stand spatially anchored, creating a background of intense urban conflicts.<br /> <br /> This volume explores and exposes a divided framework in which globalisation operates towards fragmentation and polarization; debunking the myth of homogenisation. The essays reveal that cities and regions across the world get incorporated into this system, exhibiting characteristics that are more diverse and complex than ever before especially due to the increasingly contradictory relationship with their local resource and cultural base.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Introduction: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order - Swapna Banerjee-Guha<br /> The Right to the City: From Capital Surplus to Accumulation by Dispossession - David Harvey<br /> The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier - Saskia Sassen<br /> Manufacturing Neoliberalism: Lifestyling Indian Urbanity - Solomon Benjamin<br /> Global Capital, Neo-Liberal Politics and Terrains of Resistance in Vienna - Heinz Nissel<br /> Globalisation and Transformation of Dhaka City - Nazrul Islam and Salma A Shafi<br /> 'Hi-Tech' Hyderabad and the Urban Poor: Reformed out of the System - Umesh Varma<br /> Reconfiguring Power Relationships: Policies towards Urban Services in Mumbai - Marie-Helene Zerah<br /> Urban Transport Projects in a Globalised Scenario - Darryl D'Monte<br /> Urban Public Space and the Urban Poor - Sharit Bhowmik<br /> Revisiting Accumulation by Dispossession: Neoliberalising Mumbai - Swapna Banerjee-Guha</div> </div> <b>Swapna Banerjee-Guha</b> is Professor of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences</div> </div>
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SAGE
April 2010
268
Ouvrage
Voyage en Afrique urbaine
Afrique, pays en développement, urbanisation, métropole, mutation urbaineGras Pierre
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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L'Afrique est inéluctablement en voie d'urbanisation rapide. Cet ouvrage se propose de déceler ces mutations de l'Afrique tant sous l'angle urbain que sociétal. Il permet d'aborder une réalité multiforme et complexe qu'il s'agit d'explorer dans le sens d'une meilleure compréhension des enjeux urbains et d'un accès plus large à la connaissance de cette "Afrique des villes" en pleine émergence.</div>
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Journaliste et éditeur, <b>Pierre Gras</b> a dirigé pendant dix ans l’agence de presse Tramway. Il collabore aujourd’hui à la revue Urbanisme. Auteur d’essais et de récits de voyage consacrés au monde urbain, il a notamment publié <i>Médias et citoyens dans la ville</i>. Il vit et enseigne à Lyon.</div>
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Collectif
L'Harmattan
1er octobre 2009
160
Ouvrage
Villes du sud. Dynamiques, diversités et enjeux démographiques et sociaux
croissance urbaine, démographie, dynamiques urbaines, mégapole, pays en développement, société urbaine, urbanisation
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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Le monde en développement, dans son ensemble, s'urbanise rapidement. Selon les Nations unies, la proportion de sa population vivant dans les zones urbaines qui n'était que de 27 % en 1975, est passée à 44 % en 2007 et devrait atteindre 67 % en 2050. En 2007, on comptait près d'une vingtaine de mégalopoles de plus de 10 millions d'habitants, dont 14 dans les pays en voie de développement. Ce processus d'urbanisation, dont l'intensité et le rythme certes varient d'une région à une autre, est universel, et une grande partie de la croissance démographique de la planète au cours des trente prochaines années aura lieu dans les villes et agglomérations du Sud.<br />
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Cette croissance urbaine a déjà et aura de nombreuses conséquences sociales, économiques et démographiques. En effet, la ville est généralement perçue comme porteuse de changements : sociaux (éducation, emploi, statut de la femme), politiques, culturels, et démographiques (transitions de la fécondité, de la mortalité, de la famille). La croissance urbaine est également souvent considérée comme un moteur du développement économique.<br />
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Par ailleurs, elle s'accompagne aussi de divers problèmes socio-économiques : emploi, logement, accès aux services sociaux de base... conduisant à de nouvelles formes de pauvreté. Les stratégies de survie des individus, des ménages et des groupes sociaux se diversifient et se complexifient dans les villes.<br />
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Le réseau Dynamiques démographiques et sociétés de l'<a target="_blank" href="http://www.auf.org/">AUF</a> a réuni à Cotonou en novembre 2005 plus d'une centaine de chercheurs lors de ses VIe Journées Scientifiques sur le thème "Villes du Sud. Dynamiques, diversités et enjeux démographiques et sociaux". Ces Journées ont permis de faire le point sur les nouvelles dynamiques des villes du Sud, tant dans leurs aspects démographiques que sociaux et sanitaires.<br />
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Le présent ouvrage présente une sélection des textes qui ont été présentés lors de cette conférence internationale et revus ensuite par leurs auteurs. Il s'agit donc d'un ouvrage collectif qui devrait intéresser tous ceux et celles qui s'intéressent à la problématique des villes du Sud et s'interrogent sur leurs enjeux démographiques et sociaux.</div>
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<b>Pierre Klissou</b> est représentant-assistant et coordonnateur de programme, au bureau local du Fonds des Nations unies pour la population (UNFPA) au Bénin.</div>
université Laval</a> (Québec, Canada).</div>
université catholique de Louvain</a> (Belgique).</div>
<b>Mouftaou Amadou Sanni</b> est professeur assistant à l'université d'Abomey-Calavi et directeur du Centre de formation et de recherche en matière de population au Bénin.</div>
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Editions des Archives contemporaines
30 juillet 2009
371
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Les exclus de la cité
enfant des rues, exclusion, pauvreté, pays en développement, précarité, sociologie
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Le phénomène des enfants des rues est un drame mondial. Pourquoi des enfants qui ont besoin de l’affection et des soins de leurs parents éprouvent-ils le besoin de vivre dans la rue, où ils se retrouvent face à tous les dangers ? Ils y sont privés de la moindre hygiène, mais plus encore ils sont les victimes désignées de maladies contagieuses que l’on croyait disparues, et sont exposés aux infections sexuellement transmissibles, au trafic et à la maltraitance.<br />
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Dans les rues, les enfants deviennent suspects aux yeux de la population qui ne les voit plus car devenus des parias déchus de leur place et de leur statut traditionnel dans la société. Ainsi les droits les plus élémentaires attachés à l’enfance et tout simplement à la dignité humaine leur sont désormais refusés. Comment alors parler de développement quand l’avenir ne leur appartient plus ?<br />
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L’objectif de cet ouvrage est de mieux comprendre le pourquoi de la présence de ces enfants dans la rue. Il s’agit d’une analyse de leur situation, des causes qui les ont poussées à se retrouver là, des alternatives qui leur sont offertes par les états, les différentes institutions et les centres de santé. Une telle approche est le prérequis nécessaire à toute action d’accompagnement visant à élaborer un projet de réinsertion familiale, scolaire, sociale et/ou professionnelle.</div>
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niversité de Nice - Sophia Antipolis</a>.<br />
<b>Mariam Bedwani</b> et <b>Marie-Esther Tassiba</b> sont diplômées de l'Université Senghor.</div>
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Jérôme Palazzolo,
Mariam Bedwani,
Marie-Esther Tassiba
Riveneuve
4 novembre 2008
144
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State of the World's Cities 2008/2009 - Harmonious Cities
croissance urbaine, démographie, développement urbain, mégapole, pays en développement, urbanisation, statistiques
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Half of humanity now lives in cities, and within two decades, nearly 60 per cent of the world’s people will be urban dwellers. Urban growth is most rapid in the developing world, where cities gain an average of 5 million residents every month. As cities grow in size and population, harmony among the spatial, social and environmental aspects of a city and between their inhabitants becomes of paramount importance. This harmony hinges on two key pillars : equity and sustainability.</div>
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article du Monde</a> sur ce rapport.</div>
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UN-Habitat
Octobre 2008
224
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Agropolis: The social, political, and environmental dimensions of urban agriculture
, agriculture urbaine, pays en développement, gender, genre, Mougeot Luc J. A.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide, and a sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world. This book presents the first findings of original field research projects funded by IDRC’s AGROPOLIS International Graduate Research Awards on Urban Agriculture. Countries studied include Argentina, Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, France, Togo, Tunisia, the UK, and Zimbabwe. Together, these studies examine concrete strategies to better integrate “city farming” into the urban landscape.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> </div> Luc J. A. Mougeot - Introduction</div> Bruce Frayne - Survival of the poorest: Migration and food security in Namibia</div> Komla Tallaki - The pest-control system in the market gardens of Lomé, Togo</div> Mody Bakar Barry - Determinants of urban livestock adoption in the 'zone dense' of Khorogo, Côte d'Ivoire: A Tobit approach</div> Stephanie Gabel - Exploring the gender dimensions of urban open-space cultivation in Harare, Zimbabwe</div> Alice Hovorka - Gender, commercial urban agriculture and urban food supply in greater Gaborone, Botswana</div> Adriana Premat - Moving between the plan and the ground: Shifting perspectives on urban agriculture in Havana, Cuba</div> Moez Bouraoui - Agri-urban development from a land-use planning perspective: The Saclay Plateau (France) and the Sijoumi Plain (Tunisia)</div> Arturo Perez-Vasquez, Simon Anderson and Alan W. Rogers - Assessing benefits from allotments as a component of urban agriculture in England</div> Luc J. A. Mougeot - Neglected issues on form and substance of research on urban agriculture<br /> <br /> <b>Luc J. A. Mougeot</b> is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), where he initiated the Cities Feeding People program initiative in 1997. ​</div> </div>
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Earthscan International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
2005
286
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http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=187
Understanding the developing metropolis: Lessons from the city study of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia
Bogotá, Cali, Colombia, Colombie, croissance urbaine, forme urbaine, pauvreté, travail, commerce, logement, transport, gouvernance, collectivités locales, politique urbaine, pays en développement, Mohan Rakesh
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> 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 <i>Anatomy of a Metropolis</i>. The main lesson outlined in the current book is that the most practical way of coping with city growth is to establish institutional mechanisms that can respond to the rapidly changing and unpredictable demands of a city's residents. Unlike much writing on cities and urbanization in the developing world, this study includes reasons for optimism that the expansion of fast-growing cities in the developing world can be managed.</div> </div> In <i>Understanding the Developing Metropolis</i>, the author analyzes in great depth the structure of two Colombian cities, Bogotá and Cali, by modeling different markets and the behavior of individuals, households, firms, and governments within these markets. He underlines the importance of understanding the behavior of the various actors in a city, and his use of simple economic reasoning contributes much to comprehension not only of urban behavior but also of the structure of the city itself. Approaches developed here are also broadly applicable for analyzing cities in developed countries.</div> </div> This study is unusual in that it brings to the lay reader, in accessible form, the rationale of and results obtained from the sophisticated techniques used in the analysis of urban housing and transportation patterns, labor force behavior, and industrial location patterns within a city. Whereas many urban studies concentrate exclusively on issues related to infrastructure requirements and delivery problems within a city, this study links infrastructure requirements and supply to the behavior of households, firms, and government and to the existing income distribution in the city. This better appreciation of the underlying behavior - which determines what cities look like - could result in much more effectively designed urban policies.</div> </div> <b>Rakesh Mohan </b>is economic adviser to the government of India in the Ministry of Industry.</div> </div>
Rakesh Mohan
Oxford University Press
1994
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http://books.google.com/books?id=GF6b7sjJSAcC&printsec=frontcover