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Spatial regulation in New York City : From urban renewal to zero tolerance
Abstract from the publisher : This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications…
Cities, politics and power
Abstract from the publisher : Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.…
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…
Le projet urbain participatif : apprendre à faire la ville avec ses habitants
Élus locaux, militants associatifs, urbanistes, sociologues et intervenants sociaux, architectes, paysagistes, aménageurs et habitants… Tous, nous pensons être les maillons essentiels pour construire la ville, la comprendre, la faire vivre,…
Metropolitan regions
Abstract from the publisher : Results of the Metropolis research project on the world’s main metropolitan regions to identify the forms of institutional organization and the system of government of the world’s leading metropolitan…
Histoire et mémoire des quartiers de la politique de la ville
Pascal Blanchard a remis à François Lamy le rapport issu du groupe de travail sur l’histoire, le patrimoine et les mémoires des quartiers. Ce rapport intitulé « Histoires, patrimoine et mémoires dans les territoires de la politique de la ville »…
Rapport 2013 de l'Observatoire National des Zones Urbaines Sensibles
Conformément à la loi d'orientation et de programmation pour la ville et la rénovation urbaine du 1er août 2003, l'Observatoire national des zones urbaines sensibles (ONZUS) propose, dans son rapport 2013, un panorama de la situation des quartiers…
The urban racial state : Managing race relations in American cities
Abstract from the publisher : The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by…
20 ans à penser la politique de la ville en Seine-Saint-Denis…
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Vingt ans d'actions de qualification pour accompagner vingt ans de politique de la ville dans le département, cela méritait bien un ouvrage en témoignage de cette belle histoire qui est…
Remaking urban citizenship: Organizations, institutions, and the right to the city
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Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world’s cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement. The disjuncture…
The lure of the city: From slums to suburbs
Abstract from the publisher: Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the…
Urban navigations : Politics, space and the city in South Asia
Abstract from the publisher : This book provides an important account of how the city in South Asia is produced, lived and contested. It examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban space,…
Cities in transition : Globalization, political change and urban development
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This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are not subject to almost unconditional global forces. Rather, universal forces are decisive…
Contention and trust in cities and states
Abstract from the publisher : Cities and nation-states have co-existed uneasily throughout human history. At times fused, at other times opposed, at still other times hierarchically linked, they have been crucibles of identity and social and…
Mobile urbanism : Cities and policymaking in the global age
Abstract from the publisher : How knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading…
Global ideologies and urban landscapes
Abstract from the publisher : How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that…
The new Blackwell companion to the city
Abstract from the publisher : This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. * The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind * Provides a contemporary update…
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…