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Cairo : Histories of a city
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From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo:…
Capital cities in Africa: Power and powerlessness
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Capital cities today remain central to both nations and states. They host centres of political power, not only national, but in some cases regional and global as well, thus offering major avenues to success, wealth and…
Capitales et patrimoines à l'heure de la globalisation
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"Capitales et patrimoine" : si l’association des deux termes pourra paraître aller de soi après la lecture de cet ouvrage, elle n’avait à priori rien…
Changeons de regard sur les quartiers. Vers de nouvelles exigences pour la rénovation urbaine
Dans le cadre de la réforme de la politique de la ville en cours début 2013, le Comité d’évaluation et de suivi de l’ANRU a souhaité poursuivre ses réflexions lancées en 2011 pour l’avenir de la rénovation urbaine. A l’aune des travaux d’évaluation…
Changing plans for America's inner cities
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Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood began in the nineteenth century as a nonelite suburb and became in the twentieth century an inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems characteristic…
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…
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…
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.…
City at the center of the world: Space, history, and modernity in Quito
Abstract from the publisher: In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador, as the “new Rome.” It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades…
Climate Resilient Cities
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Climate change is no longer a distant possibility but a current reality. Loss from flooding and hurricanes is an all too frequent occurrence in many countries in the Region, particularly in cities where people and…
Comment parler autrement des banlieues ?
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L’image des banlieues : le regard des historiens et des sociologues
Modérateur : Michel Didier
Thibault Tellier, maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine à…
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…
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…
Culture and power in Banaras: Community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980
Extract from the Preface: Several purposes informed the collaborative work behind this volume. First, it provides a sustained examination, from a variety of viewpoints, of one urban place. Banaras was chosen primarily because it had attracted a…